The box office is going through a difficult time. Despite the number of cinema proposals in September and October, the billboard not only does not improve, but collapses. Few films seem to capture the attention of mass audiences. Luckily, November began with the film festival (although very lukewarm in results), and will continue with some family films as the only lifeline in the program, beyond some Netflix previews that are briefly in theaters.
In November there will also be another re-release of those that often appear on billboards lately. the whole saga Dusk returns to the big screen on an anniversary fit for fans and nostalgics (yes, there’s already nostalgia for Bella and Edward). But there are also new proposals. This is just one example of the long list of premieres vying for audiences’ attention this month:
Predator: Badlands
Disney and director Dan Trachtenberg have been trying to reinvent and revive the franchise for a few years now. predator from the ashes. First they did it on Disney+ with the notables The dam and the lively Predator: Killer of killersboth set in humanity’s past, and now the predator who began chasing Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to the cinema to reunite with Elle Fanning in a futuristic story that also winks at the universe Alien (also from Disney). His proposal is to show the monster as never before: friendly.
When and where to see it? Friday 7th at the cinema.
Bugonia
For their fourth collaboration Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos have prepared a new conspiracy and alien madness adapted from a Korean film. “I had never been given such a timely script. Three years ago and now, unfortunately, more. I wouldn’t call this film a dystopia. A lot of this is real, it’s happening. People will soon have to choose the right path. Otherwise, I don’t know how much time we will have,” explained the director in Venice.
When and where to see it? Friday 7th at the cinema.
It’s always winter
David Trueba (adapting his novel) also meets David Verdaguer, who, having become Eugenio, this time plays a more normal man experiencing a crisis in Belgium when his girlfriend leaves him and begins a relationship with an older woman which leads him to reconsider his entire project.
When and where to see it? Friday 7th at the cinema.
Two Outlaws (Rust)
This film will always be marked by the shooting failure that led Alec Baldwin to kill his cinematographer. Otherwise it would definitely have been a twilight western more likely aimed at platforms. Now it remains to be seen whether, despite the controversy, it was worth it in cinematic terms.
When and where to see it? Friday 7th at the cinema.
Train your dreams
Speaking of western films headed to platforms, this one received critical acclaim. In this gray drama, Joel Edgerton is a worker in the construction of the famous 20th century railway, which has appeared in so many films. His life, of course, is full of tragedy.
When and where to see it? Friday 7th at the cinema. 21, on Netflix.
All sides of the bed
One of the returns of the legacy sequels (i.e., as Top Gun: nonconformist) what we least expected was this musical about emotional and sexual relationships, so at the beginning of the 2000s Spanish to take advantage of the new generation raised in Madrid’s Gran Vía to give new voices to the chirps. Ernesto Alterio and Pilar Castro now return as parents in an era that already included polyamory and freer sexuality. Alberto San Juan, María Esteve, Willy Toledo and Natalia Verbeke will also be present.
When and where to see it? Friday the 14th at the cinema.
die my love
Based on the rough book Kill yourself, love (he’s Argentinian, hence the lack of accent), now it’s Lynne Ramsay who portrays motherhood from the wildest point of life, of dissatisfaction and postpartum depression, with Jennifer Lawrence as a mother who finds her way into imagination and other worlds. She is accompanied by Robert Pattinson in a story that was also read during the trial of its writer Ariana Harwicz.
When and where to see it? Friday the 14th at the cinema.
Now you see me 3
Nine years after the first sequel, this team of magicians immerses themselves in adventures around the world and led by Jesse Eisenberg, who faces a new great heist.
When and where to see it? Friday the 14th at the cinema.
Paul Urkijo continues to reconstruct Basque mythology through its best-known witches. This is the origin of Katalin, one of the most famous children’s in Euskadi.
When and where to see it? Friday the 14th at the cinema.
Wicked: Part II
After the unexpected success of the first chapter, and with the musical now in full swing in theaters in Madrid, comes the sequel to this reinvention of The Wizard of Oz which brings its action to the times of the original film, with Dorothy in the background. However, the center remains the two witch friends now separated by a regime of lies. He promises to make waves again and sneak into the Oscars.
When and where to see it? Friday 21st at the cinema.
The long march
It almost seems like there isn’t a month without a new Stephen King adaptation, and in the meantime Item continues to develop on HBO, comes this impossible competition which, in a dystopian future, forces its participants to walk non-stop. If they stop, they die.
When and where to see it? Friday the 14th at the cinema.
The running man
And Stephen King still has another cartridge to spend on this one remake from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s famous film (again) also set in a dystopian future where this time the competition is a television competition in which the public demands more and more blood. Although it may seem like a film like any other, it has two strong points in its favor: the good health of Glen Powell as the protagonist and the always original Edgar Wright, responsible Baby Driver, Zombie Party OR deadly weapon, a wizard of vision.
When and where to see it? Friday 21st at the cinema.
Alpha
Giulia Ducournau, responsible for Titanhe returns to his wilder ways with this film evokes the AIDS epidemic with supernatural elements from the point of view of a teenager scarred by her uncle’s heroin addiction. “The film – not suitable for those who cannot tolerate needles – begins with a shot that arises from the wounds of an arm riddled with punctures. The film is unsuccessful, unpleasant and jarring, without achieving the emotion of Titan. If it increases in its final stretch it is thanks to the actor’s dedication, to how the pain and family rift are expressed in his spectrum of drug addict”, said Elsa Férnandez-Santos in Cannes.
When and where to see it? Friday 21st at the cinema.
Jay Kelly
Noah Baumbach transforms George Clooney into what only he can be: an aging global superstar, who forges his future through occasional failures, but who is also self-absorbed and insecure. “If you make a film about an actor, you talk about identity, about searching for oneself. We all try to understand what person we are. And our performance changes, as a friend, father, husband. It’s about how we are and how we make peace with it all,” the director of. said Story of a marriage on her in Venice.
When and where to see it? Friday 21st at the cinema. December 5 on Netflix.
Dreams in Oslo
The Berlinale-winning Norwegian film features a girl who falls madly in love with her French teacher and leaves in writing everything that fascinates her family.
When and where to see it? Friday 21st at the cinema.
Nuremberg
Winners or losers? It covered the trial of the Nazi regime perfectly, but World War II never loses relevance or relevance. Now Rami Malek, Russell Crowe and Michael Shannon take the floor.
When and where to see it? Friday 28th at the cinema.
Zootopia 2
In 2016, Zootropolis Not only was it a giant bombshell for Disney (reaching $1 billion at the box office, which today is already seen as utopia), but in the years that followed this movie full of adorable animals in a big city became one of the most watched on the platform. Now the protagonists face another mystery in this sequel ready to destroy everything in the footsteps of Lilo and Stitch OR Moana 2.
When and where to see it? Friday 28th at the cinema.
Blue Moon
This is the month of directors with their fetish actors. Richard Linklater meets Ethan Hawke to tell the story biopic centered on a night in 1943 in a bar that they had wanted to tell for a long time, the story of the musical composer Lorenz Hart, alcoholic and bisexual, and the breakdown of a friendship. “Blue Moon It is an ‘intimate film’, almost a chamber piece which, although also talking about theatre, ‘was never meant to be made in the theatre, it was and is only cinema’. There are its strong points, such as the performances and the dialogues, and its weak points”, said Gregorio Belinchón at the Berlinale.
When and where to see it? Friday 28th at the cinema.
Flowers for Antonio
Alba Flores tries to reconstruct her father’s musical and personal legacy, following the paths he took in this documentary with the unparalleled imprint of Isaki Lacuesta.
When and where to see it? Friday 28th at the cinema.
Hind’s voice
One of the phenomena of the latest Cannes shows how a six-year-old girl falls under the attacks of the Israeli army seen from the point of view of an emergency call. “The story is devastating, its adaptation on the screen is powerful. Memorable, in every sense. Rarely have we seen the reception that the film crew received in the press room: everyone on their feet,” Tommaso Koch said in Venice.
When and where to see it? Friday 28th at the cinema.
Daggers in the back: from the dead
Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) has a new case on his hands, with priests, deaths and, of course, a scandalous cast: Glenn Close, Jeremy Renner, Josh O’Connor, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Andrew Scott…
When and where to see it? Friday 28th at the cinema. December 12 on Netflix.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the strange journey
This is the story of what is perhaps the greatest cinematic cult phenomenon in history, also directed by the children of one of its protagonists, who had the opportunity to speak with those who participated in this madness that ended up as a musical show in cinemas. Let’s do the time warp again.
When and where to see it? Friday 28th, at Filmin.
