Lockdown and tune in to all the juicy new shows and films heading to Neon this May. Fans of horror, skateboarding, money, Mark Ruffalo, The Favourite, and real-life embezzlement scandals will want to pay close attention to this month’s highlights.
I Know this Much is True
The show was originally due in April but delays saw it pushed back a few weeks.
Mark Ruffalo co-stars with Mark Ruffalo as twins in this limited series from the writer-director of The Place Beyond the Pines. Told in six parts, the story follows one brother’s attempt to get the other – a paranoid schizophrenic – out of the asylum. Co-stars Imogen Poots (Green Room), Kathryn Hahn (Bad Moms) and Academy Award winner Melissa Leo (The Fighter).
Streaming on Neon from 11 May
The Great: Season 1
From the Oscar-nominated co-writer of The Favourite comes this anti-historical satire starring Elle Fanning as Catherine the Great, Russia’s longest-reigning female ruler, and Nicholas Hoult as the maniacal and seemingly idiotic Emperor Peter, whose arranged marriage to Catherine changes the sunny girl into an edgier woman fighting for change.
Streaming on Neon from 18 May
Midsommar: The Director’s Cut
Filmmaker Ari Aster (Hereditary) released a longer, more messed-up director’s cut to one of the Flicks-certified best films of 2019. Here’s a slice of what Aaron Yap had to say about the original theatrical version: “Apart from an opening murder-suicide that harkens back to Hereditary’s gruesome family tragedy, the film operates as a fascinating tonal inverse, swapping dread-filled chamber-drama turmoils for sun-kissed, at times goofy, creepiness.”
Streaming on Neon from 13 May
Betty: Season 1
Sundance-winning director Crystal Moselle expands her festival hit film Skate Kitchen (described as “Kids meets Girls” by IndieWire) into an HBO series, continuing to profile a diverse group of young women in the New York skateboarding scene.
Streaming on Neon from 2 May
Bad Education
Academy Award nominee Hugh Jackman, Oscar winner Allison Janney (I, Tonya), Geraldine Viswanathan (Blockers) and Golden Globe nominee Ray Romano (The Big Sick) star in this true story of a prestigious school and the student who exposed a large embezzlement scandal.
Streaming on Neon from 3 May
Billions: Season 5
Golden Globe winner Damien Lewis and Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti return to the Showtime power-hungry drama as bitter rivals Alexrod and Rhoades alongside new threats—a social impact pioneer (Corey Stoll, House of Cards) and a district attorney (Roma Maffia, Pretty Little Liars).
Streaming on Neon from 4 May
Everything coming to Neon this month…
May 2
Betty: Season 1
May 3
Bad Education
May 4
Billions: Season 1
Blue Planet: Season 2
Frozen Planet: Season 1
Natural World: Attenborough’s Wonder of Eggs
Humpback Whales: A Detective Story
Natural World: Nature’s Miniature Miracles
8 Days to the Moon and Back
Rituals
Snow Wolf Family and Me
Spy in the Snow
Zoo Quest
Earth’s Great Rivers
Earth’s Sacred Wonders
From Ice to Fire – The Incredible Science of Temperature
Seinfeld: Season 1 – 9
May 5
iZombie: Season 5
May 6
Shaun of the Dead
May 7
Free Birds
Annabelle Comes Home
May 9
Six Feet Under: Season 1 – 5
Canadian Strain
The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir
May 11
I Know This Much is True: Season 1
Curfew: Season 1
Deadman Standing
May 13
Jurassic World
Midsommar: Director’s Cut
May 14
Late Night
May 17
Looking: Season 1 – 2
Looking: The Movie
Acquainted
May 18
The Great: Season 1
May 19
Don’t Kill It
Mr Bean’s Holiday
May 20
Edge of Tomorrow
May 22
Trading Paint
May 23
Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus – Season 1 & 2
Dwight in Shining Armor: Season 3
Running with the Devil
May 24
An Affair to Die For
Angel Has Fallen
Trainwreck
The Humanity Bureau
May 26
Snakes on a Plane
Spy Kids 4
May 27
Minions
May 28
Crashing: Season 1 – 3
Anna
May 30
Bull: Season 4
May 31
Earth to Echo
The Stolen Princess
