Check out HBO Max’s serious selection of shows and movies from all of its partner networks, including HBO, Discovery, Food Network, and more. New shows and movies are always being added, so here are my three top picks for this weekend and the week ahead, plus everything new streaming below. August begins with a big drop of movies, new shows and more. Here are the three best things to put on your watchlist.
This Week on Max: PCMag’s Picks
Final Destination: Bloodlines (Aug. 1)
The first of the month is when most of the new movies hit streaming services, and if you didn’t catch Final Destination: Bloodlines in theaters, it’s definitely worth a midnight watch. One of the most impressive opening sequences in franchise history, set in the swinging ’60s, kicks off a tale of death over decades, and the kills in this one are spectacular.
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Directors: Zach Lipofsky, Adam Stein
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Cast: Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Tio Briones, Richard Harmon
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Genre: Horror
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Rating: R
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IMDb Rating: 6.8/10
The Yogurt Shop Murders (Aug. 3)
In 1991, just before closing time, four teenage girls in a frozen yogurt store in Austin, Texas, were bound, gagged, and shot in the head execution-style before the store was set on fire. The seemingly random act of extreme violence traumatized the community, but 30 years of investigations produced only dead end after dead end. This new docuseries goes deep, with interviews with police investigators, family members, and more.
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Director: Margaret Brown
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Genre: Documentary
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Rating: TV-MA
Red Bull Soapbox Race: Season 1 (Aug. 6)
While energy drinks are a net negative on society as a whole, we can’t deny that Red Bull has used its profits for some fun stuff. Discovery series Red Bull Soapbox Race takes the old-school homemade motorless car project and amps it up like crazy, with teams from all around the world crafting bizarre vehicles that can handle surprisingly difficult downhill courses.
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Host: Dale Earnhart Jr.
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Genre: Competition
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Rating: TV-PG
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IMDb Rating: 6.3/10
HBO Max New Releases This Week
August 1
Alien: Covenant
Barbershop (2002)
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
Couples Retreat (2009)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
Enter the Warrior’s Gate
Final Destination: Bloodlines
Get a Job (2016)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
House Hunters International: Volume 9 – Season 203
House Hunters: Volume 10 – Season 244
It Happened in Brooklyn
It’s Always Fair Weather
Jamboree!
Kung Fu Panda 2
Let’s Go Bananas – Season 1A
Lili
Macao
Madame Bovary (1949)
Madame Curie
Marc Maron: Panicked (2025)
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Millie
Miss Pinkerton
Mogambo
Mr. Skeffington
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Mrs. Parkington
My Favorite Wife
Neptune’s Daughter (1949)
New Moon (1940)
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Quo Vadis (1951)
Random Harvest
Roughshod
Rules Don’t Apply
Smarty
Stonewall
Storm over Wyoming
Survive the Night (2020)
The Last Time I Saw Paris
The Life of Vergie Winters
The Long, Long Trailer
The Nun (2018)
The Peanut Butter Falcon
The Racket (1951)
The Reluctant Debutante
The Water Diviner
Three on a Match
Till the End of Time
Two Weeks with Love (1950)
Union Depot
Unlocked (2017)
War on Everyone
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Where Danger Lives
Yogi Bear (Movie)
You Hurt My Feelings
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August 2
Deadliest Catch – Season 21
August 3
The Yogurt Shop Murders
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August 4
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2020)
The Great Food Truck Race – Season 18
August 5
Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Buffalo Bills
“The Case Against Diddy,” The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper
“The Idaho Murders,” The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper
August 6
Extreme Detailing
Red Bull Soapbox Race – Season 1
See No Evil – Season 14
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