What motion pictures are good to observe on HBO Max this weekend? The streamer doesn’t lack for high quality content material. Mountainhead, a black comedy about tech bros behaving badly, is likely one of the hottest movies on the platform proper now.
However what in case you’re in search of motion pictures which can be older and a bit underrated? If that’s the case, you’re studying the suitable listing. Watch With Us has curated an inventory of high quality movies that deserve your time and a focus.
With stars like Michael Keaton, Jon Hamm and America Ferrara, these motion pictures are assured to entertain you all through the weekend and past.
‘Knox Goes Away’ (2024)
The world doesn’t want one other film a couple of hitman, but when it’s going to get one, it would as effectively star Michael Keaton. He stars as John Knox, a contract killer who’s about to retire. He has one final hit to drag off, although, and when it goes badly, he’s left with an enormous mess to scrub up. Knox’s troubles don’t finish there, as his estranged son, Miles (James Marsden), asks for his assist in overlaying up a homicide he dedicated. Knox is an efficient hitman however a nasty father, however by serving to Miles, he might discover a method to make up for his previous errors.
Knox Goes Away has numerous plot, and generally, there’s an excessive amount of occurring. (Did I point out Knox has dementia and has a relationship with a Polish intercourse employee?) However Keaton makes all of this work by giving a efficiency that’s each a bit scary and surprisingly touching. Knox is an murderer with a responsible conscience, and his remaining act would possibly doom him to a destiny he’s been attempting to keep away from his total life.
Knox Goes Away is streaming on HBO Max.
‘Protecting Up with the Joneses’ (2016)
Jeff and Karen Gaffney (Zach Galifianakis and Isla Fisher) are fortunately married with two children, however their life is fairly strange. Issues develop into much more attention-grabbing when Tim and Natalie Jones (Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot) transfer in subsequent door. The Joneses are handsome, clever and attention-grabbing — all of the issues that Jeff and Karen are in search of to boost their lives. However the Joneses are hiding an enormous secret — they’re spies, and their targets are none aside from the Gaffneys. The 2 {couples} genuinely like one another, however will the Joneses’ private emotions for them get in the best way of finishing their mission?
Protecting Up with the Joneses has a sitcom premise that’s been higher executed in Mr. and Mrs. Smith (each the film and the Amazon Prime Video sequence). But it surely’s nonetheless entertaining, if solely to offer the forged an excuse to be foolish and get into ridiculous conditions. (Fisher following Gadot in a crowded mall is a selected spotlight.) Hamm is underrated as a comedic actor, and his efficiency right here exhibits the lighter aspect of an actor nonetheless finest often called Mad Males’s Don Draper.
Keeping Up with the Joneses is streaming on HBO Max.
‘Six by Sondheim’ (2013)
The 2025 Tony Awards simply occurred, and amongst this 12 months’s nominees had been Broadway actors Audra McDonald, Jeremy Jordan and Glee star Darren Criss. (Criss received Greatest Actor in a Musical for Possibly Comfortable Ending.) All of them seem in Six by Sondheim, a documentary/celebration of Stephen Sondheim, who wrote a number of the biggest showtunes of all time.
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As you’ll be able to inform by the title, the documentary showcases six songs by the well-known lyricist: “One thing’s Coming” from West Aspect Story; “Being Alive” from Firm; “Opening Doorways” from Merrily We Roll Alongside; and extra. These songs are brilliantly staged, with standouts being Todd Haynes’ idiosyncratic “I’m Still Here” with Jarvis Cocker and the shifting “Ship within the Clowns” with McDonald and Will Swenson. Whereas it’s finest loved by theater nerds, Six by Sondheim ought to enchantment to anybody who likes to listen to a very good tune and the story behind its creation.