Max to Add 136 New Titles This Week – Here Are the 3 Most Interesting
By Phillip Swann
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Max, the streaming service formerly known as HBO Max, this week (December 29, 2024-January 4, 2025) plans to add 136 new TV shows and movies to its streaming lineup. Here are the three most interesting, in my humble opinion:
The Front Room (2024)
Brandy stars as Belinda, a black pregnant college professor who reluctantly agrees to stay with her husband’s stepmother (Kathryn Hunter) after his father dies. The stepmother convinced her by promising to give Belinda and her husband the Dad’s sizable inheritance. However, after settling in, the couple soon begin experiencing religious-themed hallucinations and the stepmom may be a racist! The psychological horror film was directed (and written) by first-time directors (and brothers) Max and Sam Eggers (Brother Robert Eggers helmed the critically-acclaimed The Lighthouse and Nosferatu. Let’s see if Sam and Max can keep up.) Debuts Friday, January 3.
Mad Max (1979)
The post-apocalyptic film stars Mel Gibson as a police officer forced to enter survival mode when society becomes lawless due to shortages of critical resources. The movie made Mel a star but don’t forget director George Miller’s visionary storytelling and flawless scene staging. Classic work. Debuts Wednesday, January 1.
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Bradley Cooper shines in this David O. Russell comedy/drama film as a bipolar teacher named Pat who loses his grip on reality after seeing his wife having sex with a fellow teacher. Once out of a mental institution, Pat attempts to rebuild his life but is soon thrown a curve by a curvaceous young widow (Jennifer Lawrence) whose hold on reality is equally suspect. Cooper and Lawrence are wonderful together in this dysfunctional romcom and Robert De Niro is a hoot as Pat’s mentally uncertain father who lives and dies with the hometown Philadelphia Eagles. Silver Linings Playbook is a great movie that will make you smile, laugh and cry. Debuts Wednesday, January 1.
Complete List of New Titles Coming to Max This Week
Monday, December 30
Home Town, Season 9 (HGTV)
Teen Titans Go!, Season 8, Episodes 35-37 (Cartoon Network)
Yellowstone Wardens, Season 6 (Animal Planet)
Wednesday, January 1
5 Things with Kate Bolduan (CNN)
A Star is Born (1937)
Act of Valor (2012)
All Elite Wrestling: 2019 PPV Events (5 Episodes) (2024)
All Elite Wrestling: Collision 2024 (5 Episodes), Season 2
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite 2019 (12 Episodes), Season 1
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite 2024 (7 Episodes), Season 6
All Elite Wrestling: Rampage 12/13/2024, Season 4
Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
Annabelle: Creation (2017)
Balls Out (2015)
Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Around the World (2015)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)
Best Of Enemies (2015)
Bitter Creek (1954)
Black Gold (1947)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Buffaloed (2020)
Calamity Jane (1953)
Call Me by Your Name (2017)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Cow Country (1953)
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
Destination Tokyo (1943)
Diggers (2007)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Each Dawn I Die (1939)
Eat Pray Love (2010)
Fast & Furious (2009)
Floyd Norman: An Animated Life (2016)
Free Birds (2013)
Green Lantern (2011)
Heaven Help Us (1985)
HGTV Dream Home 2025
Home Again (2017)
Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015)
House at the End of the Street (2012)
I Am Love (2009)
Injustice (2021)
Iris (2015)
It Follows (2015)
It: Chapter Two (2019)
Jason Bourne (2016)
Johnny Angel (1946)
Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016)
Justice League: Doom (2012)
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)
Justice League: War (2014)
Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016)
Kept Husbands (1931)
Kicks (2016)
Lemon (2017)
Mad Max (1980)
Matilda (1986)
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
Morgan (2016)
Mortdecai (2015)
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
My Favorite Wife (1940)
Mystic Pizza (1988)
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)
Night and Day (1946)
Nocturne (1946)
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band (2020)
Paddington (2014)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Red Light (1949)
Reframed: Next Gen Narratives, Season 1 (2025)
Room for One More (1952)
School Life (2017)
Sex and the City 2 (2010)
Shining Vale, Season 1
Shining Vale, Season 2
Showing Up (2023)
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
St. Vincent (2014)
Steel Magnolias (1989)
Stephen King’s It (1990)
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015)
Sully (2016)
Supergirl (1984)
Superman & Lois, Season 4
Tangerine (2015)
Task Force (1949)
Teen Wolf (1985)
Tennessee Johnson (1942)
The Accountant (2016)
The Addams Family 2 (2016)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The Big Year (2011)
The Birth of a Nation (2016)
The Boondock Saints (1999)
The Cable Guy (1996)
The Conjuring 2 (2016)
The Craft (1996)
The Curse of La Llorona (2019)
The Imitation Game (2014)
The Leopard Man (1943)
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
The Mouthpiece (1932)
The Narrow Margin (1952)
The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
The Purge: Election Year (2016)
The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
The Student Prince (1954)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
The Whistlers (2020)
The Wrong Man (1957)
Volunteers (1985)
Warcraft (2016)
Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic (2008)
Whitey: United States of America V. James J. Bulger (2014)
Wild Boys of the Road (1993)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Woman in Gold (2015)
World Without End (1956)
Thursday, January 2
Expedition Files, Season 1 (Discovery)
Isadora Moon, Season 1A (Max Original)
My 600-lb Life, Season 13 (TLC)
The Deep 3, Episode 227 (TNT)
Friday, January 3
Beachfront Bargain Hunt Renovation, Season 10 (Magnolia Network)
Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, Season 49 (Food Network)
The Front Room (A24)
Saturday, January 4
Belle Collective, Season 5 (OWN)
The TV Answer Man is veteran journalist Phillip Swann who has covered television for more than three decades. He will report on the latest news and answer your questions regarding new devices and services that are changing the way you watch television. See the bio for Phillip Swann here.
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