The holidays are virtually over, and 2023 is finally here. To celebrate the new year, HBO Max has all the goodies to make this weekend as entertaining as possible. Whether you lot're hosting a New Yr'southward party or setting resolutions to picket as many shows and movies as possible, HBO Max is prepared.

While many movies, including the sci-fi picture Voyagers, are leaving HBO Max, new ones, such as Hereditary and the John Wick franchise, are here to stay. While there aren't many new shows premiering this weekend, His Dark Materials concluded its 3rd and final season, and there's enough of time to catch up on other prestige shows before The Last of Usa. With all this and more, here are the movies and TV shows to look out for this New Year'southward weekend.

Voyagers Takes Lord of the Flies to Infinite

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Leaving HBO Max this calendar month is the 2021 science fiction motion picture Voyagers, starring Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp and Colin Farrell. Described as Lord of the Flies, but in space, the picture show takes identify in 2063 when Earth has become uninhabitable because of climate change, drought and affliction -- pretty much the reason why astronauts travel to another planet in near every space flick. Given it takes 86 years to get in that location, a group of teenagers is sent in the hopes that they will procreate and take their grandchildren take the lead in the new world they plan to colonize. However, the decades-long mission weighs on them more than expected, as the teenagers realize their emotions accept been artificially suppressed with a vitamin chosen "The Blue." With a cast led by teenagers (or people in their 20s trying to be teenagers), it's squeamish to accept a seasoned actor similar Farrell on board, whose chore is to enhance the astronauts in their earliest days.

Hereditary Arrives on HBO Max This January

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HBO Max is seeing new movies arriving in Jan, and ane of the most anticipated is Hereditary. In his directorial debut, Ari Aster is a force to be reckoned with, with the creepy and psychological fears paying off in a large manner. The film may be hard to stomach for some people, simply there's no denying how much the movie changed the game for the horror genre. Toni Collette'due south performance is also a highlight, and many considered her portrayal of a grieving mother to have been snubbed in the following Academy Awards ceremony.

Starring Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro and Gabriel Byrne, the film follows a family unit haunted past an unnerving presence after the death of their grandmother. Visually stunning and beyond startling, Hereditary stays in viewers' heads fifty-fifty after the credits roll. While information technology has been divisive between critics and fans, the assuming execution of the moving picture makes information technology culturally significant in the flick industry.

Stream the John Wick Film Series Before Chapter 4 Hits Theaters

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Nobody can get enough of Keanu Reeves, and he's heading to HBO Max this weekend just ahead of the quaternary John Wick movie's premiere in 2023. HBO Max at present has the offset three John Wick films on HBO Max for everyone to binge-watch, making this weekend an action-packed one. The franchise centers around John Wick, a hitman forced back into the criminal underworld he had previously abandoned.

The first movie follows Wick every bit he hunts down the men who broke into his home, stole his car and killed his puppy and is considered one of the best action films of all time. John Wick: Affiliate ii takes the hitman on a dissimilar journey that involves him fulfilling a blood adjuration to an Italian crime lord. Finally, John Wick: Chapter iii - Parabellum sees the graphic symbol on the run afterwards a bounty is placed on him.

The Homo From U.N.C.50.East. Reboots the 1964 Spy Thriller Series

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Henry Cavill has been in the news quite a lot recently. First, he announced his divergence from Netflix's The Witcher earlier announcing his render as Superman to the DC Universe. However, it turned out he really wouldn't be returning equally Superman. The actor has had a tough break in 2022, simply HBO Max still recognizes him as 1 of the greatest action stars of his generation by releasing the 2015 moving picture The Man from U.N.C.L.E. The film is based on the 1964 tv set series of the aforementioned proper name and stars Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki and Hugh Grant. Set in the early 1960s, Cavill portrays CIA agent Napoleon Solo who is on a mission against a criminal system working to create its own nuclear bomb. The flick received mixed reviews from critics, merely Rolling Stone did cite it as i of the best action movies of all fourth dimension.

Chernobyl Carefully Explores a Mortiferous True Story

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One of the biggest shows to premiere on HBO Max in January is The Last of Us, which is being adapted past the original game'south co-creator Neil Druckmann and esteemed idiot box author Craig Mazin. Mazin is most known for creating the HBO express series Chernobyl, which won multiple Emmy Awards. Then, before jumping into the long premiere episode of The Terminal of Us, it might be worth the fourth dimension to check out the previous works of Mazin that made him the right choice for the video game adaptation.

Chernobyl is a dramatic miniseries revolving around the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and the cleanup efforts that followed. The serial is meticulous nigh the details, from the science behind the incident to the mortiferous effects people would have from the explosion years afterward it occurred. Chernobyl also highlights the lesser-known stories of the disaster, such as the firefighters who responded to the scene and the teams of miners instrumental in the cleanup.

His Dark Materials Has Reached Its End

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​​​​​​​The tertiary season of His Dark Materials is already over, and information technology seemed incredibly short, considering all that led to the series finale. Regardless, now all three seasons of the fantasy series are available to stream, so those who oasis't seen the show can watch His Dark Materials in its entirety. And those who waited until this weekend to watch the series finale will find some of the magic that was one time lost in the disruptive serial as the show wraps up in a bittersweet way.