SAFE HOUSE
Release date: February 10
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Denzel Washington, Vera Farmiga, Brendan Gleeson
Denzel plays rogue CIA officer Tobin Frost, a man responsible for the deaths of several agents. When he is taken into custody overseas, Frost is sent to a CIA safe house where he is under the protection of a rookie agent named Matt Weston (Reynolds). But when a group of foreign soldiers infiltrate the safe house, Weston and his prisoner go on the run. What? You want a joke? You joke about Denzel. See what he does.

ACT OF VALOR
Release date: February 24
Director: Mike McCoy
Cast: Alex Veadov, Rosalyn Sanchez, Nestor Serrano, Emilio Rivera
It may be the most expensive recruitment video ever made, but Act of Valor is the first movie to ever star active-duty Navy SEALS, flanked by several actively unknown actors. The movie takes a behind-the-scenes look at one of the world's most elite forces as they take down would-be terrorists in America and set out on a covert mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA agent being held in Yugoslavia. The film is inspired by true events.

BIG MIRACLE
Release date: February 3
Director: Ken Kwapis
Cast: John Krasinski, Drew Barrymore, Kristen Bell, Vinessa Shaw
If you were to hear that a whale was stuck beneath the ice, your first instinct might be to notify Kelly Clarkson's family immediately. But, in this case, you would be wrong to do so. Big Miracle (aside from being what Sinead O'Connor needs to make it to 2013), is based on the 1989 book Freeing the Whales, which is about a group of people who fight to rescue three California gray whales trapped in the Arctic Circle.

CHRONICLE
Release date: February 3
Director: Josh Trank
Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Dane DeHaan, Ashley Hinshaw, Michael Kelly
Remember how awesome Cloverfield was until you actually saw it and barfed on your girlfriend because of the shaky camera work? Memories. Chronicle also employs the give-a-wisecracking-idiot-a-camcorder method of cinematography to capture the adventure of three high school buddies who accidentally gain super powers (telekinesis, flight and invulnerability) and proceed to use them irresponsibility.

GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE
Release date: February 17
Director: Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Idris Elba, Johnny Whitworth, Violante Placido
I watched this trailer on YouTube and it gave away all the best parts. By which I mean the other videos it suggested I watch after the trailer ended. In this mindless sequel to one of the worst superhero films ever made (with no disrespect to The Phantom), the Rider (Cage) is back with his fiery computer-generated skull face to save a young boy from Satan and, with any luck, lift the curse that gives us these movies.

GONE
Release date: February 24
Director: Heitor Dhalia
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer Carpenter, Daniel Sunjata, Wes Bentley
Amanda Seyfried takes off her clothes or makes out with a chick in most of her movies, so when she does a PG-13 action movie, it's like, you know, what's the point? In this movie, Seyfried plays Jill, a young woman who is convinced that the person who has abducted her sister is the serial killer who kidnapped her two years prior. Of course, no one believes her, including the cops, because why should they do their jobs?

GOOD DEEDS
Release date: February 24
Director: Tyler Perry
Cast: Tyler Perry, Thandie Newton, Rebecca Romijn, Gabrielle Union
I've never seen a Tyler Perry movie, but without doing any research, I assume they're all sequels and basically the same story. In this film, the first of three Perry-written and -directed films this year, the filmmaker plays a well-to-do man who comes to the aid of a down-on-her-luck single mom (Newton). The man's good deed blossoms into much more, putting his relationship with a rich, hot woman (Union) in jeopardy.

JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
Release date: February 10
Director: Brad Peyton
Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Dwayne Johnson, Vanessa Hudgens, Michael Caine
Brendan Fraser passed up this sequel to do his 2008 film Journey to the Center of the Earth, but accepted the upcoming Vanessa Hudgens film Gimmie Shelter. You know things are going well when you reject a Vanessa Hudgens movie for a Vanessa Hudgens movie. Hutcherson returns as Sean, who joins his mom's boyfriend (Johnson) to rescue his grandfather (Caine) from a wacky island that inspired literary classics.

THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY
Release date: February 17
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Cast: Bridgit Mendler, David Henrie, Amy Poehler, Carol Burnett
Disney has had surprising success releasing Japanese animation films in the United States. First, with the stunning 2001 movie Spirited Away, and later with Howl's Moving Castle and Ponyo. This film, written by visionary filmmaker Mayao Miyazaki, is the story of four-inch people who live in another family's home, where they borrow items to survive. Their existence becomes threatened when one member, Arrietty, is discovered.

STAR WARS: EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENACE 3D
Release date: February 10
Director: George Lucas
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd
If Star Wars fans had any brains at all, they'd boycott this movie. All they do is bitch about George Lucas ruining their beloved franchise (and, by extension, their lonely adolescences) with horrible prequels and special editions. But you can bet they'll shell out $20 to watch Jar Jar Binks in 3D, and spend the next week anonymously complaining about it on Wookieepedia from the safety of the Acme Market deli break room. So, yeah - Jake Lloyd in 3D. Enjoy, suckers.

THIS MEANS WAR
Release date: February 17
Director: McG
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy, Chelsea Handler
The man who brought you the Charlie's Angels franchise and two Smash Mouth music videos helms this movie about a couple of CIA agents (Pine and Hardy) who discover that they're dating the same woman (Witherspoon) and proceed to misuse government resources (agents, drones, computers, weapons, etc.) in an effort to win the fair maiden's affections. Yes, nerd. It is sort of like Mad magazine's Spy vs. Spy.

THE VOW
Release date: February 10
Director: Michael Sucsy
Cast: Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Jessica Lange, Sam Neill
I know what you were thinking: "What, no Channing Tatum this month?" Fear not, lady. Tatum and McAdams play a newlywed couple whose happy ending is cut short when a car accident puts the bride in a coma. When she awakens, the woman struggles to remember anything from before the accident, including her new husband. Now the two must struggle to become reacquainted. The Vow is based on a true story.

WANDERLUST
Release date: February 27
Director: David Waine
Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd, Justin Theroux, Malin Akerman
This is the movie Aniston and her boyfriend (Theroux) met on, so it's pretty hateable aside from the fact that it looks so shitty. Jen and Paul Rudd play a big-city couple that moves down South after he gets canned from his high-paying job. Their plan for a new life is derailed, however, when they stop off at a bed and breakfast. A bed and breakfast that's actually a hippie commune. Hee-haw! Boing! Zonk! Arooooga!

THE WOMAN IN BLACK
Release date: February 3
Director: James Watkins
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds, Janet McTeer, Sophie Stuckey
Based on the 1983 novel of the same name, this movie is Radcliffe's first project post-Potter. The actor plays a young lawyer who travels to a small English village to settle the affairs of a deceased woman. While there, the man hears tales of a terrifying ghost woman who hides empty eye sockets behind a black veil. What's worse, every time the Woman in Black is seen, a child in the village meets a gruesome fate - they are forced to watch Wanderlust.