Sunday Night Film Club – Boston

Underworld U.S.A. is among the fiercest, starkest and most unsparing of the many studio films made about organized crime, a popular and perennial topic in Hollywood since the mid-1940s. Like Joseph H. Lewis’ The Undercover Man (1949) or Phil Karlson’s The Brothers Rico (1957) before it, Fuller’s film turns away from the expressionist noir vision of crime long favored in Hollywood and towards a bleaker, barer and menacingly abstract portrayal of criminality. Fuller goes even further, however, by stripping his film of almost any sentimentality and by making even his protagonist deeply unsympathetic and possibly psychopathic. A revenge saga starring a remarkably sinister Cliff Robertson as a failed burglar determined to track down the killers of his criminal father, Underworld U.S.A. follows the young man’s violent path up the crooked ladder of the syndicate that holds a stern grip over vice. For his unsparing depiction of brutal violence and his reduction of character to vicious and brilliantly efficient caricaturessuch as Richard Rust’s ruthless hit manFuller’s hard-hitting film anticipates the blood-soaked yakuza masterpieces of Kinji Fukasaku.

After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions – Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness – conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.

In this critically-acclaimed sleeper-hit of the summer, high schooler Greg, who spends most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl, finds his outlook forever altered after befriending a classmate who has just been diagnosed with cancer.

Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond. After 10 years of operation and visitor rates declining, in order to fulfill a corporate mandate, a new attraction is created to re-spark visitor’s interest, which backfires horribly.

“At the end of the nineteenth century, 16-year-old Jay (Smit-McPhee), a naive young Scotsman, travels to the American frontier in search of the woman he loves. He is soon joined by Silas (Fassbender), a mysterious loner who saves his life. Silas becomes Jays guide and companion but he harbors his own private agenda for travelling with the young man.”

A widow and former songstress discovers that life can begin anew at any age.

In a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, two rebels just might be able to restore order: Max, a man of action and of few words, and Furiosa, a woman of action who is looking to make it back to her childhood homeland.

p.s. This movie could prove to be popular so you may want to preorder tickets or show up earlier than usual.

p.p.s. I’m not pumped about 3D either, but the showtimes were uncooperative.

Independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan) attracts three very different suitors. Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy.

Note: Assembly Row has assigned seating, and this is going to be a popular movie, so you should buy tickets ASAP.

When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and it is up to the Avengers to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plans.