MOUNTAINHEAD
| First on Showmax | Stream from Sunday, 1 June
Four friends. $371 billion net worth. One international crisis. Zero responsibility.
Among The Wrap’s Most Anticipated Movies of Summer 2025, Mountainhead is the feature film directorial debut of seven-time Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession.
The all-star cast of billionaire tech bros includes Emmy nominees Steve Carell and Ramy Youssef, Critics Choice nominee Cory Michael Smith and multi-award winner Jason Schwartzman.
Mountainhead has an 87% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In their four-star review, Independent hails the timely film as “an exquisite modern satire” where “all the performances are entirely credible and entirely terrifying.”
PROBLEMISTA
| Stream on Showmax from Thursday, 5 June
Problemista centres on Alejandro, an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador who’s struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time runs out on his work visa, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realise his dream.
Problemista is the feature debut of writer, director and star Julio Torres, a Peabody Award winner for Los Espookys and multiple Emmy nominee for his writing on Saturday Night Live.
The stacked cast includes Oscar winner Tilda Swinton and Emmy nominees RZA and Greta Lee (Past Lives, Russian Doll, The Morning Show). Oscar nominee Isabella Rossellini (Conclave) narrates.
Problemista has an 86% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, where it was the second best-reviewed fantasy movie of 2024. The surreal film won Unsung Film of the Year at the 2025 GALECA Dorian Awards, and was nominated at the Queerties, the GLAAD Media awards and the Film Independent Spirit Awards, where Torres was up for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay.
ALL THAT BREATHES
| Stream on Showmax from Thursday, 5 June
Nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, All That Breathes follows two Muslim brothers who devote their lives to protecting the black kite, a majestic bird of prey that is essential to the ecosystem of New Delhi, and has been falling from the sky at alarming rates. Amid environmental toxicity and social unrest, the “kite brothers” spend day and night caring for the birds in their makeshift basement hospital.
An award winner at Cannes, Cinema Eye, Jackson Wild, Sundance, and The International Documentary Association Awards, All That Breathes has a 99% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with The Los Angeles Times hailing it as “extraordinary… maybe the most beautifully realized documentary in recent memory.”
As NPR says, “In an age when we’re constantly reminded of all that’s bad, All That Breathes celebrates good things it’s easy to forget: the wonder of life, the virtues of compassion and the human capacity to make the world better.”
MY PENGUIN FRIEND
| Stream on Showmax from Sunday, 8 June
A sweeping family adventure, My Penguin Friend is a triumphant tale of friendship between a lonely father and a little lost penguin. Inspired by an incredible true story, My Penguin Friend introduces us to DinDim, a penguin rescued from an oil spill, who transforms the life of a heartbroken fisherman. They soon become unlikely friends, so bonded that even the vast ocean cannot divide them.
French star Jean Reno (The Professional) leads the cast, alongside Oscar nominee Adriana Barraza (Blue Beetle, Dora and the Lost City of Gold), who won the Actress Award for Film (Latino Cinema & Television) at the 2024 Critics Choice Awards Celebration of Cinema & Television for her role here.
My Penguin Friend has an 86% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes. “There’s something radical about the old-fashioned approach of My Penguin Friend,” says RogerEbert.com. “It’s an earnest, crowd-pleasing family film – nothing snarky or self-referential, no on-the-nose needle drops – just a sweet, beautifully made movie that earns the emotion it’ll surely draw from its viewers.”
My Penguin Friend is directed by award-winning Brazilian filmmaker, explorer and environmental advocate David Schurmann and filmed by Oscar-winning cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire).
SPEAK NO EVIL
| Stream on Showmax from Monday, 9 June
When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare.
From Blumhouse (Get Out), Speak No Evil was nominated for Best Thriller Film of 2025 from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.
BAFTA winner James McAvoy (Glass, His Dark Materials) leads the cast, which also includes Tribeca winner Mackenzie Davis (Terminator: Dark Fate), Scoot McNairy (Argo), and Aisling Franciosi (Game of Thrones.
Speak No Evil has an 83% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes, with Screen Rant hailing it as “one of 2024’s best horror movies.”
LONGLEGS
| Stream on Showmax from Thursday, 12 June
Longlegs follows FBI agent Lee Harker, whose pursuit of a serial killer uncovers a series of occult clues she must solve to end his terrifying killing spree.
Scream queen Maika Monroe (It Follows) stars as Lee, with Oscar winner Nicolas Cage as the villain.
The highest-grossing independent movie of 2024, Longlegs has an 86% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, where it was named it the #5 Best Horror Movie of 2024.
At the 2025 Saturn Awards from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, writer-director Osgood Perkins won Best Screenwriting, with Longlegs also nominated for Best Horror Film and Best Supporting Actor (Cage).
AV Club says, “Longlegs will have you squirming – a triumph of tension and tone and pure nightmare fuel.”
WICKED
| First on Showmax | Stream from Friday, 13 June
Everyone deserves the chance to fly…
After two decades as one of the world’s most beloved and enduring stage musicals, Wicked became the #5 biggest box office movie of 2024, and the highest-grossing musical film adaptation of all time. The untold story of the witches of Oz was nominated for 10 Oscars this year, including Motion Picture of the Year, winning Best Costume Design and Production Design, as well as more than 100 other awards.
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande were both nominated for Oscars, as Best Actress and Supporting Actress respectively. Erivo plays Elphaba, a young woman misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power, while Grande plays her fellow wizarding student, Glinda. Also look out for Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh, Emmy nominee Jonathan Bailey, and Oscar nominee Jeff Goldblum as the legendary Wizard of Oz himself.
Wall Street Journal hailed Wicked as “the most entertaining film of the year.” Part 2 is expected later this year.
HOW DO YOU MEASURE A YEAR?
| Stream on Showmax from Father’s Day, Sunday, 15 June
For 17 years, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt (When We Were Bullies) filmed his daughter Ella on her birthday in the same spot, asking her the same questions.
In just 29 minutes, we watch her grow from a toddler to a young woman with all the beautiful and sometimes awkward stages in between. Each phase is captured fleetingly but makes an indelible mark. Her responses to her father’s questions are just a backdrop for a deeper story of parental love, acceptance, and ultimately, independence.
How Do You Measure A Year? was nominated for the Best Documentary Short Film Oscar in 2023 and has a 100% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Decider hails it as “so very bitter and so very sweet … essential viewing.”
STING
| Stream on Showmax from Thursday, 19 June
Rebellious 12-year-old Charlotte finds a baby spider and keeps it as a secret pet, naming it Sting. But as Charlotte’s fascination with Sting increases, so does its size and appetite…
From award-winning Australian horror director Kiah Roache-Turner, Sting stars Critics Choice nominee Alyla Browne (aka young Furiosa) and a giant spider created by New Zealand practical effects gurus Wētā Workshop, who worked on The Lord of the Rings films and The Hobbit.
Sting won Best International Film at last year’s Golden Scythe Horror Awards. The Guardian calls the film a “spider horror with plenty of bite”, a “fun-filled terror yarn”, and a “taut shocker.”
JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS
Part Two | Stream on Showmax from Sunday, 22 June
Part Three | Stream on Showmax from Sunday, 29 June
DC’s animated Justice League trilogy Crisis on Infinite Earths is based on the legendary 1985-86 crossover comic book series by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez.
In Part Two, the Anti-Monitor (Ato Essandoh from X-Men: Dark Phoenix) is released into the DC Multiverse. When he begins to destroy the different Earths that compose it, the Monitor (Jonathan Adams, who voiced Ronan the Accuser in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy series) must recruit heroes from across the Multiverse to fight back.
People’s Choice winner Jensen Ackles (Supernatural) and Emmy winner Darren Criss (Glee) voice Batman and Superman, with Emmy nominees Matt Bomer (Doom Patrol), Jimmi Simpson (Westworld), and Alexandra Daddario (The White Lotus) as Flash, Green Arrow, and Lois Lane. Also listen out for People’s Choice winner Stana Katic (Castle) as Wonder Woman and
Mark Hamill (aka Luke Skywalker) in his final turn as the voice of the Justice League’s Joker.
GOODRICH
| Stream on Showmax from Monday, 23 June
Goodrich centres on 60-year-old LA art dealer Andy Goodrich, whose life is upended when his second wife checks herself into a 90-day rehab programme, leaving him to care for their nine-year-old twins. Thrust into the world of modern parenthood, Goodrich leans on his daughter from his first marriage, Grace, as he learns to become the father she never had.
Oscar nominee Michael Keaton and Golden Globe nominee Mila Kunis co-star as Andy and Grace.
Goodrich has an 81% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with Deadline calling this “heartfelt, funny and sweet” as well as “exceptionally smart and endearing,” warning there’ll be “no dry eyes in the house for this one.”
MAGPIE
| Stream on Showmax from Monday, 23 June
Magpie follows married couple Anette and Ben, whose lives begin to fracture when their daughter is cast alongside a glamorous movie star, Alicia. As Anette’s suspicions about Ben’s infatuation with Alicia intensify, their secrets and lies threaten to destroy them all.
Daisy Ridley (aka Star Wars’ Rey) stars opposite Shazad Latif (Star Trek: Discovery), with Fright Meter Award nominee Matilda Lutz (Rings, Reptile) as Alicia.
Adapted by Ridley’s husband Tom Bateman from her story, Magpie has an 83% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with Collider hailing the stylish neo-noir thriller as “completely and utterly terrific… Daisy Ridley at her best.”
THE STROLL
| Stream on Showmax from Thursday, 26 June
When director Kristen Lovell moved to New York City in the 1990s and began to transition, she was fired from her job. With so few options to earn money to survive, Kristen, like many transgender women of colour during this era, began sex work in an area known as “The Stroll” in the Meatpacking District of lower Manhattan.
In The Stroll, Kristen and co-director Zackary Drucker trace the history of transgender sex workers there, from the 1970s to the early 2000s. Sharing her own firsthand experiences, Kristen reunites with her sisters to illustrate how trans women protected each other from the violence, harassment, policing, and gentrification that led to a movement for transgender rights.
The Stroll won the 2024 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary and Best TV Documentary or Mini-Series from the International Documentary Association, as well as prizes at Sundance and Cinema Eye.
The HBO documentary has a 95% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Variety calls the “personal, archive-driven doc” “a wonder”, “poignant” and “thrillingly revisionist” – “a powerful piece of trans history-making, a document that feels wounded, lived in, and yet joyfully alive.”
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 3
| First on Showmax | Stream from Friday, 27 June
The #10 biggest box office hit of 2024, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 returns the world’s fastest, bluest, most beloved hedgehog to our screens in his most thrilling adventure yet.
This time, Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. With their abilities outmatched in every way, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance in hopes of stopping Shadow and protecting the planet.
The movie has an 85% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics’ consensus says, “With a double helping of Jim Carrey’s antics and a quicksilver pace befitting its hero, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is the best entry in this amiable series yet.”
Ben Schwartz, Idris Elba and Keanu Reeves voice Sonic, Knuckles and Shadow respectively, with Jim Carrey back in his Critics Choice Super Award-winning role as Dr Ivo Robotnik (and another surprise character too).
CLASSICS ON THE COUCH
Showmax is also bringing back a host of classics this June, including:
- The Oscar-winning Batman classic The Dark Night – IMDb’s 3rd highest-rated movie of all time – and its BAFTA-nominated sequel, The Dark Night Rises (both from 19 June), not to mention the Oscar-nominated Batman Begins (from 26 June)
- Comedy We’re the Millers, which won Emma Roberts a Teen Choice Award opposite Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis (from 5 June)
- Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz in the Oscar-nominated comedy The Mask (from 2 June)
