Buffalo Movies: New films open across WNY this weekend. The Film Focus provides a list of what movies are opening and where to see them.

(Above: Jeremy Allen White in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. Photo by Macall Polay/Macall Polay – © 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.)

By M. Faust

OPENING THIS WEEK:

BLUE MOON (R) Ethan Hawke reunites with Before trilogy director Richard Linklater for this biopic of Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart set primarily on one of the worst nights of his career, the opening of his former partner Richard Rodgers’s huge hit Oklahoma. With Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott. Dipson Amherst, Dipson Capitol, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit

CHAINSAW MAN – THE MOVIE: REZE ARC (R) Feature sequel to the first season of the anime series. Directed by Tatsuya Yoshihara. AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

CORPSE BRIDE (2005, PG) Reissue of Tim Burton’s stop-motion animation feature inspired by a Russian fairy tale. With the voices of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracy Ullman, Albert Finney, Joanna Lumley and Christopher Lee. Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In (Fri-Sat only)

DREAM EATER (NR) Found footage horror about a woman who fears there is an evil force behind her boyfriend’s sleepwalking. Starring Robin Akimbo, Jay Drakulic and Brittany Drumm. Directed by Drakulic with Mallory Drumm and Alex Lee Williams. Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit

EK DEEWANE KI DEEWANIYAT (NR) Hindi language drama about a politician who becomes obsessed with a free-spirited woman. Starring stars Harshvardhan Rane and Sonam Bajwa. Directed by Milap Zaveri. Regal Elmwood, Regal Transit

FRANKENSTEIN (R) Guillermo del Toro’s take on the Mary Shelly classic. Sorry, none of it was filmed in Buffalo. Starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz and Charles Dance. North Park

GODDAY GODDAY CHAA 2 (NR) Punjabi comedy set in a village where the women take over to plan a big wedding, and afterwards refuse to give up their power. Starring Ammy Virk, Tania, Gurjazz, and Nikeet Dhillon. Directed by Vijay Kumar Arora. Regal Elmwood

LAST DAYS (PG-13) Fact-based story set in 2018 about a self-appointed missionary who attempts to convert the natives of a remote Indian island. Starring Sky Yang, Radhika Apte, Ken Leung, Toby Wallace. Directed by Justin Lin (Better Luck Tomorrow). Regal Quaker

LUV YA BUM! (NR) Documentary about Bum Phillips, coach of the Houston Astros in the 1970s. Directed by Sam Wainwright Douglas, David Hartstein and Andrew Alden Miller Regal Walden Galleria

REGRETTING YOU (PG-13) Drama about a woman and her teenaged daughter struggling to recover after the death of her husband. Starring Allison Williams, Mckenna Grace, Dave Franco, and Clancy Brown. Directed by Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars). AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Spotlight Theater of Warsaw (closed Mon), Transit Drive-In (Fri-Sat only)

SHELBY OAKS (R) Kickstarter-funded horror movie based on an online found-footage series. Sometimes I miss Louis B. Meyer. Starring Camille Sullivan, Brendan Sexton III, Robin Bartlett, and Keith David, Directed by Chris Stuckmann. AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Dipson Capitol, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In (Fri-Sat only)

SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE (PG-13) Boss biopic centering on the recording of his atypical 1982 album Nebraska. Starring Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Paul Walter Hauser, and Stephen Graham. Directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart). AMC Maple Ridge, Aurora (closed Tues), Dipson Amherst, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Dunkirk Multiplex, Hamburg Palace, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Spotlight Theater of Warsaw (closed Mon), Transit Drive-In (Fri-Sat only)

THAMMA (NR) Fifth entry in the Hindi-language Maddock Horror Comedy Universe. Which either means something to you or doesn’t. Starring Ayushmann Khurrana, Rashmika Mandanna, and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Directed by Aditya Sarpotdar. Regal Elmwood, Regal Transit

NOW PLAYING: 

AFTER THE HUNT (R) Julia Roberts as a college professor who worries about her own future when a colleague is accused by a student. With Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Chloë Sevigny. Directed by Luca Guadagnino (Challengers). Dipson Amherst, Regal Quaker, Regal Walden Galleria

BLACK PHONE 2 (R) Horror sequel. Starring Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw Demián Bichir and Ethan Hawke as The Grabber. Directed by Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose). AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Spotlight Theater of Warsaw (closed Mon)

THE CONJURING: LAST RITES (R) Sequel. Starring Vera Farmiga Patrick Wilson and Elliot Cowan. Directed by Michael Chaves (The Nun II). AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Regal Quaker, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In (Fri-Sat only)

DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA INFINITY CASTLE (R) Proof, if there was any doubt, that anime has gone mainstream. Directed by Haruo Sotozaki and Hikaru Kondô. Regal Walden Galleria

DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE (PG) “Finale”? I’ll bet money that Julian Fellowes is already working on a reboot and/or a prequel series. For the time being, Paul Giamatti and Joely Richardson join the usual cast: Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle, Joanne Froggatt, Robert James-Collier, Dominic West, Penelope Wilton, et alia. Directed by Simon Curtis (Downton Abbey: A New Era). Regal Transit

GABBY’S DOLLHOUSE: THE MOVIE (G) Feature adaptation of a Netflix series that you’re unlikely ever to have heard of unless you have very young children. Starring Laila Lockhart Kraner, Carla Tassara and Kristen Wiig. Directed by Ryan Crego (Shrek Forever After). Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

GOOD BOY (PG-13) A dog tries to save his owner from the ghostly forces haunting their new rural home in this SXSW hit. Starring Indy, Shane Jensen, Larry Fessenden, and Arielle Friedman. Directed by Ben Leonberg. Joylan (closed Weds-Thurs), Regal Elmwood

GOOD FORTUNE (R) Comedy starring Keanu Reeves as a guardian angel who switches the lives of a struggling gig worker and a venture capitalist to teach them life lessons, but then cannot switch them back. With Seth Rogan, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Aziz Anzari, who also directed. AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In (Fri-Sat only)

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (R) Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, loosely inspired by the Thomas Pynchon novel Vineland, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a onetime radical who tried to summon up his former fire when his daughter is kidnapped. Co-starring Sean Penn, Benecio del Toro and Regina Hall. Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

PETS ON A TRAIN (PG) From France, an animated comedy about anthropomorphic animals on a runaway train. Directed by Benoît Daffis and Jean-Christian Tassy. Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit

ROOFMAN (R) Fact-based story of a burglar (Channing Tatum) who escaped prison and hid out in a toy store for six months. Co-starring Kirsten Dunst, LaKeith Stanfield, Juno Temple and Peter Dinklage. Directed by Derek Cianfrance (The Light Between Oceans). AMC Maple Ridge, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In (Fri-Sat only)

THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 2 (R) Horror sequel. With Madelaine Petsch, Gabriel Basso and Ema Horvath. Directed by Renny Harlin (The Adventures of Ford Fairlaine). Transit Drive-In (Fri-Sat only)

TELUSU KADA (NR) Telugu-language romantic comedy. Starring Raashi Khanna, Srinidhi Shetty, and Sidhu Jonnalagadda. Directed by Neeraja Kona. Regal Elmwood

TRON: ARES (PG-13) Sequel. Or reboot—so hard to keep these straight. Starring Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Jeff Bridges, Gillian Anderson, and Hasan Minhaj. Directed by Joachim Rønning (Maleficent: Mistress of Evil). AMC Maple Ridge, AMC Market Arcade, Dipson Capitol, Dipson Flix, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Elmwood, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In (Fri-Sat only)

TRUTH & TREASON (PG-13) When even his church tells him that he should be loyal to a political regime he knows to be corrupt, a teenage boy is faced with the costs of speaking the truth at a time when everyone he knows lives in fear. Did I mention that it’s set in Nazi Germany? Starring Ewan Horrocks, Rupert Evans, and Ferdinand McKay. Directed by Matt Whitaker. Dipson Capitol, Dunkirk Multiplex, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

ETC:

CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962, NR) and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968, NR)—A double feature of classics of low-budget regional filmmaking from former industrial filmmakers. Carnival, the only feature film by Herk Harvey, stars Candace Hilligoss as a woman who survives a car wreck only to be trapped in a small town where she is haunted by apparitions. And the shocking no-budget verisimilitude of George Romero’s original zombie film is just as effective as it was when it first leaked into drive-ins nearly a half century ago. Thurs 7 pm. Screening Room

CASPER (1995, PG) and THE CORPSE BRIDE (2005, PG)— Family-friendly Halloween double feature. Fri-Sat at dusk. Transit Drive-In

HALLOWEEN (1978, R)—Despite the hordes of imitators it inspired, John Carpenter’s original slasher movie looks like a small masterpiece of focused independent filmmaking in the wake of so many recent big studio remakes of 70s horror movies. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence and P.J. Soles. Sat 9:30 pm, Fri Oct 31 7 pm. Screening Room

HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH (1982, R)—A mad scientist plans to use specially engineered Halloween costumes to take over the children of the world. A moderately entertaining horror movie, co-written by John Carpenter and Nigel Kneale, that never got an audience because viewers hated that it was not, as the title might lead you to suspect, about the further adventures of Michael Myers. Starring Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, and Dan O’Herlihy. Mon 7:30 pm, Fri Oct 31 9:15 pm. Screening Room

THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959, NR)—Eccentric millionaire Vincent Price offers five people $10,000 each if they can spend the night in his haunted mansion. With Carolyn Craig, Richard Long, Elisha Cook Jr. and Carol Ohmart. Directed by William Castle (Mr. Sardonicus). Weds 7 pm. Screening Room

NOSFERATU (1922)— Max Schreck as the screen’s most unforgettable Dracula (though Bram Stoker’s widow had to sue the unauthorized production) in F.W. Murnau’s expressionist masterpiece. The screening will be accompanied by Bruce Woody at the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ. Free and open to the public. Mon 7 pm. Riviera

NOSFERATU—See above. Weds 9 pm. Screening Room

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925)—Lon Chaney in the original silent classic. The screening will be accompanied by Bruce Woody at the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ. Free and open to the public. Weds 7 pm. Riviera

PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (1959)—Ed Wood’s best remembered film is hardly the “worst movie ever made,” but it is one of the most entertaining bad ones. The fun lies not in the story about aliens intent on destroying Earth but from the cardboard sets, stock footage, and overripe acting from an assortment of Hollywood wannabes (padded out with a few minutes of left-over footage of Bela Lugosi, shot just before his death). Fri Oct 31 5 pm. Screening Room

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975, R)—Because it just wouldn’t be Halloween without Dr. Frank N. Furter prancing about somewhere. Do the Time Warp again! Fri 11 pm. Spotlight Theater of Warsaw; Fri Oct 31 10 pm. Hamburg Palace

TRICK ‘R’ TREAT (2006, R)—Anthology of five scary stories. With Brian Cox, Dylan Baker, Anna Paquin and Leslie Bibb. Directed by Michael Dougherty (Krampus). Sat 4 pm. Screening Room

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974, R)—Mel Brooks’ loving parody of classic Universal monster movies is his most consistent film. Some of the humor is forced, but if you can’t laugh at Dr. Frankenstein (Gene Wilder, who also wrote the screenplay) and his monster (Peter Boyle) doing a soft-shoe to “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” there’s no hope for you. With Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Gene Hackman and Cloris Leachman. Fri 7:30 pm, Sat 1 pm, 7 pm Tue 7:30. Screening Room

THEATER LOCATIONS AND WEBSITES

AMC Maple Ridge, 4276 Maple Road, Amherst www.amctheatres.com

AMC Market Arcade, 639 Main Street, Buffalo www.amctheatres.com

Angola Theatre, 72 N. Main St., Angola, NY https://angolatheatre.com/

Aurora Theater, 673 Main Street, East Aurora https://theauroratheatre.com/

Dipson Amherst, 3500 Main Street, Buffalo. www.dipsontheatres.com

Dipson Capitol Theater, 720 Builders Way, Niagara Falls www.dipsontheatres.com

Dipson Flix, 4901 Transit Road, Depew www.dipsontheatres.com

Dunkirk Multiplex, 10520 Bennett Road, Dunkirk https://www.dunkirkmultiplex.com/

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center Cinema, 431 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo https://www.hallwalls.org/

Hamburg Palace, 31 Buffalo Street, Hamburg www.hamburgpalace.com

Joylan, 11 W. Main Street, Springville https://joylantheater.com/

North Park, 1428 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo https://northparktheatre.org/

Regal Elmwood, 2001 Elmwood Avenue., Buffalo https://www.fandango.com/

Regal Quaker Crossing, 3450 Amelia Drive, Orchard Park https://www.fandango.com/

Regal Transit, 6707 Transit Road. Williamsville https://www.fandango.com/

Regal Walden Galleria, Galleria Mall, Cheektowaga https://www.fandango.com/

Riviera Theater, 67 Webster Street, North Tonawanda https://rivieratheatre.org/

The Screening Room, Boulevard Mall Amherst www.screeningroom.net

Spotlight Theater of Warsaw, 23 S Main Street, Warsaw www.thespotlighttheaters.com/

Squeaky Wheel, Tri-Main Center, 2495 Main Street, Suite 310, Buffalo https://squeaky.org/

Transit Drive-In Theatre, 6655 S. Transit Road, Lockport https://www.transitdrivein.com