February 2024 film preview: New movies from J. Lo, a Coen brother, and Diablo Cody
Our shortest month features a slim but promising collection of releases, including Argylle, Drive-Away Dolls, Madame Web, and The Taste Of Things
Film Features J. Lo
Clockwise from bottom left: Cole Sprouse and Kathryn Newton in Lisa Frankenstein, Jennifer Lopez in This Is Me … Now, Orion And The Dark, Margaret Qualley in Drive-Away Dolls, and Chip in Argylle Photo: Prime
January may be in the rearview, but movie theaters are still waiting for studios to replenish their screens. Things aren’t looking much better this February. However, we here at The A.V. Club aren’t going to sit back and watch our readers waste their free time all month. We’ve picked out an eclectic mix of releases from across the Hollywood landscape: Blockbusters, indies, and international movies are on the horizon, plus a little CGI cat in a backpack that people can’t stop talking about.
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We’d also like to know what the heck is so special about this darn cat.My guess is that the cat, Alfie, is actually Argylle—either directly or indirectly, like in “The galaxy is on Orion’s belt” sort of way.
There’s also a Stone Age-set horror film coming out in February called Out of Darkness, which looks somewhat promising. That one and this new Coen bros. bro movie are probably the only ones I’d go to the theater for.
Argylle felt like a contractual obligation on the part of Samuel L. This obviously was meant for Apple TV with the poor CGI and WAY TOO LONG runtime. *I’m not held to any embargo on reviews… The twist was stupid and mailed-in. Sam Rockwell was the best part by far (Cranston and O’Hara were wasted in their roles). Vaughn is trying to create a larger “universe” by forcing a connection which obviously leads to a series via Apple TV.
I could get spoiler specific, but others might be looking forward to this?Just wait until it streams and save your money.
Ones I’m cautiously optimistic about:
Orion: As a person with anxiety, this speaks to me. And Natasia Demitriou (Nadja from What We Do In The Shadows) is in it!Argylle: I’m curious how meta this goes. Is it going to be a “I wrote myself into my own story, and now it’s real” thing a la Alan Wake?
Lisa Frankenstein: As a person who beelined for Astarion in Baldur’s Gate 3 the second I realized he was a vampire, I’m down for a “classic Tim Burton” throwback.Drive-Away Dolls: You had me at “Thelma and Louise, but they’re canonically a gay couple.”
“Orion: As a person with anxiety, this speaks to me. And Natasia Demitriou (Nadja from What We Do In The Shadows) is in it!”Its really good!
Dua Lipa is simply not fair. Like, you can’t Dua Lipa like that. It’s against the law or something.
Meh. I guess something good will EVENTUALLY hit the theatres. But February ain’t the month it’s happening.
Am I thinking of someone else or has Juliette Binoche been typecast as the Woman in the Food movies?
Johnson just isn’t going to work as a superhero. She doesn’t command the screen. I feel like she could just wander out of the scene and no one would notice. I think a movie about rescue workers starring Johnson might be good though.
Yeah, superhero or no, I don’t think she’s a particularly strong actor.