13 Fresh Films this February
As January is coming to an end, one way to beat the February blues, and take some well-deserved time off from those life-draining deadlines, is to take a look at the films coming up for the next month! Moving on from the likes of the great January films, such as 12 Years a Slave and The Wolf of Wall Street, it’s out with the old, and in with the new!
Dallas Buyer’s Club
Release: 7th February
Genre: Biography/Drama/Historical
Certification: 18
Running Time: 117 minutes
Director: Jean-Marc Vallee
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto
An American biographical drama film based on the true-life story of Ron Woodroof, an AIDs patient who began smuggling unapproved pharmaceutical drugs into Texas when he found them effective at improving his symptoms.
RoboCop
Release: 7th February
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
Certification: PG-13
Running Time: 118 minutes
Director: Jose Padilha
Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Douglas Urbanski, Abbie Cornish
American Science-fiction film set in crime-ridden Detroit in the near future where it centres on police officer, Alex Murphy, who is brutally murdered by a gang of criminals revived by the malevolent mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP) as a superhuman cyborg law enforcer known as RoboCop.
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Release: 7th February
Genre: Animation/Adventure/Comedy
Certification: PG
Running Time: 92 minutes
Director: Rob Minkoff
Stars: Ty Burrell, Max Charles, Stephen Colbert
American 3D animated film based on the characters from Peabody’s Improbable History of the 1960s animated television series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, about Mr. Peabody, a talking dog who is the smartest being in the world, is adopted boy Sherman.
Her
Release: 14th February
Genre: Drama/Romance
Certification: 18
Running Time: 126 minutes
Director: Spike Jonze
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson
The film centres on a man who develops a relationship with an intelligent computer operating system (IOS) with a female voice and personality.
The Lego Movie
Release: 14th February
Genre: Animation/Action/Comedy
Certification: PG
Running Time: 100 minutes
Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Stars: Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett
Set in the Lego universe, an ordinary mini-figure named Emmet is mistaken as being the Special (the greatest Master Builder who can save the Lego universe). With the help of an old wizard named Vitruvius, a woman named Wyldstyle, Batman, Uni-Kitty, Benny, and a pirate named Metalbeard, Emmet will have to unlearn everything he saw in the instructions and learn the power of imagination to defeat the evil tyrant Lord Business, who is bent on destroying the Lego universe on Taco Tuesday.
The Pirate Fairy
Release: 14th February
Genre: Animation/Action
Certification: PG Universal
Running Time: 78 minutes
Director: Peggy Holmes
Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Christina Hendricks, Mae Whitman
From the world of Peter Pan comes The Pirate Fairy, a new adventure about Zarina (Christina Hendricks), a dust-keeper fairy who’s captivated by Blue Pixie Dust and its endless possibilities. When Zarina’s wild ideas get her into trouble, she flees Pixie Hollow and joins forces with the scheming pirates of Skull Rock, who make her captain of their ship. Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman) and her friends must embark on an epic adventure to find Zarina, and together they go sword-to-sword with the band of pirates led by a cabin boy named James (Tom Hiddleston), who’ll soon be known as Captain Hook.
Cuban Fury
Release: 14th February
Genre: Comedy
Certification: 15
Running Time: 98 minutes
Director: James Griffiths
Stars: Rashida Jones, Ian McShane, Chris O’Dowd
Former teen salsa champion Bruce Garrett (Frost) is now a sad-sack engineer. But his passion for dancing is re-ignited by his crush on his gorgeous new boss Julia (Rashida Jones) and the only way he can win her over is by mastering the art of dance. Now all Bruce needs to do is rediscover his inner passion.
The Monuments Men
Release: 14th February
Genre: Action/Biography/Drama
Certification: PG-13
Running Time: 118 minutes
Director: George Clooney
Stars: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon
The film follows the story of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program, an Allied group, tasked with saving pieces of art and other culturally important items before their destruction by Hitler during World War II.
Endless Love
Release: 14th February
Genre: Drama/Romance
Certification: 12A
Running Time: 103 minutes
Director: Shana Feste
Stars: Gabriella Wilde, Alex Pettyfer, Bruce Greenwood
A remake of Franco Zeffirelli’s 1981 film of same name and second adaptation of Scott Spencer’s novel, in the story of a privileged girl and a charismatic boy whose instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
Winter’s Tale
Release: 21st February
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
Certification: PG-13
Running Time: Unknown
Director: Akiva Goldsman
Stars: Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Russell Crowe
Based on the 1983 novel by Mark Helprin, the film is set in 1916 and present-day Manhattan, Winter’s Tale follows the story of Peter Lake (Colin Farrell). Peter Lake is a thief who falls in love with Beverly Penn (Jessica Brown Findlay), a dying girl who has tuberculosis and occupies one of the houses he breaks into. Lake is saved from the insane Irish gangster Pearly Soames (Russell Crowe) and his henchmen by Athansor, a mysterious white horse who becomes his guardian angel.
The Invisible Woman
Release: 21st February
Genre: Biography/Drama/Romance
Certification: 18
Running Time: 111 minutes
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas
The story of author Charles Dickens’ secret affair with a tender 18 year old mistress, one who must lead a life of invisibility.
Ride Along
Release: 28th February
Genre: Action/Comedy
Certification: PG-13
Running Time: 99 minutes
Director: Tim Story
Stars: Kevin Hart, Ice Cube, Tika Sumpter
This film is about Ben Barber, a fast-talking security guard, who joins his potential brother-in-law James Payton, an APD detective, on a 24-hour patrol of Atlanta in order to prove himself worthy of marrying Angela, James’ sister
Non-Stop
Release: 28th February
Genre: Action/Mystery/Thriller
Certification: PG-13
Running Time: 106 minutes
Director: Jaume Collet-Sera
Stars: Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Lupita Nyong’o
Taking place on an international flight from New York to London, during the flight, U.S. federal air marshal Bill Marks (Neeson) receives a series of threatening text messages, stating unambiguously that a passenger will be killed every 20 minutes unless, and until, $150 million is transferred into a secret bank account. When the bank account is discovered to be under Marks’ name and a bomb is found aboard the plane, Marks is branded as a hijacker.
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