2025 – A Look Ahead
As we start the new year, it’s time to have a look ahead at some of the highlights “coming soon” in 2025.
January – The film I’m most looking forward to in January is Wolf Man, mainly because it’s coming from the same writer/director as 2020’s The Invisible Man, which was my Film of 2020. Also out in January is Back in Action, which sees Cameron Diaz come out of retirement for this Netflix action/comedy alongside Jamie Foxx.
February – The first MCU film of 2025 (and, Deadpool & Wolverine aside, the first MCU film for over a year) is Captain America: Brave New World, which sees Anthony Mackie headline his first film as Captain America, alongside the first appearance of Harrison Ford in the MCU. Also out that month is Love Hurts, an action/comedy starring Ke Huy Quan in his first leading role since his Oscar-winning return to acting in Everything Everywhere All At Once.
March – The Russo Brothers’ last film before they direct Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars is The Electric State, an off-beat sci-fi epic starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, coming to Netflix.
April – April sees the release of Mickey 17, Bong Joon Ho’s satirical sci-fi comedy (and his first film since he won the Oscar for Parasite), and Sinners, a horror/thriller that reunites writer/director Ryan Coogler with his regular collaborator Michael B. Jordan. We also get to see A Minecraft Movie, and find out whether it’s a work of unexpected genius like The Lego Movie, or a pointless cash-grab like Playmobil: The Movie.
May – In May, we’re back to the MCU with the team-up movie Thunderbolts*, which reunites some of the MCU’s most enjoyable supporting characters, before we finally get to see the next (and final?) cinematic outing of Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.
June – June is a busy month, with the release of the delayed John Wick spinoff Ballerina starring Ana de Armas, the belated zombie (but technically not a ‘zombie’) sequel 28 Years Later, the sequel to the surprisingly fun M3GAN, Brad Pitt’s formula one movie F1, and not to mention the latest Pixar movie Elio and the live-action version of How to Train Your Dragon.
July – This is when the big guns come out: first we have Jurassic World Rebirth, the Scarlett-Johansson-starring next chapter in the series, before the launch of the new DCU with James Gunn’s long-awaited Superman. Rounding off the month is the first appearance in the MCU of Marvel’s ‘first family’ in The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
Later in 2025 – August sees Bob Odenkirk face off against Sharon Stone in Nobody 2, before a jam-packed autumn brings us the belated threequel Tron: Ares, the Prey follow-up Predator: Badlands, the Glen-Powell-starring/Edgar-Wright-directed remake of The Running Man, and the sequels Wicked: For Good, Zootropolis 2 and Avatar: Fire and Ash. Without a current release date are the Netflix movies The Thursday Murder Club (the all-star adaptation of the best-selling murder mystery novel), Havoc (the Tom Hardy action movie from the director of The Raid) and Wake Up Dead Man (the third Knives Out mystery).
So that’s a selection of what to look out for in 2025 and in the meantime, I’ll be working on my cinematic highlights from 2024...
