This week’s cinema releases include an excellent dystopian South Australian film, Jodie Foster’s French adventure, the new Guy Richie film with serious star power, an new Australian drama about escaping a coercive controlling home, Anne Hathaway in a supernatural comeback, a horror about a wish that goes very wrong, and the story of the 2010 Pike River Mine explosion.
Also, the German Film Festival continues, more information about the festival is available here: The 2026 HSBC German Film Festival returns to cinemas in May
Read the Glam Adelaide story about the festival here: 2026 HSBC German Film Festival begins 6 May to 27 May at Palace Nova Cinemas – Glam Adelaide
Refer to your local cinema for session times and dates.
New releases include the below.
The Run
Rated CTC
Distributor: Rialto Distribution
Synopsis: The near future. A plague has ravaged the land, anarchy reigns, everyone’s on the run. Mac does delivery runs for an unseen manipulator. Aliah seizes her baby and runs for sanctuary. This stylish thriller from local director Stephen de Villiers uses SA locations as an appropriately harsh backdrop for white-knuckle suspense.
Read Glam Adelaide’s 4 out of 5 review: Glam Adelaide Review – The Run
A Private Life
Rated M
Distributor: Sony Pictures
Synopsis: Renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner (Jodie Foster in a kinetic performance) is deeply troubled by the sudden death of one of her patients. Convinced that it was murder, she decides to investigate.
Read Tracey Korsten’s 4 out of 5 review: Glam Adelaide Review – A Private Life
In the Grey
Rated MA15+
Distributor: Black Bear
Synopsis: In The Grey follows a covert team of elite operatives who live in the global shadows, as comfortable wielding power and influence as they are automatic weapons and high explosives. When a ruthless despot steals a billion-dollar fortune, the team is sent to steal it back on what would be for anyone else a suicide mission. What begins as an impossible heist gets much worse, spiraling into an all-out war of strategy, deception and survival.
Life Could Be a Dream
Rated MA15+
Distributor: Maslow Entertainment
Synopsis: Sarah, a forty-year-old woman, is standing at the threshold of a life she’s never lived. As she and her teenage son Otis navigate their way toward freedom, they must confront both external threats and the mythology Sarah has held about rescue and relationships. Finding temporary sanctuary in a luxurious mansion she’s been tasked with selling, Sarah begins to imagine a different future, one defined by choice rather than fear. This is a story about breaking cycles: a mother trying to model strength for her son while learning, herself, what it means to let go and begin again. At its heart lies the fierce and fragile bond between Sarah and Otis as they redefine their relationship and discover what liberation can look like.
Mother Mary
Rated MA15+
Distributor: A24
Synopsis: Long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer, Sam Anselm, on the eve of her comeback performance.
Obsession
Rated MA15+
Distributor: Focus Features
Synopsis: After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.
Pike River
Rated MA15+
Distributor: Madman Films
Synopsis: Three-time Emmy nominee Melanie Lynskey (Yellow Jackets, The Last of Us) and acclaimed NZ actress Robyn Malcolm (Top of the Lake, After the Party) star as Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse; two ordinary women who lost their loved ones in the 2010 Pike River Mine explosion, and become leading voices in the families’ fight for truth and accountability.
