New on HBO Now: All the Movies and TV Coming in September

Believe it or not, 2019 is about to enter its third and final act with the end of August, and while we can’t combat the inexorable passage of time, we sure can ignore it! A surefire means of doing so is immersing oneself in a worthwhile story, and HBO’s streaming library is gaining quite a few of those in the month to come. Here are the highlights of HBO Now’s September streaming slate, as well as a comprehensive list of its incoming titles.

HBO’s TV additions are particularly noteworthy this time around, with a pair of acclaimed shows making their season premiere and finale: The Deuce (Sept. 9) and A Black Lady Sketch Show (Sept. 6), respectively. The former series, a Golden Globe-nominated porn industry period drama co-created by The Wire collaborators David Simon and George Pelecanos, is entering its third and final season, while the latter, a groundbreaking new sketch-comedy series whose title says it all, concludes its debut set of episodes. Elsewhere on September’s small screen slate, we have: a pair of HBO Sports presentations, the season finale of NFL docuseries Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Oakland Raiders (Sept. 3) and the latest episode of LeBron James’ barbershop-set talk show The Shop: Uninterrupted (Sept. 3); two HBO Documentary Films titles commemorating (and arriving on) Sept. 11, the adult-oriented In the Shadow of the Towers: Stuyvesant High on 9/11 and children’s show What Happened on September 11; and the Season Three premiere of the Duplass Brothers’ hotel-set bottle anthology series Room 104 (Sept. 13).

September is an off month in terms of HBO film additions, to be sure, which is not to say there aren’t worthwhile titles in the mix still. The streamer’s uninspiring slate of theatrical premieres at least boasts Peter Jackson’s engrossing World War I documentary They Shall Not Grow Old (Sept. 17) and acclaimed animated sequel The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Sept. 21), but beyond that, you’re looking at the likes of horror misfire Truth or Dare (Sept. 4), underwhelming period drama Mary Queen of Scots (Sept. 7) and … whatever the hell Welcome to Marwen (Sept. 14) was. Frankly, there’s far more to look forward to by way of older films, including Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar juggernaut of an Iraq War thriller The Hurt Locker, Paul Verhoeven’s iconic sci-fi satire Robocop, powerful 1984 Vietnam drama The Killing Fields, Disney’s Oscar-nominated Anastasia, underrated Coen Brothers comedy Hail, Caesar!, Steven Soderbergh’s late-’90s crime caper Out of Sight, rom-com classic Love Actually and 2004’s The Spongebob Squarepants Movie—all these films and more arrive on HBO Sept. 1.

We’ll leave you with the titles that are doing just that—leaving you—next month. HBO’s library is soon to be minus Ryan Reynolds-led thriller Buried, another Reynolds-driven film in super-antihero hit Deadpool 2, screwball stoner comedy Half Baked, hyper-quotable Tina Fey-scripted comedy Mean Girls, 2018’s uber-loose Rampage videogame adaptation, Soderbergh’s Oscar-winning drug war drama Traffic and slapstick-comedy classic Weekend at Bernie’s, all of which expire on Sept. 30. There are a couple of films shoving off earlier in the month, as well, so consult the complete list to ensure you’re not blindsided by any of their exits.

You’ll find that full list of all HBO’s September library changes below.

Theatrical Premieres:
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, 2019 (9/1)
Truth or Dare, 2018 (9/4)
Mary Queen of Scots, 2018 (9/7)
Welcome to Marwen, 2018 (9/14)
They Shall Not Grow Old, 2018 (9/17)
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, 2019 (9/21)
Isn’t It Romantic, 2019 (9/28)

Original Programming:
The Shop: Uninterrupted (9/3)
In the Shadow of the Towers: Stuyvesant High on 9/11 (9/11)
What Happened on September 11 (9/11)

Season Premieres:
The Deuce, Season 3 Premiere (9/9)
Room 104, Season 3 Premiere (9/13)

Season Finale:
Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Oakland Raiders, Season Finale (9/3)
A Black Lady Sketch Show, Season 1 Finale (9/6)

Estrenos:
Ruta Viva, 2018 (9/1)
El Amor Menos Pensado (AKA An Unexpected Love), 2018 (9/6)
Más Sabe el Diablo por Viejo, 2018 (9/13)
Septimo (AKA 7th Floor), 2018 (9/20)
Perseguida (AKA Persecuted), 2018 (9/27)

Starting September 1:
127 Hours, 2010
Alfie, 2004
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, 2004
Anastasia, 1997
Boys and Girls, 2000
Cabin Fever (Director’s Cut), 2003
Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (Extended Version), 2019
Catfish, 2010
The Darkest Hour, 2011
Frantic, 1988
Hail, Caesar!, 2016
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, 2003
The Hurt Locker, 2009
I Love You Phillip Morris, 2010
Jem and the Holograms, 2015
The Killing Fields, 1984
Love Actually, 2003
Out of Sight, 1998
Resident Evil: Apocalypse, 2004
Robocop (Director’s Cut), 1987
Robocop 2, 1990
Robocop 3, 1993
The Rundown, 2003
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie, 2004
Thirteen Days, 2000
United 93, 2006
The Wizard, 1989

Ending September 5:
The Water Diviner, 2015

Ending September 22:
The Green Inferno, 2015

Ending September 25:
Suffragette, 2015

Ending September 27:
Just Wright, 2010

Ending September 30:
Annapolis, 2006
Beyond the Reach (Extended Version), 2015
Breaking In (Extended Version), 2018
Buried, 2010
The Client, 1994
Courage Under Fire, 1996
Deadpool 2 (Unrated and Deadpool 2: Once Upon a Deadpool Versions Available), 2018
Entrapment, 1999
Half Baked, 1998
Hellbound: Hellraiser II, 1988
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, 2013
Jonah Hex, 2010
Mean Girls, 2004
Mr. Brooks, 2007
Psycho, 1998
Psycho II, 1983
Psycho III, 1986
Rampage, 2018
Splice, 2010
The Spy Next Door, 2010
Taps, 1981
Traffic, 2000
Uncle Drew, 2018
Weekend at Bernie’s, 1989
Where the Heart Is, 2000
The Wicker Man (Director’s Cut), 2006
Z for Zachariah, 2015