Best new & recent films – quick links
BTS: The return – 27 March (Netflix)
Documentary (2026). They’re back! This intimate documentary film offers fans a rare behind-the-scenes look at the K-pop supergroup’s highly anticipated return after the members completed their military service.
Offering unprecedented access to the band as they enter a new era, the film follows BTS as they gather in LA to record their album, ARIRANG.
Eddington – 26 March (Binge)
Film (2025). Hereditary director Ari Aster muses on our apocalyptic times in this satirical neo-Western thriller set during the 2020 pandemic, where escalating political tensions pit a sheriff against the town’s mayor in a spiralling contest of ideology and power.
Starring Pedro Pascal, Joaquin Pheonix, Emma Stone, Austin Butler and Luke Grimes. Read ScreenHub’s glowing review.
Whale Shark Jack – 2 April (Stan)
Film (2026). A heartwarming adventure about family, friendship, the natural world and moving forward when all hope seems lost.
Set on and around the breathtaking Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia, Whale Shark Jack stars Abbie Cornish (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri) and Michael Dorman (Territory) as husband and wife marine biologists, and Alyla Browne (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga) as their daughter.
Whale Shark Jack follows the family’s idyllic life on their research catamaran, where together they follow the migratory path of the biggest fish in the ocean – the majestic whale sharks.
Sarah, who has been raised on the sea, is fearless and embarks on adventures with her only friend, Jack, an endangered whale shark she rescued as a pup, forming an unbreakable bond.
ScreenHub: Whale Shark Jack review: Aussie kids movie ventures to Ningaloo
48 Hours: Escape From Chernobyl – 8 April (SBS On Demand)
Documentary. 48 Hours: Escape from Chernobyl examines the worst nuclear disaster in human history and one of the most impactful global events of the twentieth century.
By focusing on the initial 48-hour period that followed the explosion of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant on 26th April 1986, a period during which the Soviet state attempted to hide the scale of the tragedy from the world, we tell the largely unknown story of the first responders, nuclear scientists and every day citizens of the nearby town of Pripyat, as they tried to contain the unfolding nuclear meltdown.
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.
Pretty Lethal – 25 March (Prime Video)
Film (2026). In this action-packed thriller, five ballerinas on their way to a prestigious dance competition are barely on speaking terms when their bus breaks down in a remote forest.
With no other options, they reluctantly seek shelter at an unsettling roadside inn run by Devora Kasimer (Uma Thurman), a reclusive former ballet prodigy. From the moment they arrive, something feels wrong – and their worst instincts prove right. As the situation turns deadly, the fractured team must set aside rivalries and weaponise years of brutal training, turning grace, discipline and even pointe shoes into tools for survival.
Pretty Lethal stars Iris Apatow, Lana Condor, Millicent Simmonds, Avantika, Maddie Ziegler, Michael Culkin, Lydia Leonard and Uma Thurm
