I am fully aware that this post is a million days late, but it's been sat almost-finished for the best part of a month so I thought I might as well post it just before February was up!
February's been a funny film month, with the remaining awards hopefuls opening in cinemas alongside a foul-mouthed fan-favourite superhero movie, numerous documentaries and the world's most popular ridiculously good looking male model.
As the Academy Awards roll into Los Angeles this evening, the season of serious dramas unsubtly vying for a shiny gold statue comes to an end. February opened with the successfully nominated Trumbo - Best Actor nomination: Byan Cranston - telling the tale of blacklisted Hollywood scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo who spent the large majority of his career ostracised due to his political beliefs, writing scripts in secret and even managing to win an Oscar for Roman Holiday despite no-one knowing it was him that really wrote the script. The rest of the month saw the unsuccessful, from the snubbed - Best Actor, Will Smith - in Concussion, to a film that failed to live up to its' excellent premise, Freehold. Expect both to be on severely limited release last month, so I wouldn't be surprised if you missed them (I did!).
The rest of the month featured no end of unrelated films. There were the half-term family friendly films of Goosebumps and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip, and the more teenage-appropriate Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (totally bonkers but enormous fun if you're a fan of both the Jane Austen classic and zombies) and remake of Point Break. Ralph Fiennes and Tilda Swinton are on top form in the astonishingly good A Bigger Splash, Chris Pine embarks on a seemingly impossible true Coast Guard rescue mission in The Finest Hours (for someone scared of the ocean, seeing this in IMAX was a huge mistake), Sacha Baron Cohen's back on controversial form in Grimsby, and there are corrupt cops galore in mild thriller Triple 9. That's not forgetting the remake of Dad's Army and hilarious comedy preaching the virtues of singledom days after Valentine's Day in How to be Single.
The two most anticipated of February had to be Deadpool and Zoolander 2. Both made their way to screens mostly in part thanks to the fans: the reaction to leaked Deadpool test footage led to the studios finally giving the go ahead for the feature film; and the cult status of the first Zoolander prompted the sequel. They're both utterly ridiculous, but while Deadpool triumphs in its individuality, destruction of the fourth wall, fight scenes and vulgar humour, Zoolander 2 is just 100 minutes of insanity. I love blue steel as much as the next person, but it's a bad film...
Follow the link below for the round up of what you might have missed in February... Hopefully they'll all still be in cinemas!
All films below are released in cinemas in February in the U.K.: some may have already opened abroad so if you're outside the U.K. then do check your local cinemas for film times and release dates.
DAD'S ARMY
Friday 5th February 2016
"The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion."
GOOSEBUMPS
Friday 5th February 2016
"A teenager teams up with the daughter of young adult horror author R. L. Stine after the writer's imaginary demons are set free on the town of Madison, Delaware."
JANIS: LITTLE GIRL BLUE
Friday 5th February 2016
"Musician Cat Power narrates this documentary on Janis Joplin's evolution into a star from letters that Joplin wrote over the years to her friends, family, and collaborators."
POINT BREAK
Friday 5th February 2016
"A young FBI agent infiltrates an extraordinary team of extreme sports athletes he suspects of masterminding a string of unprecedented, sophisticated corporate heists."
RAMS
Friday 5th February 2016
"In a remote Icelandic farming valley, two brothers who haven't spoken in 40 years have to come together in order to save what's dearest to them - their sheep."
TRUMBO
Friday 5th February 2016
"In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs."
DEADPOOL
Wednesday 10th February 2016
"A former Special Forces operative turned mercenary is subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopting the alter ego Deadpool."
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES
Thursday 11th February 2016
"Five sisters in 19th century England must cope with the pressures to marry while protecting themselves from a growing population of zombies."
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP
Friday 12th February 2016
"Through a series of misunderstandings, Alvin, Simon and Theodore come to believe that Dave is going to propose to his new girlfriend in Miami...and dump them. They have three days to get to him and stop the proposal, saving themselves not only from losing Dave but possibly from gaining a terrible stepbrother."
A BIGGER SPLASH
Friday 12th February 2016
"The vacation of a famous rock star and a filmmaker is disrupted by the unexpected visit of an old friend and his daughter."
CONCUSSION
Friday 12th February 2016
"In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play."
THE GREEN INFERNO
Friday 12th February 2016
"A group of student activists travels to the Amazon to save the rain forest and soon discover that they are not alone, and that no good deed goes unpunished."
ZOOLANDER 2
Friday 12th February 2016
"Derek and Hansel are modelling again when an opposing company attempts to take them out from the business."
BONE TOMAHAWK
Friday 19th February 2016
"Four men set out in the Wild West to rescue a group of captives from cannibalistic cave dwellers."
THE FINEST HOURS
Friday 16th February 2016
"The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952."
FREEHELD
Friday 16th February 2016
"New Jersey police lieutenant, Laurel Hester, and her registered domestic partner, Stacie Andree, both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer."
HOW TO BE SINGLE
Friday 16th February 2016
"New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, and what Alice, Robin, Lucy, Meg, Tom and David all have in common is the need to learn how to be single in a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love."
TRIPLE 9
Friday 16th February 2016
"A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town."
GRIMSBY
Wednesday 24th February 2016
"A new assignment forces a top spy to team up with his football hooligan brother."
THE FOREST
Friday 26th February 2016
"A woman goes into Japan's Suicide Forest to find her twin sister, and confronts supernatural terror."
SECRET IN THIER EYES
Friday 26th February 2016
"A tight-knit team of rising investigators, along with their supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered."
I was a huge fan of Deadpool and A Bigger Splash, and I found How to be Single so much fun. I saw Trumbo at the London Film Festival last year and wasn't really a fan of it, and equally I found Triple 9 to be a little disappointing. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, on the other hand, was a strange, strange film but I'm glad I saw it. However, I'm not sure I'll be able to watch the original film in the same way ever again...
What have you seen in February? Have you missed any of the above that you're now going to hunt down at your local cinemas? Do let me know in the comments below!
I promise the March edition of Coming Soon won't be quite so tardy...
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