Best new films – quick links
Best new films this week
Over Your Dead Body – 10 June (Prime Video)
Film (2026). When miserable couple Dan and Lisa retreat to a remote cabin for a romantic reset, each arrives with a secret plan to kill the other. However, their carefully plotted traps and counterplots quickly unravel when strangers crash the weekend with plans of their own. As the toxic getaway spirals into chaotic carnage, Dan and Lisa must soon figure out if they want to save their marriage or survive it.
Starring Samara Weaving and Jason Segel.
Sirāt – 12 June (MUBI)
Film (2025). Oliver Laxe’s Sirât presents a hypnotic and immersive narrative set in the deserts of North Africa, chronicling a father and son’s search for their missing daughter following her disappearance at an underground rave in Morocco. As the protagonists move from one remote gathering to the next, their quest evolves into an exploration of spiritual, existential, and ultimately unknowable dimensions.
From ScreenHub’s five-star review:
Sirât, the immaculately staged near-apocalypse from Oscar-nominated French-Galician filmmaker Óliver Laxe, has no interest in easing you in. Or out.
Instead, as the film opens, we’re thrust headlong into a juddering blast of bone-crunching bass that annihilates our senses. A fortress-like barricade of towering speakers is arrayed at the foot of a cliff, somewhere in the southern Morrocco end of the Sahara. A light show dances on this foreboding canvas as a drugged-up throng surrender themselves to the beat. Read more …
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple – 14 June (Prime Video)
Film (2026). Dr. Kelson finds himself in a shocking new relationship – with consequences that could change the world as they know it – and Spike’s encounter with Jimmy Crystal becomes a nightmare he can’t escape. In the world of The Bone Temple, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival – the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.
Starring Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams and Cillian Murphy.
ScreenHub: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple review: beguilingly wild and tender
Recent best new films
Pasa Faho – 1 June (SBS On Demand)
Film (2025). Azubuike is a charming shoe salesman who is just making ends meet in Melbourne. When his 12-year-old son, Obinna, moves across the country to live with him, the estranged pair struggle to find stability in an already turbulent time.
With the news that Azubuike’s shop is to be sold to developers, the two must find answers or risk losing more than just the shoe shop. Winner of the Best International Feature Film at the 2025 AFRIFF Globe Awards.
Beast – 4 June (Stan)
Film (2026). Russell Crowe is commanding as Sammy, the trainer whose relationship with champion fighter Patton James embodies tough love, hard-won forgiveness and the complex bonds between mentors and the fighters they shape.
Beast is a powerful story of redemption, sacrifice, and the unbreakable bonds of family that pulse through every frame.
From the ScreenHub review:
As Beast joins the hordes of sports-focused action dramas where packing a punch, and landing one, is the noblest deed there is, this new Australian film makes those declarations itself.
Beast might be a mixed-martial arts movie rather than a boxing film, but it loves and embraces the latter’s long-established tropes.
Sometimes those proclamations are verbal, and also thoroughly unnecessary. Before the feature’s climactic fray, revenge and redemption earn a mention, for instance, as if viewers aren’t already keenly aware that this is a flick partly about vengeance and vindication. Read more …
Dead of Winter – 5 June (HBO Max)
Film (2025). In a remote Minnesota blizzard, a grief-stricken loner (Emma Thompson) stumbles upon a young woman held captive by a desperate, armed couple. Forced into action, she becomes an unlikely protector in a brutal fight for survival. Starring Thompson, Judy Greer and Marc Menchaca, and directed by Brian Kirk.
