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Spring has firmly sprung as we head into April, and on HBO Max, that means an exciting new month with exciting new content. As vaccines continue to roll out and the outside world begins to hopefully safely beckon, the streaming service provides tons of compelling reasons to stay inside, kick back, and get even further acquainted with your couch and TV.
Easily one of the headlining experiences of the new month will be Mortal Kombat. It isn’t out until midway through the month on April 16, but as we seem to be entering a new age of video game movies finally getting better and more popular, it’s reassuring to see an older property step back into the fray and try to do a movie again. While this new version isn’t expected to deviate from the game’s original canon, director Simon McQuoid has spoken at length about how important nailing the story in this one is. If that piques your curiosity, you should definitely read our breakdown of how this upcoming movie stacks up against the original 1995 film.
A little earlier, on April 10, The New Mutants hits HBO Max. The horror-superhero film was one of the few 2020 superhero movies, and it endured many delays even before COVID, and on the streaming service, the price is right to at least give it a look if only to contrast against the upcoming and heating up MCU slate. The story is kind of a mash-up of ’80s coming-of-age dramas like The Breakfast Club and horror classics of the era like Nightmare on Elm Street, but about teenage mutants who are trapped against their will in a mostly abandoned mental institute run by a mutant who’s also a doctor. Nothing else, you can at least say this of The New Mutants–it is different.
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In between, on April 11, The Nevers will land on the streaming service. It’s a sci-fi series set in Victorian London after a “supernatural event which gives certain people–mostly women–abnormal abilities,” which further marginalizes those women in that society. As the synopsis explains, “it falls to mysterious, quick-fisted widow Amalia True and brilliant younger inventor Penance Adair to protect and shelter these gifted ‘orphans.'”
You can also check out what Disney+, Hulu, and Shudder have in store next month.
New to HBO Max in April 2021
April 1:
A Shock To The System, 1990 (HBO)Abandon, 2002 (HBO)Adam’s Rib, 1949All Is Lost, 2013 (HBO)Assume the Position with Mr. WuhlBarbarosa, 1982 (HBO)Black Dynamite, 2009Blindness, 2008 (HBO)The Bodyguard, 1992Boogie Nights, 1997Bringing Up Baby, 1938The Butcher’s Wife, 1991 (HBO)Caddyshack, 1980The Collection, 2012 (HBO)The Color Purple, 1985Dante’s Peak, 1997 (HBO)Dark Shadows, 2012 (HBO)Dead Silence, 2007 (HBO)Dirty Harry, 1971The Eagle Has Landed, 1977 (HBO)Early Man, 2018 (HBO)Easy Rider, 1969Ella Enchanted, 2004 (HBO)The Evil That Men Do, 1984 (HBO)Eye For An Eye, 1996 (HBO)Fear, 1996 (HBO)genera+ion, Season 1 Part One FinaleGhost Rider, 2007Goodfellas, 1990The Great Pottery Throwdown, Max Original Season 4 PremiereGreen Lantern, 2011Hardball, 2001 (HBO)Happy EndingsHaywire, 2012 (HBO)In & Out, 1997 (HBO)Kicking & Screaming, 2005 (HBO)King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword, 2017 (HBO)Lassiter, 1984 (HBO)Leatherface Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, 1990 (HBO)Let’s Go To Prison, 2006 (HBO)The Longest Yard, 1974 (HBO)Made For Love, Max Original Series PremiereMan Up, 2015 (HBO)The Mask of Zorro, 1998The Man With The Iron Fists, 2012 (Unrated Version) (HBO)Missing In Action 2 – The Beginning, 1985 (HBO)Missing In Action, 1984 (HBO)My Super Ex-Girlfriend, 2006 (HBO)The NannyThe Natural, 1984Now, Voyager, 1942One Day, 2011 (HBO)Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment, 1985 (HBO)Police Academy 3: Back In Training, 1986 (HBO)Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol, 1987 (HBO)Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach, 1988 (HBO)Police Academy 6: City Under Siege, 1989 (HBO)Police Academy: Mission To Moscow, 1994 (HBO)Primal Fear, 1996 (HBO)Reasonable Doubt, 2014 (HBO)Red Dawn, 1984 (HBO)The Return, 2006 (HBO)Risky Business, 1983 (HBO)Roger & Me, 1989Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939Sneakers, 1992 (HBO)Space Jam, 1996Speed 2 Cruise Control, 1997 (HBO)Spellbound, 2003 (HBO)Stuart Little, 1999The Shack, 2017 (HBO)The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, 2006 (Extended Version) (HBO)Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family, 2011Wanderlust, 2012 (HBO)The Warriors, 1979 (Director’s Cut) (HBO)The Watch, 2012 (HBO)White Noise, 2005 (HBO)The Wild Life, 2016 (HBO)Within, 2016 (HBO)Wolves At The Door, 2017 (HBO)
April 2:
On the Spectrum
April 3:
Ted, 2012 (Unrated Version) (HBO)
April 4:
Q: Into The Storm, Documentary Series Finale (HBO)
April 5:
Hard, Season 2 Finale (HBO)
April 6:
Genndy Tartokovksy’s Primal, Season 1B
April 7:
Exterminate All The Brutes, Documentary Series Premiere (HBO)South Side, Season 1
April 9:
Intemperie (Aka Out In The Open), 2019 (HBO)The Other Two, Season 1A Tiny Audience, Season 2 Finale (HBO)
April 10:
The New Mutants, 2020 (HBO)
April 11:
The Nevers, Drama Series Premiere (HBO)
April 13:
Our Towns, Documentary Premiere (HBO)
April 15:
Infinity Train, Max Original Season 4 Premiere
April 16:
Mortal Kombat, Warner Bros. Film Premiere, 2021
April 17:
The Dark Knight Rises, 2012 (HBO)
April 18:
Mare of Easttown, Limited Series Premiere (HBO)
April 20:
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO)
April 22:
1,2,3 All Eyes On Me, 2020(HBO)First Ladies, 2020Princess Cut, 2020 (HBO)Rizo, 2020 (HBO)
April 23:
A Black Lady Sketch Show, Season 2 Premiere (HBO)El Robo Del Siglo (Aka Heist Of The Century) (HBO)
April 24:
Dreamgirls, 2006 (HBO)
April 26:
The Artist, 2011
April 29:
Looney Tunes Cartoons, Season 1D
