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29th Jan 2023

10 must-watch movies coming to Irish cinemas in February

Rory Cashin

Cinema

Loads of Oscar nominees and some HUGE blockbusters are on the cinema menu.

February’s cinema line-up is absolutely STACKED. Horror, drama, comedy, Marvel… and a bear on cocaine. It’s got it all!

KNOCK AT THE CABIN – Feb 3

M. Night Shyamalan’s latest chiller revolves around a family on holidays in a cabin in the woods, only to be sieged by a group of strangers who try to warn them about the end of the world. Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff and Rupert Grint star.

PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH – Feb 3

Twelve full years since the first Puss In Boots movie, Antonio Banderas returns to voice the infamous swashbuckling antihero, on the hunt for a lost treasure that can grant one huge wish to whoever finds it. Salma Hayek, Florence Pugh, Olivia Colman and John Mulaney also feature on the impressive voice cast.

THE WHALE – Feb 3

Brendan Fraser just got the Best Actor Oscar nomination for his outstanding performance in this powerful drama from director Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler, Black Swan). Fraser plays an obese recluse who tries to reconnect with his long lost daughter, player by Stranger Things star Sadie Sink.

MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCE – Feb 10

The third – and, from that title, probably final – outing for Channing Tatum as the professional stripper, heading to London with a rich socialite (Salma Hayek) in the hopes that taking to the stage one last time will make him enough money to retire for good.

WOMEN TALKING – Feb 10

Jessie Buckley, Claire Foy, Rooney Mara and Frances McDormand star in this recent Best Picture Oscar nominee, set within an isolated religious colony, and the women within who are struggling with their faith following a series of sexual assaults.

ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA – Feb 17

The third Ant-Man movie, the first big comic book outing for 2023, and the beginning of the end for this phase of Marvel, as new big baddie Kang (Jonathan Majors) sets his sights on Scott Long (Paul Rudd) and his gang (Evangeline Lilly, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Douglas, Kathryn Newton).

MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON – Feb 17

What began life as a short comedy skit on YouTube has now grown into a Best Animated Feature Oscar nominee. Jenny Slate voices the anthropomorphic shell Marcel, who lives with his grandmother, and the documentary filmmaker who decides to make a movie about his day-to-day adventures.

THE SON – Feb 17

From the director of 2020 Oscar-magnet The Father, this new drama tells the story of a Dad (Hugh Jackman) who is trying to start a new life with his new wife (Vanessa Kirby), when his ex-wife (Laura Dern) drops off their teenage son to live with them.

COCAINE BEAR – Feb 24

Based on the true story (YEP!) about a bear that consumed dumped cocaine, this dark comedy thriller (filmed in Ireland!) will see the local townsfolk try to survive the bear’s attacks. Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenrich, Ray Liotta and O’Shea Jackson Jr. star.

MISSING – Feb 24

A sorta-sequel to 2018 techno-thriller Searching, this sees a teenage girl (Storm Reid) try to find her missing mother using nothing more than her computer and phone, but the further she digs, the more unanswered questions she discovers.

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