Mobland Season 2
Mobland Season 2
Practical Magic 2
Practical Magic 2
The Gentlemen Season 2
The Gentlemen Season 2
Brothers
Brothers
Heart of the Beast
Heart of the Beast

What to watch: The new TV series and films to have on your radar this September

September is shaping up to be a particularly great month for both new releases and returning favourites, with plenty to sink your teeth into as spring settles in. Here, we round up all of the month’s most notable watches, from uproarious comedies to captivating thrillers, alluring adaptations, a highly anticipated sequel, and a slew of easy watches to relax into.

New & Returning Series


MobLand — Season 2

When & Where to Watch: September 18th, Prime Video
Starring: Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, Paddy Considine & Johnny Flynn

The Harrigans are back, but their criminal empire is beginning to fracture from within. As ambitious rivals circle and tensions threaten to ignite a family civil war, fixer Harry Da Souza must once again keep Conrad and Maeve’s volatile dynasty from collapsing, while protecting himself from the fallout. Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren return to this bruising London crime drama, joined by an expanded cast of dangerous new players.


The Gentlemen — Season 2

When & Where to Watch: Out now, Netflix
Starring: Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, Ray Winstone, Sergio Castellitto & Michele Morrone

Guy Ritchie’s sharply tailored criminal caper heads to Italy, where Eddie and Susie are expanding their increasingly lucrative operation amid lakeside villas, old money and some very dangerous new company. Now fully seduced by the power he once resisted, Eddie enters the orbit of an elegant Italian crime boss and a fixer whose loyalties are decidedly flexible. Stylish and darkly funny, season two asks whether Eddie can build an empire without losing his soul.


Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story

When & Where to Watch: September 17th, Netflix
Starring: Ella Beatty, Vicky Krieps, Charlie Hunnam

Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story is the fourth instalment of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Netflix anthology, revisiting the infamous 1892 murders of Andrew and Abby Borden. The eight-part season follows Lizzie Borden from a repressive New England household through to the axe murders and sensational trial that made her one of America’s most notorious figures.


Furious

When & Where to Watch: Out now, Disney
Starring: Emmy Rossum, Lola Petticrew, Quincy Tyler Bernstine

Furious is a tense new psychological crime thriller from The Dropout and Dying for Sex creator Elizabeth Meriwether, starring Emmy Rossum as FBI agent Alice Black, who becomes consumed by the hunt for a calculating female serial killer played by Lola Petticrew. As the investigation deepens and the women’s stories begin to converge, the series moves beyond the conventional cat-and-mouse thriller, exploring trauma, power and the increasingly complicated line between justice and revenge.


Neagley

When & Where to Watch: September 16th, Prime Video
Starring: Maria Sten, Greyston Holt, Adeline Rudolph, Damon Herriman & Alan Ritchson

The world of Reacher expands with this hard-edged spin-off centred on formidable private investigator Frances Neagley. When a beloved friend is killed in what appears to be a suspicious accident, Neagley draws on her years in the Army’s 110th Special Investigations Unit to uncover the truth. Maria Sten brings her cool, contained intensity to a character who deserves the spotlight, while Alan Ritchson makes a welcome appearance as Jack Reacher.


Slow Horses — Season 6

When & Where to Watch: September 16th, Apple TV
Starring: Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas, Saskia Reeves & Hugo Weaving

Slough House’s magnificently dysfunctional spies return, and this time they are the ones being hunted. Drawn into a deadly game of retaliation and revenge by MI5 powerbroker Diana Taverner, Jackson Lamb and his disgraced agents are forced onto the run, where old enemies and institutional grudges prove equally dangerous. Drawing on Mick Herron’s Joe Country and Slough House, season six puts Gary Oldman’s Jackson Lamb back at the centre of the chaos — exactly where he belongs.


Last Seen

When & Where to Watch: Out now, AppleTV
Starring: Patrick Brammall, Jenna Reid, Brendan Cowell

Last Seen is a new Australian crime thriller adapted from Ryan David Jahn’s award-winning novel The Dispatcher, with Patrick Brammall starring as a police officer whose life unravels after his young daughter, Maggie, disappears without a trace. Eleven years later, a phone call from a young woman he becomes convinced is Maggie pulls him back into the case, setting off a desperate search that could either reunite his fractured family or reopen wounds that never healed. Inspired in part by the real-life kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard, the series is fictional, but its premise points to a dark, emotionally charged mystery centred on loss, obsession and the possibility that the truth may be even harder to live with than not knowing.


Outlander: Blood of My Blood — Season 2

When & Where to Watch: September 18th, Neon
Starring: Harriet Slater, Jamie Roy, Hermione Corfield & Jeremy Irvine

The sweeping Outlander prequel continues its two intertwined love stories across the battlefields of the First World War and the rugged Scottish Highlands of the 18th century. As Ellen MacKenzie and Brian Fraser fight for a future together, Julia Moriston and Henry Beauchamp face their own extraordinary obstacles, with history, family and fate conspiring against both couples.


Brothers

When & Where to Watch: September 23rd, Apple TV
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Holland Taylor & Natalie Martinez

Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson play heightened versions of themselves in this knowing comedy about friendship, family and a rumour that refuses to disappear. After his daughter’s wedding implodes, Woody relocates his clan to Matthew’s Texas ranch, where an indiscreet comment from Matthew’s mother raises an astonishing possibility: the lifelong friends may actually be brothers.

What to watch: The new TV series and films to have on your radar this September


New Movies & Documentaries


Practical Magic 2

When & Where to Watch: September 10th, in cinemas
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Joey King, Lee Pace & Maisie Williams

Nearly three decades after the Owens sisters first cast their spell, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return as Sally and Gillian in this long-awaited sequel. When a dark ancestral curse threatens to tear the Owens family apart, the sisters must reunite with the next generation of witches (and a few beloved relatives) to confront secrets buried deep within their magical bloodline. Directed by Susanne Bier and inspired by Alice Hoffman’s The Book of Magic, this promises an emotionally satisfying return to one of cinema’s most enchanting sisterhoods.


De Gaulle: Liberté

When & Where to Watch: September 10th, in cinemas
Starring: Simon Abkarian, Niels Schneider, Anamaria Vartolomei, Simon Russell Beale & Campbell Scott

Antonin Baudry’s ambitious historical epic concludes with Charles de Gaulle’s struggle to unite the Resistance and secure France’s place among the Allied powers. Moving through London, occupied France and colonial Africa, the second chapter follows de Gaulle as he navigates fraught alliances with Churchill and Roosevelt while preparing for liberation.


Heart of the Beast

When & Where to Watch: September 24th, in cinemas
Starring: Brad Pitt, J.K. Simmons & Anna Lambe

Brad Pitt reunites with Fury director David Ayer for this survival thriller set deep in the Alaskan wilderness. After a catastrophic plane crash, Special Forces officer James Belmont (Pitt) and his retired combat dog, Odin, must battle the elements to make their way back to civilisation. Beneath the film’s visceral action lies a story about loyalty and the extraordinary bond between a soldier and the animal who served beside him.


Unabomber

When & Where to Watch: September 25th, Netflix
Starring: Jacob Tremblay, Russell Crowe, Shailene Woodley & Annabelle Wallis

This unsettling true-crime drama examines Ted Kaczynski’s transformation from teenage Harvard prodigy into the domestic terrorist responsible for a decades-long bombing campaign. Moving between his formative years, including controversial psychological experiments overseen by Professor Henry Murray, and the vast FBI operation to capture him, Unabomber explores isolation, intellectual arrogance and the turn towards ideological violence.

What to watch: The new TV series and films to have on your radar this September


The Runner

When & Where to Watch: September 2nd, Prime Video
Starring: Gal Gadot, Damian Lewis, Alfred Enoch & Rory Wilmot

Gal Gadot races across London in this propulsive psychological thriller from The Last King of Scotland director Kevin Macdonald. During her morning run, high-powered lawyer Maia Marten receives a call informing her that her son has been kidnapped. To keep him alive, she must do the impossible.


The Love Hypothesis

When & Where to Watch: September 23rd, Prime Video
Starring: Lili Reinhart, Tom Bateman, Rachel Marsh & Nicholas Duvernay

Ali Hazelwood’s bestselling STEM romance receives the screen treatment, with Lili Reinhart playing Olive, a brilliant PhD candidate whose impulsive attempt to help her best friend lands her in a fake relationship with intimidating professor Adam Carlsen. What begins with an unexpected kiss soon develops rules, boundaries and, inevitably, feelings neither scientist can explain away.


The Get Out

When & Where to Watch: September 25th, Prime Video
Starring: Russell Crowe, Luke Evans & Teresa Palmer

Russell Crowe reunites with Unhinged director Derrick Borte for this darkly comic crime thriller, adapted from Thomas Perry’s novel Strip. Ready to sell his Los Angeles nightclub and retire, Manco Kapak sees his carefully laid plans unravel after a pair of masked gunmen raid the club. With a ruthless cartel closing in and a mysterious buyer circling, his clean getaway becomes an increasingly tangled game of survival.


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