Top new movies releasing in September includes a selection of animation, comedy, horror, drama, romance and thrillers. Don Jon, Rush and Watermark come straight from TIFF13 where they received rave reviews. See our reviews and Red Carpet interviews to find out why these are must sees on your movie list.

Here are the ones we recommend:

A Single Shot
Battle of the Year
Good Ol’ Freda
Don Jon
Rush
Watermark

A Single Shot

Fri Sept 20th
Genre: Thriller
Director: David M. Rosenthal
Studio: Alliance Films
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Jeffrey Wright, Kelly Reilly, Jason Isaacs, Joe Anderson, William H. Macy

Synopsis: A SINGLE SHOT revolves around a simple man, John Moon, a tragic accident, his despair and the need for immediate redemption. Moon, while stalking a deer out of season, accidentally shoots and kills a teenage girl. When trying to dispose of her body in a cave, he stumbles upon a hefty sum of money. This starts a tense and thrilling adventure and a deadly game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood. John Moon will need to outsmart those hunting him down to save himself and his family.

Battle of the Year

Fri Sept 20th
Genre: Drama
Director: Benson Lee
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Starring: Josh Holloway, Laz Alonso, Josh Peck, Caity Lotz, Chris Brown

Synopsis: Battle of the Year is the Olympics of break dancing, a tournament held every year that attracts all the best teams from around the world, but the Americans haven’t won in fifteen years. Los Angeles Hip Hop mogul and former B-Boy Dante (Alonso) wants to put the country that started the Sport back on top. Dante enlists Blake (Josh Holloway) to assemble a team of the best dancers and bring the Trophy back to America where it started. Inspired by the actual World championship held yearly in France.

Good Ol’ Freda

Fri Sept 20th
Genre: Documentary
Director: Ryan White
Studio: KinoSmith
Starring: The Beatles, Freda Kelly

Synopsis: The 1960s saw the prime years of Beatlemania. The world was fascinated by the music of four lads from Liverpool, England: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

While the Fab Four were on the rise to success, Freda Kelly, a shy teenage girl and fellow Liverpool native joined their team as a secretary. She witnessed their rise and success, but never once told her perspective. Decades later, Freda Kelly is now opening up about her experience.

Don Jon

Fri Sept 27th
Genre: Comedy Premiered at TIFF13
Director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Studio: Remstar Films
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza, Glenne Headly, Brie Larson, Rob Brown

Synopsis: Jon Martello (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a strong, handsome, good old-fashioned guy. His buddies call him Don Jon due to his ability to “pull” a different woman every weekend, but even the finest fling doesn’t compare to the bliss he finds alone in front of the computer watching pornography. Barbara Sugarman (Scarlett Johansson) is a bright, beautiful, good old-fashioned girl. Raised on romantic Hollywood movies, she’s determined to find her Prince Charming and ride off into the sunset. Wrestling with good old-fashioned expectations of the opposite sex, Jon and Barbara struggle against a media culture full of false fantasies to try and find true intimacy in this unexpected comedy written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

For full review: https://myetvmedia.com/film-review/don-jon-review/

Rush

Fri Sept 27th
Genre: Action Premiered at TIFF13
Director: Ron Howard
Studio: Entertainment One
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara

Synopsis: Two-time Academy Award® winner Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon), teams once again with fellow two-time Academy Award® nominee, writer Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen), on Rush, a spectacular big-screen re-creation of the merciless 1970s rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda.

The epic action-drama stars Chris Hemsworth (The Avengers) as the charismatic Englishman James Hunt and Brühl (Inglourious Basterds) as the disciplined Austrian perfectionist Niki Lauda, whose clashes on the Grand Prix race track epitomized the contrast between these two extraordinary characters, a distinction reflected in their private lives.

Watermark

Fri September 27th
Genre: Documentary Premiered at TIFF13
Director: Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky
Studio: Mongrel Media

Synopsis: Following their triumph with Manufactured Landscapes, photographer Edward Burtynsky and filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal reunite to explore the ways in which humanity has shaped, manipulated and depleted one of its most vital and compromised resources: water.
This documentary brings together diverse stories from 10 countries around the globe about people and their relationship with water. What they use it for, what they learn from it, and why they’re drawn to it, as well as the consequences from overuse.

For full review: https://myetvmedia.com/film-review/watermark-review/

Christophe Chanel