Best new films – quick links
Best new films
Journey Home, David Gulpilil – 27 May (SBS On Demand)
When Australia’s most renowned Indigenous actor David Gulpilil passes away far from his Homeland, his family struggle against huge logistical challenges to fulfil his final wish, to bury him on his Homeland, over 4500 kilometres away.
The incredible access granted to the filmmakers is David’s family’s gift to the world, continuing his legacy of sharing his culture.
From ScreenHub’s 4-star review:
‘Trisha Morton-Thomas and Maggie Miles’ illuminating, elegiac documentary Journey Home, David Gulpilil traces the final voyage of an irreplaceable talent.
‘When Walkabout director Nicholas Roeg first spotted the incandescent presence of late Yolŋu legend mid-traditional dance, he knew instantaneously that he’d found the First Nations lead of his soon-to-be Palme d’Or-nominated film.
‘A star turn that would take the 17-year-old from Gupulul, in the Northern Territory’s Arnhem Land, to Buckingham Palace to meet the then-queen of England (and The Beatles’ John Lennon) on his way to the Cannes Film Festival.
‘This spectacular emergence began an illustrious career that solidified Gulpilil as one of the most magnetic performers to ever hail from this ancient and sacred land. Working with the likes of Peter Weir, Rolf de Heer, Phillip Noyce and Ivan Sen in seminal films including Storm Boy (x2), The Last Wave, Crocodile Dundee, Ten Canoes, Rabbit-Proof Fence and Goldstone, Gulpilil was iridescent.’ Read the full review.
Propeller One-Way Night Coach – 29 May (Apple TV)
Film (2026). Directed, written, produced and narrated by John Travolta. The story follows young airplane enthusiast Jeff (Clark Shotwell) and his mother (Kelly Eviston-Quinnett), as they set off on a one-way cross-country odyssey to Hollywood in the golden age of aviation, which transforms a simple flight into the trip of a lifetime.
The Long Walk – 30 May (HBO Max)
Film (2025). Teens participate in a gruelling high-stakes contest where they must continuously walk or be shot by a member of their military escort. Starring Francis Lawrence, Cooper Hoffman, Ben Wang and Mark Hamill.
Recent best new films
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
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.
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.
