Movies with John Daly... The films to see in 2025

Better Man

Micheal Gracey, director of The Greatest Showman, takes the reins in a biopic about musician Robbie Williams. An original musical based on the life and career experiences of Williams, it explores his ascent to stardom from his boy-band beginnings to unprecedented success as a solo artist. Are you ready for the twist? He’s portrayed as a chimpanzee, voiced and played in performance capture by Jonno Davies.

In The Grey

Anything by director Guy Ritchie deserves our admission fee, and this one looks well up the mix. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Henry Cavill and Rosamund Pike, it’s an action thriller where Gyllenhall teams up with Cavill and Eiza Gonzalez, who reunite after Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. The basic plot concerns three very annoyed individuals determined to rescue billions stolen from them.

September 5

Starring Peter Sarsgaard and Ben Chaplin, this historical drama recounts the 1972 Munich Olympic hostage crisis from the perspective of the American ABC Sports news team as they covered the unfolding situation live. Blending the drama with archival footage, it revisits how the eight heavily armed members of Black September, a militant Palestinian group, cut through a perimeter fence in the Olympic Village, made their way to where the Israeli delegation was housed and took 11 of its members hostage, shooting two men, who soon died.

Captain America: Brave New World (2025)

Starring Anthony Mackie - who plays Sam Wilson, who has officially taken up the mantle of Captain America, and finds himself in the middle of an international incident. Tim Blake Nelson, who played the Marvel villain known as The Leader, will reprise his Incredible Hulk persona, with Harrison Ford stepping into the role of Thaddeus Ross following the death of William Hurt.

Black Bag

Directed by Steven Soderbergh, this international spy thriller stars Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Regé-Jean Page and Pierce Brosnan.

Scripted by David Koepp, who penned Jurassic Park and Mission Impossible, plot details are sketchy at this point only that it is set around the intelligence community and one man’s journey duty to defend his homeland. As he navigates three life-changing crossroads, the stakes rise higher with each step, blending personal turmoil with high-stakes espionage.

Disney’s Snow White

Although critics have often mauled Disney’s live-action remakes of their classic animated films, they have still been a hit with cinemagoers. Snow White is getting the updated treatment some 87 years after the original 1937 cartoon came out. West Side Story’s Rachel Zegler stars in the title role, with Wonder Woman’s Gal Gadot playing the Evil Queen The script co-written by Gerta Gerwig makes this one a must.

The Alto Knights (2025)

Barry Levinson directs Robert De Niro, Cosmo Jarvis and Debra Messing in this story two notorious Italian American mob bosses: Vito Genovese and Frank Costello - both of which are played by DeNiro. The pair run two separate syndicate families that inevitably collide as the power-hungry crime bosses fight for dominance in mid-20th century New York. When Genovese orders a hit on Costello, his rival survives but is badly wounded and decides to retire from the mafia. But that leaves a vacuum which many hungry criminals jostle to capture.

Thunderbolts

Marvel’s second offering of 2025 pulls from several of its previous titles, as supervillains-turned-heroes story features Yelena Belova, Red Guardian, Winter Soldier, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine and U.S. Agent. Thaddeus ‘Thunderbolt’ Ross, played by Harrison Ford, who made his debut in Captain America: Brave New World is also in the frame.

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Part I culminated in the battle between Ethan and the Entity's human surrogate, Gabriel, on the top of the Orient Express. The latter seemed to escape with one of the cruciform keys meant to activate the Entity, but Hunt actually pulled a sleight of hand and palmed the key for himself.

The Final Reckoning closes in on the aquatic resting place of the all-powerful A.I., which has the power to shape the destiny of everybody on the planet. Christopher McQuarrie once again directs Tom Cruise, Haley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby and Ving Rhames.

Karate Kid Legends

After the popular Netflix series Cobra Kai helped keep the iconic 1980s martial arts franchise alive, this new instalment stars Jackie Chan, Ben Wang, and the original ‘kid’ himself Ralph Macchio. Hard to believe it’s been 40 years since the original hit cinema screens, and had many of us togging out in makeshift bedroom sheets and black belts pinched from sister’s clothes. Expect extraordinary fight scenes and a solid central story to power this latest film in a franchise that has plenty of road left to travel.

How to Train Your Dragon (2025)

Dean DeBlois, creator of the animated How to Train Your Dragon trilogy, now presents Hiccup, Astrid and Toothless in a live-action re-imagining of this coming-of-age story following young Hiccup’s first meeting with Toothless, a friendly dragon he can’t bear to kill, even if it means breaking tradition in his village of Berk, home of Vikings and dragon slayers.

28 Years Later (2025)

Director Danny Boyle leads a starry cast that includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes and Jack O’Connell in a return to the familiar territory of the zombie genre’s most iconic franchises with 28 Days Later and its sequel, 28 Weeks Later. Boyle co-wrote this third, 28 Years Later, with original scriptwriter Alex Garland. The story is set nearly three decades after the first film, when a ‘rage virus’ which disastrously infected humans escaped a biological weapons laboratory.

In the third film, a group of survivors are living in quarantine on a small island, having managed to avoid becoming infected - but trouble is all around them.