The Month’s Top Releases: September 2010

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Released 6th September:

Kick-Ass, and Kick-Ass: Limited Edition Collector’s Box Set:

Format: Blu-ray/DVD/ Blu-ray & DVD Combo Steelbook

Classification: 15

Stars: Nicholas Cage (National Treasure), Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes), Aaron Johnson (Nowhere Boy), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad)

Trying to be a superhero, Dave Lizewski dons a green wetsuit and rubber gloves, calls himself ‘Kick-Ass’, and heads out to fight crime; inspiring the public, and meeting up with the highly trained father-daughter superhero team of Big Daddy and Hit-Girl, on their quest to take down a local mafioso.

Entourage: The Complete Sixth Season:

Format: Blu-ray/DVD

Classification: 15

Stars: Kevin Connolly (The Ugly Truth), Adrian Grenier (The Devil Wears Prada), Kevin Dillion (Platoon), Jerry Ferrara (Eagle Eye), Jeremy Piven (Smokin’ Aces)

After hitting a rough patch in the past couple of years, Vince’s Hollywood career is now back on top; after landing the lead in a Martin Scorsese (Shutter Island) film; and his entourage contemplating stepping out from under his shadow.

Defendor:

Format: DVD

Classification: 15

Stars: Woody Harrelson (Zombieland), Elias Koteas (Shutter Island), Michael Kelly (Did You Hear About the Morgans?), Sandra Oh (Gery’s Anatomy)

Aiming to make the world a better place, the delusional Arthur Poppington dons a black jumper, slaps on some duct-tape, calls himself Defendor, and heads out to fight crime; trying to bring a drug-dealing pimp, and a crooked undercover cop, to justice.

Released 13th September:

Date Night:

Format: Blu-ray/DVD

Classification: 15

Stars: Steve Carell (Get Smart), Tina Fey (30 Rock), Mark Wahlberg (Planet of the Apes, 2001), Taraji P. Henson (The Karate Kid, 2010)

An unremarkable married couple get mistaken for Manhattan crooks; and end up getting into all-sorts of adventures involving everything from snooty waiters to crooked cops, strippers, a super-spy, and a ridiculous car chase; in a film that never strives to be realistic, but always shoots for comedy gold.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time:

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

Classification: 12

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.

Lost: the Complete Sixth Season, and Lost: The Complete Collection

Format: Blu-ray/DVD

Classification: 15

Stars: Matthew Fox (Vantage Point), Josh Holloway (Stay Cool), Jorge Garcia (Becker), Naveen Andrews (The Brave One)

Relieve the entire TV phenomenon that was Lost; where the survivors of Oceanic flight 815 land trapped on a desert island that holds a myriad of secrets; including underground bunkers, mysterious healing properties, and polar bears.

Released 20th September

Robin Hood, and Robin Hood: limited Edition Steelbook (Blu-ray only):

Format: Blu-ray/DVD

Classification: 15

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.

Cop Out:

Format: Blu-ray/DVD

Classification: 15

Stars: Bruce Willis (Surrogates), Tracy Morgan (30 Rock), Juan Carlos Hernández (The Mercy Man), Cory Fernandez (Mercy)

The first film directed by Kevin Smith (Clerks) that he didn’t write; Cop Out; follows two bickering cops as they get suspended, and hunt for a stolen, mint-condition, 1952, baseball card that was supposed to be sold in order to pay for an upcoming wedding, and leads them into a war with a deadly drug cartel.

Released 27th September

House: The Complete Sixth Season

Format: Blu-ray/DVD

Classification: 15

Stars: Hugh Laurie (Blackadder), Lisa Edelstein (Obsessed), Robert Sean Leonard (Dead Poets Society), Omar Epps (In Too Deep)

Rejoin medical genius Dr. Gregory House as he struggles to regain his medical license and his life (following the dramatic finale of the show’s fifth season), whilst still attempting to combat and solve a range of medical mysteries from the uncomfortable position in which he has landed.

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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.