Top new movies releasing in August includes a selection of animation, comedy, horror, drama, romance and thrillers. Here are the ones we recommend:

2 Guns
Blue Jasmine
Road North
Elysium
Planes
We’re The Millers

2 Guns
Fri Aug 2nd
Genre: Action
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Studio: Entertainment One
Starring: Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg

Synopsis: For the past 12 months, DEA agent Bobby Trench (Denzel Washington) and U.S. naval intelligence officer Marcus Stigman (Mark Wahlberg) have been reluctantly attached at the hip. Working undercover as members of a narcotics syndicate, each man distrusts his partner as much as the criminals they have both been tasked to take down. When their attempt to infiltrate a Mexican drug cartel and recover millions goes haywire, Trench and Stigman are suddenly disavowed by their superiors. Now that everyone wants them in jail or in the ground, the only person they can count on is the other. Unfortunately for their pursuers, when good guys spend years pretending to be bad, they pick up a few tricks along the way.

Blue Jasmine
Fri Aug 2nd
Genre: Drama
Director: Woody Allen
Studio: Mongrel Media
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, Sally Hawkins

Synopsis: After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal (Alec Baldwin), elegant New York socialite Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) moves into her sister Ginger’s (Sally Hawkins) modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again

Road North (Foreign – English subtitle)
Fri Aug 2nd
Director: Mika Kaurismäki
Studio: KinoSmith
Starring: Samuli Edelmann, Vesa-Matti Loiri

Synopsis: The latest film of Mira Kaurismaki, the Brazil-based older brother of “Le Havre” director Aki, takes the filmmaker back to his home country of Finland. As generic as its title, “Road North” is a road-trip movie in which an adult son, Timo (Samuli Edelmann), gets to hang out with his unknown and oversized father, Leo (Vesa-Matti Loiri), and surprise! The unlikely duo finds that they share more than they initially expected.

Elysium
Fri Aug 9th
Genre: Action
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Starring: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga

Synopsis: In the year 2154, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, 
who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, 
and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined planet. The 
people of Earth are desperate to escape the crime and 
poverty that is now rampant throughout the land. The only man with 
the chance to bring equality to these worlds is Max (Matt Damon), an 
ordinary guy in desperate need to get to Elysium. With his life 
hanging in the balance, he reluctantly takes on a dangerous 
mission, one that pits him against Elysium’s Secretary Delacourt 
(Jodie Foster) and her hard-line forces but if he succeeds, he could 
save not only his own life, but millions of people on Earth as well.

Planes
Fri Aug 9th
Genre: Animation
Director: Klay Hall
Studio: Walt Disney
Starring: Val Kilmer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Teri Hatcher

Synopsis: From high above the world of “Cars,” flies “Planes,” Disney’s upcoming animated action-packed comedic adventure starring Dusty, a big-hearted, fast-flying crop duster who dreams of competing in the most exhilarating around-the-world air race in history. There’s only a couple of not-so-small problems – Dusty is not exactly built for racing and he also happens to be afraid of heights. Despite his fear and with encouragement from his mentor, a naval aviator named Skipper, Dusty narrowly qualifies for the big competition. Dusty’s sportsmanship and speed begin to rattle the defending champ of the race circuit, Ripslinger, who will stop at nothing to see Dusty fail. When disaster strikes during the climax of the final race, Dusty’s courage is put to the ultimate test. With the support of friends old and new, Dusty reaches heights he never dreamed possible and in the process, gives a spellbound world the inspiration to soar.

We’re The Millers
Fri Aug 9th
Genre: Comedy
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Emma Roberts, Nick Offerman, Kathryn Hahn, Will Poulter, Ed Helms

Synopsis: David Burke (Jason Sudeikis) is a small-time pot dealer whose clientele includes chefs and soccer moms, but no kids – after all, he has his scruples. So what could go wrong? Plenty. Preferring to keep a low profile for obvious reasons, he learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished when he tries to help out some local teens and winds up getting jumped by a trio of gutter punks. Stealing his stash and his cash, they leave him in major debt to his supplier, Brad (Ed Helms). In order to wipe the slate clean and maintain a clean bill of health David must now become a big-time drug smuggler by bringing Brad’s latest shipment in from Mexico.

Twisting the arms of his neighbors, cynical stripper Rose (Jennifer Aniston) and wannabe customer Kenny (Will Poulter), and the tatted-and-pierced streetwise teen Casey (Emma Roberts), he devises a foolproof plan. One fake wife, two pretend kids and a huge, shiny RV later, the “Millers” are headed south of the border for a Fourth of July weekend that is sure to end with a bang.

Christophe Chanel