What's New on Netflix Australia in March 2019

Highlights include Machine Gun Kelly as Tommy Lee and Idris Elba as a nanny

Idris Elba in Netflix's 'Turn Up Charlie'
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Idris Elba in Netflix's 'Turn Up Charlie'

Idris Elba in Netflix's 'Turn Up Charlie'

For months, the only testimonial that mattered was Michael Cohen’s, which took place on Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee.

With that done and dusted, the world now awaits the second-most important grilling of 2019: that of Jordyn Woods.

A little over a week ago, Woods broke the holiest of girl codes, and was excommunicated by the KarJenners. She’s since booked a spot on Jada Pinkett Smith’s Facebook show Red Table Talk, presumably to clear the air around the Khloe/Tristan tryst.

For those tuning in, the tea will spill on Friday.

For those not tuning in, here are our top Netflix titles for March:

Cricket Fever: Mumbai Indians (documentary)

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700 million people tuned in to watch the Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2018. In comparison, only 103.4 million people watched the Super Bowl that year.

Owned by billionaires Mukesh and Nita Ambani, and captained by the inimitable Rohit Sharma, the Mumbai Indians have won the IPL three times, the last time being in 2017.

Cricket Fever: Mumbai Indians follows the superstar team as they strive to defend their title in the 2018 IPL season. Shot in both public and intimate settings – dressing rooms, hotel rooms, the Ambani mansion ­­­– the series gives an unprecedented look into the inner workings of MI.

The eight-part series airs March 1 on Netflix Australia.

After Life (series)

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After his wife dies, Tony (Ricky Gervais) contemplates suicide, before deciding to live a foulmouthed life on his terms.

“I do and say what the fuck I want, and then when it all gets too much, I can always kill myself. It’s like a superpower!” he tells a disbelieving friend.

Thing is, those around him are caring people who want to help the nice guy they used to know, even when he’s on a rampage to punish the world “one savage put-down at a time.”

In After Life, Gervais has recruited beloved co-stars from projects past, such as Ashley Jensen (Extras), David Earl (Derek) and Tom Basden (David Brent: Life on the Road). The six-part series is created, written and directed by Gervais.

After Life airs March 8 on Netflix Australia.

Triple Frontier (film)

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As much as The Expendables franchise was a roido mess, audiences loved the elite-mercenaries-played-by-an-all-star-cast formula.

Netflix listened. In Triple Frontier, Ben Affleck, Charlie Hunnam, Oscar Isaac, Pedro Pascal and Garrett Hedlund are a group of former Special Forces ops that have reunited for a dangerous heist.

If successful, their actions will “cripple the world’s most violent cartel.” However, they’re doing this for self instead of country. (Issa robbery).

Predictably, things take an unexpected turn, pushing their skills, loyalties and morals “to a breaking point in an epic battle for survival.”

Triple Frontier is directed by J.C. Chandor (Margin Call, A Most Violent Year) and is co-written by Chandor and Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty).

Triple Frontier airs March 13 on Netflix Australia.

Turn Up Charlie (series)

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Perhaps the suavest slasher of them all, Idris Elba is part actor, director, producer, rapper and DJ. Big Driis actually DJed at the royal wedding last year, and will be performing at Coachella this April. 

In a parallel universe, Elba plays a struggling DJ in his new show Turn Up Charlie. Charlie is given a final chance at success when he begrudgingly becomes a “manny” to his celebrity friend’s troublesome daughter.

Elba and Gary Reich co-created the show, and serve as executive producers along with Tristram Shapeero. The series is co-produced by Reich’s Brown Eyed Boy Productions and Elba’s Green Door Pictures.

Told you he’s a slasher.

The eight-part comedy airs March 15.

The Dirt (film)

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Bohemian Rhapsody’s slew of awards and $860 million box office signalled that band biopics were here to stay.

Based on the band’s biography of the same name, The Dirt follows a motley crew as they become Mötley Crüe.

Unlike BoRhap, this film will not glaze over any sordid details, according to bassist and songwriter Nikki Sixx.

“With us, you’ve got four outrageous characters and it was important we didn’t pull any punches,” Sixx stated in an interview with Classic Rock

 

To be honest, we’re only holding out to see Machine Gun Kelly as Tommy Lee (and his real life BFF Pete Davidson as record exec Tom Zutaut).

The Dirt airs March 22 on Netflix Australia.

Osmosis (series)

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On his new show Osmosis, producer Aude Albano poses the question, “Does perfect love exist and at what price?”

In a near-future Paris, a new dating app called Osmosis uses mined brain data to find perfect matches with 100% accuracy. Sci-fi fans may hark back to Black Mirror: Hang The DJ, in which people are also matched into relationships using data.

As seen by recent fuck ups by Facebook, Cambridge Analytica et al., misuse of user information is always disastrous – and thus we can’t think of anything more horrifying than an all-knowing dating app.

The French eight-episode series airs March 29 on Netflix Australia.

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