Best new films to stream – quick links
Splitsville – 24 February (HBO Max)
Film (2025). This new film gives the sex-comedy treatment to the politics of modern marriage. The story begins with Ashley (Adria Arjona) asking Carey (Kyle Marvin) for a divorce, sending the good-natured Carey straight to his close friends Julie (Dakota Johnson) and Paul (Michael Covino) for support.
But he’s stunned to learn that the secret to their seemingly perfect relationship is an open marriage – a revelation that takes a disastrous turn when Carey oversteps, throwing all of their lives into turmoil. Read ScreenHub‘s review.
The Bluff – 25 February (Prime Video)
Film (2026). Priyanka Chopra Jonas stars in this swashbuckling new action-thriller set against the breathtaking scenery of the Caribbean Islands.
Ercell ‘Bloody Mary’ Bodden (Chopra) thought she had escaped her violent past as a pirate, finding peace in the Cayman Islands with her loving family. But when her notorious former captain Connor (Karl Urban) arrives seeking revenge, Ercell’s world is torn apart.
Forced to confront the demons she’s tried to bury, Ercell is thrust back into a deadly game of secrets and survival. Armed with lethal swordsmanship, cunning traps and a fierce will to protect those she loves, she wages a brutal war against Connor’s merciless crew.
In The Blink of an Eye – 26 February (Disney+)
Film (2026). This brand new science-fiction film from director Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, WALL-E, Finding Dory) follows three interconnected stories spanning thousands of years, exploring the history of the world and reflecting on hope, connection and the circle of life.
In the past, a Neanderthal family displaced from their home struggles to survive, protect the children, and use primitive tools. In the present day, Claire, a driven, post-grad anthropologist studying ancient proto-human remains, begins a relationship with a fellow student Greg. And two centuries later, on a spaceship bound for a distant planet, Coakley and a sentient onboard computer confront a disease afflicting the ship’s oxygen-producing plants.
Starring Kate McKinnon, Rashida Jones, Daveed Diggs, Tanaya Beatty, Jorge Vargas and Skywalker Hughes.
Eddington – 26 February (Binge)
Film (2025). Hereditary director Ari Aster muses on our apocalyptic times in this satirical neo-Western thriller starring Pedro Pascal, Joaquin Pheonix, Emma Stone, Austin Butler and Luke Grimes. Read ScreenHub’s glowing review.
Together – 28 February (Prime Video)
Film (2025). Alison Brie and Dave Franco are magnetic in this Australian-made supernatural body horror.
Longtime couple Tim and Millie find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country, abandoning everything except each other. While tensions begin to flair, an encounter with a nightmarish and unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love and their flesh. Read ScreenHub’s review.
Beast of War – 1 March (Netflix)
Film (2025). This new World War II-set Australian horror from director Kiah Roache-Turner (Wyrmwood, Wyrmwood: Apocalypse) is a solid entry to the legacy of B-grade shark-attack movies.
When their boat sinks while crossing the Timor Sea during World War II, a troop of young Aussie soldiers must find a way to survive the harsh seas on a quickly shrinking raft. Hundreds of miles from anywhere, they must confront interpersonal conflicts, enemy attacks, and the advances of one very large, very hungry great white shark.
Starring Mark Coles Smith (Mystery Road, Mystery Road: Origin), Lee Halley (Boy Swallows Universe), Sam Delich (Last Days of the Space Age, Ten Pound Poms) and Joel Nankervis. Watch the trailer.
