This Month’s Highlights
Blockers
Blockers is an absurd new take on a shopworn teen comedy trope. It’s an American Pie-esque story about teens who make a pact to lose their virginities on prom night, except this time, they’re young women, and the story isn’t so much about their attempts to get laid as it is about their parents — who find out about this pact, and try to do everything in their power to, well, block them. (I’m sorry.) While the trio playing said teens and their prospective hookup partners are all phenomenal, the real joy is watching their parents’ antics. Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz, and John Cena are all wonderfully in-over-their-heads as they try to parse emoji slang, cool teens, and butt-chugging. Blockers is great. Arrives December 15.
En El Séptimo Día
A film about undocumented immigrants living in Brooklyn, En El Séptimo Día follows José, who works endlessly, six days a week, as a deliveryman, and spends his day off as the best player on his soccer team. Shot with a documentarian’s sensibility, the film uses its central complication — José’s team makes it into the finals on the same Sunday that his boss wants him to come in and work an extra day — to depict the undocumented immigrant’s plight in miniature. You know: keeping the world running while being wholly at the mercy of those who have no legal responsibility to treat them with anything approaching fairness. Arrives December 21.
Full List of What’s New on HBO — December 2018
Noteworthy selections in bold.
Available December 1
An Innocent Man
The Best Man
The Book of Eli
Bootmen
Dave
Dawn of the Dead
George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead
Get Him to the Greek
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
The Hangover
He’s Just Not That Into You
Inception
The Land Before Time
The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure
The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving
The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists
The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island
The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock
The Land Before Time VII: Stone of Cold Fire
The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze
The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water
The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
Light It Up
Lost River
Rampage
Mi tesoro (My Treasure)
Vida en Marte (Life on Mars)
Available December 3
Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
Available December 6
Traffik
Available December 7
Ice Box
Available December 8
Ready Player One
Available December 10
Vice Special Report: The Panic Artists
My True Brilliant Friend
Available December 11
Momentum Generation
Available December 14
High & Mighty
Available December 15
Pete Holmes: Dirty Clean
Blockers
Available December 17
Bleed Out
Available December 21
En El Septimo Dia (On the Seventh Day)
Available December 22
Isle of Dogs
Available December 29
Life of the Party
For more coverage of the best movies and TV shows available on Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Showtime check out Vulture’s What to Stream Now hub, which is updated throughout the month.
More What To Stream Now
- You Can Stream the DVD Screen-Saver on YouTube
- New on Showtime: December 2018
- New on Hulu: December 2018