Screening Report 2/12/2025

Captain America, Ne Zha, and Paddington duke it out.

Feb 12, 2025

Captain America: Brave New World (top), Ne Zha 2 (bottom left), Paddington in Peru (bottom right)

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Horizon Line Madison! While the Oscar season rolls on, we’re getting our first chances to look ahead for our 2025 film season. The Wisconsin Film Festival has announced its First Look at the Fest screening at Flix Brewhouse on March 5th, including food and drink alongside the curated program of film trailers. They’ll publish the full festival program the next day, and ticket sales will go up March 8th.

In new release, we have a battle between the four-quadrant blockbusters Captain America: Brave New World, Ne Zha 2, and Paddington in Peru - the continued, staggered screenings of the Best Picture nominees - and Valentine’s themed screenings of Challengers, Love Hurts, and Heart Eyes. It’s a lower-key week at UW Cinematheque and MMOCA, with crime drama Sujo and gay romance Viet and Nam making their Madison debuts.

However, our repertory screenings are absolutely stuffed with options, largely themed around Valentine’s Day and Black History Month. There’s screenings of great films like When Harry Met Sally, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Do The Right Thing, Casablanca, Claudine, and Coming to America, some at our usual repertory campus programs but even more at our commercial theaters.

Next week, the one wide release is The Monkey - I’m personally very excited for UW Cinematheque’s screening of On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, the new film from I Am Not A Witch filmmaker Rungano Nyoni. The first half of Marcus’s Best Picture Marathon will be on Saturday the 22nd, with the second half scheduled for March 1st. And in repertory, the black history month celebration continues with screenings of Love & Basketball, Coffy, and Crooklyn. The library film series Cinesthesia also returns with Something Wild on Wednesday the 26th. And, looking ahead one more week, the wider releases for the weekend of the 28th are Woody Harrelson/Simu Liu thriller Last Breath and Sonequa Martin-Green/Natalie Morales comedy My Dead Friend Zoe, maybe signaling a good weekend for UW Cinematheque’s screening of The Passion of Joan of Arc.

PLUG ZONE

Rob Thomas has reviews for Paddington in Peru and I’m Still Here this week, the former of which you’ll find excerpted below.
Mills Folly Microcinema is still accepting submissions for their April Project Projection program!
One of our readers informed me of Chicago’s Cinefile Cine-List, which collects alternative and repertory cinema screenings alongside thoughtful editorial writing about the highlights.

THIS WEEK (2/13/2025-2/19/2025)

New Releases

-Paddington in Peru - AMC, Marcus Point, Marcus Palace, Flix Brewhouse
“The antics of the human actors pull focus too often away from Paddington and Whishaw’s gentle, magical vocal performance.
But this is still a Paddington movie, and if it doesn’t live up to the first two films, it’s still bright, cheerful, refreshingly un-cynical fun.” - Rob Thomas

-Captain America: Brave New World - AMC, Marcus Point, Marcus Palace, Flix Brewhouse
-Ne Zha 2 - AMC, Marcus Point
-Armand - AMC
-Chhaava - AMC
-Sujo - 7p 2/13 at UW Cinematheque
-62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour - 7p 2/18 at Arts + Literature Laboratory
-2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films (Animation) - 2/19 at Marcus Point, Marcus Palace
-Viet and Nam - 7p 2/19 at MMOCA

-A Complete Unknown - AMC, Marcus Point, Marcus Palace, Flix Brewhouse
-Becoming Led Zeppelin - AMC, Marcus Point, Marcus Palace
-Companion - AMC, Marcus Point, Marcus Palace, Flix Brewhouse
-Dog Man - AMC, Marcus Point, Marcus Palace, Flix Brewhouse
-Heart Eyes - AMC, Marcus Point, Marcus Palace, Flix Brewhouse
-Love Hurts - AMC, Marcus Point, Marcus Palace, Flix Brewhouse
-Challengers - AMC
-Conclave - AMC
-Detective Chinatown 1900 - AMC
-Dune Part Two - AMC
-Flight Risk - AMC
-Green and Gold - Marcus Point, Marcus Palace
-I’m Still Here - AMC, Marcus Point
-Moana 2 - AMC
-Mufasa: The Lion King - Marcus Palace
-One of Them Days - AMC
-Rob Peace - AMC
-Babygirl - Marcus Point
-Anora - 7:20p 2/18 at AMC
-The Substance - 7:20p 2/19 at AMC

Repertory

-Bridesmaids - 6:45p 2/13 at Flix Brewhouse
-Ghost - 2/13-2/14 AMC
-Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - 2/13 AMC, Marcus Point
-Lakota Nation vs. United States - 6:30p 2/13 at The Marquee Union South
-Claudine - 7p 2/14 at UW Cinematheque
-East Side/West Side: Who Do You Kill? - 6p 2/14 at UW Cinematheque
-Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - 2/14 AMC, Marcus Point
-”Let The Sparks Fly” Marathon (Message in a Bottle, The Lucky One, Nights in Rodanthe, The Notebook) - 1pm 2/15 at Marcus Palace
-Lisa Frankenstein - 6:30p 2/14 at The Marquee Union South, 9:30p 2/15 at The Marquee Union South
-Notting Hill - 3p, 6:30p 2/14 at Flix Brewhouse
-Portrait of a Lady on Fire - 9p 2/14 at The Marquee Union South, 6:30p 2/15 at The Marquee Union South
-Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 2/15 AMC, Marcus Point
-Our Lady of the Chinese Shop - 7p 2/15 at UW Cinematheque
-When Harry Met Sally - 6:30p 2/15 at Flix Brewhouse
-Casablanca - 12p, 2:15p 2/16 at Flix Brewhouse
-Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 2/16 AMC, Marcus Point
-Deep Red - 7p 2/18 at Cineteca Italiana
-Dumb and Dumber - 6:30p 2/18 at Flix Brewhouse
-Coming to America - 7:45p 2/19 at Marcus Palace
-Do The Right Thing - 4:40p 2/19 at Marcus Palace
-Despicable Me 4 - Marcus Point, Marcus Palace

NEXT WEEK (2/20/2025-2/26/2025)

New Releases

-The Monkey - AMC, Marcus Point, Marcus Palace, Flix Brewhouse
-Cleaner - AMC
-Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants - AMC, Marcus Point
-The Unbreakable Boy - Marcus Point, Marcus Palace
-On Becoming a Guinea Fowl - 7p 2/20 at UW Cinematheque
-Parthenope - 7p 2/21 at Marcus Point
-2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films (Live Action) - 2/26 at Marcus Point, Marcus Palace

Repertory

-Love and Basketball - 6:30p 2/20 Flix Brewhouse
-Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - 2/20 AMC, Marcus Point
-Coffy - 7p 2/21 at UW Cinematheque
-Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - 2/21 AMC, Marcus Point
-21 Jump Street - 6:15p 2/22 at Flix Brewhouse
-Air Conditioner - 7p 2/22 at UW Cinematheque
-Crooklyn - 9p 2/22 at The Marquee Union South
-Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 2/22 AMC, Marcuts Point
-Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 2/23 AMC, Marcus Point
-Steel Magnolias - 11:45a 2/23 at Flix Brewhouse
-Happy as Lazarro - 7p 2/25 at La Cineteca Italiana
-Shrek 2 - 6:45p 2/25 at Flix Brewhouse
-Just Mercy - 4:30p 2/26 at Marcus Palace
-Let’s Get Lost - 7p 2/26 at MMOCA
-Something Wild - 7p 2/26 at Madison Central Library
-Straight Outta Compton - 7:45p 2/26 at Marcus Palace

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