HBO Max to Add 68 New Releases This Week: The 3 to Watch

By Phillip Swann
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HBO Max this week (January 26-February 1, 2025) is adding 68 new TV shows and movies to its streaming lineup. Here are the three to watch, in my humble opinion:

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025)
When to Watch: Friday, January 30
What Kind of Movie: Drama
Who’s In It: Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien
Rose Byrne stars in her Oscar-nominated role as a psychotherapist who needs more help than her patients due to stress over her daughter’s feeding disorder. Unable to handle the pressure, she turns to drugs, alcohol and anything else that might provide short-term relief. The film serves a great lesson about human fragility and its power to possess at a moment’s notice.

I’m Chevy Chase And You’re Not
When to Watch: Saturday, January 31
What Kind of Show: Documentary
Who’s In It: Chevy Chase
The CNN documentary chronicles the controversial career of Chevy Chase who has become an industry outcast due to boorish behavior. CC’s catalog of comedy (Saturday Night Live, Caddyshack, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Fletch, etc.) is among the best of the last several decades but he’s definitely not having the last laugh at the age of 82. The show includes extensive interviews with the comedian who only solidifies his reputation with frequent, bitter jabs at the interviewer. (I watched the doc when it first aired on CNN, and as a longtime Chevy fan, was sadden that he can’t accept he’s his own worst enemy.)

Malcolm X (1992)
When to Watch: Sunday, February 1
What Kind of Film: Biofilm
Who’s In It: Denzel Washington’s Spike Lee
Spike Lee’s evocative 1992 drama starring Denzel Washington as the 1960s civil rights leader is the director at the peak of his powers (Denzel, too.). The film chronicles the amazing life of Malcolm X from his days as a Detroit drug dealer to his transformation as a religious leader and civil rights icon. Beautiful film in more ways than one.

Movies & Shows Coming to HBO Max This Week

Tuesday, January 27
33 Photos from the Ghetto (HBO Original)

Thursday, January 29
Beat Bobby Flay, Season 40 (Food Network)

Friday, January 30
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A24)

Saturday, January 31
I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not (CNN Films)

Sunday, February 1
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2073

Aftermath

Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

Betrayed (1944)

Build for Off-Road, Season 2 (Motortrend)

Captains Courageous (1937)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)

Ferdinand

Get Him to the Greek

Get Him to the Greek: Unrated

The Harvey Girls

Honky Tonk

Hop (2011)

Inconceivable

Insidious: Chapter 3

Jezebel

Just Mercy

Key Largo

King Solomon’s Mines

Kitty Foyle

Lady Be Good

Laughing Sinners

The Life of Emile Zola

Life of Pi

Lone Star

The Lost Husband

Love & Basketball

Love Happens

MacGruber

MacGruber: Unrated

Malcolm X

Marie Antoinette

Masterminds

Mildred Pierce (1945)

Mister Roberts

Mrs. Miniver

My Blind Brother

My Cousin Rachel

National Velvet

The Notebook

Now, Voyager

One Way Passage

Open Water

The Perfect Match

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Robin Hood (2010)

The Search

The Shape of Water

Silver River

The Spectacular Now

Story of Louis Pasteur

Strike Up the Band

They Were Expendable

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

This Modern Age

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Vacation from Marriage

Watch on the Rhine

Westbound

The Woman in Red

Wuthering Heights (1939)

The Yearling

Zola

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