The Best Movies Coming To Streaming In March 'Creed', 'Top Gun: Maverick'
NETFLIX
1. Dragged Across Concrete - 82/100
Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.
This is from one of my favorite directors, S. Craig Zahler, who also made Brawl in Cell Block 99 and Bone Tomahawk. It's gritty, has some great dialogue and really tense standoff scenes just like both of those other movies. More than worth a watch.
2. The Riddick Franchise
I may be in the minority here but I really love the first two Riddick movies. The first one has a cool, intimate feel and awesome scifi-horror creature design. The second is way more expansive and more pure action but has really cool scenes and great lore. The Necromongers rock.
3. Chris Rock: Selective Outrage
See Chris Rock as you’ve never seen him before- streaming LIVE on Netflix. No edits. No cuts. Chris Rock: Selective Outrage. A Global LIVE Event on Netflix, March 4th.
Chris Rock is awesome and I'm intrigued by the idea of a live show from Netflix. I'm sold.
March 1st: Big Daddy, Easy A, Magic Mike 2, Animal House, Rango, 7 Years in Tibet, Sleepless in Seattle, The Hangover Trilogy, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
March 4th: Chris Rock: Selective Outrage (Netflix's first ever live production)
March 7th: World War Z
March 10th: Luther: The Fallen Sun, Nike Training Club Specials (apparently just a bunch of different workout courses if you're into that)
March 14th: Bert Kreischer: Razzle Dazzle
March 16th: Dragged Across Concrete, The Riddick Franchise
March 31st: Murder Mystery 2
LEAVING NETFLIX
March 1st: Air Force One, Apocalypse Now, Coach Carter, Margin Call, Pineapple Express, Shutter Island, Sorry To Bother You, The Conjuring, The Gift, Walking Tall
March 15th: Arrested Development, The Last Blockbuster
HBO MAX
1. Succession S4
The sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson moves ever closer. The prospect of this seismic sale provokes existential angst and familial division among the Roys as they anticipate what their lives will look like once the deal is completed
The 4th and final season starts up at the end of the month. Honestly, I'm happy it's ending. You can't have a show called 'Succession' air this long without someone finally succeeding Logan Roy as headman of Waystar Royco.
2. Creed - 92/100
The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.
This movie had no right being as awesome as it was. A late sequel in a franchise that was already stretched thin by bad follow up movies. Creed III comes out this week and it should be an IMAX watch for anybody who is into good sports movies.
3. I Love You Man - 86/100
Peter Klaven is a successful real estate agent who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey, discovers, to his dismay and chagrin, that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his Best Man. Peter immediately sets out to rectify the situation, embarking on a series of bizarre and awkward "man-dates."
I feel like both this and another Paul Rudd movie, 'Role Models', kinda got lost in the Apatow era of comedy movies. Both are incredible and this has some of my favorite gags ever from a recent comedy. s
March 1st: Night at the Museum 2, Bloodsport, Cobra, Creed 1 & 2, The Expendables, I Love You Man, Milk, Rocknrolla, Selena, Spawn, This is the End, Vampire in Brooklyn
March 6th: Perry Mason S2
March 26th: Succession S4
LEAVING HBO
March 22nd: The Suicide Squad
March 31st: 3:10 to Yuma, American Hustle, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Beerfest, Before trilogy, Black Hawk Down, The Campaign, Chappelle's Show, Dances with Wolves, Deep Impact, The Dirty Dozen, Hoosiers, Jumper, Kick-Ass, Matilda, Moon, My Cousin Vinny, Mystic River, Popstar, Rain Man, The Break Up,
HULU
1. Commando - 81/100
John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, one of his former commandos, and a fully equipped private army. With the help of a feisty stewardess and an old friend, Matrix has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge: finding his daughter before she's killed.
Commando is one of my favorite Arnold movies ever made. It's ridiculous, over-the-top and features maybe the greatest string of non-stop one liners ever. That is an impressive feat for an 80s movie.
2. L.A. Confidential - 95/100
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
This movie has an awesome cast at the top of their respective games just crushing an awesome police story. It is one of the easiest movies to recommend on this whole blog.
3. History of the World Part 1
Finally, a sequel to the seminal Mel Brooks film, HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART I, with each episode featuring a variety of sketches that take us through different periods of human history.
History of the World Part I is one of my favorite Mel Brooks comedies so I am excited to see him get a chance to make a new entry. I don't think this trailer did it any favors, but Brooks made it so I will give it the benefit of the doubt.
March 1st: 30 Days of Night, Anastasia, Another Earth, As Good as it Gets, Commando, The Departed, The Expendables, Glory, Groundhog Day, Kicking and Screaming, LA Confidential, Love and Basketball, Rio, The Shape of Water, Sixteen Candles, That Thing You Do!, The Town, Unstoppable,
March 3rd: Triangle of Sadness, Waiting
March 6th: History of the World, Part II (a follow up series to the incredible Mel Brooks movie), Mob Psycho 100 Season 3
March 17th: Boston Strangler (new true crime movie)
March 28th: Attack on Titan: The Final Season - Part II
LEAVING HULU
March 14th: Europa Report, Love Simon
March 25th: Blade Runner: The Final Cut
March 30th: Zack and Miri Make a Porno
March 31st: The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Breakfast Club, Couples Retreat, Dantes Peak, Empire Records, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Gamer, Happy Gilmore, He's Just Not That Into You, Heat, The King of Comedy, The Mummy 1-3, Pearl Harbor, The Prestige, Real Steel, SWAT, Spider-man 1-3, Superbad, Training Day, Zombieland
AMAZON PRIME
1. Top Gun: Maverick - 94/100
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.
I'm sure that every person reading this already watched it so I don't need to pitch you.
2. Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - 94/100
A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
Creed III is hitting theaters and there is no better time to catch up on the previous two. The first one in-particular is still so incredible to watch.
3. Nope - 91/100
Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.
It doesn't hit the heights of Get Out but it is still tense with great creature design and really good tension. One of my favorite of last year.
March 1st: 12 Angry Men, American Gangster, Barbershop, Being John Malkovich, Big Daddy, Capote, Carrie, Cinderella Man, Cloverfield, Creed 1 & 2, Dazed and Confused, Detroit, Good Will Hunting, Internal Affairs, Leaving Las Vegas, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Lost in Translation, Margin Call, Midnight Cowboy, Once Upon a Time in the West, Ordinary People, Paths of Glory, Pulp Fiction, Rocky 1-5, Sahara, Scent of a Woman, Super 8, The Machinist, Vanilla Sky, Your Highness
March 10th: Jackass Forever
March 21st: Nope
March 24th: Top Gun: Maverick
LEAVING PRIME VIDEO: Not disclosed yet.