The Month’s Top Releases: September 2010

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Released 7th September:

Killers:

Format: Blu-ray/DVD

Classification: PG-13

Stars: Ashton Kutcher (The Butterfly Effect), Katherine Heigl (The Ugly Truth), Tom Selleck (Magnum P.I.), Catherine O’Hara (Home Alone)

A hired assassin named Spencer renounces his life choice, marries an ordinary girl named Jen (after one romantic yet drunken encounter in Nice), and begins to live a normal life; until his past catches up with him, and it every inhabitant of the action/comedy world is tries to kill him.

Criminal Minds: Season Five, and Criminal Minds: Seasons One-Five:

Format: DVD

Classification: Not Rated

Stars: Shemar Moore (The Young and the Restless), Matthew Gray Gubler (500 Days of Summer), Thomas Gibson (Dharma & Greg), A.J. Cook (Tru Calling)

Follow an elite team of the F.B.I.’s Behavioral Analysis Unit as they attempt to analyze the minds of the country’s most twisted criminals, and solve the cases that local law enforcement just can’t fathom.

Released 14th September:

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time:

Format: Blu-ray/DVD/Blu-ray & DVD & Digital Copy

Classification: PG-13

Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko), Gemma Arterton (Clash of the Titans, 2010), Ben Kingsley (Shutter Island), Alfred Molina (Spider-Man 2)

An epic action/adventure; set in ancient Persia; that sees a rogue prince team up with a rival princess, in order to safeguard a magical dagger that has a the power to allow its holder to not only reverse time, but to rule to world.

Fringe: the Complete Second Season:

Format: Blu-ray/DVD

Classification: Not Rated

Stars: Anna Torv (Mistresses), Joshua Jackson (Dawson’s Creek), John Noble (The Lord of the Rings trilogy), Lance Reddick (The Wire)

Through unconventional and unorthodox methods, the F.B.I.’s Fringe Division imagines and tests the impossibilities that arise when investigating unbelievable events, macabre crimes, and mystifying cases.

Se7en:

Format: Blu-ray

Classification: R

Stars: Brad Pitt (Fight Club), Morgan Freeman (Unforgiven), Kevin Spacey (American Beauty), Gwyneth Paltrow (Iron Man)

Two cops (one a hot-headed new transfer, and the other an experienced veteran) track a brilliant and elusive killer who orchestrates a string of horrific murders; each targeting a practitioner of one of the seven deadly sins.

Released 21st September:

Robin Hood:

Format: Blu-ray & DVD & Digital Copy/DVD

Classification: Not Rated

Stars: Russell Crowe (Gladiator), Cate Blanchett (Elizabteh: The Golden Age), Max Von Sydow (Shutter Island), Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes)

A worn-torn veteran of the Crusades returns to England to find it led by a weak and corrupt king; forcing him to insight an uprising, or witness his beloved homeland get invaded, and conquered, by the ambitious French ruler.

Spartacus: Blood and Sand: The Complete First Season:

Format: Blu-ray/DVD

Classification: Not Rated

Stars: Andy Whitfield (Gabriel), John Hannah (The Mummy), Manu Bennett (30 Days of Night), Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess)

The tale of Rome’s most infamous rebel comes alive in the graphic and visceral new series; where Spartacus is forced into slavery, and reborn as a Gladiator, in an arena where blood and death are primetime entertainment.

Released 28th September:

Iron Man 2:

Format: Blu-ray & DVD & Digital Copy/DVD

Classification: PG-13

Stars: Robert Downey Jr. (Sherlcok Holmes), Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler), Gwyneth Paltrow (Se7en), Don Cheadle (Ocean’s 11)

After revealing his secret identity to the world, Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) has to contend with the U.S. government wanting to use his suit, rival scientists trying to better his efforts, and a life-threatening condition caused by the technology that’s keeping him alive.

Read our full review of the movie online here.

C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation: The Tenth Season, and Seasons 1-10:

Format: DVD

Classification: Not Rated

Stars: William Petersen (Manhunter), Marg Helgenberger (Bad Boys), Laurence Fishburne (Predators), Paul Guilfoyle (Live From Baghdad)

Relive the first ten seasons of C.S.I.; a fast-paced drama about a passionate team of forensic investigators who are trained to solve crimes through the use of scientific processes, and a thorough examination of the evidence.

The Killer Inside Me:

Format: Blu-ray/DVD

Classification: R

Stars: Casey Affleck (Ocean’s 11), Jessica Alba (Dark Angel), Kate Hudson (The Skeleton Key), Simon Baker (The Mentalist)

A controversial crime drama that sees a small town sheriff deciding the easiest way to force a prostitute out of town is to simply kill her, and then enjoying committing a string of murders to cover-up his actions.

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Matt Wheeldon is the Founder, and Editor in Chief of Good Film Guide. He still refers to the cinema as "the pictures", and has what some would describe as a misguided appreciation for Waterworld.