launched this week—a new streaming service combining the HBO catalog of movies and TV with the Warner Media catalog. If you’re thinking of signing up, I’ve painstakingly sorted through the library to find all of the car content worth watching.
I’m working with my traditional, loose definition of “car content.” Previously, we’ve featured reviews of shows and movies that highlighted or utilized cars in a unique way, so that’s all I’m looking for here. Don’t worry about it too much.
I imagine most of you are stuck at home burning through TV show streams—anything long enough to kill as much time as possible between work (if you’re working), meals, and sleep. So let’s start there.
“” - S01E03 of Adam Ruins Everything“” - S01E07 of Alaska Extreme paints a with its cars. is a fun variety car show featuring Tom Ford and Jonny Smith from those other car shows. follows a comedy troupe as they go on their first cross-country tour in a big ol’ bus. - Seasons 17 through 25.In Vice’s Special Report on “,” the U.S. auto industry and the south’s political and economic reliance on those companies is featured. does a great job of showing us what cars of an alternate reality .
The battle tank in is just one of many explosive reasons this is one of the best movies ever made. has a sick scene I can only describe as “high-speed hockey on a racetrack.” is a biopic that highlights the life of the guy who revived Fiat in the 1980s. 2019's features a (brief) Luc Besson car chase. If you have to ask about , you have to watch it. (2006), the ., because why not?People forget had a car chase, among other things.It’s Jay Leno and Pat Morita in a buddy cop movie set in Detroit! It’s ! is a surprisingly interesting movie about Liam Neeson as a snow plow driver.The fifth Dirty Harry movie, , asks—and answers—the question: “What if a Bullitt-style car chase, but with an RC Car?” does what everyone secretly wants to do in Central Park. And it’s the best Die Hard.For many of you, watching will be like staring into a mirror. features your run of the mill action movie shit, including the inevitable Crown Vic carnage.
Can a dirtbike outrun a giant spider? Find out in . features a horse and motorcycle chase filmed on the street my friend lives at.. One of the good ones, with the bank vault. . Not one of the good ones, but Kristen Lee would have you watch it.. Did you know Steve Buscemi was a New York City firefighter? is what an Oscar-caliber car movie looks like.I will never forget the 1962 Ford Anglia in . It’s also nice that HBO numbers the eight movies on the thumbnail.Rutger Hauer is the last person you want to pick up on the side of the road, like this idiot in . shows you what a Transformers movie would look like without Transformers, because Michael Bay .The second Dirty Harry movie, , features a more traditional car chase than the fourth.Eddie Murphy does a few car chases in 1997's . If you’ve never seen a Hollywood car bomb, has a beautiful one. Bad guys in BMWs are no match for hot people with guns in , a movie I watched hundreds of times growing up. is one of the better recent unintentional car movies. is more about planes and trains but you still have to see it.If you just want a general soak in automotive Americana while watching a lovely, devastating film, is available.If you want a good idea of the ridiculous trials U.S. military vehicles go through before ever seeing battle, watch . has one of the most satisfying depictions of dealing with a used car salesman ever put to film.Jackie Chan sure can fight his way around a car, a bus, whatever, even at speed! Just fuckin’ watch . I will fight for until the day I die. deserves so much more attention. One of the best racing movies ever made. is a fascinating look at history in the making. shows you how the BP oil spill nearly undid 45 years of endangerment care for the brown pelican bird. is basically, “What if a cop kidnapped an Uber driver on the job?” I was blown away by . is kind of like a western, but set during the first Gulf War. . This is the one with the thing in the Egyptian pyramids.Watch one of the funniest movies ever made, .Watch one of the best action movies ever made, . gives you a taste of the value of a working car in the apocalypse, so take note.. (Just kidding.)
If you’re still not convinced by the above, Lucy In The Sky, Ad Astra, Ford V. Ferrari, and more are all listed as “coming soon,” too.
HBO Max also has a huge collection of Turner Classic Movies I haven’t seen much of, and it’s the same for the rest of the catalog. So if I missed anything you think should be on the list, drop it in the comments below.