The January sun is ready to crest over the horizon, which means that you’ll be busy working on your New Year’s resolutions. What better way to get your mind off the motorized wheel at the gym than watching a few gems on your tablet or phone? This month on HBO NOW, you can catch the new Entourage film, a J. Cole concert-documentary, as well as classic like Carrie and Malcolm X.
Here’s what you should be watching on HBO NOW in January…
Mad Max: Fury Road, (1/9)
If you haven’t seen George Miller’s dystopian masterpiece this year, then you’re in for a treat. Mad Max: Fury Road is a take-no-prisoners hell ride through a futuristic desert with some of the best car chases (really, the entire film is a car chase) and stunts you’ll ever see in contemporary cinema. Not only is it one of the best pictures of the year, it’s one of the best action films in recent memory.
Tropic Thunder (Director’s Cut), (1/1)
Tropic Thunder redefined the action-comedy by providing boatloads of laughs mixed in with genuine action set pieces. It also didn’t hurt that it boasted an all-star cast including Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey Jr. in an Oscar-nominated performance that stands as one of his best to date.
The Godfather (1/17)
What can really be said about The Godfather parts 1 & 2 that hasn’t been said already? It’s a mafioso masterpiece that’s as brutal as it is elegant. HBO NOW’s offering has both films edited together in a special edition with additional footage not shown in the standard releases of the films. Just try not to sleep with the fishes before you get a chance to see this.
Here’s everything else coming to HBO NOW in January:
New Original Programming:
Ride Along 2: HBO First Look (1/6)
J. Cole Forest Hills Drive: Homecoming (1/9)
Sesame Street, Season 46 Premiere (1/16)
Psi, Season 2 Premiere (1/22)
Whitney Cummings: I’m Your Girlfriend (1/23)
Theatrical Premieres:
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, 2015 (1/2)
Far from the Madding Crowd, 2015 (1/3)
Calvary, 2014 (1/4)
Unfriended, 2014 (1/16)
Entourage, 2015(1/23)
As Above/So Below, 2014 (1/24)
True Story, 2015 (1/30)
Films en Español:
Voley, 2014 (1/1)
Bikini: una historia real (short), 2014 (1/1)
La isla minima, 2014 (1/8)
Ladron que roba a la ladron, 2007 (1/15)
Starting January 1:
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, 2006
Carrie, 1976
Cry-Baby, 1990
Down to Earth, 2001
Final Destination 3, 2006
Joe Versus the Volcano, 1990
The Rainmaker, 1997
A Knight’s Tale, 2001
Knocked Up, 2007
Lucky Numbers, 2000
Malcolm X, 1992
Milk, 2008
The Muppet Christmas Carol, 1992
Pretty in Pink, 1986
Troop Beverly Hills, 1989
Two of a Kind, 1983
Wonder Boys, 2000
Last Chance to Catch:
Lone Survivor, 2013 (1/17)
Ending January 31:
Snow Day, 2000
Flicka, 2006
The Lego Movie, 2014
Mulholland Dr., 2001
O Brother, Where Art Thou, 2000
Alex & Emma, 2003
For Your Consideration, 2006
Because I Said So, 2007
Four Weddings and a Funeral, 1994
Gone Girl, 2014
Shallow Hal, 2001
This is Where I Leave You, 2014
The Judge, 2014
John Wick, 2014
Dumb and Dumber To, 2014
Far from Heaven, 2002
Superman Returns, 2006
The Last King of Scotland, 2006
