Hot off the heels of the opening month of a new year of streaming, HBO has some stiff competition when it comes to original content put out by other streaming services. With the enormous success of the new show on HBO, The Last of Us, the streaming service has found its numbers increasing steadily.

In order to keep their subscribers happy in between the releases of weekly episodes of shows, HBO Max keeps adding gigantic lists of movies available on the streaming platform monthly. With everything from old classics like Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Taxi Driver (1976) to cult classics like So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) and Wayne’s World (1992), and even newer movies like Empire of Light (2022) and Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm (2022), HBO Max patrons will have tons of movies to choose from starting in the month of February. Here are some more that will be available starting next month.

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Feb. 1)

     Fox Searchlight Pictures

This movie follows the struggles of washed-up actor Riggan Thomson, played by Michael Keaton. In his younger years, Thomson was most known for his role as the superhero Birdman. After starring in the blockbuster movie titled Birdman, as well as its wildly popular sequels, Thomson finds that his character becomes more well-known and famous than he is in his life. As he struggles with this truth, he also strives to make himself known as a real artist and not just the superhero he played.

He hangs his whole reputation on a Broadway production he is writing, directing, and starring in while also co-producing it with his best friend, Jake (Zach Galifianakis). Faced with other issues like a temperamental actor (Edward Norton) and his fresh out-of-rehab daughter (Emma Stone), Riggan Thomson finds himself battling external forces to bring his vision to fruition while his internal conflict with his own past character colors his decisions. A winner of four Oscars and a nominee of many others, this movie is set to stream on February 1.

Casino Royale (Feb. 1)

     MGM

If action movies are more to your liking, then catch Casino Royale, also streaming starting February 1. This was the first movie starring Daniel Craig in the titular James Bond role. Given his first mission by MI6 boss, M (Judi Dench), the new 007 agent must travel to Montenegro to prevent a banker with ties to terrorists from winning a high-stakes poker game.

Posing as a married couple with Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), a treasury agent sent to monitor Bond, they must together figure out how to prevent Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) from walking away from the tournament with the prize money. With the help of two other contacts (Jeffrey Wright and Giancarlo Giannini), Bond and Lynd must figure out how to stop Le Chiffre and keep themselves alive long enough to complete the mission.

Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2, and Scary Movie 3 (Feb. 1)

     Miramax Films

The first three movies in the popular horror parody Scary Movie franchise are also coming to HBO Max. Follow Cindy Campbell (Anna Farris) and her best friend Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall), Brenda’s sexually confused boyfriend Ray Wilkins (Shawn Wayans), Shorty Meeks (Marlon Wayans), and other nonrecurring characters in the movies as they navigate through high school and adult years all while battling forces of evil, deranged killers, and their own stupidity.

Spoofing some of the most well-known horror movies like Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Exorcist, Halloween, Poltergeist, The Ring, The House on Haunted Hill, and many more, the Scary Movie franchise carved out its own place in the parody movie genre in the early 2000s.

Edge of Tomorrow (Feb. 7)

     Warner Bros. Pictures

With more action but this time in the sci-fi genre, we have the 2014 movie Edge of Tomorrow. With no shortage of action acting experience, Tom Cruise stars as the lead in this film, Major William Cage. Though Major Cage had, at the beginning of the film, only been a public relations officer for the military, he soon finds himself given the assignment of battling the aliens known as Mimics. Being marginally trained and unseasoned in combat, Cage is dead within minutes during his first battle.

Soon after, he awakes in the airport he was in the previous day and realizes he is stuck in some sort of time loop reliving the same battle and dying over and over again. Together with the help of UK Special Forces soldier Sergeant Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), they must figure out how to stop the alien invasion, kill the leader of the Mimics, and save the world.

Gravity (Feb. 23)

Keeping on the sci-fi genre train, we have the Oscar-winning film, Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. In this movie, we have Bullock as biomedical engineer Dr. Ryan Stone who is on her first shuttle mission with soon-to-retire astronaut Matt Kowalski (Clooney). Their seemingly routine assignment, the last for Kowalski before his retirement, soon gets upended when debris damages their station killing other members of their team and knocking out their incoming communications.

In the utter isolation of space, they find themselves dangerously separated from each other as they find ways to safely work around the aftermath of the destruction done by the debris of the other satellite. It then becomes a race against time for Stone and Kowalski to repair the damages, restore communications, and find a way to return to Earth safely.