Each month, lots of new films and TV shows are added to Stan‘s library. Eliza Janssen surveys the month’s selections and picks for titles most worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.
Top Picks: TV
Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue: Premiere (March 2)
What an intriguing, nihilistic name for a TV show. Does it mean that our cast of stranded characters, lost in the Mexican wilderness after their plane crashes, are doomed from the word go? Or could some unlucky guest-corpses take their place, as we wind our way backwards to figure out a troubling turn of events?
Borrowing an Agatha Christie-esque structure, with passengers forced to a solve a mystery that’s picking them off one by one, the series is created by novelist Anthony Horowitz, who penned many of my favourite books as a child. Notably, it was originally made for streaming service Quibi before getting rescued by BBC and, it seems, Stan. A true survival horror tale!
Ten Pound Poms: Season 2 (March 10)
From nine cadavers to ten bucks. That’s how much British migrants to Australia were asked to pay, in exchange for an exciting new life full of opportunity, “oranges and sunshine.” Of course, if you tuned into the premiere season of this collaboration between Stan and the BBC, you’ll know that such happy tidings are not exactly what our cast of new Australians found.
Blending still-potent social commentary with acute period production design, this show only continues to blossom with its platforming of stellar local talent, such as Bruce Spence in a small role, Stephen Curry, Emma Hamilton and the dashing Rob Collins. Something to make you feel a touch more patriotic…or to remind of the plight of modern-day migrants who still attempt to call Australia home.
Long Bright River: Miniseries (March 13)
Ever since we watched Kate Winslet solving a murder and suckin’ on a vape, it’s become a go-to for prestigey actors to get their own Mare of Easttown. You know: to star in a gritty limited series about a depressed small town cop, whose investigation of a missing/dead girl brings back painful memories of their own past?
The tradition does goes back beyond Winslet’s ace turn, but here we are witnessing Amanda Seyfried’s take on the material. Her character’s unusual name? Mickey.The location? Philadelphia. The ongoing systemic crisis that’s really to blame for a string of suspicious deaths? Probably opioids. Keen to tune in and see how this one bucks tradition!
Top Picks: Movies + Specials
Thelma & Louise (March 1)
Once upon a time, a Hollywood blockbuster director could make a movie about two complex, loveable female characters doing badass shit and it would make $50 million at the box office. Sigh!
Ridley Scott’s fist-pumping, sisterhood-empowering road trip dramedy showed off the star power of Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, gave us our first glimpse at a sexy Brad Pitt, and made everyone cry with its liberating ending. A stone-cold classic, and the kind of feature the industry truly don’t know how to make no more.
The Apprentice (March 9)
Evil isn’t born: it’s learned, taught. Sebastian Stan has earned an Oscar nom for his tremendous work as one Donald J. Trump in this 1980s-set biopic, a performance that goes beyond impression and nears closer to full-bodied demonic possession.
Director Ali Abbasi is interested in depicting the birth of such a dominating political figure, and Jeremy Strong as notorious bastard Roy Cohn is the key here, with Stan’s Trump learning toxic life lessons from the lawyer’s playbook. I think the reason this film didn’t take off more is merely because nobody wants to hear Trump’s name more than we already have to; getting a peak into his hungry young real estate years is perhaps too much of an ask.
Girl You Know It’s True (March 31)
Hmmm, who’s up next on the pipeline of music biopics? We’ve just had Bobs Dylan and Marley, Michael Jackson’s dramatisation looms large, too…It must be about time to revisit the Milli Vanilli lip-syncing scandal, with a renewed sympathetic eye for the poor scolded boyband. The pop group’s saga is an interesting one, with Elan Ben Ali and Tijan Njie playing the humble dancer and choreographer who got recruited into German producer Frank Fabian(of Boney M fame!)’s latest project.
Even if this movie can’t reach the sentimental heights of a James Mangold-esque Hollywood biopic, you’ll probably come away from the whole ordeal feeling a bit bad for these sexy blokes. And their 90s jams will certainly worm their way into your skull for a week or so.
All titles arriving on Stan in March
March 1
Thelma & Louise
The Secret Garden (2020)
March 2
Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue: Season 1 Premiere
Kalifornia
The Three Musketeers: Milady
March 3
Eternal
March 4
Get Shorty
March 5
Tomorrow’s A New Day
Birds Of Passage
March 6
Walking Tall (2004)
March 7
Power Book III: Raising Kanan: Season 4 Premiere
Hereditary
March 8
Me Before You
March 9
Revealed: Craig Bellamy – Inside The Storm
The Apprentice (2024)
StreetDance 2
Meet Dave
March 10
Ten Pound Poms: Season 2 Premiere
Bloodsport
March 11
Abbe Pierre: A Century Of Devotion
March 12
Remember Me (2010)
Annihilation
March 13
Long Bright River: Season 1 Premiere
March 14
Only The Brave
Idol Affair
March 15
Beau Is Afraid
March 16
Happy Valley: Season 3
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (U.S.)
March 17
Under the Tree
March 18
Mississippi Burning
March 19
The King’s Choice
The Other Side Of Hope
March 20
Gangs of London: Season 3 Premiere
Teen Wolf (1985)
Teen Wolf Too
March 21
The Strangers: Prey at Night
Tremors
March 22
Bastille Day
Valkyrie
March 23
Desperately Seeking Susan
Aliens In The Attic
March 24
Maigret
March 25
Grown Ups
March 26
The Mercy
The Insult
March 27
Overboard (1987)
March 28
Jigsaw
The Giants
March 29
When Harry Met Sally…
March 30
Suzanne
Six Acts
March 31
White Bird
Girl You Know It’s True
The Good Doctor: Season 7
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The Amazing Spider-Man
Spider-Man: Homecoming
See also
* Best new movies and TV series on Netflix Australia
* Best new movies and TV series on Amazon Prime
* Best new movies and TV series on Disney+
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