Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Adam Wingard’s sequel to 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong ads a weird “x” to the title. The big lizard and the big ape team up to fight off a mysterious threat from beneath the Hollow Earth. Expect extremely large things smashing into other extremely large things. Also, King Kong’s got a robot arm.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
The second film with “Empire” in the title on screens this week features the old Ghostbusters cast, Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, and Ernie Hudson, teaming up with the new Ghostbusters cast, Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, and Mckenna Grace, to battle a supernatural force so scary it literally freezes everyone and everything.
Kung Fu Panda 4
Jack Black returns as Po the Dragon Warrior panda who is given a new assignment by his master, voiced by Dustin Hoffman: He is to oversee the Valley of Peace. Will the hot-headed warrior warm to his life change? Or will he open a can of panda kung fu whoop-ass on The Chameleon (Viola Davis)?
Immaculate
Sydney Sweeney stars as a Sister Cecilia, a nun headed to a new convent in Italy on the express invitation of Father Sal Tedeschi (Alvaro Morte), who is definitely not trying to clone Jesus and use Cecilia as a surrogate Virgin Mary, because that would be blasphemy, right?
Days of Heaven
On Thursday, April 4th, the Crosstown Arts Film Series presents Terrence Malick’s second film, 1978’s Days of Heaven. It stars a very young Richard Gere as Bill, who flees the Chicago police to Texas, where he competes for the love of Abby (Brooke Adams) with a stable, handsome farmer (Sam Shepard, also very young.) The 1978 Academy Award winner for Best Cinematography is one of the most gorgeously shot films ever made.
My Neighbor Totoro
If Malick ain’t your speed, April 4th is also Anime Night at Black Lodge. Hop on the Catbus for Hayao Miyazaki’s 1988 cult classic.
