Texas Chainsaws, Tom Hollands, and Jackasses

Finally, it seems, everything is coming together after the pandemic.

February marks a strong “return to form” for society in general, but especially movie goers.

January – February are historically either a mixed back or a straight up dumping ground for cinema, giving us highs and lows like The Invisible Man and Sonic the Hedgehog against tripe like Terminator Dark Fate and The Call of the Wild in 2020.

January started strong with SCREAM, the fifth entry in the long-running slasher franchise which was truly excellent. Now, can this energy continue into the shortest month of the year?

This weekend will see the releases of Roland Emmerich’s big budget disaster film MOONFALL alongside the long-awaited stunt comedy JACKASS FOREVER.

MOONFALL sees NASA scientists try to stop a devastating alien threat- the Moon itself.

Next week, HBO Max will release KIMI on February 10, the latest micro-budget thriller from Steven Soderbergh who could probably make a movie for a few bucks and some nickels on his iPhone shot over a few hours and come out with an Oscar.

KIMI follows a homestuck mental health worker who, during the COVID lockdown, believes that she accidentally caught a murder on one of her calls and slowly begins to unravel as her voice-activated computer device Kimi (similar to Amazon’s Alexa) might be trying to cover it up.

February 11 sees DEATH ON THE NILE, the troubled sequel to 2017’s MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, finally release despite half the cast being cancelled and having the film survive the custody battle between 20th Fox and Disney after the former was bought by the latter n 2018, delaying the film’s release.

Also that week will see the release of MARRY ME, a romcom starring Owen Wilson as a single-father who, after a joke proposal at the concert of a famous Latina pop star (Jennifer Lopez) finds himself engaged to the most famous person in the world.

This cutesy idea is the first straight-faced romcom to be released in theaters since probably 2018’s CRAZY RICH ASIANS, as most of these are dumped straight to Amazon, Hulu, or Netflix anymore.

Things get intense February 18 with Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg in the globe-trotting treasure thriller UNCHARTED based on the acclaimed Sony videogames.

That same weekend will also have the release of Channing Tatum’s road trip movie DOG about a disgraced soldier who has a shot at redemption by escorting a fallen serviceman’s dog across the U.S. to his funeral.

Netflix will release TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE that weekend as well which will follow a plucky group of “social media influencers” who come to Texas to “reshape” a small town only to find themselves as the next bloody decorations on Leatherface’s lawn.

March kicks off February 4 with THE BATMAN… so be ready.