What to Watch in Hong Kong (March 2023): Cinemas, Disney+ & Netflix
Can’t decide what movies or shows to watch this month in cinemas or on streaming? Here are Babel Film Workshop’s recommendations based on our students and teachers are talking about!
Cinemas
Everything Everywhere All at Once
When an interdimensional rupture unravels reality, an unlikely hero (Michelle Yeoh) must channel her newfound powers to fight bizarre and bewildering dangers from the multiverse as the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
Why watch it? This movie is leading this year’s Oscars with 11 nominations, and has already set numerous records for Asian filmmakers and actors in the lead up to the Academy Awards.
Release: 27 Feb 2023 | Rating: IIB
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Super-Hero partners Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) return to continue their adventures as Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Release: 15 Feb 2023 | Rating: IIA
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - To The Swordsmith Village
Uzui, Sound Hashira, Tanjiro and his comrades face off against Upper Six demons, Daki and Gyutaro during the new mission. Despite the hard battle they were forced into, they defeat the demons. While Tanjiro and his comrades rest and heal their battle wounds at the Butterfly Mansion, the first death of an Upper Rank demon in 100 years causes wide repercussions among the rest of the Upper Ranks...
Release: 23 Feb 2023 | Rating: IIB
Disney+
The Mandalorian
The third season of the American television series The Mandalorian stars Pedro Pascal as the title character, a bounty hunter traveling to Mandalore to redeem his past transgressions with his companion Grogu. It is part of the Star Wars franchise, set after the events of Return of the Jedi.
Release: 1 Mar 2023 | Rating: 12+
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
In Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett), Shuri (Letitia Wright), M’Baku (Winston Duke), Okoye (Danai Gurira) and the Dora Milaje (including Florence Kasumba) fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o) and Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.
Release: 9 Nov 2023 | Rating: PG
Titanic (25th Anniversary)
In celebration of its 25th anniversary, a remastered version of James Cameron’s multi-Academy Award®-winning “Titanic” will be re-released to theaters this year. With a cast headed by Oscar® winners Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, the film is an epic, action-packed romance set against the ill-fated maiden voyage of the "unsinkable" Titanic, at the time, the largest moving object ever built.
Release: 18 Dec 1997 | Rating: 12+
Netflix
MH370: The Plane That Disappeared
March 8th, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared from radar. 239 people went missing, a global investigation into this greatest mystery Despite reports, countless theories, and searches for evidence, nothing. What Are We Missing?
Release: 8 Mar 2023 | Rating: 13+
Agent Elvis
Elvis trades in his jumpsuit for a jetpack when he joins a secret government spy program to help battle the dark forces that threaten the country.
Release: 17 Mar 2023 | Rating: 16+
Formula 1: Drive to Survive
Formula 1: Drive to Survive returns to Netflix for Season 5. Offering unprecedented access, this season will once again take fans behind the scenes, to witness first-hand how the drivers and teams prepare to battle it out for victory in one of the sport’s most dramatic seasons to date.
Release: 24 Feb 2023 | Rating: 16+
