Drama and Fantasy are what’s popular this February! From the amazing performances of Jennifer Aniston and Amy Adams to the comebacks of Mila Kunis and Jennifer Lawrence – it’s all about female dominance in this month’s movies!
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1.) Jupiter Ascending
Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Tempo Prediction: 4 stars
In the future, a young destitute human woman gets targeted for assassination by the Queen of the Universe, and begins her destiny to finish the Queen’s reign.
Fun Fact: The crew created a rig of six cameras, called the Panocam, which was mounted on a helicopter and covered nearly 180 degrees of the action. During postproduction, the directors could combine the overlapped filmed footage, essentially creating a camera that could swing around the action independently of the helicopter’s actual flying path.
Directed by: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Cast: Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Eddie Redmayne
Big Eyes
Genre: Biography | Drama
Tempo Prediction: 4.5 stars
A drama about the awakening of the painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.
Fun Fact: Lana Del Rey recorded two songs for the soundtrack, making it her first collaboration with Tim Burton. However, earlier in the year she did a recording for Maleficent (2014), which originally was set to be directed by Burton as well.
Directed by: Tim Burton
Cast: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Krysten Ritter
Cake
Genre: Drama
Tempo Prediction: 4 stars
Claire initiates a dubious relationship with a widower while confronting fantastical hallucinations of his dead wife.
Fun Fact: Jennifer Aniston does not wear any makeup in the film at all, except for the kind used to create her fake scarring.
Directed by: Daniel Barnz
Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Lucy Punch, Felicity Huffman
Serena
Genre: Drama
Tempo Prediction: 3 stars
In Depression-era North Carolina, the future of George Pemberton’s timber empire becomes complicated when he marries Serena.
Fun Fact: Jennifer Lawrence recommended Bradley Cooper for the project. They had worked together previously on Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and they got along so well that they often spoke about working together again in the future.
Directed by: Susanne Bier
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Rhys Ifans
