Streaming service Showmax is ensuring March is full of series, documentaries, movies and cartoons – both brand new and established favourites. Check out the full rundown here; below you’ll find our top picks for the month.
Series
On the returning front, right now you can watch the second (and final) season of award-winning comedy PEN15, a new set of episodes for long-running medical drama Chicago Med, Part 1 of friendship-centred A Million Little Things S3, and the final season of supernatural romance A Discovery of Witches.
Our standouts from the newbies are:
From the creators of Line of Duty, British thriller Vigil investigates a death on-board the submarine HMS Vigil, which bring the police into conflict with the Navy and British security services. Starring Gentleman Jack’s Suranne Jones and Game of Thrones’ Rose Leslie… as a couple. Vigil has been described as tense and “terrifically gripping.”
Watch Vigil now.
Don’t get too attached to Brave New World, as this adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s sci-fi 1932 novel has already been cancelled after one season. That said, you’ll find a sleek-looking, VERY raunchy production about a utopian society that has achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family, and history itself. The cast includes Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story), Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey, Harlots), Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and the Wasp), and Demi Moore.
Stream Brave New World now.
One final heads up in the series category is that the much-talked-about Yellowjackets, which blends together survival, psychological horror, coming of age drama and dark comedy, is coming to Showmax in April.
Movies
If you missed it on Netflix, disturbing A24 horror The VVitch is popping up on Showmax, along with “boxsets” of all the Purge, Hangover and Fifty Shades movies.
For fans of action comedy, coming 14 March is sequel The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, which reunites Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L Jackson, and adds Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas to the enjoyably chaotic mix.
Meanwhile, March is Oscar month, and from 21 March, Showmax is delivering The Father, which was nominated last year for 6 Academy Awards (and won two, including a Best Actor accolade for Anthony Hopkins). Olivia Colman also stars in this heartbreakingly poignant look at life with dementia.
Ignore the intense trailer. Taking its cue from the likes of Get Out, Bad Hair is a campy horror satire, set in 1989, about an ambitious young woman (Elle Lorraine) who gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, she soon realizes that her new hair may have a mind of its own. Also starring Blair Underwood, Laverne Cox, and James van der Beek. Streaming from 3 March.
Filmed on the South Africa-Namibia border, Settlers is a sci-fi survival thriller about an isolated family battling the elements, and their own kind, on the arid Martian frontier. Brooklynn Prince, Sofia Boutella and Jonny Lee Miller star. Watch from 3 March.
Finally, because we always pay attention to anything Edgar Wright does, there’s his multi-award-nominated rock documentary The Sparks Brothers, about cult musical duo Sparks (brothers Ron and Russell Mael). The official tagline is “How can one rock band be successful, underrated, hugely influential, and criminally overlooked all at the same time?” Watch from 21 March.