What’s New to Stream on (HBO) Max for November 2023

Crossing the Streams is our collection of guides taking a look at all of the choices hitting the large streaming companies every month. This time, we’re testing what’s new to streaming on (HBO) Max in November 2023, together with an Albert Brooks documentary, two movies in The Skinny Man franchise, and extra!

Max Choose of the Month for November 2023

Albert Brooks is a comedic establishment, and his filmography as a director contains all-timers just like the four-film run that features Actual Life (1979), Trendy Romance (1981), Misplaced in America (1985), and (my private favourite) Defending Your Life (1991). Add in some memorable performing turns in Taxi Driver (1976), Broadcast Information (1987), and Discovering Nemo (2003), and you’ve got a man who’s been making us giggle and really feel for many years. So it’s about time he will get his personal celebratory particular. Albert Brooks: Defending My Life (premieres November eleventh) is that new documentary from director Rob Reiner and options an prolonged interview with Brooks in addition to appreciation from abilities like Judd Apatow, James L. Brooks (no relation), Conan O’Brien, Steven Spielberg, Ben Stiller, and extra. Extra legends deserve this sort of celebration whereas they’re nonetheless alive to understand it.

Celebrating the Lengthy Useless

As alluded to within the Albert Brooks entry above, we too typically sing the praises of older abilities after they’ve already handed. Ideally, we’d change that up and ensure these getting into their twilight years and now not within the highlight are nonetheless listening to from followers, however for now, let’s play the playing cards we’re dealt and rejoice some motion pictures by people who find themselves lengthy lifeless. Two entries in The Skinny Man franchise — arguably cinema’s finest thriller/comedy/romance movie collection — are touchdown on Max this month. There are six motion pictures complete within the collection, and whereas the overall opinion is that they develop lesser as they go alongside, I’m right here to say that each rattling certainly one of them is improbable and enjoyable occasions.

William Powell and Myrna Loy are Nick & Nora Charles, characters created by Dashiell Hammett after which given extraordinary life on the display screen. 1936’s After the Skinny Man sees the lovable couple return house to San Francisco solely to be instantly tasked with discovering a lacking man. James Stewart co-stars, and the movie retains the laughs and journey rolling as a lacking particular person case turns into a homicide investigation with Nick & Nora smack dab within the center. 1947’s Music of the Skinny Man is the sixth and remaining entry within the collection, and the couple discover themselves embroiled in one other homicide thriller tangled up with greed, love, and playing. A younger Dean Stockwell performs Charles’ son, and it’s as soon as once more a enjoyable and rollicking good time kicked off with homicide and wrapped up with one final demise.

Followers of James Stewart could make a double characteristic right here as 1940’s The Store Across the Nook hits Max this month, too. Remade as You’ve Received Mail in 1998, this unique pairs Stewart with a pleasant Margaret Sullavan for comedy royalty Ernst Lubitsch, and the result’s a candy and humorous romantic comedy concerning the hazards and joys of communication and falling in love. It’s a pointy and immensely pleasing watch, the type of movie that helps wash away the woes of your day.

Horrors!

As somebody who believes horror motion pictures are the suitable selection irrespective of the time of yr, the arrival of November is a bit unhappy on the streamers because the horror content material drops precipitously. Nonetheless, Max is tossing a number of bones our manner, so let’s dig in. First up is Don Coscarelli’s cult favourite, John Dies on the Finish (2013), a wild and wacky romp pitting two slackers in opposition to an interdimensional alien invasion. The creativeness right here is off the charts, and the visible splendor is matched with offbeat comedy, horrifying ends, and twisty sci-fi absurdities. Stephen King lands a spot right here with Rob Reiner’s Distress (1990), the fantastically thrilling story of a author, his obsessed fan, and the “meet cute” that ends with certainly one of them lifeless. It stays one of many most interesting King diversifications, aided little question by the A-caliber casting of Kathy Bates and James Caan, and whereas 2001’s Hearts in Atlantis isn’t a horror movie, you would nonetheless use it for a King double characteristic.

James Wan will get his personal double characteristic this month with the third entry in a single franchise he created, Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015), directed by Leigh Whannell, and the second in one other, The Conjuring 2 (2016, arrives November twenty first). Each franchises are nonetheless going robust a decade after their inception, and each have their stronger and weaker entries. Whannell’s movie most likely lands nearer to the latter as his prequel strikes away from the household unit on the heart of the sooner movies to give attention to Lin Shaye’s medium and her personal backstory. She’s nonetheless nice, however we lose a little bit little bit of the center. Wan’s second Conjuring movie, although, is arguably the very best of that individual movie collection. The Warrens head to England to analyze a British haunting, and we get some spectacularly creepy set items, together with one which introduces the Nun –who would later spin off into her personal collection that’s now two motion pictures deep.

All In regards to the 80s

The 80s are thought of by lots of you to be the best decade in cinema, and whereas I’d argue that the 70s declare that prime spot, I’m comfortable to confess that the 80s can be an in depth second. Whereas Netflix continues to keep away from movies older than this millennium, Max is aware of that folks crave that 80s goodness, and to that finish, they’re dropping various classics from the last decade this month. So listed here are a number of price rewatching.

James Cameron’s Aliens (1986) stays a masterclass in delivering a sequel, significantly a sequel to another person’s unique. You wish to set your self other than the claustrophobic sci-fi/horror masterpiece that precedes you? Make the follow-up a bombastic, action-forward blast from begin to end. Bob Clark’s A Christmas Story (1983) is mild on motion — though Ralphie does get into an epic scrap with Scott Fargus — however the laughs, coronary heart, and nostalgia are turned all the way in which as much as eleven. Most of us have watched this one dozens of occasions, and its impact is rarely lower than magical.

David Ward’s Main League (1989) doesn’t have almost the popular culture cache because the others right here, so for a few of you, this is likely to be a first-time watch. It’s a rewarding one, although, because it’s a enjoyable ensemble comedy that appeals as to whether or not you care about baseball. Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen, Wesley Snipes, Rene Russo, Charles Cyphers, Dennis Haysbert, and Bob Uecker all deliver the laughs alongside a cheer-worthy underdog story. Patrick Swayze’s Dalton is probably not an underdog, however he sits robust on the heart of Rowdy Herrington’s Highway Home (1989). A remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal is due out subsequent yr, so discover time to squeeze in a rewatch of this unique to see how a easy little B-movie premise can blossom into one thing memorable.

The Full Max Listing for November 2023

Launch DateTitleNote

11/1Act of Valor (2012)

After the Skinny Man (1936)

Aliens (1986)

The Ant Bully (2006)

Arthur Christmas (2011)

The Avengers (1998)

The Bachelor (1999)

The Unhealthy and the Lovely (1952)

Bells Are Ringing (1960)

Black Magnificence (1994)

Boys’ Evening Out (1962)

Breakin’ 2: Electrical Boogaloo (1984)

Brigadoon (1954)

Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing unit (2005)

A Christmas Carol (1938)

Christmas Cookie Problem, Seasons 1-5 (Meals Community)

Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

A Christmas Story (1983)

A Christmas Story 2 (2012)

A Cinderella Story (2004)

Undoubtedly, Possibly (2008)

Dennis the Menace (1993)

A Dennis the Menace Christmas (2007)

The Satan Wears Prada (2006)

Diner (1982)

All the way down to Earth (2001)

Dune (1984)

Elf (2003)

The Improbable 4 (2015)

Fever Pitch (2005)

The Foot Fist Manner (2008)

4 Christmases (2008)

Fred Claus (2007)

Free Hearth (2017)

Humorous Farm (1988)

Get Carter (1971)

Get Sensible (2008)

The Golden Compass (2007)

Gran Torino (2008)

Nice Expectations (1998)

Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

Pleased Ft (2006)

Pleased Ft Two (2011)

Head of State (2003)

Hearts in Atlantis (2001)

Excessive Life (2019)

Vacation Affair (1949)

Vacation Baking Championship, Seasons 1-9 (Meals Community)

Vacation Baking Championship: Gingerbread Showdown, Seasons 1-2 (Meals Community)

Vacation Wars, Seasons 1-4 (Meals Community)

Inkheart (2009)

Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)

Jack Frost (1998)

John Dies on the Finish (2013)

Kart Racer (2003)

Killing Me Softly (2003)

Kin (2018)

The King’s Speech (2010)

Legally Blonde (2001)

Legally Blonde 2: Crimson, White & Blonde (2003)

Legally Blondes (2009)

The Pretty Bones (2010)

Main League (1989)

The Man Who Got here to Dinner (1942)

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Imply Ladies 2 (2011)

Distress (1990)

Mistress America (2015)

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)

Nationwide Lampoon’s Christmas Trip (1989)

New Yr’s Eve (2011)

Now You See Me (2013)

Now You See Me 2 (2016)

Unusual Folks (1980)

Paddington 2 (2017)

Paycheck (2003)

The Pirate (1948)

Pitch Good 2 (2015)

The Polar Categorical (2004)

Predators (2010)

The Prince and the Pauper (1937)

Highway Home (1989)

Rocky (1976)

Rocky II (1979)

Rocky III (1982)

Rocky IV (1985)

Rocky V (1990)

Rocky Balboa (2006)

Room for One Extra (1952)

Working on Empty (1988)

The Store Across the Nook (1940)

Music of the Skinny Man (1947)

The Pioneer Lady: Hometown Tales, Season 1 (Meals Community)

Traffik (2018)

The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)

Unfinished Enterprise (2015)

Uptown Ladies (2003)

Strolling Tall (2004)

Wargames (1983)

Welcome Dwelling Roscoe Jenkins (2008)

Welcome To Marwen (2018)

The place the Boys Are (1960)

Winter’s Bone (2010)

Winter’s Story (2014)

11/2Christmas Cookie Problem, Season 7 (Meals Community)

Expedition Bigfoot, Season 4 (Discovery Channel)

11/3Border Management: Spain, Seasons 1-3

Scent of Time (Max Unique)

11/5Holiday Wars, Season 5 (Meals Community)

11/6Gumbo Coalition (2022)

Vacation Baking Championship, Season 10 (Meals Community)

11/7Beat Bobby Flay: Vacation Throwdown, Season 2 (Meals Community)

Stand Up & Shout: Songs from a Philly Excessive College (2023) (HBO Unique)

11/8Candy Coated Christmas (Meals Community)

Meals Community: White Home Thanksgiving (Meals Community)

A Gingerbread Christmas (Meals Community)

Macy’s Thanksgiving Cake Spectacular, Season 1 (Meals Community)

Santa’s Baking Blizzard, Season 1 (Meals Community)

Turkey Day Sunny’s Manner, Season 1 (Meals Community)

Final Hanukkah Problem, Season 1 (Meals Community)

Final Thanksgiving Problem, Seasons 1-2 (Meals Community)

You Have been My First Boyfriend (2023) (HBO Unique)

11/9My Sesame Road Associates, Season 4 (Max Unique)

Rap Sh!t, Season 2 (Max Unique)

Sesame Road, Season 54 (Max Unique)

11/11Albert Brooks: Defending My Life (2023) (HBO Unique)

11/12Kids Baking Championship: Sweets-giving (Meals Community)

11/13Love Has Gained (HBO Unique)

11/14How We Get Free (2023) (HBO Unique)

Teen Titans Go!: WB one centesimal Anniversary Particular & Intro Particular (Cartoon Community)

11/15Buddy vs. Christmas, Season 1 (Meals Community)

Buddy vs. Duff Vacation, Season 1 (Meals Community)

11/16The Canine Home: UK, Christmas Particular (Max Unique)

Julia, Season 2 (Max Unique)

11/17Tom & Jerry Snowman’s Land (2022)

11/19The Elf on the Shelf: Candy Showdown, Season 1 (Meals Community)

Teen Titans Go!: Wishbone

11/21The Conjuring 2 (2016)

11/22The Intern (2015)

11/23Christmas Eve on Sesame Road

Elmo Saves Christmas

Little Richard: I Am All the pieces (2023) (CNN Movies/Max Unique)

As soon as Upon a Sesame Road Christmas

A Sesame Road Christmas Carol

11/24The Lives of Felix

11/27Aqua Teen Starvation Pressure, Season 12 (Grownup Swim)

Youngsters Baking Championship: Reindeer Video games (Meals Community)

11/28Bugs Bunny Builders, Season 1G

South to Black Energy (2023) (HBO Unique)

11/29Her (2014)

11/30Bookie, Season 1 (Max Unique)

Selena + Chef: Dwelling for the Holidays (Meals Community)

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