‘Marbella’ (Movistar+, May 2)
After the success of Unit, Dani de la Torre and Alberto Marini enter the world of criminal gangs that operate on the Costa del Sol in Marbella. The protagonist of his new fiction is Hugo Silva, who plays an unscrupulous lawyer who ends up immersed in a criminal plot. The series is based on a report published a few years ago in The country by journalists Nacho Carretero and Arturo Lezcano.
‘The Idea of Having You’ (Amazon Prime Video, May 2)
Anne Hathaway returns to one of the fields she best masters, the romantic comedy. The film, also produced by the Oscar winner, tells the story of a 40-year-old single mother who begins an unexpected romance with the young singer of a successful band.
‘The Long Shadows’ (Disney+, May 10)
Clara Roquet has had a luxury cast (Elena Anaya, Belén Cuesta, Irene Escolar and Marta Etura, among others) to tell the story of a group of women whose lives are suddenly shaken by the appearance of the corpse of one of their companions. high school student, who disappeared twenty-five years earlier during the end-of-year trip to Mallorca.
‘Dark Matter’ (Apple TV, May 8)
Joel Edgerton is a physicist and family man who one night, walking home, is kidnapped and transported to an alternate version of his own life. He then begins a journey through the range of stories he could have lived to return to his reality. Jennifer Connelly accompanies Edgerton in this adaptation of the novel of the same name by Blake Crouch.
‘The Exchange’, John Grisham (Plaza & Janés, May 23)
Much has happened since the publication of The coverhe best seller that launched the career of the maestro thriller legal, John Grisham (it was the best-selling book in the world in 1991). In his new novel, the writer recovers the character of Mitch McDeere, who, fifteen years after outwitting the mafia and managing to escape with a few million and the girl, lives in Manhattan as a successful lawyer. Until a call from his former mentor asking for a favor from him puts him back in the middle of a criminal plot.
‘Furiosa: a Mad Max saga’ (cinemas, May 24)
Prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). The film starring Charlize Theron worked so well at the time that the producers decided to delve into the story of her character in a new installment. At first they considered using CGI to rejuvenate Theron, but finally decided to replace her with Anya Taylor-Joy, who on this occasion was accompanied by Chris Hemsworth and Tom Burke.
‘The Labyrinth of the Lost’, Amin Maalouf (Editorial Alliance, May 23)
The author of Samarkand either African lion explores the origins of tensions between the West, Russia and China. The essay sheds light on current conflicts, the motivations of its protagonists and the paradoxes of our time.
‘Atlas’ (Netflix, May 24)
Jennifer Lopez returns to the screen (in this case, small) in this thriller science fiction in which she plays a government analyst who distrusts artificial intelligence and embarks on a crusade to take down a rogue robot and save humanity. Nothing that films like I, Robot, Blade Runner or The Matrix have not raised before, but the concern generated by recent advances in AI makes the argument more current than ever.
‘The Unnamable’, Lorenzo Silva and Noemí Trujillo (Planeta, May 22)
The latest installment of the series starring Inspector Manuela Mauri explores the links between prostitution and gender violence. The book also delves into the most human aspect of the detective and her family relationships.
‘Inmaculada’ (cinemas, May 1)
One of the actresses of the moment, Sydney Sweeney, plays the role of a young nun who, without having had sexual relations, becomes pregnant in a convent. Apparently, the premiere of Immaculate It was scheduled for a few weeks ago, but Spanish distributors did not find it very convenient to release a religious horror film coinciding with Holy Week.
‘The nine kingdoms’, Santiago Díaz (Alfaguara, May 23)
1st century BC After mutinying on the ship in which the Romans were transporting them, a group of African prisoners of war are dragged by the currents to the island of Tenerife. For fifteen hundred years, their descendants created a civilization there isolated from the rest of the world, until the nine kingdoms that make up the Guanche territory became the objective of the Catholic Monarchs. This is the starting point of Díaz’s new novel, focused on the Guanche resistance to the Crown of Castile.
