Wondering what movies are hitting the screens this month?
Cinema-lovers can enjoy a whole range of movies, and with over twenty new releases there is something for everyone.
Grab some popcorn and get ready for our top picks for February
FAMILY
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
'The LEGO Movie 2' reunites the heroes of Bricksburg in an all new action-packed adventure to save their beloved city. It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild.
Release Date: February 8
HORROR
Escape Room
Six adventurous strangers travel to a mysterious building to experience the escape room -- a game where players compete to solve a series of puzzles to win $10,000. What starts out as seemingly innocent fun soon turns into a living nightmare as the four men and two women discover each room is an elaborate trap that's part of a sadistic game of life or death.
Release Date: February 1
DRAMA
On the Basis of Sex
Set to be one of the year's most inspiring and entertaining films, this is the powerful and timely true story of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who led the fight against gender discrimination and blazed an unprecedented trail for equality.
Release Date: February 22
COMEDY / DRAMA
Green Book
Set in America in 1962, Green Book tells the heart-warming true story of Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen), a working-class Italian-American bouncer who takes on a job as a chauffeur for Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), a highly-educated African-American classical pianist. The mismatched pair embark on a two-month tour of concert venues in the racially charged deep south and discover they're on the road to a meaningful and unique friendship.
Release Date: February 1
READ MORE... Damon Smith's Reviews: Green Book
COMEDY / CRIME
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Melissa McCarthy stars in the adaptation of the memoir 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?', the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats) Lee Israel who made her living in the 1970s and 80s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen.
When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack.
Release Date: February 1
READ MORE... Alison Rowat Reviews: Can You Ever Forgive Me?
DRAMA
If Beale Street Could Talk
Academy Award-winner Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) brings his highly anticipated next feature to the screen, an adaptation of James Baldwin's stunning novel, If Beale Street Could Talk. In early 1970s Harlem, Tish, a nineteen-year old girl, is in love with a young sculptor, Fonny, the father of her unborn child. When Fonny is falsely accused of rape and imprisoned, Tish and their families race to clear his name before the baby is born. A story about love persisting in the face of racial oppression and injustice.
Release Date: February 15
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