February 2018 Movies

Driving While Black

Dmitri is a pizza guy who would rather smoke weed and suffer for his art, but his mom and his girl won’t stop nagging him to get a real job. When he’s offered a gig mouthing off to tourists behind the wheel of a Hollywood “star tour” bus, it looks like everyone might get what they want. Trouble is, our man can’t seem to step out the door to get to the interview without endless complications: busted radiators, simple weed scores gone sideways and LAPD cruisers seemingly everywhere. Dmitri’s skill at going unnoticed by cops is honed by painful experiences growing up Black in L.A., but even his keen survival instincts won’t save him from the week from hell.

Paul Sapiano, Dominique Purdy

An Affair To Die For

When a woman and her boyfriend's infidelity is discovered, they are forced to play the twisted game of their captor to save their family members from being murdered. Their weekend getaway turns into a nightmare of psychological mind games, where they will do anything just to survive. Truth, lies, love and hate all meet in this explosive thriller.

Jake Abel, Claire Forlani, Victor Garcia, Titus Welliver

Winchester

After the sudden deaths of her husband and child, heir to the Winchester rifle fortune Sarah Winchester begins to believe she is cursed by the family legacy. She is instructed to build the mansion by a spiritualist medium, to appease the spirits. Sarah begins 38 years of construction on a 24,000 square foot, 160-room Gothic mansion and never stops building.

Helen Mirren, Brian Gilbert, Brett Tomberlin, Tim McGahan, Sarah Snook, Andy Trapani, Toni Lianos, Marc Shipper

A Fantastic Woman

The story of Marina, a waitress and singer, and Orlando, an older man, who are in love and planning for the future. After Orlando suddenly falls ill and dies, Marina is forced to confront his family and society, and to fight again to show them who she is: complex, strong, forthright, fantastic.

Gonzalo Maza, Daniela Vega, Sebastian Lelio, Francisco Reyes

Braven

When Joe Braven (Jason Momoa), a humble logger residing along the U.S./Canada border is confronted by a group of deadly drug runners who have stashed heroin in his secluded cabin in the mountains, he must do everything in his power to protect his family. Little do the elite drug runners know the unassuming man they’ve encountered has an impressive bite colliding two dynamic forces – one fighting for the lives of his family, the other for the love of the kill.

Jason Momoa, Jill Wagner, Lin Oeding, Thomas Pa'a Sibbett, Garrett Dillahunt, Stephen Lang

The Cage Fighter

Follows Joe Carman, a blue-collar Washington State master plumber, a loving father and husband who is unable to cope with stresses at home and an ongoing custody battle. He escapes back into the fighting cage to heal himself and come to terms with his past.

Jeff Unay

Scorched Earth

The planet has suffered an environmental collapse; the air became dangerous to breathe, the water became toxic, and billions of people died. Generations later, mankind has finally re-established a rudimentary society, in an attempt to pick up the pieces that continue to blister in the sun. Attica Gage (Gina Carano) is a bounty hunter with a chance at the bounty of a lifetime: to bring down the ruthless outlaw, Elijah Jackson. Gage infiltrates Jackson’s gang, and everything is going to plan until she meets a slave girl who reminds her of her dead sister. With her loyalty to only herself now tested, Gage learns that there might be more to life than just survival.

Gina Carano, Peter Howitt, John Hannah, Ryan Robbins

BILAL: A New Breed of Hero

The story of an African hero who raises his voice to stand up for freedom and equality in a time of dire oppression.

China Anne McClain, Ian McShane, Michael Gross, Mark Rolston, Fred Tatasciore, Ayman Jamal, Khurram Alavi, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

The Cloverfield Paradox

After a physics experiment with a large hadron accelerator causes the Earth to seemingly vanish completely, the terrified crew of an orbiting American space station is left floating in the middle of now-even-more-empty space. When a European spacecraft appears on their radar, the Americans must determine whether it’s their salvation, or a harbinger of doom.

John Krasinski, J.J. Abrams, Julius Onah, David Oyelowo, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Zhang Ziyi, Daniel Brühl, Oren Uziel

Golden Exits

An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.

Emily Browning, Alex Ross Perry, Joe Swanberg, Eddie Linker, Lily Rabe, Adam Piotrowicz, Christos Konstantakopouos, Adam Horovitz

Fifty Shades Freed

The third installment in the Fifty Shades trilogy shares details of the couple’s life after they are married.

Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Rita Ora, Luke Grimes, Fay Masterson, James Foley, E.L. James, Michael De Luca

Peter Rabbit

Revolves around Peter Rabbit and his family with their human antagonists, the McGregors.

Daisy Ridley, Margot Robbie, Rob Lieber, Rose Byrne, Zareh Nalbandian, Doug Belgrad, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Gluck

The 15:17 To Paris

In August 2015, ISIS terrorist Ayoub El-Khazzani boards train from Brussels to Paris. El-Khazzani is armed with an AK-47 and enough ammo to kill more than 500 people, but three American friends refuse to give in to fear. Together, they avert a mass tragedy.

Judy Greer, Jessica Meier, Tony Hale, Tim Moore, Jenna Fischer, Clint Eastwood, Kristina Rivera, Dorothy Blyskal

Entanglement

While recovering from a suicide attempt, Ben Layton accidentally falls in love with a girl who was very nearly his adoptive sister.

Thomas Middleditch, Johannah Newmarch, Jason James, Jess Weixler, Nicole LaPlaca, Diana Bang

When We First Met

A guy (Adam Devine) spends the perfect first night with the girl of his dreams only to get stuck in the friend zone for the next three years – until he gets the chance to travel back in time to change that night, and his fate, over and over again.

Alexandra Daddario, Shelley Hennig, John Whittington, Ari Sandel, Adam Devine, Robbie Amell, Andrew Bachelor

Monster Family

The Wishbone family is far from happy. With a struggling bookshop, an overworked husband, and two misunderstood teenagers, Emma is at her wit’s end trying to be the perfect mom. After dragging her family to a costume party on Halloween night, they are cursed by an evil witch and transformed into a Vampire, a Mummy, a Werewolf, and Frankenstein’s monster. Now Emma will fight to keep her Monster Family together and uncover the secret of their curse… eventually leading them to the Prince of Darkness himself, Dracula!

Nick Frost, Jason Isaacs, Emily Watson, Jessica Brown Findlay, Catherine Tate, Holger Tappe, David Safier, Catharine Junk

The Female Brain

Looks at the inner workings and complex power of brain chemistry among couples at different stages of their relationships and focuses on five couples who are struggling with each other.

Sofia Vergara, James Marsden, Deon Cole, Lucy Punch, Blake Griffin, Whitney Cummings, Toby Kebbell, Cecily Strong

Bomb City

Winter 1997. Amarillo, Texas. Brian Deneke is known for his green mohawk and undying passion for punk music. He throws punk shows with his friends at a rundown venue known as “Bomb City.” And Brian, along with many of his fellow “punks,” refuses to conform to the conservative culture that surrounds them. Their radical appearances stir social intolerance within the community, particularly with Cody Cates, a high school jock who assimilates to a pack known as “white-hatters.” After losing a football game, Cody and a few other white-hatters have an altercation with several of the punks. This conflict ignites a series of hostile encounters between the two groups, climaxing one evening with a horrific, violent street fight. The night would soon become notorious for being one of the most controversial hate crimes in modern American culture.

Logan Huffman, Glenn Morshower, Maemae Renfrow, Marilyn Manson, Jameson Brooks, Sheldon R. Chick, Jameson Brook, Dave Davis

Permission

Focuses on a couple, Anna (Rebecca Hall) and Will (Dan Stevens), who were each other’s first every-things: first kiss, first love, first relationship. Now years on, at Anna’s thirtieth birthday party as Will is about to propose, the couple’s best friend stands up and makes a drunken toast, suggesting that as their relationship is so functional, equitable and stable, it’s threatening to their friends and perhaps they should sleep around before their inevitable marriage. The joke lingers and eventually Anna proposes that they try it, as a sexual experiment. As a couple, with complicity, they venture out of the purely monogamous boundaries of their relationship and in so doing are forced to evolve and grow up.

Dan Stevens, Rebecca Hall, Gina Gershon, Francois Arnaud, Jason Sudeikis, Sarah Steele, Brian Crano, Morgan Spector

La Boda de Valentina

Marco Polo Constandse

Black Panther

No plot details have been announced.

Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan, Winston Duke, Daniel Kaluuya, Kevin Feige, Mark Bailey

Early Man

Set at the dawn of time when dinosaurs and wooly mammoths roam the earth, a plucky caveman unites his tribe against a mighty enemy and saves the day.

Eddie Redmayne, Maisie Williams, Timothy Spall, Nick Park, Richard Starzak, Mark Burton, Tom Hiddleston

Samson

Follows a Jewish boxer sent to Auschwitz who is forced to fight for the entertainment of the Nazi soldiers. But if he loses, he'll be experimented upon.

Jackson Rathbone, Rutger Hauer, Billy Zane, Greg Kriek, Shawn Hoffman, Jason Baumgardner, Galen Gilbert, Timothy Ratajczak

Poop Talk

Poop Talk is an open and honest look at a taboo topic in today’s society. The docu-comedy gives an inside look at all things poop — from uncensored, embarrassing moments to scientific explanations recounted by 50 experts and comedians including Kumail Nanjiani, Nicole Byer, Adam Carolla, Rob Corddry, Nikki Glaser, Pete Holmes, Eric Stonestreet, Randy and Jason Sklar, Nick Swardson, Dr. Drew Pinsky and many others.

Rob Corddry, Nick Swardson, Aaron Feldman, Kumail Nanjiani, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Eric Stonestreet, Paul Scheer, Aisha Tyler

The Monkey King 3

The third installment of the blockbuster fantasy series sees the return of the Monkey King (Aaron Kwok) in his most action-packed adventure yet! While continuing their epic journey to the West, the Monkey King and his companions are taken captive by the Queen of an all-female land, who believes them to be part of an ancient prophecy heralding the fall of her kingdom. With a lot of sorcery and a little bit of charm, the travelers devise a plan to escape. But when their trickery angers the mighty River God, they realize they might just bring about the foretold destruction - unless they can find a way to quell her wrath.

Soi Cheang

Happy End

Focuses on a wealthy family in northern France, oblivious to the misery of the migrant camps in the nearby city of Calais.

Matthieu Kassovitz, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Isabelle Huppert, Michael Haneke

Detective Chinatown 2

When the case of New York Chinatown godfather Uncle Qi’s missing son turns into a murder investigation, the detective duo Tang and Qin team up again to hunt down the killer—this time with some help from the International Detective Alliance.

Wang Baoqiang, Michael Pitt, Chen Sicheng, Liu Haoran, Xiao Yang, Natasha Liu Bordizzo

Monster Hunt 2

Set in a world where monsters and humans co-exist, the franchise tells the story of Wuba, a baby monster born to be king. Wuba becomes the central figure in stopping an all-out monster civil war.

Raman Hui, Boran Jing, Bill Kong, Baihe Bai, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Irreplaceable You

The story follows Abbie and Sam, who were soulmates since the age of 8 and were destined to be together forever until death got in the way.

Brian Tyree Henry, Christopher Walken, Kate McKinnon, Jacki Weaver, Steve Coogan, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michiel Huisman, Stephanie Laing

The Party

Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas) is hosting an intimate gathering of friends in her London home to celebrate her political ascension, while her husband, Bill (Timothy Spall), seems preoccupied. Friends arrive, some with their own dramatic news to share, but an announcement by Bill provokes a series of revelations that gradually unravel the sophisticated soiree, and a night that began with champagne may end with gunplay.

Cillian Murphy, Timothy Spall, Sally Potter, Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones, Emily Mortimer, Kristin Scott Thomas

Honor Up

Damon Dash stars as OG, a drug lord’s lieutenant struggling to maintain the code of honor — protect the family — within his unruly crew after a Harlem shootout. Also featuring Nicholas Turturro and Stacey Dash, this film reveals a deadly underworld where beats pound as bullets fly and even outlaws must live by the code.

Cameron "Cam’Ron” Giles, Daniel Jenkins, Smoke DZA, Blackface, Kanye West, John "Murda Mook" Ancrum, Damon Dash, Stacey Dash

The Scent of Rain & Lightnin...

Based on the bestselling novel, a Midwestern woman investigates the murder of her parents when she begins to doubt the guilt of the man convicted.

Blake Robbins, Maggie Grace, Aaron Poole, Jeff Robison, Maika Monroe, Will Patton, Justin Chatwin, Mark Webber

Nostalgia

A drama about the memories that certain artifacts evoke.

Catherine Keener, Bruce Dern, John Ortiz, Jon Hamm, Alex Ross Perry, Ellen Burstyn, Amber Tamblyn, Mark Pellington

Loveless

In Loveless, Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Game Night

A group of couples gather for their regularly planned game night but something goes terribly awry.

Jeffrey Wright, Jason Bateman, Jim Garavente, Mark Perez, Kyle Chandler, Jonathan Goldstein, John Davis, John Fox

Every Day

A shy teenage girl falls in love with an entity named A, who travels and inhabits a new body of another teenage boy or girl in the area each day.

Michael Suscy, Owen Teague, Peter Cron, Christian Grass, Paul Trijbits, Maria Bello, Debby Ryan, Jesse Andrews

Annihilation

In seeking answers to her husband’s tragic disappearance, a biologist volunteers for an expedition into an area sealed off by the government for the last 30 years as an environmental disaster zone. A secret agency known as the Southern Reach has sent in 11 expeditions over those years to discover the truth about Area X, and those attempts were failures. She and her team find a pristine wilderness, but they also notice quickly that the rules of nature and evolution seem to work a little differently. And the creature they find is dangerous.

Oscar Isaac, Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Natalie Portman, Gina Rodriguez, Alex Garland, Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Jason Leigh

The Cured

Set in a future where zombies try to reintegrate with society after a plague infects mankind.

Ellen Page, David Freyne, Sam Keeley, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Paula Malcomson

Half Magic

Three women use their newly formed sisterhood to fight against sexism, bad relationships and low self-esteem. Through embracing their wild adventures, they learn the secret to ultimate fulfillment.

Heather Graham, Angela Kinsey, Chris D'Elia, Jason Lewis, Molly Shannon, Luke Arnold, Thomas Lennon, Alex Beh

Survivors Guide to Prison

Today, you're more likely to go to prison in the United States than anywhere else in the world. So in the unfortunate case it should happen to you - this is the Survivors Guide to Prison.

Danny Trejo, Busta Rhymes, Danny Glover, RZA, Chuck D, Matthew Cooke, Deepak Chopra, Patricia Arquette

7 Guardians of the Tomb

An innocent discovery of a well-preserved mummified Emperor from 200 BC China unearths a 2000-year-old nightmare - a secret that should have remained buried. As a team of scientists who lose a colleague in an ancient labyrinth, the motley crew must work together to recover him while trying to make the discovery of a century. In their quest they find themselves underground, battling ancient, terrifying Chinese magic and making their way through a swarm of deadly, man-eating spiders – only to uncover the secret behind the insects’ power and intelligence.

Kellan Lutz, Bingbing Li, Kelsey Grammer, Kimble Rendall, Paul Staheli

Mute

The film is set in Berlin, 40 years from today. A roiling city of immigrants, where East crashes against West in a science-fiction Casablanca. Follows Leo Beiler (Alexander Skarsgard), a mute bartender, and an odd pair of American surgeons (led by Paul Rudd) who try to help find Beiler's lost girlfriend.

Sam Rockwell, Duncan Jones, Alexander Skarsgard, Justin Theroux, Paul Rudd

The Lodgers

The story of a sister and brother haunted by a secret curse that forces them to remain in the large estate home left to them by their dead parents. But when a young man who falls in love with the sister tries to free her, his attempt sets off a deadly chain reaction.

Moe Dunford, Bill Milner, Brian O'Malley, David Turpin, Charlotte Vega, David Bradley, Eugene Simon