Comedy — foolish, surreal and sci-fi — is all around the indiesphere from Nirvanna The Band The Present The Film to By Design, Good Luck, Have Enjoyable, Don’t Die!, Chilly Storage and Mimics. The final two are horror comedy, crossing right into a Friday the thirteenth, which additionally occurs to be clashing with Valentines weekend. Acclaimed Cannes-premiering Nigerian drama My Father’s Shadow and a documentary on the rise of Korean rock band The Rose spherical out new specialty releases.
Neon opens Nirvanna The Band The Present The Film by Matt Johnson on 364 screens. Written by and starring Johnson and Jay McCarroll in a continuation of their comedy present Nirvana The Band The Present and a comply with to Johnson’s hit Blackberry. When their plan to e-book a present on the Rivoli goes horribly unsuitable, Matt and Jay unintentionally journey again to the 12 months 2008. Winner of the Viewers Award, Midnighter, at SXSW and the Folks’s Alternative Midnight Insanity Award at TIFF final 12 months. Licensed Contemporary 97% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
Music Field Movies opens By Design, an absurdist spin on the body-swap comedy from Sundance 2025, at about 30 theaters together with the Quad Cinema in NYC, the Alamo DTLA and the Music Field in Chicago. Juliette Lewis swaps our bodies with a chair on this new surrealist imaginative and prescient from writer-director Amanda Kramer (Please Child Please) narrated by Melanie Griffith and co-starring Mamoudou Athie (Sorts of Kindness), Samantha Mathis (American Psycho) and Robin Tunney (The Craft). See Deadline overview.
Synopsis: Upon seeing a beautiful chair in a showroom, Camille (Lewis) realizes that she actually envies the lifetime of this excellent piece of furnishings and when she and the chair swap kinds, learns that she’s higher appreciated as an inanimate object than she was as an individual by her mom (Betty Buckley) and her finest pals. She winds up within the palms of Olivier, a minimalist bachelor who steadily turns into romantically fixated on his elegant new possession.
Briarcliff is out with Gore Verbinski’saction sci-fi comedy Good Luck, Have Enjoyable, Don’t Die! on 1,610 screens. StarsSam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Asim Chandhry, Tom Taylor and Juno Temple. Written by Matthew Robinson. Synopsis: A darkish evening. A crowded diner. A person with a detonator bursts in proclaiming to be from the long run to recruit a bunch of unqualified patrons to cease an impending AI apocalypse and save humanity. At 86% RT Licensed Contemporary with critics.
Evil dummy horror comedy Mimics from Panoramic Photos debuts at 150 theaters. Kristoffer Polaha’s directorial debut. Down-on-his-luck impressionist Sam Reinhold makes a pact with Fergus, a depraved strings-attached puppet that holds the promise of propeling Sam to stardom however unleashes a nightmare that threatens the protection of these he holds expensive. Polaha stars with Mōriah, Chris Parnell and Stephen Tobolowsky.
Comedy horror Chilly Storage from Samuel Goldwyn Movies opens on 1,041 screens. When a mutating, extremely contagious fungus escapes a sealed facility, two younger workers – joined by a grizzled bioterror operative performed by Liam Neeson – should survive the wildest evening shift ever to avoid wasting humanity from extinction. Stars Joe Keery. Georgina Campbell and Sosie Bacon, with Vanessa Redgrave and Lesley Manville. Directed by Johnny Campbell, written by David Koepp, who additionally produced with Gavin Polone.
Not a comedy however beautiful is U.Okay. Oscar submission My Father’s Shadow from Mubi opens in New York (IFC Heart), Los Angeles (Laemmle Royal) and Chicago (Gene Siskel Movie Heart). The function debut Akinola Davies Jr. was the primary Nigerian movie chosen to play in Cannes the place it world premiered in Un Sure Regard, profitable the Digicam d’Or Particular Point out. It’s RT 98% Licensed Contemporary, see Deadline overview. Expands to further markets within the US and Canada all through February. A portrait of father–son bonds framed by the political panorama of 1993 Lagos, the movie follows a father and his two younger sons as they journey into and across the vibrantly rendered Nigerian metropolis, quietly reckoning with their relationship whereas navigating a metropolis on the precipice of democratic disaster. Co-written with Akinola Davies’ brother and collaborator Wale Davies, it stars Sopé Dìrísù (Gradual Horses, Gangs of London) as Folarin, the estranged father of two sons performed by precise brothers Godwin Egbo and Remi Chibuike Marvellous Egbo.
Documentary The Rose: Come Again To Me from CJ 4DPLEX opens on 200+ screens. The movie by Eugene Yi (Free Chol Soo Lee) follows the rise of Korean indie rock band The Rose. Selecting to not conform to the Okay-pop machine or heed their music label’s directives, they achieved a breakthrough with their first single, SORRY, which went viral and helped them domesticate a worldwide viewers. Expertise the trials and tribulations of their journey, culminating of their efficiency on the Coachella stage in 2024 and incomes the title of Billboard’s #1 worldwide rising group. With band members Kim “Sammy” Woosung, Park “Leo” Dojoon, Lee “Dylan” Hajoon, and Lee “Jeff” Taegyeom. Premiered on the Tribeca Competition 2025 and the Busan Worldwide Movie Competition.
MORE: The Metropolitan Opera’s abridged, English-language model of Massenet’s Cinderella returns to cinemas this winter as a part of the 2025–26 Stay in HD season. On 600+ screens from Fathom Leisure, it is going to display screen on February 14 at 1 pm native time. And Mamoru Hosoda’s animated journey Scarlet from Sony Photos Classics expands to 530 commonplace run in week 2 after opening with a 160 display screen Imax-exclusive run. Markiplier’s phenomenon Iron Lung continues its run at 2,445 places.
