Every month Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment Inc., one of the largest providers of premium content to value-conscious consumers, brings you tons of new and old school full-length movies, TV shows and original programming, all for free on their ad-supported streaming platform. Whether you are seeking out a familiar favorite or on the prowl for something fresh and exciting, they have you covered.

This month the company has curated a great lineup of titles across its Redbox, Crackle, and Chicken Soup for the Soul free streaming services. Now available to stream, consumers can enjoy an exciting assortment of titles that highlight an array of talented women from the past and present, explore fantastical science fiction stories and more.

We recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Senior Director of Communications Chris Woolsey to preview some of the the exciting titles they have coming to the service in March. Check out our conversation below to not only learn what is newly available, but why you should be excited! A full list of titles debuting in March is available at the end of this article.

GVN: We are here today to discuss a variety of different brands you are overseeing under the Chicken Soup For The Soul Entertainment umbrella. You have a lot of great stuff coming up, but I know Crackle is like your baby. There are so many things to get excited about including the fourth season of an ongoing Crackle Original Going For Broke. Tell us a bit of background about the series and what fans can expect from the fourth season. 

Chris: The show is co-produced by Ashton Kutcher and Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment. And this series was born out of his conversations with his mentor, Dan Rosensweig, who’s the CEO of Chegg. They were talking about the sort of the epidemic debt crisis in this country and what could be done about it.

And Ashton was like, “If there was only a way that we could make learning the basics of finance fun, I really think that we could make a change in this country.” And Dan was like, “Let’s do it.” So they put their heads together and got together with our team from Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment.

The series was born and has done incredibly well for us. It’s pretty amazing to see once these kind of solid financial choices are made in people’s lives that it really is life changing. You see the difference in their lives from the beginning of the episode where they’re just drowning in debt and don’t even know where to turn. Then, by the end of it, they are getting their feet on stable ground and they understand their situation and the choices that they need to make in order to have a healthy financial future. The kind of tagline of the show is “Become the CEO of your own life.” And that’s exactly what people come away with.

The great thing about this show is that it helps not only the participants on the show, but also the audience because they can take the very same lessons that are learned in every episode by the participants and they can apply those to their own lives.

GVN: You have a variety of different sci-fi options that I wanted to talk about. First, this is pretty insane, you have the complete series of Farscape coming to your service. How did you snag that? What is going on over there?

Chris: We have this programming team that I’m not sure how they do it – I think they have things on people and they just call ’em up and they go, “Look, we know what you did last summer and you’ve gotta give us all of these series” because they come up with the most amazing finds. This is a perfect example.

Farscape was such an interesting series, obviously partnered with the Jim Henson Company. The kind of puppetry and practical effects that show had was really revolutionary for its time. I’m dating myself, but when I was younger watching that, it was in stark contrast to everything else, which was all CG and a lot of them lower budget.

It came across that they weren’t spending the money on the CGI – it didn’t look great. This series was so different because it was all these practical effects that were being created by the Henson Company. Not only is the writing and the performances fantastic, but the characters and the puppets that were used in this series are just amazing.

GVN: That’s incredible! One thing I wanted to say about Farscape in particular – I’m a huge physical media fan. I remember whenever I was really collecting a lot of seasons on DVD when I was younger, Farscape was like probably about a hundred dollars per season and there are multiple seasons. I wish I had Crackle back then so I could avoid forking over an arm and a leg just to watch some great sci-fi. We’re living in a golden age where people can just turn on Crackle and have the complete series of Farscape at their fingertips. It’s wild. 

Chris: It’s pretty awesome. I know I was super geeked out when we got this because, unlike you, I was unwilling to plunk down a hundred dollars per season and so I actually had not seen the show since it originally aired.

Although, there were many a day that I wanted to but didn’t have access. So yeah, to your point, it’s a wonderful leveling of the playing field as it were to be able to give fans access to something that otherwise they wouldn’t be able to watch. 

GVN: Continuing along that track, I recently had the pleasure of revisiting the ‘80s classic Highlander on 4K UHD. I had so much fun revisiting it, but for people who maybe haven’t watched it in a while or want to sample it before potentially buying it, it is now going to be on Crackle. 

Chris: I am a gigantic fan. When I was in high school, we used to get together like a lot of friends do on weekends and watch movies. We had this one buddy who had a better job than the rest of us, so it was always his job to go rent the movies and then bring them over to our house – my buddy Mike.

He would show up with Highlander like two nights outta three. We loved the movie, but there are other films out there. But because he was the one with the better job, we were watching Highlander. We watched it so many times, and then I watched it again recently and I’ve gotta say it holds up incredibly well. Everything about that movie is just so great. The effects, the writing, the performances, obviously they got amazing actors: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown – who’s chilling.

GVN: Insane. I love his performance in that. 

Chris: All these guys are just always good. Christopher Lamber from Mortal Kombat. Sean Connery – some of the most iconic scenes in his career outside of the Bond films. Even if people had watched it back in the day, they need to go back and visit this one again because it’s a classic for sure. 

GVN: Absolutely. Another overlooked series in my opinion that I got to revisit last year on Blu-Ray is one that you have coming to Crackle – the RoboCop TV series. Yes, there is a RoboCop TV series. If fans don’t wanna fork over money or at least want to sample a few episodes just to dip their toes in, they can do so on Crackle.

Chris: I’m with you. I love camp, and, it’s so campy. People argue which iteration of the Robocop movies this one best lines up with, and I get a RoboCop 3 vibe out of it.

I love it. Richard Eden, who was best known for Santa Barbara, the adult nighttime drama, which is so funny and in a weird way fit perfectly. Santa Barbara is cheesy, RoboCop is kind of campy and cheesy. It’s really great. Yvette Nipar from 21 Jump Street. So many eighties and nineties staples in there. Blu Mankuma from 2012, which that’s just one of the greatest names in Hollywood history. I think fans are gonna really appreciate this. 

GVN: There are also many great options coming to Chicken Soup for the Soul. We’ve talked in the past, you know I’m a documentary fan. You have one that really piques my interest, the new film Quant. Can you give our audience a little bit of rundown of why they need to know about this important figure?

Chris: I had no idea what in the world this was about. I knew it was a documentary, but I just dove in. And it’s really interesting. It’s about Mary Quant, who invented the miniskirt. And you think, “Really? A movie about someone who invented the miniskirt. How is that sustained for 90 minutes?” It’s pretty amazing when you look and see what this woman did.

By creating the miniskirt, there were so many social ramifications. Previous to that, no one had done anything like that in terms of women being able to express their sexuality through their clothing. Most skirts at the time were well below the knee, and so she was the first one to not only say, let’s take it above the knee, but let’s take it way above the knee. 

And she was unashamed about the reason she did that. She wanted women to be looked at and to feel good about the way they look. She also created a lot of other things that you’ll learn about like the makeup compact and things like that.

The film is directed by Sadie Frost, who was actually Lucy in Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula when she was younger, and has since gone on to become a producer and a director. She lives in England and is a really, really talented director. This is a phenomenal documentary and it gives people a look into the fashion industry that I think they’ll appreciate. It has more to do with society and sociology than it does just about fashion.

GVN: I see that season three of Funny Girls is coming to the service this month. Can you tell us about the creative team behind this comedic series? 

Chris: This is a series from New Zealand, and we have all three seasons. This is a sketch comedy series, and a lot of names in there were on their way up at the time – they were new to the scene. They’d been doing comedy for a number of years in New Zealand, but hadn’t quite become international names yet. You look and you see Rose Matafeo from Starstruck and Jackie Van Beek, who was in one of my favorites, What We Do In The Shadows.

It’s a sketch comedy series that’s a little unusual because there is a through storyline to it. It’s about a group of female comedians who are trying to make a sketch comedy show about women in an entertainment field that’s dominated by men. There’s all these really hilarious sketches and interstitials that stitch every episode together where you see the women trying to overcome various setbacks.

Check out an overview of these and other streaming options below!

Redbox

Well-known for being a destination for the latest entertainment, the Redbox app gives consumers access to free movies on demand, through free live TV channels, and for rental and purchase. It can be downloaded to Samsung TVs, Roku, LG TVs, VIZIO TVs, and many other devices. The titles available on Redbox include:

• The Longshots starring Keke Palmer (Nope), Ice Cube (Boyz in the Hood). The true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.
• Heartbreakers starring Sigourney Weaver (Devil Wears Prada), Jennifer Love Hewitt (I Know What You Did Last Summer). A mother and daughter con team seduce and scam wealthy men.
• Unlocked starring Noomi Rapace (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo), Orlando Bloom (The Lord of the Rings). A CIA interrogator is lured into a ruse that puts London at risk of a biological attack.
• In the Fade starring Diane Kruger (National Treasure), Numan Acar (Homeland). Katja’s life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.
• Army Of One starring Ellen Hollman (The Matrix Resurrections), Matt Passmore (13 Reasons Why). Out hiking, Special Forces Brenner Baker stumbles onto a Cartel’s compound. Her husband’s killed and she’s left for dead. The Cartel made two mistakes, killing her husband and leaving her alive. They won’t live to make another.
• Grace of Monaco starring Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge!), Tim Roth (Pulp Fiction). The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly’s crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco’s Prince Rainier III and France’s Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.
• Below the Fold starring Davis DeRock (Jayhawkers), Sarah McGuire (They Wait in the Dark). Without a trace, Susie Potter vanished from her home in the quiet town of Skidmore, Missouri. Ten years later two reporters uncover a harrowing new detail, which leads them on an obsessive hunt for the truth through the dark labyrinth of rural northwest Missouri.
• 88 starring Katherine Isabelle (Hannibal), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future). A young woman comes to in a roadside diner with no idea where she is or how she got there. Split between two timelines, she gets taken on a violent journey as she seeks out the person responsible for her lover’s death.
• Spring Breakers starring Selena Gomez (Only Murders in the Building), Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical). Four college girls hold up a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation. While partying, drinking, and taking drugs, they are arrested, only to be bailed out by a drug and arms dealer.
• Colonia starring Emma Watson (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone), Daniel Bruhl (Inglourious Basterds), Michael Nyqvist (John Wick). A young woman’s desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from.

Crackle

One of the most popular free streaming destinations, Crackle is available on devices that include Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung TVs, and VIZIO TVs. Titles streaming now include:

Crackle Original Television Series

• GOING FROM BROKE: Season 4. Going From Broke is back for Season 4, and not a moment too soon.  The debt crisis continues to rage unabated, while the devastation of Covid has turned the job market inside out and inflation is on the rise. In wake of “The Great Resignation” happening across the American workforce, how do people manage their debt in light of career migration, job insecurity and growing mental health concerns? People are in desperate need of up-skilling and re-skilling in order to make the best decisions for their future. Hosts Dan Rosenswieg, CEO of Chegg, Tonya Rapley and Executive Producer Ashton Kutcher are dedicated to helping people navigate the reality of their debt in order to become the CEO of their own lives. 

Television Series

• FARSCAPE (Complete Series) starring Ben Browder (Stargate SG-1), Claudia Black (Pitch Black), Anthony Simcoe (The Castle). Thrown into a distant part of the universe, an Earth astronaut finds himself part of a fugitive alien starship crew
• ROBOCOP: The Series starring Richard Eden (Santa Barbara), Yvette Nipar (21 Jump Street), Blu Mankuma (2012). Alex Murphy is RoboCop, a cybernetic policeman. A creation of a vast corporation, he fights crime and occasional corporate conspiracy in the near-future of Old Detroit.

Feature Film

• FARSCAPE: THE PEACEKEEPER WARS starring Ben Browder (Stargate SG-1), Claudia Black (Pitch Black), Anthony Simcoe (The Castle). When a full-scale war is engaged by the evil Scarran Empire, the Peacekeeper Alliance has but one hope: reassemble human astronaut John Crichton, once sucked into the Peacekeeper galaxy through a wormhole. Crichton’s task: Get the entire Peacekeeper race to safety before the last war of an era brings and end to the universe.
• HIGHLANDER starring Christopher Lambert (Mortal Kombat), Sean Connery (The Untouchables), Clancey Brown (The Shawshank Redemption). An immortal Scottish swordsman must confront the last of his immortal opponent, a murderously brutal barbarian who lusts for the fabled “Prize”
• HICKOK (2017) starring Luke Hemsworth (Westworld), Kris Kristofferson (Blade), Trace Adkins (Monarch). In hopes of escaping his past as gunslinger and outlaw, “Wild Bill” Hickok has drifted to Abilene, Kansas to start a new life as town marshal. His efforts are challenged when saloon owner Poe attempts to destroy him and the town he calls home.
• 22 BULLETS starring Jean Reno (The Professional), Kad Merad (Your Honor), Jean-Pierre Darroussin (The Bureau). A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.
• YU-GI-OH! THE MOVIE (2004)

Exclusive Feature Film 

• ANTI MATTER (2017)

Espionage Thrillers

• THE ODESSA FILE
• LITTLE NIKITA
• JACK STRONG
• THE BLACKLIST: REDEMPTION
• WEST OF LIBERTY
• THE FOREIGNER

 Award Winners

• PLACES IN THE HEART (2 Oscars – Best Leading Actress, Original Screenplay)
• A PASSAGE TO INDIA (2 Oscars – Best Supporting Actress, Original Score)
• MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (2 Oscars – Best Adapted Screenplay, Original Score)
• ALL THAT JAZZ (4 Oscars – Best Art Direction, Costume Design, Editing, Original Song)
• CACTUS FLOWER (1 Oscar – Best Supporting Actress)
• ON GOLDEN POND (3 Oscars – Best Leading Actor, Leading Actress, Adapted Screenplay)

Funny Women

• THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW
• ONE IN A MILLION
• FRENCH AND SAUNDERS
• HERE’S LUCY
• SISTER, SISTER
• THE ELLEN SHOW

Chicken Soup for the Soul

A premium free streaming TV network for content that – much like the best-selling books – inspires and warms the heart, Chicken Soup for the Soul is available now through the Redbox streaming app, Amazon Fire TV, VIZIO Watchfree+, and Plex. The titles that can be streamed this month include:

Chicken Soup for the Soul Original Documentary Film

•  Quant. One of Britain’s most renowned cultural figures, Dame Mary Quant was at the vanguard of the stylistic revolution of the 60s and 70s, leading the charge away from convention and conservatism through the championing of ground-breaking designs including the miniskirt and hot pants, plus an ingeniously creative partnership with hair stylist, Vidal Sassoon. Quant tells the full story of this design and retail pioneer.

Feature Film

• I’m In Love With A Church Girl. Miles Montego was king of the streets as a high-level drug trafficker. When Miles meets Vanessa, he’s drawn to her beauty and her spirituality. As their connection grows, both are tested to their last ounce of faith in God in each other.
• Short Term 12 starring Brie Larson (Captain Marvel), Frantz Turner (NCIS), John Gallagher Jr. (10 Cloverfield Lane). A 20-something supervising staff member of a residential treatment facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend.
• Song One starring Anne Hathaway (The Princess Diaries), Johnny Flynn (Operation Mincemeat), Ben Rosenfield (Twin Peaks). A young woman strikes up a relationship with her ailing brother’s favorite musician.
• Dear Dictator starring Michael Cane (The Dark Knight), Odeya Rush (Lady Bird), Katie Holmes (Batman Begins). When political turmoil forces a British-Caribbean dictator to flee his island nation, he seeks refuge and hides with a rebellious teenage girl in suburban America, and ends up teaching the young teen how to start a revolution and overthrow the “mean girls” at her high school. Available: March 16th

Television Series

• Funny Girls: Season 3 starring Rose Matafeo (Starstruck), Jackie van Beek (What We Do in the Shadows), Nic Sampson (The Brokenwood Mysteries). Laura and Rose attempt to create a comedy show while dealing with the pressures of the misguided opinions of male executives and a befuddled producer.
• American Beauty Star Season 1 & 2 starring Christie Brinkley (Parks and Recreation), Ashley Graham (Love Advent), Caitlin Fowler (Hunger Games: Mockingjay). American Beauty Star consists of 12 competitors from all facets of the beauty industry, battling head-to-head in a series of intense challenges, from creating high-end magazine editorial looks to the hippest and most current red carpet styles for a Hollywood premiere. In the end, only one will become the next American Beauty Star. Available: March 9th
• The Royals: Season 1. This documentary series journeys through all facets of royal life, exploring the grandeur, splendor and controversy of the aristocracy. Through interviews with those closest to the English nobility, we delve deep into the mesmerizing world of the Royal Family. Available: March 9th
• Around the Farm Table Season 3. A food and farming adventure, Around the Farm Table connects consumers to small, thoughtful Wisconsin farmers through storytelling, forgotten recipes, and entertainment. The show is hosted by fourth-generation organic dairy farmer Inga Witscher. Available: March 16th

Let us know what you are most excited to check out on these services this month over on Twitter!

The Crackle Free Streaming App’s recent releases include the nuptials celebration series Wedding Talk, the second season of Crackle Original The Wall, the pet-centric lifestyle series Pet Caves, the award-winning BBC series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as well as season three of the award-winning series Going From Broke.

The Crackle, Redbox, and Chicken Soup for the Soul streaming services are currently distributed through over 140 touch points in the U.S. on platforms including Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Apple TV, Smart TVs (Samsung, LG, Vizio), gaming consoles (PlayStation and Xbox ), Plex, iOS and Android mobile devices and on desktops at Crackle.com and Redbox.com.