ENTERTAINMENT
VERB MAGAZINE
VOLUME 1
ISSUE 1
FEBRUARY 2014
PAGE 10
WHAT’S GOOD IN FEBRUARY?
Most of us will be undoubtedly spending this February gearing up to wine and jam in March for Carnival Monday and Tuesday, but if you're like me and sometimes want something else to listen to or look at, here's what'll be happening this month:
Music
Film
Television
The beginning of the year is
pretty slow most of the time, so
February doesn't have a lot of
mainstream heavy-hitters coming out with albums, but one
thing does stand out - talented
English singer-songwriter Ed
Sheeran has an album in the
works that should hopefully be
out by the 17th, but the lack of
information about it makes me
only so hopeful that it will be
done by then. Also, The Fray's
fourth album Helios should
come out on the 25th, so don't
hesitate to grab it if you're a fan.
A lot is happening on the silver screen this year, so I should probably
pull out the bullet points so you can work your way through it all For those who've read and enjoy the novels, Vampire Academy is
getting a movie, starring Zoey Deutch, Olga Kurylenko, and… a lot of
other people that I don't know. I trust, though, that a movie based on
a best-selling young adult book would at least be entertaining to its
fans, so if it's your thing, check it out.
RoboCop, the remake of the 1987 classic sci-fi action flick of the
same name, is out this month. Starring Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman,
Michael Keaton, and Samuel L. Jackson, this version promises to be
deeper - and way more action-packed - than the original.
The Monuments Men, a based-on-a-true-story comedy-drama
starring George Clooney and Matt Damon and directed by Clooney,
follows a group of art historians and museum curators gathered by
Allied forces during World War Two to rescue pieces of art stolen by
the Nazis. It sounds like it won't be funny or meaningful, but I have
faith that it will be impressive.
If you're looking for a solid romantic movie to watch for Valentine's
Day, look no further than Winter's Tale. Based on a novel from 1983, it
stars Colin Farrell as a pettxy thief whose love of a woman transcends
time and even death.
And last but not least, a double feature of action movies starring
men over 50! First, 3 Days to Kill stars Kevin Costner as a dying Secret
Service agent who accepts one last job in the hope of receiving an experimental drug to stay alive and return to his family. Next, everyone's
favourite action-movie old man Liam Neeson stars in Non-Stop as an
Air Marshal who's just been set-up for hijacking a plane and tries to
save the innocent lives on board before it's too late.
It seems that all is quiet on the
TV front this month, too, but
there are a few things to consider starting. In late February,
ABC premieres Mind Games, a
drama about a pair of brothers
opening a problem solving firm
that uses psychological tricks to
improve their clients' lives. Also,
Star-Crossed, a sci-fi romance
about a blossoming love between a human girl and an alien
boy hiding on Earth, premieres
on The CW.