5 best new films – quick links
The Great Gatsby – 9 March (SBS On Demand)
Film (2013). Revisit Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel. Aspiring writer Nick Carraway becomes captivated by his enigmatic neighbour, Jay Gatsby, whose extravagant parties mask an obsessive attempt to reclaim a lost love with Daisy Buchanan.
Against the shimmering backdrop of the Jazz Age, Gatsby’s dream collides with class divides and harsh realities, revealing the tension between illusion and desire. Luhrmann’s vibrant adaptation reimagines the American Dream with dazzling spectacle and poignant tragedy. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire.
Nuremberg – 12 March (Stan)
Film (2025). Starring Academy Award winners Russell Crowe and Rami Malek, Nuremberg follows the immediate aftermath of the second world war, as the world grapples with the unveiled horrors of the Holocaust. US Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley (Malek) is assigned the extraordinary task of assessing the mental state of Hermann Göring (Crowe), the notorious former Reichsmarschall and Hitler’s second in command, along with other high-ranking Nazi officials.
As the Allies – led by the unyielding chief US prosecutor, Supreme Court Justice Robert H Jackson (Michael Shannon) alongside Sergeant Howie Triest (Leo Woodall), David Maxwell-Fyfe (Richard E Grant), Gustave Gilbert (Colin Hanks), Colonel John Amen (Mark O’Brien) and Burton C Andrus (John Slattery) – navigate the monumental task of creating an unprecedented international tribunal to ensure the Nazi regime answers for its atrocities, Kelley gets to know his ‘patients’.
But he soon finds himself locked in a psychological duel with Göring, whose charisma and cunning reveal a sobering truth: that ordinary men can commit extraordinary evil.
Skincare – 13 March (Paramount+)
Film (2024). In Skincare, famed aesthetician Hope Goldman (Elizabeth Banks) is poised to take her career to dazzling new heights with the launch of her own skincare line. But just as success seems within reach, a glamorous rival boutique opens directly across the street, and Hope’s dream begins to unravel.
As a series of unsettling incidents threaten her reputation and business, Hope becomes convinced she’s being deliberately sabotaged. Determined to protect everything she’s built, she dives headfirst into a twisty, darkly comic mystery to uncover who’s trying to destroy her – before it’s too late.
Starring Elizabeth Banks (The Hunger Games), Lewis Pullman (Top Gun: Maverick, Lessons in Chemistry), Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (Pose, Loot) and Nathan Fillion (Castle, Firefly).
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die – 13 March (Prime Video)
Film (2025). In this sci-fi comedy directed by Gore Verbinski (The Ring, Rango), a ‘man from the future’ arrives at a diner in Los Angeles where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die stars Sam Rockwell, Juno Temple and Haley Lu Richardson. Watch the trailer.
Bodycam – 13 March (Shudder & AMC+)
Film (2025). When two police officers show up to investigate a domestic dispute, a startling escalation leads to a tragic accident. Not wanting to be crucified by the public, the officers attempt to cover it up – only to reveal that their body cameras aren’t the only things watching them.
