Achieving the perfect blend of charm, humour and emotion this month is Sundance darling Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, opening today. I was lucky enough to see a preview screening last week and spent the first half of the film laughing and the final twenty minutes ugly crying with mascara running down my face. It's sweet, tender and will hit you right in the feels: it should be at the top of your September film list! Offsetting that this weekend is stoner comedy American Ultra, reboot of the Transporter franchise - sadly without Jason Statham - The Transporter Refuelled, Meryl Streep's ageing rockstar movie Ricki and the Flash, and tense thriller No Escape. September kicks off with a pretty diverse selection of films, so there's definitely something for everyone!
Other notable movies this month include Woody Allen's latest creation featuring Emma Stone and Joaquin Pheonix, Irrational Man; Bill Bryson comedy A Walk In the Woods; and Tom Hardy seeing double as the Kray twins in Legend. Towards the end of the month there are a number of critically acclaimed films: Oscar-nominated Estonian war drama Tangerines, eviction drama starring Andrew Garfield 99 Homes, and the based-on-a-true-story Captive.
Plus, there are the IMAX epics of Everest and The Martian, both of which look like they should be seen on the biggest screen possible! As ever, click below for trailers and synopsis of the best films hitting U.K. cinemas this month...
All films below are released in cinemas in September in the U.K.: some may have already opened abroad so if you're outside the U.K. then do check your local cinemas for film times and release dates.
AMERICAN ULTRA
Friday 4th September 2015
"A stoner - who is in fact a government agent - is marked as a liability and targeted for extermination. But he's too well-trained and too high for them to handle."
CARTEL LAND
Friday 4th September 2015
"With unprecedented access, CARTEL LAND is a riveting, on-the-ground look at the journeys of two modern-day vigilante groups and their shared enemy - the murderous Mexican drug cartels."
DOPE
Friday 4th September 2015
"Life changes for Malcolm, a geek who's surviving life in a tough neighborhood, after a chance invitation to an underground party leads him and his friends into a Los Angeles adventure."
ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL
Friday 4th September 2015
"High schooler Greg, who spends most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl, finds his outlook forever altered after befriending a classmate who has just been diagnosed with cancer."
MISS JULIE
Friday 4th September 2015
"Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her."
NO ESCAPE
Friday 4th September 2015
"In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed."
RICKI AND THE FLASH
Friday 4th September 2015
"A musician who gave up everything for her dream of rock-and-roll stardom returns home, looking to make things right with her family."
THE SECOND MOTHER
Friday 4th September 2015
"When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray."
THE TRANSPORTER REFUELLED
Friday 4th September 2015
"In the south of France, former special-ops mercenary Frank Martin enters into a game of chess with a femme-fatale and her three sidekicks who are looking for revenge against a sinister Russian kingpin."
LEGEND
Wednesday 9th September 2015
"The film tells the story of the identical twin gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray, two of the most notorious criminals in British history, and their organised crime empire in the East End of London during the 1960s."
MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS
Thursday 10th September 2015
"After having escaped the Maze, the Gladers now face a new set of challenges on the open roads of a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles."
CONTAINMENT
Friday 11th September 2015
"No water. No power. No explanation. No escape."
IRRATIONAL MAN
Friday 11th September 2015
"A tormented philosophy professor finds a will to live when he commits an existential act."
THE VISIT
Friday 11th September 2015
"A single mother finds that things in her family's life go very wrong after her two young children visit their grandparents."
THE D TRAIN
Friday 18th September 2015
"The head of a high school reunion committee travels to Los Angeles to track down the most popular guy from his graduating class and convince him to go to the reunion."
EVEREST
Friday 18th September 2015
"A climbing expedition on Mt. Everest is devastated by a severe snow storm."
TANGERINES
Friday 18th September 2015
"War in Georgia, Apkhazeti region in 1990. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in."
A WALK IN THE WOODS
Friday 18th September 2015
"After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends."
99 HOMES
Friday 25th September 2015
"A father struggles to get back the home that his family was evicted from by working for the greedy real estate broker who's the source of his frustration."
CAPTIVE
Friday 25th September 2015
"A recovering drug addict, who is a single mother, is taken by surprise when an escaped murderer takes her hostage."
LIFE
Friday 25th September 2015
"A photographer for Life Magazine is assigned to shoot pictures of James Dean."
McFARLAND, USA
Friday 25th September 2015
"Jim White moves his family after losing his last job as a football coach. He sees that some of the students are worth starting a cross country team and turns 7 students with no hope into one of the best cross country teams."
MISS YOU ALREADY
Friday 25th September 2015
"The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill."
NARCOPOLIS
Friday 25th September 2015
"In the near future, Frank Grieves is a new breed of police officer working in a city where all recreational drugs are legal. When he is taken off a case involving an unidentified corpse, he discovers that legalization has come at a price."
THE MARTIAN
Wednesday 30th September 2015
"During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive."
What are you looking forward to this month?
I - obviously - cannot wait for Everest and The Martian, but I'm also pretty excited for Legend, Miss Julie, Captive and A Walk In The Woods. Plus, although it may be difficult to find a screening near where I live due to its limited releases, I'd love to see The Second Mother. Looks like it'll be another busy month at the cinema for me...
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