If you're an HBO Max subscriber in the U.S.and you've been paying attention, this part of August is still basking in the bloody chicklets of Bob Odenkirk's new action flick, Conan O'Brien is about to sprawl himself across the globe again in a new season of ; and the DC Universe is expanding a little more on the service with .This week's movies on HBO Max play right into all that end-of-month heat, with a dark and artsy A24 thriller with Anne Hathaway, a weird and creepy horror that started as a joke, and my top pick, a little homework to get you primed and ready for .
3 Mother Mary Anne Hathaway is a mega pop star with a dark passenger Get out your Anne Hathaway bingo card and get ready to put a big old blot of ink on the strangest, darkest, and most artsy film of her packed year ...so far.Yes, the A-lister is four-fifths of the way through her 2026 lineup, highlighted by , , , and October's thriller, the only film here that might compete with 's thrills.
But while we wait to find out, check out Hathaway as you've never seen her: the Madonna-but-darker pop megastar Mother Mary, who's in the midst of a haunting existential and career crisis.After an onstage incident at a concert, Mary turns up in Berlin at the door of her estranged best friend and costume designer, Sam Anselm Michaela Coel of who built her whole image.Mary needs a special dress for her comeback in a single day, and no one knows Mary like Sam.
Holed up in Sam's studio, the deeply connected friends unravel their past, their traumas, and their transgressions, until they learn that what's haunting Mary might not be guilt, but something supernatural.With original songs by Charli XCX, Jack Antonoff, and FKA twigs—who also turns up on screen alongside Hunter Schafer and Kaia Gerber—Mother Mary starts streaming on HBO Max on August 21.Mother Mary R Music Drama Thriller Release Date April 17, 2026 Where to watch Close WHERE TO WATCH RENT BUY Cast Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel, Hunter Schafer, FKA Twigs, Sian Clifford, Kaia Gerber, Alba Baptista, Atheena Frizzell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Isaura Barbé-Brown, Jeanne Nicole Ní Áinle, Dani Vitale Runtime 112 minutes Director David Lowery Writers David Lowery Producers David Lowery, James M.
Johnston, Jeanie Igoe, Jonas Katzenstein, Jonathan Saubach, Maximilian Leo, Toby Halbrooks Main Genre Drama Executive Producer(s) Andrea Scarso, Carlotta Löffelholz, Danny Cohen, Ian M.Stratford, Josh Allan, Len Blavatnik, Michael Bloom, Philipp Klausing, Ryan Heller, Rusta Mizani, Simon B.Stein, Timo Argillander Powered by Expand Collapse 2 Thanksgiving A cautionary tale for the next Black Friday I know we're months away from the second-greatest American holiday on the calendar, but you never know what streaming service this wonderful oddity of a horror film will end up on, come November.
is Eli Roth's best-reviewed movie as a director, sitting at 83% on Rotten Tomatoes.What started out as a fake trailer he made for Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's 2007 double feature, , Roth spent 16 years making it into a full feature of madness.The story takes place in Plymouth, Massachusetts, during Black Friday.
After stampeding hordes of overzealous shoppers at a big-box store trample and kill three people, the small town struggles to recover from the tragedy.A year later, a serial killer dressed up like a pilgrim and wearing a John Carver mask starts taking revenge on everyone connected to the deaths.As the victims start showing up around town—in horrifically creative ways—the town's sheriff (Patrick Dempsey) is on the case.
If you're into slasher films, is a gravy-boat full of fun for a movie night.And if you want more like it, two more fake trailers from have made it to the big screen—2010's Danny Trejo crime comedy, , and 2011's hilariously dark , starring the excellent Rutger Hauer.Thanksgiving R Horror Mystery Release Date November 16, 2023 Where to watch Close WHERE TO WATCH Streaming RENT BUY Cast Patrick Dempsey, Nell Verlaque, Addison Rae, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Tomaso Sanelli, Jenna Warren, Gabriel Davenport, Ty Olsson, Gina Gershon, Karen Cliche, Rick Hoffman, Derek McGrath, Katherine Trowell, Lynne Griffin, Mika Amonsen, Amanda Barker, Shailyn Griffin, Tim Dillon, Chris Sandiford, Xavier Sabeta, Yusuf Zine, Russell Yuen, Jeff Teravainen, Jordan Poole Runtime 106 minutes Director Eli Roth Writers Jeff Rendell, Eli Roth Producers Roger Birnbaum, Eli Roth, Jeff Rendell Main Genre Horror Studio(s) Spyglass Media Group, Electromagnetic Productions Distributor(s) TriStar Pictures Executive Producer(s) Chris Stone, Chris Stone, Gary Barber, Greg Denny, Kate Harrison Karman, Peter Oillataguerre Powered by Expand Collapse 1 The Suicide Squad (2021) James Gunn's DC debut is a perfect Lanterns warm-up As HBO Max's so-far-so-good series continues driving James Gunn's DCU forward, it's always nice to go back to the roots of things.
Gunn wrote and directed shortly after Marvel briefly cut him loose in 2018, and it's the best thing that ever happened to him—scoring a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, revitalizing DC's movie output, and leading the studio to hand him the whole enchilada.A.R.G.U.S.(Advanced Research Group Uniting Super-Humans) director Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) needs an expendable crew for a dangerous mission to the island nation of Corto Maltese, where a former Nazi lab is housing something gruesome, deadly, and not of Earth that needs to be disposed of.
She finds this ragtag group of misfits at Belle Reve prison—Bloodsport (Idris Elba), Peacemaker (John Cena), Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), Ratcatcher 2 (Daniela Melchior), Polka-Dot Man (David Dastmalchian), and King Shark (voiced by Sylvester Stallone)—and sends them into action, if they don't kill each other first.is a do-over of 2016's and the launchpad for the DC Universe that now includes the HBO Max series , the animated , 2025's , this year's, and .The Suicide Squad R Action Comedy Adventure Release Date August 6, 2021 Where to watch Close WHERE TO WATCH Streaming RENT BUY Cast Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Joel Kinnaman, Sylvester Stallone, Viola Davis, David Dastmalchian, Daniela Melchior, Michael Rooker, Jai Courtney, Peter Capaldi, Alice Braga, Pete Davidson, Joaquín Cosío, Juan Diego Botto, Storm Reid, Nathan Fillion, Taika Waititi, Steve Agee, Sean Gunn, John Ostrander, Flula Borg, Mayling Ng, Stephen Blackehart, Tinashe Kajese Runtime 132 minutes Director James Gunn Writers James Gunn Producers Charles Roven, Peter Safran Prequel(s) Suicide Squad Franchise(s) DC Extended Universe, The Suicide Squad Main Genre Action Budget $185 Million Studio(s) Warner Bros.
Pictures Distributor(s) Warner Bros.Pictures Executive Producer(s) Deborah Snyder, Walter Hamada, Zack Snyder Powered by Expand Collapse A dark comeback, a grudge, and a doomed mission Three solid picks you can watch in any order you like, and you'll still have all that DC context for this weekend's episode of .Our streaming section at How-To Geek sorts through what's coming next, so stay tuned there, too.
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