Rueben's Ramblings

Based on information provided by the Box Office Mojo and some internet research, here are a few of the movies you can expect to see in the movie theatres in January:

Just Mercy
Opens: January 10

Attorney Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) takes the case of Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx), a man wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of a white woman. The cast includes Brie Larson, Tim Blake Nelson, Rob Morgan, Rafe Spall and O’Shea Jackson, Jr.

The Informer
Opens: January 10

Pete Koslow (Joel Kinnaman), a reformed criminal and former special operations soldier, is working undercover for crooked FBI handlers to infiltrate the Polish mob’s drug trade in New York. In a final step toward freedom, Koslow must return to the one place he has fought so hard to leave, Bale Hill Prison, where his mission becomes a race against time when a drug deal goes wrong and threatens to identify him as a mole. On discovering one of his handlers, Montgomery (Clive Owen) intends to let him and his family die in order to use their homicides as hard evidence to ensure convictions, Koslow must turn to Grens (Common), a member of NYPD’s Organized Crime Division, to ensure his loved ones safety as he looks for a way to escape when his cover eventually gets conveniently blown. The film also stars Rosamund Pike and Ana de Armas.

Underwater
Opens: January 10

This sci-fi/horror flick focuses on a crew of underwater researchers must scramble to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory. The cast includes Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, T.J. Miller and Jessica Henwick.

Bad Boys for Life
Opens: January 17

The once inseparable duo of Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) and Michael “Mike” Lowery (Will Smith) is coming apart: an aging Burnett has become a police inspector while Lowery, suffering a midlife crisis, is assigned to head up AMMO, a “young guns” group of millennial cops with whom he has nothing in common. Both of them reunite once again when a fierce Romanian mob boss, whose brother they defeated years earlier, makes a retaliation effort on Mike just as both he and Marcus are about to officially retire. The film also stars Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Joe Pantoliano, Kate del Castillo and DJ Khaled.

Dolittle
Opens: January 17

After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric John Dolittle (Robert Downey, Jr.), famed doctor and veterinarian of Victoria, England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of animals for company. But when Queen Victoria (Jessie Buckley) falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure, regaining his wit and courage as he crosses old adversaries and encounters wondrous creatures. The cast includes Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent and Harry Collett as well as voices provided by Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland, Craig Robinson, Ralph Fiennes, Selena Gomez, Marion Cotillard, Carmen Ejogo and Frances de la Tour.

The Gentlemen
Opens: January 24

The film follows American expat Mickey Pearson (Matthew McConaughey) who has created a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he is looking to cash out his business, it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him. The film also stars Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery, Eddie Marsan, Colin Farrell and Hugh Grant.

The Last Full Measure
Opens: January 24

The true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger (Jeremy Irvine), a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen (also known as a PJ) who personally saved over sixty men. During a rescue mission on April 11, 1966, he was offered the chance to escape on the last helicopter out of a combat zone heavily under fire, but he stayed behind to save and defend the lives of soldiers of the U.S. Army’s First Infantry Division, before making the ultimate sacrifice in one of the bloodiest battles of the war.

Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman (Sebastian Stan) on a career fast-track is tasked with investigating a Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger made by his best friend and PJ partner on the mission (William Hurt, played by Ethan Russell as a young man) and his parents (Christopher Plummer and Diane Ladd). Huffman seeks out the testimony of Army veterans who witnessed Pitsenbarger’s extraordinary valor, including Takoda (Samuel L. Jackson play by Ser’Darius Blain as a younger man), Burr (Peter Fonda played by James Jagger as a young man) and Mott (Ed Harris play by Zach Roerig as a young man). But as Huffman learns more about Pitsenbarger’s courageous acts, he uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting him to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman. The film also stars LisaGay Hamilton, Michael Imperioli, Amy Madigan, Linus Roache, Bradley Whitford, Alison Sudol and John Savage.

Movies coming out in February will be posted at the end of January.