Neon continues to bring in a convoy of quality shows and films. See our handpicked highlights below followed by the full release schedule.
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Top picks: TV
Secrets at Red Rocks: Season 1 (March 9)
An original fantasy series set and shot in Aotearoa’s gorgeous west coast? Based on a fabulous novel by Rachael King? Featuring animatronic seals created by Wētā Workshop??!! This transporting new show has us entirely intrigued, combining the Celtic myth of the selkie with local identity and mythos.
When a 12-year-old kid stumbles upon a supernatural sealskin on the rocky shores of his seaside home, he—and everyone watching—will be drawn into an unpredictable and mystical secret world. Expect beautiful production design, and some stirring depictions of place, people and family.
The Righteous Gemstones: Season 4 (March 10)
Danny McBride’s hilarious and sacrilegious comedy delivers its final sermon with this fourth season—all good things must come to an end! Walton Goggins, who plays the delightfully scummy Uncle Baby Billy, is probably too booked and blessed to continue appearing in the show, and McBride and his screen sister Edi Patterson are already signed on to produce some new show about Southern vampires, which will also rule…
But by the majesty of Eli Gemstone, will I be sad to see the Gemstone family saga meet its end! Punching up at the corruption and idiocy of moneyed so-called religious leaders, and simultaneously delivering some surprisingly deft character development, don’t let Gemstones be one of those shows you only catch years after its peak, leaving you falling to your knees and praying for forgiveness that you weren’t around for the comic rapture.
Forbidden Love: Season 1 (March 12)
A dating reality show with a weighty spiritual twist. Over the course of this new show’s first season, multiple mixed-faith couples will have to reconcile their religious differences—and handle their stubborn familys’ prejudices—in order to envision a romantic future for themselves. There are Muslim men and women marrying into devout Catholic and Pentecostal relationships, an Amish bloke who gets led astray by the ways of his wife’s secular world, and a fiancee struggling with the pressure of converting to Judaism: all more substantial stuff than the surface-level squabbling of some other reality shows we could name.
Top picks: Movies
Loop Track (March 1)
For some people, the only way to reconnect and clear one’s head is a brisk and challenging bush hike. I am not one of these people. Neither is Tom Sainsbury, in his psychological thriller about the anxieties of being alone in the wild. Or, rather, perhaps not being alone enough, and suspecting that the hikers with whom you cross paths might be tracking you through the trees.
In an interview with our Liam Maguren, the star and director explained the impetus behind his creepy feature: “There’s this image that keeps coming back to me: you’re isolated, you can see someone in the distance, and you can work out that they’re a person but you can’t work out their features or their intentions. I like that as an idea.”
The Zone of Interest (March 2)
I’ve never had such varying, rigorous discussions about a movie as this one: Jonathan Glazer’s heartless, uncompromising take on Holocaust cinema, and arguably fascist propaganda too. You’ll see no Jews or allied soldiers, no heroism or humanity, in this Oscar-winner’s Auschwitz setting—only cold complicity, with Sandra Hüller turning stomachs as the wife of a Nazi middle manager.
The film’s most effective tool lies in how it draws attention to our own wilful ignorance of contemporary evils—there are film-negative sequences that startle the nervous system, and resemble the heat mapping tech being used in genocidal attacks right now. More of an accusation than a finger-wagging period piece; you need to see it.
The Watchers (March 3)
2024 was a big year for M. Night Shyamalan: the dude put out a great new thriller himself, which starred one of his daughters in a pretty terrible damsel-in-distress role. Just before that, though, his other kid Ishana helmed this eerie sci-fi, a solid companion to the above Aotearoa flick, actually.
Starring Dakota Fanning, it’s a bit of a mystery box of a feature, trapping some unsuspecting folks in a glass box in the woods to gaze outwards at mysterious entities beyond. Are they keeping guard, or merely being shown off for some sinister purposes? In her dad’s twisty tradition, Shyamalan Jr. wouldn’t want me to give anything too solid away.
Everything Coming to Neon this March
March 1
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Loop Track
Sympathy for the Devil
There’s Something In The Barn
The Watchers
March 2
The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: The Final Chapter: Season 3
God is a Bullet
Northern Comfort
Sanctuary
Trixie Motel: Drag Me Home: Season 1
Zone of Interest
March 3
Australia’s Open
Billionaire Blooms: Season 1
T.I.M.
Vida the Vet: Season 1
March 4
Who is Luigi Mangione?
March 5
Bonnie and Clyde
March 6
It Ends With Us
March 7
Aussie Gold Hunters: Season 9
The Baldwins: Season 1
The Gentlemen
Gold Rush: Season 15
March 8
Show Dogs
March 9
2001: A Space Odyssey
Secrets at Red Rocks: Season 1
March 10
Barney’s World: Season 1
The Righteous Gemstones: Season 4
Signs of a Psychopath: Season 4
March 11
American Monsters: Season 10
Evil Lives Here: Season 9
March 12
Chicago Justice: Season 1
Forbidden Love: Season 1
Late Night
March 14
Outdaughtered: Season 7
The Parenting
March 15
Yogi Bear
March 16
Rob Peace
March 17
Arthur
We Baby Bears: Season 2
March 18
Gone: Season 1
March 19
Camelot
March 20
Lopez vs. Lopez: Season 3
March 22
How (Not) To Get Rid Of A Body: Season 1
Venom: The Last Dance
March 23
Knives Out
March 25
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Tish
March 26
The Battle of Britain
Bugs Bunny Builders: Season 4
The Cleaning Lady: Season 4
I Love A Mama’s Boy: Season 3
March 27
Bloodline Killer
The Crow
The Sixth Commandment: Season 1
March 28
Blind Fury
Paul American: Season 1
March 29
Building Off The Grid: Season 7
The Pagemaster
March 30
The Forge
March 31
Blade Runner
Clarence: Season 1
The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe: Season 5
MILF Manor: Season 2
Mini Beat Power Rockers: Season 1
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Looney Tunes Cartoons: Seasons 1-3
Regular Show: Seasons 5-6
Teen Titans Go!: Seasons 3-4
The Tom and Jerry Show: Season 1
Uncle Grandpa: Season 3-4
Unikitty: Season 1
Young Justice: Season 1
