Max to Add 86 New Titles This Week – Here’s the 3 Most Interesting

By Phillip Swann
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Max, the streaming service formerly known as HBO Max, this week (June 30-July 6, 2024) plans to add 86 new TV shows and movies. Here are the three most interesting, in my humble opinion:

Hard Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants (HBO Original)
The title says this year’s edition of HBO’s Hard Knocks will present the offseason with the New York Giants. That seems appropriate since the Giants had another ‘off season’ in 2023, finishing a disappointing 6-11. However, the Hard Knocks look at the team as it enters its 100th season should be entertaining with a motley crew of colorful characters on hand such as quarterback Daniel Jones recovering from a torn ACL and first round draft pick Malik Nabers. The doc will show the team’s planning sessions during the 2024 draft, minicamps and the NFL Combine. Debuts Tuesday, July 2.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
Mike Nichols’ directorial debut is a sensation thanks to two powerhouse performances from Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as a warring married couple who live to booze and taunt (each other and their dinner guests played by George Segal and Sandy Dennis.) The Ernest Lehman screenplay, based on the Edward Albee play, is a chilling commentary on the illusions of marriage as well as a winking nod to the battling Bickersons of real life, Liz and Dick. WAVW will make you think about, laugh at and cry for the on-screen (and off-screen) personas who can’t resist inflicting pain where it hurts the most, particularly when it’s so perversely entertaining. Debuts Monday, July 1.

Contraband: Seized at the Border, Season 4 (Discovery Original)
The Discovery docuseries examines the ongoing crisis on the Mexican/U.S. border where border agents’ mission impossible is to stop the overwhelming flow of illegal migrants, asylum seekers and drugs as well as the possibility of terrorism. The 12-episode season four chronicles what goes on behind the scenes when agents are outmanned and, in some cases, outgunned. Debuts Tuesday, July 2.

Complete List of New Titles Coming to Max This Week

Sunday, June 30
The Great Food Truck Race, Season 17 (Food Network)

Monday, July 1
Three Amigos! (1986)
17 Again (2009)
90 Day Fiance: The Other Way, Season 6 (TLC)
America’s Best Towns to Visit
As Good as It Gets (1997)

Babe (1995)
Batman and Harley Quinn (2017)
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One (2021)
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two (2021)
Beowulf (2007)

Blended (2014)
Black Adam (2022)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Butterfield 8 (1960)

Candyman 3: Day of the Dead (1999)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Chinatown (1974)
Cleopatra (1963)
The Company You Keep (2013)

The Craft (1996)
Cyrus (2010)
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
The Express (2008)
The Eyes of My Mother (2016)

Firestarter (1984)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Frank (2014)
Garden State (2004)
Gattaca (1997)

Giant (1956)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
The Glass Castle (2017)
Gods of Egypt (2016)

Good Luck Chuck (2007)
Grand Piano (2014)
Inside Job (2010)
Lady Bird (2017)
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love (2019)

The Meg (2018)
Melancholia (2011)
Mortal Kombat (1995)
A Most Wanted Man (2014)
National Velvet (1944)

Network (1976)
Out of the Furnace (2013)
Panic Room (2002)
Parenthood (1989)
Please Stand By (2018)

Posse: The Revenge of Jessie Lee (1993)
Raging Bull (1980)
Rescue Dawn (2007)
The Rider (2018)
Saw (2004)

Saw 3D: The Final Chapter (2010)
Saw II (2005)
Saw III (2006)
Saw IV (2007)
Saw V (2008)

Saw VI (2009)
Signs (2002)
Single White Female (1992)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The Smurfs (Movie) (2011)

Spy Kids (2001)
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (2011)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

To Sir, with Love (1967)
To the Wonder (2012)
Twister (1996)
Unbreakable (2000)
West Side Story (1961)
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Woodshock (2017)

Tuesday, July 2
Contraband: Seized at the Border, Season 4 (Discovery)
Hard Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants (HBO Original)
Mecum Full Throttle: Indianapolis IN 2024 (Motor Trend)

Wednesday, July 3
Barnwood Builders, Season 18 (Magnolia Network)

Friday, July 5
Beachfront Bargain Hunt Renovation, Season 9 (Magnolia Network)
Care Bears: Unlock the Magic (Specials): The Star of a Thousand Wishes (2024)
Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, Season 48 (Food Network)
King of Zanzibar (Max Original)

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