There's a lot coming to the streaming service Max in May, so to save you some effort, I've filtered the list to highlight only the latest and greatest movies and shows. This month’s lineup includes thoughtful coming-of-age story Turtles all the Way Down , a new season of Hacks , and exclusive Max movies The Iron Claw and Stop Making Sense . Read on to see the best content playing on Max this month.
Turtle all the way down
Adapted from the young adult novel by John Green ( The Fault in Our Stars ), If you're looking for a coming-of-age movie with a little more depth than usual , Turtles Along is a great choice. High school student Aza Holmes (Isabella Merced) has obsessive-compulsive disorder, so the normal moments and milestones in her teenage life are determined by her mental illness—namely, her first kiss is both a The expression of love is also her fear of the opposite sex. Potential bacterial infection. Greene's novel has a 4.5-star rating from readers on Goodreads, and early reviews for the film have been positive, so it's definitely worth a watch.
Live streaming will begin on May 2nd.
Hackers , Season 3
Seasons 1 and 2 of HBO's original comedy series Hacks earned a rare 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and the new season aims to continue that perfect record. Season 3 picks up a year after Deborah (Jane Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder) have gone their separate ways, with Deborah enjoying a career renaissance (thanks to Ava's writers) , while Ava is working on a nightly comedy show similar to The Daily Show . As you might have guessed, fate soon brought the odd couple back together.
Live broadcast starts on May 2
stop making sense
"Stop Bullshit" is the best concert movie ever made, and I'll fight you if you disagree (it's also great to watch when you're high). To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the film's release, A24 has restored and remastered Jonathan Demme's masterpiece, preserving for posterity the original, streamable 4k visuals of Talking Heads at the height of its powers (or at least during Max's rotation )). The years have not diminished the sheer joy of watching the new wave band play song after song alongside funk legends like Parliament keyboardist Bernie Worrell and Johnson Brothers guitarist Alex Weir.
Live broadcast starts on May 3
Stax: American Soulville
If you've watched Stop Making Sense a dozen times, check out Stax: Soulsville USA , a four-part HBO original music documentary series about the legendary Memphis record label that brought us Here came Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Booker T. and the MGs, The Staple Singers and many other iconic artists.
Live broadcast starts on May 20
iron claw
Although Claws was almost unanimously praised by critics, it did not receive any Oscar nominations. rip off! Maybe a movie about pro wrestling is too cheesy for the "Academy", but their loss. Yes, "Iron Claw" is about wrestling, but it's also about mourning, loss, and the resilience of family. Additionally, "Iron Claw" stars Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White ( "Bear ") and Harris Dickinson as the real-life Von Erich brothers, a wrestling dynasty , haunted by so much tragedy, they begin to believe they are cursed. After watching this movie, it's hard to argue with them.
Live broadcast starts on May 10th
Pretty Little Liars: Summer School
The first season of the Pretty Little Liars reboot is that rare thing: a really good horror TV show — so good, it's been called "the best horror of the past two decades" by Bloody's horror fanatics One of the TV shows "disgusting." The second season is subtitled "Summer School" and follows high school students Tabby, Noah, Imogen, Fran and Mouse during the summer. Their imagined season of romance and joy is interrupted by a terrifying new villain: Bloody Rose, a mysterious knife-wielding murderer who sets out to test his own limits. Choose this option if you like cross-genre horror.
Live broadcast starts on May 9th
Silly Pet Tricks, Season 1
Sometimes, you just need to look at some cute animals. Sarah Silverman hosts this comedy variety show that features cats, dogs, camels, hamsters, foxes, and various other smart animals doing stupid things. David Letterman invented the joke on his show in the 1980s and serves as executive producer on this delightfully brainless piece of feel-good TV.
Live broadcast starts on May 8
movie pass, movie crash
On the surface, a documentary about a defunct movie ticket subscription service might not sound interesting, but MoviePass' meteoric rise and return to reality is an interesting study in bad business ideas, hubris and corporate double-dealing. . MoviePass and Moviecrash are narrated by the founders of the company who then had to watch as new executives flew the plane straight into the ground.
Live broadcast starts on May 29
Lighthouse (2019)
If you like dark, claustrophobic movies and you haven't seen Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse , you're making a mistake. Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe star as isolated lighthouse keepers who slowly drive each other crazy (sexual desire?). Shot in black and white and filled with disturbing and surreal images, "The Lighthouse" isn't like any other movie, but it's a movie nonetheless.
Live broadcast starts on May 1st
Last month's picks
sympathizer
Legendary filmmaker Park Chan-wook ( Oldboy, Sympathy ) teams up with actor and co-producer Robert Downey Jr. on this seminal historical black comedy series. "The Sympathizer ," adapted from Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning debut novel, tells the story of a Vietnam-era spy with conflicting loyalties. After the war, the North Vietnamese agent nicknamed "Captain" was forced to flee to the United States, but he had not yet completed his work and reported his neighbors to the Viet Cong.
Live broadcast starts on April 14th
Doom - Part 2
Andrew Jarecki's Emmy-winning series "Charmed," which debuted in 2015, was a lightning-fast hit after a man admitted to committing the crime while on the microphone for a true crime documentary How common are multiple murders, right? The Jinx Part 2 completes the story of eccentric rich man turned murderer Robert Durst and promises shocking new revelations. Durst is dead, so he won't admit to committing any more murders, but it's still a fascinating story.
Live broadcast starts on April 21st
Conan O'Brien must go
Conan O'Brien is perhaps the funniest man in the world, and this series puts him in situations designed to inspire his spontaneously hilarious supernatural abilities. Premise: Conan visits fans in Norway, Thailand, Argentina and Ireland, interacting with the locals and creating inspired improv comedy. The formula worked very well for his late-night show, but HBO's funding meant Conan O'Brien had to go and there would be better production values - they even brought in Werner Herzog to narrate.
Live broadcast starts on April 18th
Synanon Repair
Synanon is hands down my favorite cult of all time, so I'm glad HBO is giving this insanely off-the-chain story of a drug rehab center's transformation into a heavily armed post-hippie nightmare cult a proper cinematic treatment. Through fascinating insider film footage and interviews with former cult members and others who were present, highlights of The Synanon Fix include dead-eyed, shaved-headed, axe-wielding cult members in matching overalls, a rattlesnake attempted murder, and more from Synanon Music from the in-house band, including jazz greats Joe Pass and Art Pepper. This series doesn’t deserve enough praise.
Live broadcast starts on April 1
Area of Interest(2024)
"Zone of Interest," which won this year's Academy Award for Best International Film, explores the story of concentration camp commander Rudolf Hoss and his wife Hedwig as they raise their children in a charming little house near Auschwitz. The creepy banality of evil. "Region of Interest" is a searing and intense masterpiece that will stay with you long after the final frame is over.
Live broadcast starts on April 5th
Here we go, season 4
Season 4 of HBO's Emmy-winning reality show is coming with some big changes: original costars Bob the Drag Queen, Shangela and Eureka have been replaced by RuPaul's Drag Race series winner Sasha Vey Replaced by Lore, Jayda Essence-Hall, Priyanka and Latrice Royal. The essence of We Are Here will remain the same; the quartet of drag queens will travel to small communities around Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, spreading the word that drag is actually fun Good news, maybe you should relax?
Live broadcast starts on April 26
Brandy Hellville and the cult of fast fashion
I don’t know if you’re aware of it, but there’s a dark side to the fashion world. "Brandy Hellville and the Cult of Fast Fashion" tells the story of a fun, flashy fashion brand that was once hugely popular among tweens and tween girls, taking viewers on a journey to get to know Brandy Hellville. The behind-the-scenes story of Brandy Melville's company, which turned out to be a cesspool of racism and sexual exploitation. The document then provides a deeper and broader commentary on the environmental and social damage that fast fashion factories can bring to the places where they are located.
Live broadcast starts on April 9th
take my tumor
The success of shows like "Dr. Pimple Popper" and "Botched" proves that many people enjoy reality shows about bizarre medical conditions. If you're one of them, I bet you'll love Take My Tumor , a show about extreme tumors, the people who have them, and the dedicated medical professionals who remove them. It comes from TLC (formerly The Learning Channel), who seem to have the market cornered on this type of programming.
Live broadcast starts on April 3
Bombings in America: The Road to April 19
This documentary delves into the story of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, detailing not only the tragic explosion on April 19, but also the massive FBI investigation that followed, as well as the anti-government conspiracy theory underground of the detractors and hate-mongers who inspired Timothy McVeigh to commit mass murder.
Live broadcast starts on April 16th
Men (2022)
The monsters in this "high horror" movie are men—not a specific group of men, but men as a whole. From this provocative premise, director Alex Garland constructs a chilling, unsettling narrative that explores disgust through the victimization of the film's protagonist, Harper Marlowe (Jesse Buckley). The cultural and historical roots of gynecomastia. In a stroke of genius, all the men in the movie (except one) are played by the talented Rory Kinnear, because men are basically all the same.
Starts broadcasting on April 18
