Best new films – quick links
4 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.
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.
Recent best new films
Greenland 2: Migration – 27 April (Prime Video)
Film (2026). The surviving Garrity family must leave the safety of the Greenland bunker and embark on a perilous journey across the decimated frozen wasteland of Europe to find a new home.
Starring Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin and Roman Griffin Davis.
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
You, Always – 1 May (Netflix)
Film (2026). Jen and Ethan have been best friends since high school. But when new romance enters their lives, their feelings for one another face the ultimate test.
Starring Adrian Grenier, Jessica De Gouw and Desmond Chiam.
Bau Artist At War – 3 May (Paramount+)
Film (2024). Based on an extraordinary true story, Bau Artist at War follows Holocaust survivor and master forger Joseph Bau, who uses his artistic talents, humour and ingenuity to help fellow prisoners escape certain death. Amid the horrors of the Plaszow concentration camp, he finds an unexpected and powerful love, defying the darkness around him.
Starring Emile Hirsch (Into The Wild, One Upon A Time… In Hollywood), Inbar Lavi (Imposters, Lucifer) and Josh Zuckerman (School Spirits).
Heathers: The Musical – 3 May (HBO Max)
Film (2022). This dark-comedy rock musical based on the 1988 cult-classic movie follows high school senior Veronica’s struggle to survive the teenage rollercoaster of her senior year while navigating the beautiful but cruel Heathers, a dangerous romance with the new school rebel Jason ‘J.D.’ Dean and the constant pressure to fit in with everyone else.
