Wicked For Good, Peaky Blinders

The “Peaky Blinders” franchise finally returns in movie form with “The Immortal Man.” Cillian Murphy is back as Tommy Shelby and Barry Keoghan is playing a grown-up Duke Shelby, the illegitimate son of Tommy who’s now running the Peaky Blinders gang. Stephen Graham and Ned Dennehy return as Shelby family allies Hayden Stagg and Charlie Strong, respectively. The cast also includes newcomers Rebecca Ferguson and Jay Lycurgo.

“Wicked: For Good” may have been shut out of the Oscar nominations, but the musical sequel is sure to bring in the eyeballs to Peacock this month when it debuts on March 20 after a $525 million box office run worldwide. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande return as Elphaba and Glinda, although this time their friendship has soured as the duo must find their way back to each other amid the forces of Oz pulling them apart. The sequel’s streaming premiere will also include a sing-along version of the movie, plus another with a full-length commentary from director Jon M. Chu. Deleted scenes and more bonus content will also be available to stream.

Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet,” starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, was pegged as an instant Oscar contender when it world premiered at the Telluride Film Festival last September, and now the Shakespeare family drama is up for eight Awards, including best picture, best director and best actress. Buckley is the clear favorite to win the best actress Oscar after victories at the Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice and BAFTAs. The movie arrives on streaming after an impressive run in theaters, where it has grossed nearly $90 million and counting at the worldwide box office. “Hamnet” joins Focus Features’ other Oscar contenders on Peacock, including “Bugonia” and “Song Sung Blue.”

Jafar Panahi’s masterpiece “It Was Just an Accident” debuts on Hulu shortly ahead of the 2026 Oscars, where it is nominated for best original screenplay and best international feature. The drama won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival last year. Mixing dark comedy with elements of a moral thriller, “It Was Just an Accident” centers on a group of former Iranian political prisoners who question whether or not a man is their former tormenter and if they should enact vengeance or not. The movie was named the seventh best film of 2025 by Variety film critic Peter Debruge.

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” is nominated for four Oscars (best picture, best actor, best international feature and best casting) and won the best actor and director prizes at the Cannes Film Festival last year. Leading man Wagner Moura also won the prize for best actor in a drama film at the Golden Globes, where “The Secret Agent” was also awarded the foreign-language film prize. Moura plays a former professor caught in the political turmoil of Brazil’s military dictatorship in the late 1970s. 

Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival last year and is nominated for an impressive nine Oscars, including best picture, director, actress (Renate Reinsve), supporting actor (Stellan Skarsgård, who won the Golden Globe) and two best supporting actress bids (Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas). Reinsve and Lilleaas play sisters struggling to reconnect with their father Gustav, a prolific filmmaker who has cast a popular American actor in a new movie about his relationship with his family. “Sentimental Value” was named the third best movie of 2025 byVariety film critic Owen Gleiberman.

“Reacher” star Alan Ritchson is hoping to bring some of his Prime Video popularity to Netflix as the latter platform launches his action star vehicle “War Machine,” written and directed by Patrick Hughes. The synopsis reads: “On one last grueling mission during Army Ranger training, a combat engineer must lead his unit in a fight against a giant otherworldly killing machine.” Dennis Quaid, Stephan James, Jai Courtney, Esai Morales and Blake Richardson co-star.

Prime Video’s original movie “Pretty Lethal” launches March 25 after a world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival earlier in the month. Iris Apatow, Lana Condor, Millicent Simmonds, Avantika, Maddie Ziegler, Michael Culkin, Lydia Leonard and Uma Thurman star. The action thriller centers on five ballerinas whose bus breaks down in a remote forest on the way to a prestigious dance competition. The girls seek shelter at the home of a former ballet prodigy, but their temporary home is hiding unexpected horrors. 

After launching on Peacock last fall, “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale” makes its Netflix streaming debut this month. The synopsis reads: “The Crawley family and their staff enter the 1930s, where Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble. The entire household is forced to grapple with the threat of social disgrace and must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.”

Bob Odenkirk’s “Nobody 2” debuts on Netflix this month after making its streaming debut last November on Peacock. Odenkirk returns as the overworked assassin Hutch in this sequel to the 2021 action movie. Connie Nielsen, John Ortiz, Colin Hanks, RZA, Christopher Lloyd and Sharon Stone also star. After deciding to take his family to a tourist town for a vacation, Hutch unexpectedly finds himself dealing with a crime boss after encountering her local bullies. The movie grossed $41 million worldwide last summer.

DreamWorks Animation’s sequel “The Bad Guys 2” arrives on Netflix this March after its Peacock launch last fall and is sure to bring in family audiences. The film features the voices of Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Awkwafina, Craig Robinson, Anthony Ramos, Zazie Beetz, Danielle Brooks, Natasha Lyonne and more. The synopsis: “Our now-reformed Bad Guys are trying (very, very hard) to be good, but instead find themselves hijacked into a high-stakes, globe-trotting heist, masterminded by a new team of criminals they never saw coming: The Bad Girls.”

Daniel Day-Lewis ended his acting retirement for “Anemone,” a dark family thriller helmed by son, Ronan Day-Lewis. Sean Bean, Samuel Bottomley, Safia Oakley-Green and Samantha Morton co-star. Per the official synopsis: “The Northern England–set film begins as a middle-aged man (Bean) sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the woods, where he reconnects with his estranged hermit brother (Day-Lewis). Bonded by a mysterious, complicated past, the men share a fraught, if occasionally tender relationship—one that was forever altered by shattering events decades earlier.”

“Downton Abbey” gets “The Naked Gun” treatment in the spoof movie “Fackham Hall,” starring Damian Lewis, Ben Radcliffe, Tom Felton, Thomasin McKenzie, Katherine Waterston and Emma Laird.  “Fackham Hall” follows loveable pick-pocket Eric Noone (Radcliffe) as he lands a job at English manor house Fackham Hall. He quickly rises through the ranks and a forbidden romance with lady-of-the-house Rose Davenport (McKenzie) blossoms. But when an unexpected murder occurs, Eric gets framed — leaving Rose and her family’s future perilously uncertain. 

Jai Courtney is a shark-obsessed serial killer in Shudder’s white-knuckle horror movie “Dangerous Animals,” which earned rave reviews out of the Cannes Film Festival last year. Courtney plays a deranged Australian tour guide who steers you out to sea and lets you swim with the sharks. Then he feeds you to them. From Variety’s review: “We have screenwriter Nick Lepard to thank for these vivid new nightmares, presented with such conviction by ‘The Devil’s Candy’ director Sean Byrne that the efficient and highly effective thriller scarcely allows a calm moment in which to question how deranged its premise truly is.”

Adapted and directed by Rebecca Lenkiewicz from Deborah Levy’s book, “Hot Milk” is set during a Spanish summer and follows Sofia, a young woman (Emma Mackey) in a co-dependent relationship with her wheelchair-bound mother Rose (Fiona Shaw) as the two travel to a sun-soaked seaside town to meet an enigmatic healer (Vincent Perez) who may just have a miracle cure. But while there, Sofia meets the free-spirited yet damaged Ingrid (Vicky Krieps) and find herself falling wildly in love.

Ana de Armas picks up the “John Wick” fighting gloves from Keanu Reeves in the franchise spinoff “Ballerina,” which arrives on HBO Max this month. From Variety’s review: “It’s a worthy entry in the ‘John Wick’ canon, with a revenge plot that’s pure trash and an actor who gamely picks up Keanu Reeves’ mantel of mayhem.”

The acclaimed Disney animated short film “Versa” is a must-see on streaming this month. The synopsis reads: “A young couple experience a gamut of emotions from grief and loss to ultimate joy as they embark on an ethereal ‘cosmic dance of life’ in this personal animated short from director Malcon Pierce.”

From HBO Documentary Films: “In March 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake – the strongest ever recorded in Japan – unleashed a tsunami that devastated the country’s northeast coast. Entire towns were erased and 20,000 lives were lost, but an even greater threat loomed at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, where the giant wave disabled the cooling systems of three reactors. As radiation levels soared and hydrogen explosions tore through the facility, Japan’s leaders faced the unimaginable prospect of evacuating Tokyo – the world’s largest city with 35 million people.”

Charlie Kaufman’s new short film starring “Hamnet” Oscar nominee Jessie Buckley debuts on Kanopy this month. The official synopsis reads: “Two newly dead young people meet in the streets of Athens, amid the pulsing cityscape and the ghosts of history. One a translator, the other a photographer, they were outsiders in life; in death they struggle with the residue of their longings and mistakes. They wander the city together, finding consolation in the difficult beauty of existence and its aftermath.”