Best new cinema in Sept 2025

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The Conjuring: Last Rites

Fri 5 Sept

Get ready for another thrilling chapter of the iconic Conjuring cinematic universe, based on real events.  Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson reunite for one last case as renowned, real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren in a powerful and spine-chilling addition to the global box office-breaking franchise.

Farmiga and Wilson star alongside Mia Tomlinson and Ben Hardy, who portray Ed and Lorraine’s daughter Judy Warren and her boyfriend, Tony Spera, as well as Steve Coulter returning as Father Gordon, Rebecca Calder, Elliot Cowan, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Beau Gadsdon, John Brotherton and Shannon Kook.

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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

Fri 12 Sept

“Rock an’ Roll!”  Dust off your spandex, as Rob Reiner returns with the mockumentary that inspired an entire genre, and a few earnest rock bands. The original This Is Spinal Tap film was a joyfully funny examination of the excesses of your average touring metal band. Now, almost 50 years on, are they still the world’s loudest band? With a cast that includes music royalty like Paul McCartney and Elton John, John Michael Higgins, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, and Paul Shaffer are playing like it’s their last ever show.

After a 15-year hiatus, acclaimed rockers David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls are drawn back together for one last concert. Documentary filmmaker Marty DiBergi returns to explore what the band members have been up to and immortalise the concert reunion. The film blends the same musical mayhem and satire that made the original a cult classic and features some fantastic rock cameos in the process. Will this concert be their triumphant return, or just another Stonehenge-sized catastrophe?

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The Long Walk

Fri 12 Sept

From the highly anticipated adaptation of master storyteller Stephen King’s first-written novel, and Francis Lawrence, the visionary director of The Hunger Games franchise films (Catching Fire, Mockingjay – Pts. 1 & 2, and The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), comes The Long Walk, an intense, chilling, and emotional thriller that challenges audiences to confront a haunting question: how far could you go?

Starring Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Charlie Plummer, and Ben Wang, with Judy Greer, and Mark Hamill, we’re transported to a dystopian United States ruled by a totalitarian regime. Agroup of young men enter an annual walking contest in which they must maintain a speed of at least three miles per hour or risk execution. The contest ends when only one walker remains alive.  

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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

Fri 19 Sept

Some doors bring you to your past. Some doors lead you to your future. And some doors change everything. Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell) are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a big bold beautiful journey – an original, funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present…and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures.

This is an imaginative, romantic, and original film filled with sweeping moments and surprises, paired with immersive, breathtaking visuals. Kogonada’s use of magical realism seamlessly blends fantastical elements, like the life-changing doors, with practical, everyday settings, creating a grounded, yet whimsical experience crafted for the big screen.  

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Him

Fri 19 Sept

Starring former college wide-receiver Tyriq Withers (Atlanta, I Know What You Did Last Summer) as Cameron Cade, this unsettling horror outing from Justin Tipping centres on a rising-star quarterback who has devoted his life, and identity, to football. On the eve of professional football’s annual scouting Combine, Cam is attacked by an unhinged fan and suffers a potentially career-ending brain trauma.

Just when all seems lost, Cam receives a lifeline when his hero, Isaiah White (Marlon Wayans), a legendary eight-time Championship quarterback and cultural megastar, offers to train Cam at Isaiah’s isolated compound that he shares with his celebrity influencer wife, Elsie White; played by Julia Fox (Uncut Gems, No Sudden Move). But as Cam’s training accelerates, Isaiah’s charisma begins to curdle into something darker, sending his protégé down a disorienting rabbit hole that may cost him more than he ever bargained for.

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Swiped

Fri 19 Sept

Lily James and Dan Stevens star in Rachel Lee Goldenberg examination of the real-life story of Whitney Wolfe Herd - the remarkable woman who helped create two innovative blockbuster dating apps and, in doing so, became the world’s youngest female billionaire.

It is 2012. The tech industry remains a boy’s club. But 22-year-old Whitney (James) refuses to observe Silicon Valley’s glass ceiling. In the wake of a failed startup, Whitney joins the development team at MatchBox, a company she would rebrand as Tinder. As vice president of marketing, she cracks Tinder’s college campus market and sees its user base explode.

Then, tensions between her and her male counterparts burgeon, and she finds herself subject to sexual harassment. It’s a devastating blow, but Whitney powers through, leaving that toxic workspace, filing a lawsuit, winning a settlement, moving to Texas, and going on to develop a new dating app that empowers women. In 2014, Bumble is born. And behind the scenes, Whitney finds a surprising match of her own.

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One Battle After Another

Fri 26 Sept

The mercurial Paul Thomas Anderson (Inherent Vice, Phantom Thread, Licorice Pizza) unveils another thought-provoking glimpse at the human experience. Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, and Regina Hall gather as a group of ex-revolutionaries who reunite to rescue one of their own's daughter. But things get complicated when a sworn enemy unexpectedly reappears.

Ferguson (DiCaprio) and his French 75 revolutionary group couldn’t really expect a quiet retirement, especially after storming a US Immigration & Customs Enforcement detention centre, freeing hundreds of prisoners 16 years ago. But doing so put him in the crosshairs of a vengeful white supremacist leader. Even a decade living off-grid can prevent a reprisal.

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