August shouldn’t be the best month for authentic and new-to-streaming content material on Max, however there are a number of new and notable films and exhibits coming to the platform.
The one I am most enthusiastic about (and it isn’t even shut) is Chimp Loopy, an HBO authentic documentary about Tonia Haddix, the “Dolly Parton of chimps,” and her battle towards the authorities on behalf of her chimp child. In case your tastes are extra refined than “lol monkeys,” there is a new season of white collar drama Business to take pleasure in, or you could possibly settle into an previous Hollywood vibe with Elizabeth Taylor: The Misplaced Tapes.
Chimp Loopy
Chimp Loopy is an HBO authentic documentary that tells the story of nurse-turned-exotic-animal-broker Tonia Haddix, who battles legislation enforcement, animal rights activists, and customary sense on behalf of a fantastic ape that might rip her face off at any time as a result of it is a wild animal, not a child. There are additionally interviews and profiles of different chimp mothers.
Begins streaming August 18.
Business, Season 3
Working in an workplace certain is thrilling on tv! Season 3 of Business continues the story of the back-biting, scheming, and cruel politics behind the scenes at London funding banking agency Pierpoint & Co., the place folks I’d not need to hang around with in actual life struggle to get forward within the company finance world. In line with the HBO, this season, Pierpoint “seems to be to the longer term and takes an enormous guess on moral investing,” whereas “Yasmin, Robert, and Eric discover themselves entrance and middle within the splashy IPO of Lumi, a inexperienced tech vitality firm led by Sir Henry Muck.”
Begins streaming August 11.
Elizabeth Taylor: The Misplaced Tapes
In 1964, actress Elizabeth Taylor recorded over 40 hours of interviews; this HBO authentic documentary dug ’em up and is enjoying The Misplaced Tapes for the primary time. These intimate recordings go deep into the vagaries and contradictions of stardom and the forces that influenced Taylor’s difficult life as an actress, an activist, and essentially the most stunning lady on the earth.
Begins streaming August 3.
Exhausting Knocks: Coaching Camp with the Chicago Bears
The long-running HBO actuality present Exhausting Knocks goes behind the scenes and into the locker room of the floundering Chicago Bears. Can the squad’s new, #1 draft quarterback Caleb Williams remodel The Bears from a franchise with a 7 and 10 report in 2023 to a franchise with perhaps an 11 and 6 report in 2024? Tune in to seek out out.
Begins streaming August 6.
Rick and Morty: The Anime
If you cannot get sufficient Rick and Morty, Max is presenting a spin-off collection that places the titular characters in an anime setting. Directed by Takashi Sano, Rick and Morty: The Anime is a 10-episode collection exhibiting Rick “stress-free in a pseudo-world between multiverses,” Summer season serving to House Beth battle the Galactic Federation, and Morty falling in love with an atemporal being.
Begins streaming August 16.
Alien Encounters: Reality or Fiction, Season 1
Spoiler: Fiction.
Begins streaming August 8.
Taken Collectively: Who Killed Lyric and Elizabeth?
This HBO authentic true crime documentary tells the tragic story of the kidnapping and homicide of Lyric Prepare dinner-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins in Evansdale, Iowa, in 2012. The cousins had been final seen driving their bikes close to a park when somebody snatched them in broad daylight. The our bodies had been found months later, however nobody is aware of who was accountable for their deaths. This doc digs into theories across the crime via interviews with relations and authorities.
Begins streaming August 8.
Final month’s picks
Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
This horny, slow-burn thriller earned a 94% contemporary ranking on Rotten Tomatoes for its can-you-believe-this-shit? plot and nuanced performances from a proficient forged together with Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brian, and Ed Harris. Love Lies Bleeding tells the story of Lou (Stewart), a health club proprietor in New Mexico who falls in love with Jackie (O’Brian), a ‘roided-out new bodybuilder on the town. The connection and their lives rapidly spiral uncontrolled in unpredictable, violent ways in which I will not spoil. However see this film in the event you like edgy flicks that embrace riskiness and the sudden.
Begins streaming July 19.
Exhausting Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants
This season of Exhausting Knocks takes you contained in the locker rooms and boardrooms of the New York Giants as they attempt to put collectively a viable squad for the franchise’s a hundredth season. In case you missed it, 2023 was not 12 months for the Giants—they ended up with dismal six wins and 11 losses, so there is a lot of labor to do and rather a lot on the road for the previous arms and new draftees carrying Giants colours. Though I’ve emotions concerning the Giants, I am going to nonetheless watch this, like each soccer fan, as a result of there are no video games on.
Begins streaming July 2.
Knox Goes Away (2024)
In case you noticed Michael Keaton in 1983’s Mr. Mother, you most likely did not think about that its seeming light-weight star would nonetheless be lively within the twenty first century and his factor could be making advanced, darkish movies like Knox Goes Away. Keaton directed and stars because the title character, a hitman who’s stricken with dementia, making an attempt to assist his estranged son who’s dedicated a homicide. So it is bizarre, intriguing, and never fairly like another film.
Begins streaming July 26.
Kite Man: Hell Yeah! Season 1
Kite Man is an precise DC Comics supervillain who makes use of kites and gliders to commit super-crimes. He is as ridiculous as he sounds, however Kite Man turned a fan favourite for his ridiculous gimmick, can-do spirit, and dumb catchphrase: “Kite Man! Hell yeah!” In different phrases he is the proper topic for a comedy superhero cartoon. In Kite Man: Hell Yeah!, the title character and his lover Golden Glider open a bar close to the Legion of Doom headquarters to sling drinks to Lex Luthor’s workforce of extra profitable supervillains.
Begins streaming July 18.
Faye
Faye tells the story of difficult-but-talented actress Faye Dunaway and her tumultuous life and profession. By way of archival footage and interviews with Dunaway and the folks near her, Faye takes us deep contained in the life and instances of one of many final actual film stars. In case you like previous Hollywood, this documentary will likely be proper up your alley.
Begins streaming July 13.
The Commandant’s Shadow
The Commandant’s Shadow tells the true story behind Oscar-award profitable movie The Zone of Curiosity. 87-year-old Hans Jürgen Höss’ father was Rudolf Höss, the infamous commandant of Auschwitz who was accountable for the homicide of over one million Jews. On this documentary collection, Höss confronts his father’s monstrous legacy and meets a number of the survivors of Auschwitz.
Begins streaming July 18.
Wild Wild House
This HBO authentic documentary tells the story of a wild west drama taking place proper now, simply outdoors of our environment, as visionaries and capitalist shoot satellites into area in a battle for management of the brand new frontier: low Earth orbit. Ought to we be round for The Future, there is a good likelihood the themes of Wild Wild House can have a hand in what it is like, so verify this out for a sneak peak of a brand new age of area capitalism.
Begins streaming July 18.
Quad Gods
Richard, Blake, and Prentice met at a New York rehab middle the place they had been being handled for quadriplegia. They had been all hardcore avid gamers and fashioned the Quad Gods, the primary all-quadriplegic esports gaming workforce, the place they pwned noobs all around the world. Greater than only a enjoyable interest, gaming is a part of their innovative neurological rehab course of; Quad Gods tells their story and digs into the medical developments which may come from their interest.
Begins streaming July 10.
Teen Torture Inc.
On this three-episode documentary collection, a band of survivors from numerous “troubled teen” packages (together with rap star Bhad Bhabie) workforce as much as blow the whistle on the exploitative, nightmarish trade the place youngsters are routinely subjected to cult-like conditioning and bodily and sexual abuse within the identify of “robust love.” These younger folks have a severe axe to grind, and are utilizing social media and the courtroom system to attempt to shut down their former captors. In case you like a Good vs. Evil true story, do not miss Teen Torture Inc.
Begins streaming July 11.
Sharks, sharks, sharks!
Do you want sharks? As a result of HBO and Max are going shark loopy in July. Shark fanciers will gorge like a fantastic white on a defenseless porpoise with these 20 shark-centric specials produced by the Discovery Channel, together with Stomach of the Beast: Greater and Bloodier, Sydney Harbor Shark Invasion, Nice White Serial Killer: Sea of Blood, one thing known as Mothersharker: Hammertime and plenty of, many extra.
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