February isn't commonly known for being a strong month at the box office, but with some highly-anticipated upcoming releases in store, this month is bound to be a big one for the silver screen. Check out our coverage of February's film releases to get the best bang for your buck at the movies!
From Paris With Love
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Director: Pierre Morel
Starring: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak
Rating: R
Ready for a new twist on the buddy-action franchise? A low-ranking intelligence operative (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) working in the office of the U.S. Ambassador in France gets in over his head when he partners with a trigger-happy, high-ranking and reckless U.S. agent (John Travolta) who’s been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack.
CraveOnline's Call: With Travolta looking meaner than ever (and embracing baldness in the meantime) and more action in the trailer than anything so far this year,
Valentine's Day
Release Date: February 12, 2010
Director: Garry Marshall
Starring: Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Jamie Foxx
Rating: R
Follow the intertwining storylines of a group of good-looking Los Angelenos as they make their way through the dangerous maze of romance over the course of one particular Valentine's Day.
CraveOnline's Call: This star-studded saccharine rom-com is bound to pull big box-office numbers, but unless we're dragged by the better half, there's no way we're buying a ticket to this one on our own.
Shutter Island
Release Date: February 19, 2010
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley
Rating: R
Based on the novel "Shutter Island" by Dennis Lehane, this gripping psychological thriller set in a 1950s asylum for the criminally insane is a mind-maze of epic proportions. Up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) is has been sent to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Shutter Island's Ashecliffe Hospital, but before long he wonders whether he's been brought to the island for other, twisted purposes. After a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals escape in the confusion, and soon Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity
CraveOnline's Call: Scorsese, DiCaprio, psychological thriller? Triple win. We're there.
The Wolfman
Release Date: February 12, 2010
Director: Joe Johnson
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving
Rating: R
Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman, is lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother... and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother's fiancée, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline has come to investigate.
CraveOnline's Call: We've been looking forward to The Wolfman more than any other film on this list. With a dream-team cast and incredible computer animation, this one's bound to be awesome.
Cop Out
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Director: Kevin Smith
Starring: Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Adam Brody, Kevin Pollak
Rating: R
Two longtime NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare, mint-condition baseball card find themselves up against a merciless, memorabilia-obsessed gangster. Jimmy (Bruce Willis) is the veteran detective whose missing collectible is his only hope to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, and Paul (Tracy Morgan) is his "partner-against-crime" whose preoccupation with his wife's alleged infidelity makes it hard for him to keep his eye on the ball.
CraveOnline's Call: We'd have preferred the original title, A Couple Of Dicks, but either way Kevin Smith directing Tracy Morgan is a dream come true. Bruce Willis as a cop is just icing on the cake.
Blood Into Wine
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Director: Ryan Page, Christopher Pomerenke
Starring: Maynard James Keenan, Eric Glomski, Milla Jovovich, Patton Oswalt
Rating: NR
Blood Into Wine, the long-awaited documentary on Tool/Puscifer frontman Maynard James Keenan and his vineyard partner Eric Glomski's quest to bring respectability and attention to Northern Arizona's flourishing wine industry, will make its premiere in two months' time. But don't expect a boring, snooty experience like you'll find at many wine tastings. After all, the project hinges on a man who's made a career out of singing about third eyes and sodomy while wearing a wig and full body paint.
CraveOnline's Call: Can't wait for this one! Check out our full coverage of Blood Into Wine.
Happy Tears
Release Date: February 19, 2010
Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Starring: Demi Moore, Parker Posey, Ellen Barkin, Rip Torn
Rating: R
Jayne (Parker Posey) and Laura (Demi Moore) are about to take on the first man they just might not be able to handle: their seventy something-year-old father Joe (Rip Torn). Jayne and Laura are forced to take a closer look at their own not-so-perfect lives while dodging childhood memories in the house they grew up in. Laura suspects that Joe needs full-time care, but Jayne refuses to believe that their father’s condition is that serious. As the visible moments of their father’s impending senility increase, tensions flare as the close sisters must also juggle their own very different lives – Laura’s busy environmentalist work schedule and mother of three small children, and Jayne, desperate to finally have a baby with her workaholic art-dealing husband Jackson (Christian Camargo).
CraveOnline's Call: Is mom visiting? Cause she'd love this. The film got an unexpected bit of promotion with the recent bizarre arrest of Rip Torn, but other than that this looks like a sap-fest.
