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Netflix has a bumper crop of top-quality fresh entertainment heading your way next month - along with a real stinker.
Guy Ritchie's highly-anticipated and really rather good-looking new TV series The Gentlemen drops in March. This spin-off of the Matthew McConaughey-starring film from 2019 sees Ray Winstone play Bobby Glass, an East End career criminal who has fought tooth and nail to build an industrial cannabis empire.
The eight-part saga follows criminal mastermind Eddie Horniman (Theo James), who inherits his father’s country estate and duly finds out it’s part of a covert cannabis operation. And not only that, it's also one that a lot of questionable characters would gladly take off his hands.
An all-star cast also includes Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Giancarlo Esposito, Chanel Cresswell, Michael Vu, Max Beesley, Jasmine Blackborow, Harry Goodwins, Dar Salim, Pearce Quigley, Ruby Sear and Peter Serafinowicz.
Ritchie is the creator, co-writer and executive producer of The Gentlemen, and also directed the first two episodes. With a string of top-grossing blockbusters to his name, including Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch and Sherlock Holmes, hopes are certainly high for the new series.
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Elsewhere we have the beautifully dark, twisted fantasy Damsel, which sees Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown take centre stage as the titular lead who agrees to an arranged marriage with a handsome prince. But things take a sinister turn when she learns the royal family only recruited her as a sacrifice to pay off an ancient debt.
And that's where the clichéd fantasy premise stops, with the seemingly ho-hum princess and dragon story being spectacularly turned on its head with a rip-roaring, genre-defying plot that takes more twists and turns than a snake with an itch.
Also dropping on Netflix next month is Keanu Reeves' inexplicably awful The Matrix Resurrections. With a lowly 5.7 rating on IMDB, the fourth film in the sci-fi franchise spectacularly lacked any of the original's inspired spark and stellar ingenuity. User RIK-22 summed it up neatly, calling it a 'rushed clumsy B-movie'.
Let's take a look at what Netflix has lined up for next month:
Full list of what's coming to Netflix in March
March 1
- Aníkúlápó: Rise of the Spectre (Limited Series) - Yoruba-language fantasy drama.
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Multiple Seasons) - Popular procedural crime drama series featuring Ted Danson, George Eads, Eric Szmanda, and Robert David Hall.
Captive State (2019) - Sci-Fi horror set in Chicago ten years after extraterrestrial forces have occupied a neighbourhood.
- Crashing Eid (Season 1) - Arabic comedy series.
- Furies (Season 1) - French crime-drama revolving around a woman seeking revenge after her mother's death becomes intertwined with the criminal underworld of Paris.
- Maamla Legal Hai (Season 1) - Hindi-language comedy series.
- My Name Is Loh Kiwan (2024) - South Korean drama tracing the journey of North Korean refugee Loh Kiwan in Belgium, who encounters a woman devoid of hope.
- The Pig, the Snake, and the Pigeon - Comedy thriller starring Ethan Ruan as a gangster who finds out he is merely the third most wanted in Taiwan.
- Spaceman (2024) - Adam Sandler stars as Jakub Procházka, the first Czech astronaut on a mission to Venus who risks losing his family after prioritising scientific ambition over his home life.
March 3
- The Netflix Slam (2024) – Live Tennis exhibition between legend of the game Rafael Nadal and world no. 2 Carlos Alcaraz.
March 4
- Hot Wheels Let’s Race (Season 1) – Popular children's animation series based on the world’s much-loved toy car brand.
March 5
- Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda (2024) – Stand-Up comedy special.
- The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping (Limited Series) – Crime docuseries documents the life of an abuse survivor at a disciplinary school.
March 6
- Supersex (Season 1) – Italian biographical comedy series charting the life of one of the world’s most famous pornographic actors - Rocco Siffred.
March 7
- The Gentlemen (Season 1) – Eagerly anticipated Guy Ritchie series, which sees Eddie Halstead inherit his dad's massive estate, only to find out that it’s home to the country’s largest illegal marijuana farm.
- The Monuments Men (2014) – Second World War comedy featuring an all-star cast of Hollywood’s leading men as an unlikely platoon tasked with recovering art and other masterpieces from the Germans.
- The Signal (Limited Series) – German sci-fi drama concerning a female astronaut fighting to get back home while her husband and child on Earth investigate her mysterious disappearance.
March 8
- Damsel (2024) – Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown stars as Elodie, who weds the perfect prince, only to learn she is the sacrifice to appease a bloodthirsty dragon. A genre-defying tale that will keep you guessing.
- Infinite Storm (2022) – A pair of mountain climbers battle against the elements as they attempt to get down from their conquest before nightfall.
March 9
- The Matrix Resurrections (2021) – Keanu Reeves returns as Thomas Anderson - better known as Neo - who once again must vebture down the rabbit hole.
March 13
- Bandidos (Season 1) – Mexican drama follows a team of treasure hunters trying to pull off a heist on the coast of Mexico where the shipwreck of a Spanish galleon contains long-lost treasure.
March 15
Chicken Nugget (Season 1) - South Korean comedy series following the owner of a fried chicken shop and his intern as they endeavour to reverse his daughter's transformation into a chicken nugget after an accident with a mysterious machine. Based on a true story (not really).
Murder Mubarak (Season 1) - Hindi-language comedy horror series.
March 21
- 3 Body Problem (Season 1) – Inventive sci-fi series that heralds the return of Game of Thrones creators Dan Weiss and Dan Benioff with the first English adaptation of Liu Cixin’s beloved fantasy drama novel.
March 22
- The Casagrandes Movie (2024) – Animated comedy feature of Nickleodeon’s hugely popular animated family, which sees a holiday to Mexico derail Ronnie Anne’s birthday plans.
March 27
- The Believers (Season 1) – Thai crime drama about a trio of ambitious entrepreneurs finding it nigh-on impossible to pay their way out of colossal debt from their failed start-up. However they chance upon a money-making opportunity to exploit people’s religious beliefs.
March 29
- The Wages of Fear (2024) - French remake by Julien Leclarq of a classic 1950s film, focusing on a skilled team of operatives tasked with transporting two trucks loaded with nitroglycerine across the desert within a tight 24-hour deadline.