Logan with Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, arguably the most mature superhero movie to date, makes its HBO debut in December, and the HBO original miniseries Gunpowder, a historical drama about the Guy Fawkes plot to blow up the British Parliament starring Kit Harington and Liv Tyler, begins in December. Other new films coming in […]
Get Out, Jordan Peele’s smart, sly, satirical horror film with a social slant on race in America, makes its HBO debut and Jon Stewart hosts the all-star benefit Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs in November. Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney directs the two-part documentary Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge, which […]
La La Land, the Oscar-winning musical with Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, and Oscar-nominated drama Hidden Figures, starring Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer as real-life mathematicians who worked behind the scenes at NASA, debut on HBO in September, along with the action thriller Assassin’s Creed, based on the video game, and the comedy Why […]
Between his breakthrough hit Memento and his blockbuster smash Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan helmed Insomnia (2002), the American remake of the icy, sun-bright 1997 Norwegian noir. Relocated to Alaska and starring Al Pacino in the role played by Stellan Skarsgård in the original, it’s built on the same motif: the 24 hour daylight of the […]
It may be summer outside but winter is here on HBO as Game of Thrones returns. The seventh season of HBO’s most popular series debuts in July, along with new seasons of the HBO originals Insecure with Issa Ray and Ballers with Dwayne Johnson. HBO also debuts the four-part original documentary The Defiant Ones about […]
Carl Reiner talks with fellow nonagenarians and centenarians Mel Brooks, Dick Van Dyke, Kirk Douglas, Norman Lear, and Betty White for If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast. The HBO original documentary debuts on HBO Now, HBO Go, and HBO On Demand in June the day after the acclaimed series The Leftovers ends its […]
Robert De Niro is Bernie Madoff in The Wizard of Lies, an HBO original movie about the infamous Ponzi scheme directed by Barry Levinson. It’s the channel’s marquee offering for May, a month that also features the debuts of the original documentaries Warning: This Drug May Kill You, a look into the opioid epidemic, and […]
Jude Law is The Young Pope in the limited series that imagines the first American Pope in history. The ten-part series from Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino debuts on HBO in January along with new seasons of Sesame Street and Real Time with Bill Maher and two original documentaries: Beware the Slenderman, about the two adolescent […]
For a limited time, HBO subscribers (cable and streaming both) can watch the entire first season the acclaimed Cinemax original series The Knick. Starring Clive Owen as the brilliant, unconventional surgeon at a struggling hospital in 1900 New York City, the medical drama period piece is the project to which Steven Soderbergh committed himself after […]
