It truly is March Madness on IFC, with a slew of films to watch...or at least to set your DVR for. Here's just a sampling of what's on the schedule.

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery premieres this month. Truth is, thanks to Mike Myers, Austin Powers is one of the most recognizable characters in cinematic history. A shagadelic spy with oddly shaped chest hair, he can woo any woman, including the aptly named Alotta Fagina, who could quite possibly kick "Bond" femme fatale Pussy Galore's butt on, uh-hum, assets alone. Numerous references, including to Italian director Antonioni's first Brit flick "Blow-Up" and a host of James Bond films, make this the ultimate satire on spy films of the 1960s.

Speaking of shagging, IFC premieres Shopping, the sole film responsible for the off-screen hook up of Jude Law and Sadie Frost. Its an über high adrenaline rush involving two rival gangs getting their kicks out of smashing cars through store windows. Defines new meaning for the term 'drive-thru.'

And, we are really amped for the premiere of a new anime series, Speed Grapher. Brace yourself, these aren't your Saturday morning kiddie cartoons. This anime delves so deep into a fetish-filled dirty underworld that it airs late night only, right before IFC's Grindhouse film on Fridays, also a good time to catch the third installment of Scream. Scream 3 is a horror film within a horror film (say what?); look at it this way, it's a double order of gore AND boobs.

Less guts, more gutsy performance, "There Will Be Blood" gave Daniel Day Lewis his second Best Actor Oscar. Lewis' first golden mini man came for his role as cerebral palsy-stricken novelist Christy Brown in My Left Foot, airing on IFC this month.

If you're still not convinced, IFC is pulling out all the stops in March with the pants-dropping flick that made Mark Wahlberg, and Dirk Diggler, household names: Boogie Nights. Pass the prosthetics, please.

Check out the complete schedule of films and original series by clicking the 'On IFC' tab. Don't forget to set your clocks ahead one hour on Sunday, March 9th@2am in case your favorite indie is on IFC smack dab in the middle of that mysterious time warp of an hour known as daylight savings time.

• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
• Shopping
• Speed Grapher
• Scream 3
• My Left Foot
• Boogie Nights
• Monthly schedule for March

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Here on the IFC Now blog, members of the IFC staff will post updates, info and various other blog-like musings to let our online audience know what is going on at IFC and IFC.com.

Right now, we are getting ready for this year's Spirit Awards - tomorrow (Saturday) February 23rd.

On IFC.com, we'll be presenting the Spirit Awards Red Carpet Experience - live from the beach in Santa Monica, you can watch the celebs arrive on our live webcast of the Spirit Awards red carpet. IFC News host Matt Singer will be down on the carpet doing interviews while IFC.com's Alison Willmore and SXSW Film Festival producer Matt Dentler provide audio commentary. Go to spiritawards.ifc.com/redcarpet/ to check out the scene - this Saturday from 2:30 ET/11:30 PT to 5:00 ET/2:00 PT.

Then turn on your TV @ 5 ET/2 PT to watch the Spirit Awards on IFC, live, uncut and uncensored as always. This year, the show will be hosted by Rainn Wilson and promises to be highly entertaining. If you need a refresher on who's nominated this year, check out our Spirit Awards mini-site. And yes, we've got a printable ballot (so you can see how well you do at guessing the winners.)

Enjoy the festivities. And please post your comments here - what you liked, hated, or were completely puzzled by. We want to know!

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Welcome to the new ifc.com - the home for the voices of independent culture.

We've been working on the new site for months - taking your comments and complaints to heart, and redesigning ifc.com for you. We hope, you'll find it easier to navigate, easier to search and easier to get lost... lost in the articles, videos, exclusive web series, blogs, communities and ever expanding array of free expression cultivated and curated on its pages.

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