✹ WEEKLY FILM RUNDOWN: March 21-27
The latest releases and special screenings hitting Music City this week. For a complete list of upcoming title, check out of 2025 Film Guide.
Eephus (Dir. Carson Lund; Starring Cliff Blake) Facing demolition of their baseball field, members of two Sunday adult league teams in smalltown New Hampshire prepare for their final game in this mournful yet hilarious rumination on small-town life. Read our review and interview with Lund here. Now playing at the Belcourt.
Disney’s Snow White (Dir. Mark Webb; Starring Gal Gadot and Rachel Zegler) Yeah, the live-action remake with Internet supervillain Zegler is going to be as big of a commercial disaster as it’s proving critically, but imagine the Monday Morning Elon and Trump shitposting. Now playing in theaters.
The Alto Nights Robert DeNiro proves himself no slouch during his golden years playing dual roles as real-life gangster Frank Costello AND his arch nemesis, Vito Genovese. If TDS finally broke the seasoned actor, at least Rain Man director Barry Levinson is at the helm–even if the reviews are pretty tepid. Now playing in theaters.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni; Starring Susan Chardy) The rising filmmaker follows up her stellar 2018 debut, I Am Not A Witch, with the story of the secrets that pop up when a family’s uncle is found dead by the side of the road. Now playing at AMC Thoroughbred 20 and The Belcourt.
October 8 (Dir. Wendy Sachs) An examination of the rise of Anti-Semitism on college campuses since the Hamas terror attacks that weirdly has gotten no press coverage from the Left or Right. Now playing at Regal Hollywood 27.
David Lynch: A Retropective The Belcourt celebrates the life of the surreal indie icon with a career-spanning deep dive into his work that includes Eraserhead and Blue Velvet and a 35mm screening of The Straight Story plus a showing of Lynch’s favorite film, The Wizard of Oz.
Batter Up! Ring in spring with the Belcourt’s showcase of the best baseball movies of all time from Field of Dreams and Bull Durham to The Natural and Eight Men Out (in 35mm!)
Elevator to the Gallows (Dir. Louis Malle; Starring Jeanne Moreau) The classic crime thriller about a woman and her lover planning the murder of her husband to a revelatory Miles David score is this week’s offering for Music City Mondays at The Belcourt. Introduction from William Levine, professor and director of graduate English at MTSU at the 8 p.m. screening.
Locked (Dir. David Yarovesky; Starring Anthony Hopkins and Bill Skarsgård) When a petty thief steals a luxury car, he finds himself trapped in a mobile prison and at the mercy of an octogenarian vigilante. Now playing in theaters.
Magazine Dreams Jonathan Majors’s 2023 Sundance winner about a bodybuilder going full Black Swan on his path to stardom would have probably gotten the rising actor an Oscar nom if his cancellation over domestic abuse hadn’t led to this being dumped in theaters two years later. Now playing in theaters.
Ash (Dir. Flying Lotus; Starring Aaron Paul) When an astronaut finds herself the sole survivor of a space station disaster, she must piece together her own culpability while discerning who she can trust. Now playing in theaters.
V for Vendetta and Akira @ Belcourt Midnights This weekend only–the most misinterpreted movie about revolutionaries since Fight Club and the pioneering anime classic about post-WWIII Tokyo.
Bolly/Tolly/Kolly/Lollywood and Other Special Presentations of Asian and Middle Eastern Imports.
Now playing at Regal Hollywood 27: Always Have, Always Will (Mandarin), Pintu Ki Pappi (Hindi), Pooja, Sir (Nepali), Yevade Subramanyam (Telugu)