‘Minecraft’, ‘Sorda’, the new Mario Casas and other expected April 2025 in Cinema | Cinema: premieres and criticism
April is usually the month in which Hollywood is unofficially begins summer. What does this mean? That with greater or lesser luck, and after months of drought, the big studies begin to launch their biggest films, called to take the billboard. This year in particular cinemas need to be insufflated from life as May water. Because they had raised this 2025 as the year of the recovery of the box office after the pandemic (those figures are still very far and they seem impossible), but in the first three months nothing makes anticipate that this will happen. At least until it arrives Avatar At the end of the year.
These great productions will begin to leave less space to author or smaller films, which have received the shelter of the awards during the previous months. Yes there are this April several Spanish proposals that stand out and that should make noise (if the viewer is interested), as well as some original and atypical medium launch for these times, although everyone must fight to find their audience among the new Marvel launches (one more month) or one of the phenomena of the video game of the new generations. These are the most anticipated proposals in April in cinemas and platforms.
‘In the summers’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxqixuai0ty
The resident singer was nominated this year to the Spirit Independent Award as best revelation actor for this semi -autobiographical film around a father and his daughters with a complicated fracture story. He was one of the independent dramas of Sunday 2024, arrives from the hand of the debutante director Alessandra Lacorazza, telling her story and with echoes of Aftersun.
When and where to see it? Wednesday 2, at Movistar Plus+.
‘A Minecraft movie’
Another video game that seemed impossible to adapt to the big screen makes the jump with a style comedy Jumanji, With Jack Black and Jason Momoa, who are almost not remembered. Of course, perhaps adapting this game of the grids is the only way to attract adolescents to the cinema. As with Five Nights at Freddy’s. The difficult thing will be to reach your parents. That Jennifer Coolidge takes us confessed.
When and where to see it? Friday 4, in Salas.
‘Guillermo Tell’
We all know the anecdote of the Ballesta and the apple of Guillermo Tell, but what we did not expect at this point is that they turned this character from the fourteenth century into an action hero to the Braveheart or Robin Hood. That is what this British blockbusion tries to do, which remembers a bit in its style The Count of Montecristo and that he has Claes Bang and the tireless Ben Kingsley (he is not the actor with the best filmography) in his cast. Perfect for Holy Week.
When and where to see it? Friday 4, in Salas.
‘Sorda’
This film is one of the Spanish revelations of the season, winner in Berlin and Malaga. Eva Libertad extends with actress Miriam Garlo, her sister in real life, the short film with whom the other worlds of deaf people explore. This time the protagonist is a potter who is going to have a child with her listener. An imperfect character in which all kinds of fears and feelings appear on motherhood. That is the time when the couple conflict is born.
When and where to see it? Friday 4, in Salas.
‘Peter Pan: Nightmare ever’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuobrz5prie
For a few years, the most shabby cinema has opted to recycle the characters free of copyright to create bloody Slashers (serial killers). After meeting the Winnie The Pooh, Popeye or Mickey murderers, it is the turn of Peter Pan. And they do not leave because they will follow Bambi or Pinocchio.
When and where to see it? Friday 4, in Salas.
‘Amateur’
A film that Hollywood today is difficult to release in cinemas, a story without classic spy franchise, with persecutions and turns and that is basically sold for their stars. In this case the agent who faces the CIA is Rami Malek, already tanned in this after Mr. Robot and No time to die and his exaggerated villain Bond. He is accompanied by a group of Hollywood cast actors: Laurence Fishburne, Rachel Brosnahan, Jon Bernthal, Michael Stuhlbarg, Caitriona Balfe …
When and where to see it? Friday 4, in Salas.
‘Exumma’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_6_wlf1pdg
In 2024, this Thriller, starring Choi Min-Sik (famous for Oldboy) became one of the great hits at the box office of the history of Korean cinema, already exceeding 90 million euros in rooms, eight times its budget. Now this story about shamans, supernatural powers, deaths and exhumed remains arrives.
When and where to see it? On Tuesday 8, in Movistar Plus+.
‘A Funeral of Locos’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi2J6-pyb1e
First it was the British version, then the American and now we have the Spanish. Because the native industry loves remakes of comedies, adapted to our singularities. The choral cast this time with Quim Gutiérrez, Inma Cuesta, Ernesto Alterio, Antonio Resines (who almost premieres film per month), Hugo Silva, Gorka Otxoa, Belén Rueda, Arturo Valls, Secun de la Rosa … Anyway, almost all the Spanish cinema gathered in one of those horrible posters generated by Photoshop.
When and where to see it? On Friday 11, in Salas.
‘Molt Lluny (very far)’
Mario Casas is the main attraction of another of the revelations of the Malaga Festival. The actor won the award for best male interpretation for a role in which the director Gerard WHO (whose usual profession is Coach interpretative) has made him speak very little, embodying a father to whom an anxiety attack leads him to remain isolated from his life, in Holland. When Casas won the Goya for You will not kill He already dedicated it to WHO, so the connection between director and protagonist is very strong.
When and where to see it? On Friday 11, in Salas.
‘The sinners’
After becoming some of Hollywood’s highest grossing couples thanks to Black Panther and Creedthe duo formed by director Ryan Coogler and actor Michael B. Jordan again creates an original drama entering a genre that had not yet explored: terror and, specifically, vampires. Everything, of course, bathed in the social and racial themes that are always interested in exploring.
When and where to see it? Friday 16, in Salas.
‘Confidential (Black Bag)’
Steven Soderbergh is one of the most multifaceted film directors. The person in charge of Ocean’s Eleven, Magic Mike, Erin Brockovich either Traffic It was only a month ago the ghostly IDENEand he still had to launch his own vision of the British spy (with the face of Michael Fassbender). A proposal that has had very good reviews and also highlights Cate Blanchett. Other Thriller Sexy and intelligent like those before, but unfortunately has failed at the box office. Despite the complaints, the harsh reality is that it seems that in the rooms it is difficult for them to pull the big cinema without franchises.
When and where to see it? Friday 16, in Salas.
‘Warfare: War Time’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jer0fkyy3tw
In a month curiously loaded with original films of Hollywood, it is also the turn of a military drama. One that serves as continuation to the applauded and clairvoyant Civil War, by Alex Garland. It was in his filming where he met the military advisor Ray Mendoza, who now serves as co -director to narrate his personal memories in a tense site to a house in Iraq with the special military team Seal. Almost everything is told in a tense real time. The whole collection of young men called to give a lot to talk in the Hollywood of the future is put on the helmet. Attentive.
When and where to see it? Friday 16, in Salas.
‘Parenostre’
It has been hard for Spain to be brave enough to adapt its recent political history to fiction. But here he gets fully into it, in the economic embezzlement in Andorra of the Catalan president Jordi Pujol and his family. José María Pou becomes the Honorable Molt In a story that surely gives to talk and also has Alberto San Juan (very accustomed in this type of recreation in his productions with the neighborhood theater) in the role of King Juan Carlos.
When and where to see it? Friday 16, in Salas.
‘The End’
An apocalyptic musical from a bunker at the end of the world with Tilda Swinton. And he is directed by an expert filmmaker in documentaries like Joshua Oppenheimer. It sounds to the strangest premiere of the month. And that’s why you have to see it.
When and where to see it? Friday 25, in Salas.
‘The last sigh’
In the last year several directors have opted for stories about the accompaniment of death. Now it is, at 92, to Costa-Gavras, who discovered in the filming the doctors who work on this: “There is not enough interest in palliative care. That, the first thing. The second: What do we do with the people who get old, who ages, with good health? Because these people can say: ‘I want to die’. How do we help them? Many live quite badly, they no longer know those around them, because their friends, their children have died … That is why the suicide index is so high from the age of 80, ”said the director at the San Sebastián Festival.
When and where to see it? Friday 25, in Salas.
‘Thunderbolts*’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7OVXH7mges
In Marvel comics, Thunderbolts are a nourished team of villains from the universe. This film takes that idea with a team of enemies of different films signed by the Government with its own purposes. A concept that makes this history of secondary to a smaller project of a company that has increasingly difficult to find its voice among the public, especially after the malfunction of the last Captain America. To try to convince with this movie sold as a vision indie Marvel, the company has just announced that its protagonists will be in the fifth avengers, which fans really want to see.
When and where to see it? On Friday 30, in Salas.
‘Havoc’
Tom Hardy hitting fools with one of the directors who best roll the action of cinema, Gareth Evans, responsible for Killer raid and Gangs of London. That is what this police promise in the low funds of corruption. Neither more nor less.
When and where to see it? On Friday 25, in Netflix.
‘The good lyrics’
Chirbes’s novel adapts to the big screen from Celia Rico’s intimate look, which gives her personality to this postwar drama in Valencia, where a woman tells her family and personal visicitudes. Loreto Mauleón has been demonstrating his value for years and this is his chest, his most relevant moment.
When and where to see it? On Wednesday 30, in Salas.
‘The story of Souleymane’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujatk89hwce
One of the most applauded French social dramas of recent times leads us to a black food delivery man in the center of Paris that needs to fill the bureaucracy for asylum in France. A story like the life itself that deals with some of the most pressing problems of this 21st century.
When and where to see it? On Wednesday 30, in Salas.
