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I say you’re free to do as you please, but the folks over at the BBC are pretty adamant you settle in and watch 10 films that are coming out in March.

We’re more in the business of recommending, like a few feelgood films currently showing on Netflix, and a true-crime series about Mormom murder, to remind you of the state of the society we live in.

A nice balance, if you will.

Anyway, let’s turn our attention to the BBC’s list, and we’ve chosen three that stand out.

First up, Cherry:

Adapted from the semi-autobiographical novel by Nico Walker, it’s a crime drama about a US Army medic who returns from Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder, becomes addicted to opioids and ends up robbing banks to pay for his habit.

We have touched on this one before, but given that it’s generating Oscars buzz, we’ll revisit it:

Cherry will be released on Apple TV+ from March 12.

How about some Benedict Cumberbatch in and around your face? He’s starring in The Courier, which is set for release in the UK and US on March 19:

Cumberbatch has been tipped as a potential James Bond, but in The Courier, he plays one of Bond’s less glamorous real-life counterparts. In 1960, just before Sean Connery signed up to be 007, a salesman named Greville Wynne was recruited by MI6 and the CIA to carry Soviet secrets back from Moscow. In the film, his wife (Jessie Buckley) wants him to abandon this increasingly dangerous mission, but Wynne believes that only his espionage can defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis.

At least one reviewer has tipped Cumberbatch for glory, saying “this feels like the kind of role that could potentially return him to the awards conversation in a film that Oscar voters will lap up”:

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Our final pick of the BBC’s recommendations is a doccie, Tina, focusing on the life and times of Tina Turner.

Fun fact – her birth name is Anna Mae Bullock, which doesn’t quite roll off the tongue as dramatically.

With a life story that includes stardom alongside her abusive husband Ike Turner in the 1960s and 1970s, and a triumphant comeback in the 1980s, it was inevitable that she would get own biopic, 1993’s What’s Love Got to Do with It, starring Angela Bassett.

Now she gets a feature-length documentary, directed by Daniel Lindsay and TJ Martin. Interviewees include Bassett, Oprah Winfrey and Turner herself.

Tina is still going strong at the age of 81, and it’s been a wild ride up until this point:

Tina will be released on HBO on March 27 in the US.

You can read the rest of the BBC’s list here.

Finally, put your headphones in, crank the volume on this ripper, and get into the Friday groove:

[source:bbc]