Top 5 – Awesome Movies Coming Out in September

The Summer movie season is officially over and we now enter my favorite time of the year, the Oscar/Fall movie season.  This is when the best of the best movies come out from the best of the best filmmakers and actors.  It is also film festival season, one that I love to follow and attend.  So, to kick off the Fall season, here are five exciting movies coming out in September.

5 – DEEPWATER HORIZON (Peter Berg, September 30)

I enjoy most of Peter Berg’s work, especially Friday Night Lights (2004) and Lone Survivor (2013).  He has a very unique style that, when used in the right movie, pays off wonderfully.  Deepwater Horizon looks to be tailer-made for Berg.  The movie takes place on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.  It has an stellar cast of Mark Wahlberg, Kate Hudson, Kurt Russell, and John Malkovich, all who look great.  This looks incredibly intense, emotional, and powerful, much like Berg’s last film, Lone Survivor.  If it’s anywhere near as great as that movie, we will have something special on our hands.

4 – SNOWDEN (Oliver Stone, September 16)

We all know the story of Edward Snowden, the former N.S.A. employee who leaked thousands of classified documents to the press.  He has become one of the most polarizing figures in the world, with some people calling him a trader, while others consider him a patriot.  If their is any director to tackle this story, it is Oliver Stone.  Joseph Gordon Levitt plays Snowden and he looks spectacular.  Hopefully this is the performance that gets him his due as an actor, because he has been putting in strong work for over a decade now.  The film also stars the always great Shailene Woodley, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Rhys Ifans, Melissa Leo, and Nicholas Cage, in an unknown role, but one I am excited to see.  Stone has had a rough run his last few films, but this looks like one that could get him off the snide.

3 – BLAIR WITCH (Adam Wingard, September 16)

Well this one came out of nowhere.  Lionsgate, the studio producing the movie, flew this film under the radar by originally titling it The Woods.  But, when the trailer dropped at this summer’s Comic Con, it became evident that Lionsgate had pulled a fast one on us and made a sequel to 1999’s The Blair Witch Project.  In my opinion, The Blair Witch Project is one of the most important films ever made, as it is a staple in the Found-Footage genre as well being a perfectly made, micro-budget horror film.  This film, which takes a group of kids back into the woods of the original to find one of the boys’ sisters who disappeared years ago, looks relentlessly scary.  It helps that director Adam Wingard is one of the best horror directors today, having made You’re Next (2012), The Guest (2014) and segments in the V/H/S films.  This could be a complete dud or another masterpiece, but it’s the intrigue that has me excited.

2 – SULLY 

Tom Hanks stars in a movie directed by Clint Eastwood.  Need I say more?  Well, I will.  Sully tells the story of Chesley “Sully” Sullenberg (Hanks), the pilot who became a national hero after he landed a plane in the Hudson River, saving all 155 passengers and crew members on the plane.  Hanks has been a career tear as of late, with Captain Phillips (2013) and Bridge of Spies (2015) being some of the best performances and movies of his career.  The always reliable Aaron Eckhart could also get some awards love down the line as Sully’s co-pilot, Jeff Skiles.  Eastwood, who’s a phenomenal director, shot the whole movie in IMAX, which is bound to make the landing scene one of the year’s best.  This is a major Oscar player to keep an eye on.

1 – THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (Antoine Fuqua, September 23)

The Magnificent Seven is the third re-imagining of Akira Kurosawa’s classic Seven Samurai (1954) (The Magnificent Seven (1960) and A Bug’s Life (1999 being the other two) and looks to be the best version of the three.  The movie stars Denzel Washington as a bounty hunter who recruits six other men to defend a small town from being taken over by savage thieves.  Antoine Fuqua has been a rising director for year’s now, starting with Training Day (2001) and progressing with The Equalizer (2014) and his most mature effort yet, Southpaw (2015).  Washington and Fuqua work really well together and bring the best out in one another.  The film also stars the always awesome Chris Pratt, Vincent D’onfrio, Ethan Hawke, and the underrated gem that is Peter Sarsgaard.  I don’t know if this has any Oscar potential, but it sure as hell will be one of the most entertaining and fun movies of 2016, which is why it lands at the number one spot.

What movies coming out in September are you most excited for?  Comment below or hit me up on Twitter @kevflix.  And make sure to LIKE Kevflix on Facebook!