A Reel Preview: The Year in Film 2023 - Episode III

Movies that we get in the month of March can be just as unpredictable as the wretched Spring weather. With the Summer Movie season still a couple of months away, March can be full of hot ones or cold ones. Here are the notable releases for the month: 

 

 

CREED III – Michael B. Jordan stars and directs in this third chapter of the CREED franchise, which is a spin-off of the ROCKY series. Jordan reprises his role as Adonis Creed (son of Apollo), who defends his boxing championship against an old childhood friend, played by Jonathan Majors. It co-stars Tessa Thompson and Phylicia Rashad. 

 

 

 

65 – Adam Driver finds himself stranded on Earth of 65 million years ago, where he (of course), is hunted by dinosaurs. 

 

 

CHAMPIONS – Bobby Farrelly (one-half of the comedy team of the Farrelly Brothers), directs his first solo-outing about a basketball coach who takes the job of coaching a team of players with intellectual disabilities. Woody Harrelson, Ernie Hudson, and Cheech Marin star. 

 

 

SCREAM VI – The sixth installment of the comedy/slasher horror series, with the Ghostface killer chasing the survivors of the previous film all the way to New York City. 

 

 

INSIDE – Willem Dafoe plays an art thief trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist goes wrong in this psychological thriller. 

 

 

SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS – Billy Batson and his siblings, who turn into adult superheroes, battle the Daughters of Atlas in one of the last films in the old line of continuity based on DC Comics characters. Zachary Levi reprises his role as Shazam, and he is joined by Rachel Zegler (WEST SIDE STORY), Lucy Liu, Djmon Hounsou, and Helen Mirren. 

 

 

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 – Keanu Reeves is back as Wick in the fourth chapter of his shoot-em-up franchise, this time traveling the globe to defeat old and new enemies. Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgard, Laurence Fishburne, Clancy Brown, and Ian McShane co-star. 

 

 

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES – The ever-popular tabletop role-playing game gets another big-screen treatment, with a group of thieves fighting to stop a great evil from taking over the world. It stars Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, and Hugh Grant. 

 

 

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Next month, Reel Speak previews the month of April.