This week we hit you with a spectacular array of Can't Miss Fall Events plus our usual offering of weekend ideas including The Shaker Hill Apple Festival and concerts from Shemekia Copeland and Neko Case. We also have an interview with comic Tom Papa, a preview of the new season at Mad Horse, a Tap Lines look at some Maine Oktoberfest events, a Face the Music look at a new local music Beatles tribute album and more!
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Movies & Showtimes
NEW THIS WEEK
Opens FridayHell Fest
A masked serial killer turns a horror-themed amusement park into his own personal playground, terrorizing a group of friends while the rest of the patrons believe that it is all part of the show. ...
Opens ThursdayNational Theatre Live: King Lear
Captured live from London's West End, see Ian McKellen's 'extraordinarily moving portrayal' (Independent) of King Lear in cinemas nationwide on Thursday, September 27 at 7:00 p.m. local time. ...
Opens FridayNight School
The comedy follows a group of misfits who are forced to attend adult classes in the longshot chance they'll pass the GED exam.
Opens WednesdayRebel Without a Cause (1955) presented by TCM
Fathom Events, Turner Classic Movies and Warner Bros. Entertainment are bringing Rebel Without a Cause to select cinemas nationwide for a special two-day event and includes specially produced commentary from Turner Classic Movies. ...
Opens FridaySmallfoot
An animated adventure for all ages, with original music and an all-star cast, Smallfoot turns the Bigfoot legend upside down when a bright young Yeti finds something he thought didn't exist - a human. ...
Opens FridaySmallfoot in 3D
An animated adventure for all ages, with original music and an all-star cast, Smallfoot turns the Bigfoot legend upside down when a bright young Yeti finds something he thought didn't exist - a human. ...
NOW PLAYING:
A Simple Favor
A SIMPLE FAVOR, directed by Paul Feig, centers around Stephanie (Anna Kendrick), a mommy vlogger who seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend Emily's (Blake Lively) sudden disappearance from their small town. ...
Alpha
An epic adventure set in the last Ice Age. Europe, 20,000 years ago. While on his first hunt with his tribe's most elite group, a young man is injured and left for dead. ...
Ant-Man and the Wasp
From the Marvel Cinematic Universe comes a new chapter featuring heroes with the astonishing ability to shrink: "Ant-Man and The Wasp. ...
Assassination Nation
High school senior Lily and her group of friends live in a haze of texts, posts, selfies and chats just like the rest of the world. ...
BlacKkKlansman
From visionary filmmaker Spike Lee comes the incredible true story of an American hero. It's the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. ...
Crazy Rich Asians
"Crazy Rich Asians" follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu (Wu) as she accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young (Golding), to his best friend's wedding in Singapore. ...
Disney's Christopher Robin
In the heat-warming live action adventure "Disney's Christopher Robin," the young boy who loved embarking on adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood with a band of spirited and loveable stuffed animals, has grown up and lost his way. ...
Fahrenheit 11/9
Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 11/9" is a provocative and comedic look at the times in which we live. It will explore the two most important questions of the Trump Era: How the f**k did we get here, and how the f**k do we get out? ...
Life Itself
As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes in Life Itself. ...
Lizzie
LIZZIE is a psychological thriller that reveals many layers of the strange and fragile Lizzie Borden, who stood accused of the infamous 1892 axe murder of her family in Fall River, Massachusetts. ...
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Get ready to sing and dance, laugh and love all over again.Ten years after Mamma Mia! ...
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
The best intentions often come back to haunt you. ...
Operation Finale
The film vividly captures the ingenious and brilliantly executed mission to capture Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust. ...
Peppermint
Peppermint is an action thriller which tells the story of young mother Riley North (Garner) who awakens from a coma after her husband and daughter are killed in a brutal attack on the family. ...
Searching
After David Kim (John Cho)'s 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. ...
The Bookshop
England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. ...
The Happytime Murders
No Sesame. All Street. THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS is a filthy comedy set in the underbelly of Los Angeles where puppets and humans coexist. ...
The House With A Clock In Its Walls
In the tradition of Amblin classics where fantastical events occur in the most unexpected places, Jack Black and two-time Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett star in THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS, from Amblin Entertainment. ...
The House With a Clock In Its Walls (w/ Michael Jackson's Thriller): IMAX
In the tradition of Amblin classics where fantastical events occur in the most unexpected places, Jack Black and two-time Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett star in THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS, from Amblin Entertainment. ...
The Meg
A deep-sea submersible part of an international undersea observation program has been attacked by a massive creature, previously thought to be extinct, and now lies disabled at the bottom of the deepest trench in the Pacific with its crew trapped ins ...
The Nun
When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order's unholy secret. ...
The Predator
From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home in Shane Black's explosive reinvention of the Predator series. ...
The Wife
After nearly forty years of marriage, JOAN and JOE CASTLEMAN (Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce) are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. ...
Three Identical Strangers
Three complete strangers Bobby Shafran, David Kellman, and Eddy Galland are reunited in an astonishing coincidence after being born identical triplets, separated at birth, and adopted to different families. ...
Unbroken: Path to Redemption
Based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling book, UNBROKEN: PATH TO REDEMPTION begins where the hit movie Unbrokenconcludes, sharing the next amazing chapter of the unbelievable true story of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini. ...
White Boy Rick
Set in 1980s Detroit at the height of the crack epidemic and the War on Drugs, WHITE BOY RICK is based on the moving true story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, Rick Wershe, who became an undercover police informant and later a drug deale ...
