September

 

2nd

Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)

A logical British lecturer and academic has her life is upended on a trip to Istanbul where she meets a Djinn who offers her three wishes and a journey through time and history in exchange for his freedom, forcing her to challenge her beliefs and his abilities when she asks for something unexpected and unlikely.

Directed by George Miller and starring Tilda Swinton, Idris Elba and Pia Thunderbolt among others.

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

UK Release: 2nd of September   US Release: 26th of August

 

 

 

The Forgiven (2022)

A couple’s rocky relationship is put under unimaginable pressure when they become involved in tragedy and corruption whilst on a Moroccan desert getaway with their fellow wealthy western friends, forced to confront their impulses and the painful consequences of their actions within a foreign culture marred by an inequality to which they have contributed.

Directed by John Michael McDonagh and starring Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain and Matt Smith among others.

Genre: Crime, Drama

UK Release: 2nd of September   US Release: 1st of July

 

 

 

Fall (2022)

Searching for an escape from past tragedy, a young woman is convinced by her best friend and fellow amateur climber to take a desert climbing trip and try to scale a notorious radio tower, only to be plunged into a fight for survival when things go catastrophically wrong and the trip down turns into an ominous odyssey.

Directed by Scott Mann and starring Grace Caroline Currey, Virginia Gardner and Mason Gooding among others.

Genre: Drama, Thriller

UK Release: 2nd of September   US Release: 12th of August

 

 

 

8th

Pinocchio (2022)

An Italian woodcarver’s puppet creation is magically brought to life and embarks on an unlikely adventure to learn what it takes to be a real boy, as Disney applies its recent hybrid live-action formula to another of its beloved animated adaptations of a classic story.

Directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Tom Hanks and Joseph Gordon-Levitt among others.

Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

UK Release: 8th of September (Disney+)   US Release: 8th of September (Disney+)

 

 

 

9th

Crimes of the Future (2022)

In a near future where humanity is adapting to a synthetic environment by transforming their bodies both organically and artificially, a performance artist and his partner begin to publicly showcase his transformation while tracked by an investigator obsessed with their exploits, leading to the revelation of a secret society intent on revealing the next stage of human evolution to the world—in this dystopian fetishistic sci-fi horror/drama from the godfather of body horror.

Directed by David Cronenberg and starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart among others.

Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-fi

UK Release: 9th of September   US Release: 3rd of June

 

 

 

See How They Run (2022)

A Jaded British inspector and his eager rookie constable try to unravel an unexpected murder in 1950s London theatre-land which threatens the lucrative movie version of a smash-hit play, as the crime pulls in all manner of suspects from the West End stalwarts and the local underworld . . . with comical consequences in this luvvie murder-mystery period comedy whodunnit.

Directed by Tom George and starring Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan and David Oyelowo among others.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery

UK Release: 9th of September   US Release: 30th of September

 

 

 

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

The fickleness of Millennial and Gen Z friendship and romance is exposed by an impromptu wild hurricane party getaway at an isolated mansion which takes a turn when a murder-mystery game becomes too real, as callousness and paranoia begin to break apart a group of wealthy laissez-faire youngsters where everyone is a suspect and no one is safe.

Directed by Halina Reijn and starring Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova and Pete Davidson among others.

Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery

UK Release: 9th of September   US Release: 5th of August

 

 

 

16th

Clerks III (2022)

Everyone’s favourite movie-loving 90s New Jersey convenience store misfits are back, on a self-referential quest to finally make something of their lives and conceive an indie film about their exploits at the Quick Stop and RST, as writer/director Kevin Smith returns to the film and the characters who started it all.

Directed by Kevin Smith and starring Rosario Dawson, Brian O’Halloran and Jason Mewes among others.

Genre: Comedy

UK Release: 16th of September   US Release: 13th of September

 

 

 

Ticket to Paradise (2022)

A bitter divorced couple are brought together by the sudden shotgun wedding of their daughter in Bali, as their schemes to break up the happy couple unexpectedly rekindle a bond while confronting them with their own life decisions and what is really best for their only child.

Directed by Ol Parker and starring Julia Roberts, George Clooney and Kaitlyn Dever among others.

Genre: Comedy, Romance

UK Release: 16th of September   US Release: 21st of October

 

 

 

Do Revenge (2022)

After being betrayed and publicly shamed by her boyfriend and having her “it girl” status trashed, a wealthy Florida high-schooler teams up with a similarly wronged outcast to meticulously plan a diabolical mutual revenge on the fellow privileged students who ruined their lives.

Directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and starring Maya Hawke, Camila Mendes and Sophie Turner among others.

Genre: Comedy

UK Release: 16th of September   US Release: 21st of October

 

 

 

Goodnight Mommy (2022)

When a pair of young twin brothers arrive a their well-to-do mother’s isolated rural home they become unnerved by their mum’s bandaged appearance after cosmetic surgery, as their suspicions grow that something isn’t right along with her increasingly strange behaviour, prompting them to take fateful and drastic action which reveals not all is as it seems in this remake of the 2014 Austrian psychological thriller of the same name.

Directed by Matt Sobel and starring Naomi Watts, Cameron Crovetti and Nicholas Crovetti among others.

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

UK Release: 16th of September (Amazon Prime)   US Release: 16th of September (Amazon Prime)

 

 

 

23rd

Don’t Worry Darling (2022)

The idyllic life of a 1950s housewife and her working husband begins to unravel when things start to become surreal and feel prescribed as the sinister secrets of their utopian community and the people behind it are revealed, putting marriages and lives in danger in this psychological thriller mystery meditation on control and gender roles.

Directed by Olivia Wilde and starring Florence Pugh, Harry Styles and Chris Pine among others.

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

UK Release: 23rd of September   US Release: 23rd of September

 

 

 

Catherine Called Birdy (2022)

Under pressure from her financially struggling nobleman father and the society around her to marry, a strong willed teenage girl in medieval England struggles to find her place and spread her wings in a world not of her making, as writer/director Lena Dunham applies her sensibilities to an ensemble British period comedy take on coming-of-age.

Directed by Lena Dunham and starring Bella Ramsey, Andrew Scott and Joe Alwyn among others.

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

UK Release: 23rd of September   US Release: 23rd of September

 

 

 

It Is in Us All (2022)

On a trip to rural Ireland to visit an inherited house, a intractable self-destructive man from London is confronted by an unresolved legacy of trauma when he suffers a road accident and becomes entangled with a nihilistic young local who challenges him to face his own nature, in this brooding human drama meditation on man’s drive towards death.

Directed by Antonia Campbell-Hughes and starring Cosmo Jarvis, Rhys Mannion and Claes Bang among others.

Genre: Drama

UK Release: 23rd of September   US Release: N/A

 

 

 

28th

Blonde (2022)

Having reached the level of icon and an object of desire for millions, a Hollywood superstar in the 1950s struggles to reconcile her true self with the public expectations of her while dealing with failing relationships and her self-worth, as writer/director Andrew Dominik takes a dramatised look at the Norma Jeane behind the Marilyn Monroe.

Directed by Andrew Dominik and starring Ana de Armas, Bobby Cannavale and Adrien Brody among others.

Genre: Fact-based, Drama

UK Release: 28th of September (Netflix)   US Release: 28th of September (Netflix)

 

 

 

30th

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)

A modest domestic cleaner in 1950s Britain embarks on a transformative voyage after becoming obsessed with the couture wardrobe of one of her employers, forsaking everything for a trip to Paris and the House of Dior with the far-fetched goal of getting her own evening gown, forming unexpected friendships with the wealthy and fashionable of the French capital in this tale of the folly of obsession, and latest adaptation of the Paul Gallico novel.

Directed by Anthony Fabian and starring Lesley Manville, Lambert Wilson and Isabelle Huppert among others.

Genre: Comedy, Drama

UK Release: 30th of September   US Release: 15th of July

 

 

 

The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022)

On an unlikely mission to honour the young and maligned American soldiers fighting in Vietnam, a blue-collar New Yorker embarks on an absurd life-changing late 1960s voyage to bring beer from the Big Apple to his neighbourhood buddies serving in Southeast Asia, as writer/director Peter Farrelly applies his sensibilities to the stranger-than-fiction true story of John “Chickie” Donohue.

Directed by Peter Farrelly and starring Zac Efron, Russell Crowe and Bill Murray among others.

Genre: Fact-based, Comedy, Drama, War

UK Release: 30th of September (Apple TV+)   US Release: 30th of September (Apple TV+)

 

 

 

Flux Gourmet (2022)

At a bizarre avant-garde high culinary and performance art institution where a blend of sensory overload is the name of the game, a collection of curious characters struggle with artistic vision and shifting power dynamics within an experimental collective which threatens to implode . . . with sinister and surreal consequences in this latest unique black comedy concoction from the mind of Peter Strickland.

Directed by Peter Strickland and starring Asa Butterfield, Gwendoline Christie and Fatma Mohamed among others.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror

UK Release: 30th of September   US Release: 24th of June

 

 

 

Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)

Nearly 30 years after a group of youngsters inadvertently resurrected a trio of 17th-century witch sisters to unleash mayhem upon Salem Massachusetts, a new trio of teens makes the same mistake and inherits the responsibility of stopping the Sanderson Sisters from exacting revenge upon their town before Halloween is over.

Directed by Anne Fletcher and starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy among others.

Genre: Family, Comedy, Horror

UK Release: 30th of September (Disney+)   US Release: 30th of September (Disney+)

 

 

 

My Best Friend’s Exorcism (2022)

The final summer together for two American teens in the late 1980s takes a turn when one of them starts to act bizarrely after a lakeside getaway visit to a creepy house, as their lifelong friendship faces its toughest test yet . . . demonic possession—in this Amazon comedy/horror adaptation of the 2016 Grady Hendrix novel.

Directed by Damon Thomas and starring Elsie Fisher, Amiah Miller and Cathy Ang among others.

Genre: Comedy, Horror

UK Release: 30th of September (Amazon Prime Video)   US Release: 30th of September (Amazon Prime Video)

 

 

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