What’s on the table for a March full of movies in the 852? Childhood favourites meet sci-fi, kickass female figures, video game worlds and… The Bible?!
A Wrinkle in Time vs. Goodbye Christopher Robin
Bring your: Kids / nephews / nieces!
It only took half a century for Disney to finally bring this childhood favourite to life. The science fantasy adventure follows the journey of Meg Murry and her brother who travel across the universe to save their astrophysicist father, Alex.
Fun fact: Mrs. Which is played by none other than Oprah Winfrey, our featured celebrity on the March 2018 print issue!
Release date: 8 March 2018
If you prefer period dramas to other planets, however, get tickets to Goodbye Christopher Robin instead. The biographical drama takes us back to WWII in 1940s England where Winnie-the-Pooh creator A. A. Milne wrote his first comics in a country house with wooded acreage.
Fun Fact: Australian actress and film producer Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street, Suicide Squad) stars as Milne’s wife Daphne. The blonde was named in Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world last year and part of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list.
Release date: 15 March 2018
Red Sparrow vs. Tomb Raider
Bring your: Girlfriend(s)!
After a dearth of seriously awesome kickass female leads following the retirement of Angeline Jolie as Lara Croft in 2001, it looks like Gal Gadot (aka Wonderwoman) has propelled Hollywood into a revival of female powerhouses. And this month, we’re getting not one but TWO alpha-female showcases: Red Sparrow starring Jennifer Lawrence and a new Tomb Raider starring Alicia Vikander (Tulip Fever, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.).
Release date: 1 March 2018
In Red Sparrow, Lawrence plays a Russian ballerina-turned-spy who targets the CIA but obviously cannot help but fall in love with someone from Team America. Meanwhile, the latest installment of Tomb Raider takes us to Cape Town where Lara Croft (not unlike Meg Murry) tries to solve the mystery of her father’s disappearance.
Release date: 15 March 2018
Ready Player One
Bring your: Fellow dorks!
If Tomb Raider is based on a 2013 video game but happens in real life, Ready Player One is based on a 2011 novel but happens in a video game. Specifically, in an interconnected virtual space called the OASIS. Warner Bros. and Steven Spielberg partner up once again to bring viewers into a fantastical world: a near-future dystopian Earth in which people interact via virtual reality. A teenager battles an evil cyber corporation and, well, you know how the story goes…
Release date: 29 March 2018
Game Night
Bring your: Date!
Yep, more players and more games in yet another Warner Bros. production. This one stars Rachel McAdams whose friends’ interactive role-playing mystery game suddenly becomes too real to handle.
Release date: 15 March 2018
Den of Thieves
Bring your: Lads!
It looks like the gents won’t quite let the ladies do all the ass-kicking on the big screen this month. Gerard Butler carries the torch for man-kind in this heist film set in Los Angeles. L.A.P.D. blah blah team of robbers blah blah Federal Reserve blah blah shootout, strippers blah blah… but this time, Butler is American Irish (O’Brien), not just Irish (P.S. I Love You)…
Fun Fact: Curtis Jackson (as in, “In da Club” 50 Cent) plays robber Levi Enson Levoux
Release date: 22 March 2018
Mary Magdalene
Bring your: Church friends!
For those in the fold – the Church fold, that is – the end of March signifies the end of Lent for Catholics, and Easter for Christians in general. That means, time for a biblical drama film starring Joaquin Phoenix (Her, Reservation Road) as Jesus Christ. Reviews were quite unforgiving but hey, it might serve as a worthy substitute for Sunday School that week…
Release date: 29 March 2018
Words: Julienne C. Raboca