March is where winter at the multiplex finally ends. After a rough few months, the AV Club calls spring’s opening stretch the point where summer starts early, with a monster musical, a Pixar adventure and a Ryan Gosling space movie all arriving within weeks. On the small screen, the month belongs to music: BTS return on Netflix, the Oscars hand out their song and score awards, and Netflix drops a Red Hot Chili Peppers documentary.
We picked eight releases from the guides at the AV Club, Tom’s Guide and Rotten Tomatoes, in release order. Dates are U.S.
The Bride! (cinemas, March 6): Maggie Gyllenhaal’s monster musical
The AV Club describes Gyllenhaal’s follow-up to The Lost Daughter as maybe the strangest and most lavish take on Frankenstein yet. In her version, the Monster (Christian Bale) doesn’t kill his Bride (Jessie Buckley); the two go on the run in a Bonnie and Clyde-style musical adventure, with Annette Bening, Penélope Cruz and Jake Gyllenhaal in the supporting cast.
Hoppers (cinemas, March 6): Pixar goes full Avatar with a beaver
Pixar’s first film of the year borrows from Pandora, per the AV Club: after her biology teacher (Kathy Najimy) invents a device that puts human consciousness into a robot animal, 19-year-old science whiz Mabel (Piper Curda) becomes a fake beaver to talk to the animals, and accidentally starts a war against the deforesting humans, led by Jon Hamm.
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (cinemas March 6, Netflix March 20): Tommy at war
Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby comes out of exile in 1940 Birmingham as World War II tears the city apart, in a feature-length adventure directed by Tom Harper from a Steven Knight script. TheWrap says the film gets a limited theatrical run before its global Netflix premiere. Sophie Rundle, Stephen Graham, Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Roth and Barry Keoghan are in it, and Murphy told Tudum:
It seems like Tommy Shelby wasn’t finished with me
Cillian Murphy, TheWrap, quoting Tudum
The 98th Academy Awards (ABC, March 15): Sinners against One Battle After Another
Sinners goes in with a record 16 nominations, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another has 13, which sets up a two-film race for Best Picture. The music categories are stacked too: “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters is up for Best Original Song against “I Lied to You” from Sinners. We covered the night as it happened: the Best Picture result and the song and score wins.
Project Hail Mary (cinemas, March 20): Ryan Gosling in space
Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller from Andy Weir’s novel, the film sends a science teacher (Gosling) to space with no memory of how he got there. He wakes up light-years from Earth with a mission to find a cure for humanity’s demise, and strikes up an unexpected friendship with an alien, the AV Club says. It is part of Amazon MGM’s push into theatrical releases; we have how it opened.
The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel (Netflix, March 20): the origin story the band didn’t sign off on
Director Ben Feldman’s documentary rewinds to the childhoods of Anthony Kiedis, Flea and Hillel Slovak, the founding guitarist who died of a heroin overdose in 1988 at 26, and includes interviews with Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante, Jack Irons and George Clinton, per What’s on Netflix. The band has distanced itself from the film, according to Radio X. In a statement, they said they agreed to interviews out of respect for Slovak but:
We had nothing to do with it creatively. We have yet to make a Red Hot Chili Peppers documentary.
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radio X
BTS The Comeback Live | Arirang (Netflix, March 21) and BTS: The Return (March 27)
The biggest music event of the month is a livestream. Netflix will carry BTS’ comeback concert from Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul live at 4 a.m. PT, a day after the Arirang album arrives, in what Deadline calls the first live event broadcast from Korea to be streamed globally. Hamish Hamilton directs. Six days later comes BTS: The Return, a documentary from Bao Nguyen (The Greatest Night in Pop) that follows the group’s reunion after nearly four years apart. The tour kicks off April 9. Read how the livestream performed.
Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 (Disney+, March 24): Fisk runs the city
Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock returns as Mayor Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) crushes New York and hunts the vigilante, Tom’s Guide says. Krysten Ritter’s Jessica Jones joins the cast and Matthew Lillard plays the mysterious Mr. Charles. Rotten Tomatoes singles it out as a March highlight.
Also this month
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, in which Samara Weaving’s Grace is hunted by rival families, is in cinemas March 20, and Kirill Sokolov’s They Will Kill You, with Zazie Beetz, follows on March 27, the AV Club says. Netflix’s limited horror series Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen starts March 26, per Tom’s Guide, while Prime Video has Deadloch Season 2 and Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat on March 20.
- Cinemas
- *The Bride!* and *Hoppers* (March 6), *Project Hail Mary* and *Ready or Not 2* (March 20), *They Will Kill You* (March 27)
- Streaming
- *Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man* and *Our Brother, Hillel* (Netflix, March 20), *BTS The Comeback Live* (Netflix, March 21), *Daredevil: Born Again* (Disney+, March 24), *BTS: The Return* (Netflix, March 27)
- Awards
- The 98th Academy Awards, March 15 on ABC
Sources
- AV Club (the March film preview) ↗
- Tom’s Guide (the March streaming calendar) ↗
- Rotten Tomatoes (March streaming guide) ↗
- What’s on Netflix (the Red Hot Chili Peppers documentary) ↗
- Radio X (the band’s statement) ↗
- TheWrap (Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man) ↗
- Deadline (BTS on Netflix) ↗
- Marvel Entertainment (Daredevil: Born Again Season 2) ↗
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