Scrolling endlessly through the Max (formerly HBO Max) streaming service can be frustrating, so let us help curate your movie night with a selection of some of the best new movies streaming on Max this month. Below, we’ve put together a list that runs the gamut from horror (Halloween is just around the corner) to rom-coms to superhero blockbusters and beyond. There’s a little something for everyone, so choose wisely and you won’t be disappointed.
Check out our picks for some of the best new movies on Max in August 2023 below.
“Nightmare on Elm Street” (New Line)
“A Nightmare on Elm Street” Franchise
If you want to kick off Spooky Season early, Max just added the entire “A Nightmare on Elm Street” franchise. All six original films plus the 2010 reboot (you can skip that one) are streaming, so now’s the perfect time to check out Wes Craven...
Check out our picks for some of the best new movies on Max in August 2023 below.
“Nightmare on Elm Street” (New Line)
“A Nightmare on Elm Street” Franchise
If you want to kick off Spooky Season early, Max just added the entire “A Nightmare on Elm Street” franchise. All six original films plus the 2010 reboot (you can skip that one) are streaming, so now’s the perfect time to check out Wes Craven...
- 8/20/2023
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
Freddy Krueger has a choice to make. On one side is Lori (Monica Keena), the woman he had been antagonizing throughout the movie Freddy vs. Jason, along with her wounded boyfriend Will (Jason Ritter). On the other is Kia (Kelly Rowland), Lori’s grouchy friend.
After dithering for a moment, Freddy (Robert Englund) looks at the Kia and smiles. “How sweet,” he says to the Black woman. “Dark meat.”
Remembering seeing the movie when it was released 20 years ago, Kumail Nanjiani described the audience’s groans at that line. “People were disappointed in Freddy Krueger,” Nanjiani recalled. “We’re okay with you murdering children with your needle gloves,” he quipped. “But racism?”
Nanjiani’s bit captures the public perception of Freddy when Freddy vs Jason premiered on August 15, 2003. Even though the character officially died in 1991’s Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, the terrifying monster of Wes Craven’s 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street...
After dithering for a moment, Freddy (Robert Englund) looks at the Kia and smiles. “How sweet,” he says to the Black woman. “Dark meat.”
Remembering seeing the movie when it was released 20 years ago, Kumail Nanjiani described the audience’s groans at that line. “People were disappointed in Freddy Krueger,” Nanjiani recalled. “We’re okay with you murdering children with your needle gloves,” he quipped. “But racism?”
Nanjiani’s bit captures the public perception of Freddy when Freddy vs Jason premiered on August 15, 2003. Even though the character officially died in 1991’s Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, the terrifying monster of Wes Craven’s 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street...
- 8/16/2023
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
We never expected to see characters like Kirby Reed and Billy Loomis make their return to the Scream franchise, but both Scream 2022 and Scream VI have proven that nothing is ever off the table when it comes to this particular slasher saga. Billy appeared in both films in visions experienced by his daughter, while Scream VI literally brought Kirby back to life.
So who’s next? Well, Drew Barrymore recently joked that Casey Becker could theoretically still be alive out there somewhere, and now Parker Posey is expressing similar sentiments about her character from Scream 3. Posey memorably played Jennifer Jolie in Craven’s third movie, the actress playing Gale Weathers in the Stab movies.
As Jenn Adams wrote here on Bloody Disgusting back in March, “The flaky actress stars as Gale Weathers in the parody films and forms a hilarious partnership with her real-life counterpart when her co-stars begin to die.
So who’s next? Well, Drew Barrymore recently joked that Casey Becker could theoretically still be alive out there somewhere, and now Parker Posey is expressing similar sentiments about her character from Scream 3. Posey memorably played Jennifer Jolie in Craven’s third movie, the actress playing Gale Weathers in the Stab movies.
As Jenn Adams wrote here on Bloody Disgusting back in March, “The flaky actress stars as Gale Weathers in the parody films and forms a hilarious partnership with her real-life counterpart when her co-stars begin to die.
- 4/18/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
The “Scream” franchise is at an all-time high right now, with March’s “Scream VI” grossing $106 million and counting at the domestic box office to become the series’ top-grossing film. No wonder former cast members like Drew Barrymore and Parker Posey are eager to return.
Posey, who has been making the press rounds in support of her role in Ari Aster’s “Beau Is Afraid,” told ComicBook.com that she’s interested in reprising the role of Jennifer Jolie from 2000’s “Scream 3.” Jennifer was the actor playing Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) in the “Stab” franchise. She was killed by Ghostface, but that didn’t stop Posey from recently pitching her return to the “Scream” team.
“Well, I did an interview for Wnyc Radio, like three weeks ago, for the play I was doing. And they said, ‘Well, there’s some people here that want to say hi.’ And it was the ‘Scream’ team,...
Posey, who has been making the press rounds in support of her role in Ari Aster’s “Beau Is Afraid,” told ComicBook.com that she’s interested in reprising the role of Jennifer Jolie from 2000’s “Scream 3.” Jennifer was the actor playing Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) in the “Stab” franchise. She was killed by Ghostface, but that didn’t stop Posey from recently pitching her return to the “Scream” team.
“Well, I did an interview for Wnyc Radio, like three weeks ago, for the play I was doing. And they said, ‘Well, there’s some people here that want to say hi.’ And it was the ‘Scream’ team,...
- 4/18/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
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