500 Days Of Film Reviews The Must See Movies In February 2019
January 2019 started well with The Favourite. Yorgos Lanthimos’s beautifully performed, eccentric and multi-layered tale was my first cinema trip and may well end up as one of my, well, favourite of the year.
After catching up on some of the movies I had missed in 2018 (including First Reformed and Hearts Beat Loud), the month continued in style with RBG - Betsy West and Julie Cohen’s powerful and compelling documentary about Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Then came Stan and Ollie, Colette, Beautiful Boy, Glass, Vice and Mary Queen Of Scots. All in all, if 2019 has started in the way it intends to go on, we are in for a brilliant year of cinema.
All of which leads us to the question: what movies should we be watching next month? Here are February’s must-see films (based on UK cinema release dates):
FRIDAY 1 FEBRUARY
Burning
Director: Lee Chang-Dong
Starring: Steven Yeun, Yoo Ah-In, Jeon Jong-Seo
Green Book
Director: Peter Farrelly
Starring: Mahershala Ali, Viggo Mortensen, Linda Cardellini
How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Director: Dean DeBlois
Starring: Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Jonah Hill, Kristen Wiig, Kit Harington
Can You Ever Forgive Me
Director: Marielle Heller
Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Jane Curtin, Ben Falcone, Anna Deavere Smith, Stephen Spinella
WEDNESDAY 6 FEBRUARY
Alita: Battle Angel
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley, Keean Johnson
FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2019
All Is True
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen
Boy Erased
Director: Joel Edgerton
Starring: Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Joel Edgerton
The LEGO Movie 2
Director: Mike Mitchell
Starring: Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Charlie Day, Tiffany Haddish, Stephanie Beatriz, Arturo Castro
If Beale Street Could Talk
Director: Barry Jenkins
Starring: Kiki Layne, Stephen James, Regina King, Colman Domingo
WEDNESDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2019
Happy Death Day 2U
Director: Christopher Landon
Starring: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine
FRIDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2019
A Private War
Director: Matthew Heineman
Starring: Rosamund Pike, Jamie Dornan, Stanley Tucci
The Kid Who Would Be King 20th Century Fox
Director: Joe Cornish
Starring: Rebecca Ferguson, Patrick Stewart, Tom Taylor
FRIDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2019
Cold Pursuit
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Starring: Liam Neeson, Laura Dern, Emmy Rossum, Tom Bateman, William Forsythe
On The Basis Of Sex
Director: Mimi Leader
Starring: Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux, Kathy Bates
Capernaum
Director: Nadine Labaki
Starring: Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Kawthar Al Haddad, Fadi Kamel Youssef, Nadine Labaki
WEDNESDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2019
Fighting With My Family
Director: Stephen Merchant Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Lena Headey, Vince Vaughn, Nick Frost, Stephen Merchant, Florence Pugh, Jack Lowden
Over To You...
What movies are you looking forward to watching in February?
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