‘Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain’ (2023)
For almost his entire career, Brookline native Conan O’Brien has only appeared in movies and shows as himself. If you want to see O’Brien really test out his acting chops, go watch him play a therapist opposite Rose Byrne in the harrowing drama “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”.
But if you want to see him in a safer role, playing the dad of fellow gangly redhead Ben Marshall (“Saturday Night Live”), check out this oddball comedy from the sketch trio Please Don’t Destroy. Similar to their “SNL” videos, the boys (Marshall, John Higgins, Martin Herlihy) play good-hearted losers, but venture far beyond the confines of Studio 8H in search of a mythical treasure.
‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem‘ (2023)
Unfortunately, Ayo Edebiri’s new movie opposite Julia Roberts, “After the Hunt,” isn’t worth seeing in theaters (You can read my review here). Because of that, I decided to whip up a watchlist of the Dorchester native’s best projects once you’re done watching “The Bear” in the latest edition of my streaming newsletter, The Queue.
One of the titles is this under-watched take on a Ninja Turtles origin story from 2023, featuring Edebiri as a slightly reimagined April O’Neil. She’s a bit more tuned into conspiracies than the April of old. But you probably would be too if you lived in a city with a vast underground lair of mutant villains, voiced by the likes of Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, John Cena, and Ice Cube.
