Top 5 – Awesome Movies Coming Out in January

Usually with this piece, it’s tough to narrow down the list to just five.  However, we are in what I like to consider a cinematic shit-hole, or simply, January.  When seeing what movies were coming out this month, I cringed.  There is legitimately one movie coming out that I’d actually like to see.  Thankfully, I’ll be at the Sundance Film Festival for two weeks, so I don’t have to suffer through everything.  But, for you masochists out there, here are five awesome (?) movies coming out in January.

5 – RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER (Paul W.S. Anderson, January 27)

I’m actually astounded they still make these movies.  Is this really the “final chapter”?  The sixth and last film in a series that has lasted 15 unnecessary years?  Let’s hope so.  I guess if there is one redeeming quality of this movie, it would the gratuitous blood and gore and crazy action.  But who cares enough about this franchise to see it?

4 – xXx – THE RETURN OF XANDER CAGE (D.J. Caruso, January 20)

Did we really need a return of Xander Cage?  He’s been gone for 15 years and nobody seemed to care.  Who are the people who were begging for him to come back?  Usually, a sequel like this would scream PAYCHECK MOVIE!!! for the star of the film, but Vin Diesel is making bank off the Fast and Furious franchise, so why would he need to do this?  I don’t know.  But, similar to Resident Evil, dumb action and explosions await you.

3 – THE BYE BYE MAN (Stacy Title, January 13)

I haven’t watched the trailer for this film, so I have no idea what it is about.  But, I like the poster, Carrie-Anne Moss is a solid actress, and Faye Dunaway is in it, because of course she is.  PG-13 horror movies always worry me because they always skip the good scares and gore for cheap jump scares, which I’m sure this will have plenty of and end up being stupid, boring, and predictable.

2 – SLEEPLESS (Baran bo Odar, January 13)

Sleepless doesn’t look terrible.  I like corrupt cop dramas and I like the cast.  Jamie Foxx is always great, as is Michelle Monaghan, and T.I. can be a scene stealer when he wants to be.  And the film has an R rating, which means they aren’t skimping on the violence and language.  Definitely has the potential to be the best movie of the month.

1 – SPLIT (M. Night Shyamalan, January 20)

You know it’s a rough month when an M. Night Shyamalan movie is my most anticipated.  But here we are.  I loved early Shyamalan, like most people, and I really enjoyed his last feature, The Visit (2015), as it was a simple, yet effective movie.  Split looks like absolute insanity.  Watching James McAvoy do anything is a treat, but watching him play 24 different people should be wild.  And it stars up and coming stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Haley Lu Richardson, both of whom I enjoyed in excellent 2016 films (Taylor-Joy in The Witch, Richardson in The Edge of Seventeen).  This movie looks tense, interesting, and has me intrigued to see the inevitable twist, and is easily the most exciting title of January.

What movies, if any, are you excited to see in January?  Comment below or hit me up on Twitter and Instagram, @kevflix, or on Facebook and YouTube by searching Kevflix.