3 best new films – quick links
Best new films
The Running Man – 19 May (Stan)
Film (2025). In this science-fiction action adaptation of Stephen King’s famous novel (adapted previously with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the lead role), director Edgar Wright leads his cast through a near-future America run by a media network known as the Network. The highest rating program on the channel is The Running Man, in which contestants win big money if they can survive for 30 days while the Network’s five hunters try to track them down.
Starring Glen Powell, William H Macy, Lee Pace, Michael Cera and Emilia Jones.
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War – 20 May (Prime Video)
Film (2026). In this new film, Jack Ryan (John Krasinski) is reluctantly thrust back into the world of espionage when an international covert mission unravels a deadly conspiracy, forcing him to confront a rogue black-ops unit – and the clock is ticking.
Operating in real time with lives on the line and the threat escalating at every turn, Jack reunites with battle-tested CIA operative Mike November (Michael Kelly) and former CIA boss James Greer (Wendell Pierce), their combined experience the only edge they have against an enemy who knows their every move.
Starring John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Michael Kelly, Max Beesley, JJ Feild, Douglas Hodge with Betty Gabriel and Sienna Miller.
Bugonia – 21 May (Binge)
Film (2025). Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company. Stars Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons.
ScreenHub: Bugonia review – incendiary and out of this world
Recent best new films
Black Phone 2 – 7 May (Binge)
Film (2025). The second feature film in the Black Phone film series stars Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, and Ethan Hawke, with Demián Bichir also joining the cast.
Siblings Finney and Gwen, and their friend Ernesto, set off for a winter youth camp in a bid to get to the bottom of what happened to the first victims of the Grabber.
Remarkably Bright Creatures – 8 May (Netflix)
Film (2026). While working nights at a small-town aquarium, a widow bonds with a clever octopus and an adrift young man in this moving drama based on the bestseller.
Starring Sally Field, Lewis Pullman, Colm Meaney and Alfred Molina.
ScreenHub: Remarkably Bright Creatures: Sally Field shines in sweet film adaptation
The End – 8 May (HBO Max)
Film (2024). Some 25 years after environmental collapse leaves Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son live in a luxurious bunker, clinging to strict daily rituals to maintain a sense of normalcy – until the arrival of a stranger, Girl, disrupts their fragile existence.
As tensions rise, their carefully controlled world begins to unravel. Starring Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Moses Ingram and Michael Shannon.
My Mother’s Wedding – 8 May (Binge)
Film (2023). In this, the directorial debut of Kristin Scott Thomas, a trio of sisters (a palliative nurse, a Navy captain and an actor) return home for the wedding of their mother Diana, twice divorced.
Drama starring Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller and Emily Beecham.
Wuthering Heights – 1 May (HBO Max)
Film (2026). A bold and original interpretation of one of the greatest love stories of all time, Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights stars Australians Margot Robbie as Cathy and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff whose forbidden passion for one another turns from romantic to intoxicating in an epic tale of lust, love and madness.
ScreenHub: Wuthering Heights is a provocative sadomasochistic joy
