February, 2018 | 2017 Movie Releases

Wonder (2017)

February 5, 2018July 6, 2019

Based on the New York Times bestseller, WONDER tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman. Born with facial differences that, up until now, have prevented him from going to a mainstream school, Auggie becomes the most unlikely of heroes when he enters the local fifth grade. As his family, his new classmates, and the larger community all struggle to discover their compassion and acceptance, Auggie’s extraordinary journey will unite them all and prove you can’t blend in when you were born to stand out.

Columbia Pictures

The Star (2017)

February 5, 2018July 6, 2019

The film opens in Nazareth where Mary (voice of Gina Rodriguez) is praying. An angel (voice of Joel McCrary) descends from Heaven and tells Mary that she is to bear the son of God. A pygmy mouse named Abby (voice of Kristen Chenoweth) sees the whole thing and spreads the word to the other animals in the town. They look up in the sky and see a bright star.

Bleecker Street

The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)

February 4, 2018July 6, 2019

In 1843, the celebrated British novelist, Charles Dickens, is at a low point in his career with three flops behind him and his family expenses piling up at home. Determined to recover, Dickens decides to write a Christmas story and self-publish it in less than two months. As Dickens labors writing on such short notice, his estranged father and mother come to bunk with him.

Warner Bros Pictures

Paddington 2 (2017)

February 4, 2018July 6, 2019

Paddington Bear, having settled with the Brown family in London’s Windsor Gardens, has become popular in his community, offering people emotional support in various ways. The Browns have changed in many ways. Mary Brown is training to swim the English channel; Henry Brown does not get the promotion at work he has hoped for; Judy has broken up with her boyfriend, Tony, and has started a newspaper; Jonathan has dropped his old, independent self and has become a classic teenage boy. To purchase a unique pop-up book of London in Samuel Gruber’s antique shop for Aunt Lucy’s 100th birthday, Paddington performs several odd jobs and saves his wages over time, finding a good niche as a window-cleaner after a failed attempt as a hair dresser.

Paramount Pictures

Daddy’s Home 2 (2017)

February 4, 2018July 6, 2019

After finally becoming friends at the end of the first ‘Daddy’s Home’ film, Brad Whittaker (Will Ferrell) and Dusty Mayron (Mark Wahlberg) have a co-dad system where their two children, Megan and Dylan, take turns at each father’s house. Dusty has also remarried, this time to Karen (Alexandra Ambrosio), a writer, and is stepdad to Adrianna, Karen’s daughter.

Amazon Studios / Lionsgate Films

Last Flag Flying (2017)

February 4, 2018July 6, 2019

Set in December 2003, Larry “Doc” Shepherd (Steve Carell) visits the bar of Sal Nealon (Bryan Cranston), a former Marine that he served with in Vietnam. After introducing himself, Doc, a Navy corpsman briefly mentions his bad-conduct discharge and subsequent incarceration in the US Navy prison. The next morning, Sal and Doc drive to the church of another friend from Vietnam, Richard Mueller (Laurence Fishburne), where he is the pastor.

STX Entertainment

A Bad Mom’s Christmas (2017)

February 4, 2018July 6, 2019

With Christmas Eve just around the corner, the raucous gang of suburban moms, Carla, Amy and Kiki, are already beginning to buckle under the pressure of the most wonderful time of the year. And to make matters worse–as if a very busy schedule and parenting aren’t enough–the overworked mothers have to face yet another challenge: create the perfect holiday for their smothering mothers who decided to show up for Christmas. Undoubtedly, the holidays are never easy, and as the mothers and daughters struggle with their neuroses, pulling off the most magical Christmas seems like an impossible task. Can the girls renegotiate their relationships?

Open Road Films

All I See Is You (2017)

February 4, 2018July 6, 2019

Directed by Marc Forster, the psychological drama ALL I SEE IS YOU, defies genre to tell this obsessive love story. Gina (Blake Lively) & husband James (Jason Clarke) have an almost perfect marriage. After being blinded as a child in a nearly fatal car crash, Gina exclusively depends on James to feel and “see” the world around her, and it appears only to solidify their extremely passionate relationship.

Sony Pictures Classics

Novitiate (2017)

February 4, 2018July 6, 2019

In 1954, seven-year-old Cathleen Harris is introduced to Catholicism by her agnostic mother (Julianne Nicholson) and is drawn in the faith. At 12, a shy and reserved Cathleen is offered a scholarship and enrolls in a newly-opened Catholic school, to where she claims to have felt the presence of God. At 17, to her mother’s dismay, Cathleen (Margaret Qualley) pursues a vocation as a nun, claiming to have earned a religious calling.

Theatrical Trailers

Jigsaw Movie Trailer (2017)

February 4, 2018October 29, 2024

I confess, I find the gory “Saw” movies’ ridiculously severe approach to dramaturgy to be endearingly preposterous. Imagine a dimwitted Agatha Christie-style whodunit where a killer has trapped a room-full of victims in a single location. Stop laughing, Christie’s “Ten Little Indians” is spot-checked in several scenes of “Jigsaw,” the latest film in the undying horror-mystery series: a handful of victims claimed by serial killer John “Jigsaw” Kramer (franchise staple Tobin Bell) are discovered with index cards on their bodies that read “And then there were [Insert dwindling number of corpses here].”