New to Netflix UK: September 2022
From Andrew Dominik's Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde starring Ana de Armas to David Lean's desert epic Lawrence of Arabia with Peter O'Toole, Netflix in September plays between glamour and truth
UK Netflix release date: Wednesday 28 September
Blonde could be the most controversial film of the year. Based on the thick, 740-page tome by Joyce Carol Oates, the story is a fictionalised account of renowned actor and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe. It spans Monroe’s fraught childhood as Norma Jeane, getting married at 16, and then breaking into movies before her death aged 36. No Time to Die actor Ana de Armas portrays her.
Filmmaker Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford) has pre-empted the potential backlash for the film by claiming there’s ‘something in it to offend everyone’. But let's face it: that only makes the project more intriguing.
Do Revenge
UK Netflix release date: Friday 16 September
Every generation needs its own culty, teen girl comedy. The 80s had Heathers, the 90s had Clueless, and the noughties had Mean Girls. Do Revenge creates darker vibes for Generation Z, with a Hitchcockian plot wrapped in the psychopathic world of high-school politics.
Drea
(Camila Mendes) is a popular alpha girl, her status cemented
when she goes out with the equally popular Max (Austin Abrams). But when a
sex tape of Drea is leaked, apparently by Max, she wants vengeance. At a tennis
club, she bumps into Eleanor (Maya Hawke), an awkward girl with her own
problems. The latter is now attending school with a former bully, who started a nasty rumour
when she was 13. Drea and Eleanor decide to unite, Strangers on a Train-style, and ‘do revenge’ on each other’s tormentors.
Love in the Villa
UK Netflix release date: Thursday 1 September
If you watched The Umbrella Academy, you won’t have missed the towering figure of Tom Hopper. Despite an outward impression of alpha masculinity, his character is the most romantic and sensitive of the lot. It makes Hopper ideal casting for a soppy, ridiculous romcom like Love in the Villa.
He stars alongside The Vampire Diaries’ Kat Graham, who plays the teacher and Shakespeare fanatic Julie. She plans a dream holiday to Verona, booking a lovely villa. But as she enters, she realises the place is double-booked with the cynical British guy Charlie (Hopper). Reluctantly, they’re obliged to stay there together, but soon they grow to enjoy the experience.
Cobra Kai, season 5
UK Netflix release date: Friday 9 September
Streaming has changed the landscape, to the extent that you can’t distinguish between regular TV and a web series. Is there a distinction, aside from differing platforms? In the case of Cobra Kai, a sequel to the classic Karate Kid movies, the series started on YouTube before being cancelled and then re-commissioned by Netflix. Now, it’s a popular title: season four spent four weeks in the Global Top 10.
Season
five picks up after the surprising results of the All Valley Tournament, with
Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith) expanding Cobra Kai's empire. Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) abandons karate to mend old wounds, John Kreese (Martin Kove) is behind bars, and Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) meets an
old friend for help.
Lawrence of Arabia
UK Netflix release date: Thursday 1 September
David Lean is one of the great British directors in film history, a maestro of epic cinema, with projects built for the biggest screens possible. Sandwiched between The Bridge Over the River Kwai and Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia is one of the grandest films ever made: a four-hour odyssey across the vast Arabian desert in the early 20th century.
Lean and screenwriters Robert Bolt and
Michael Wilson capture a nuanced portrait of TE Lawrence (portrayed by Peter
O’Toole), a British soldier who joined the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Stars include Alec Guinness and Omar Sharif.
The full Netflix in September slate:
Thursday 1
September
Aeon
Flux
Fenced
In
Lawrence
of Arabia
Love
in the Villa
Michael
Jackson’s This Is It
Napolean
Dynamite
Off
the Hook
Shameless
(US), season 11
Son
of Rambo
The
Sting
Travel
Man
Friday 2
September
Devil
in Ohio
The
Festival of Troubadours
Ivy
+ Bean
Ivy
+ Bean: Doomed to Dance
Ivy
+ Bean: The Ghost That Had to Go
You’re
Nothing Special
Tuesday 6
September
Bee and PuppyCat
Get
Smart With Money
Untold:
The Race of the Century
Wednesday 7
September
Chef’s
Table: Pizza
Thursday 8
September
The
Anthrax Attacks
Friday 9
September
Cobra
Kai, season 5
End
of the Road
Kajillionaire
Narco-Saints
No
Limit
Tuesday 13
September
Jo
Koy: Live from the Los Angeles Forum
Wednesday 14
September
Broad
Peak
Heartbreak
High
The Lørenskog Disappearance
Sins
of Our Mother
Thursday 15
September
The
Next Karate Kid
Terim
Friday 16
September
Do
Revenge
Drifting
Home
I
Used to be Famous
Love
is Blind: After the Altar, season 2
Skandal!
Bringing Down Wirecard
Saturday 17
September
A
Bigger Splash
Bloomfield
The
Courier
Cryptopia:
Bitcoin, Blockchains, and the Future of the Internet
Diana:
The Woman Inside
Glastonbury
Fayre
Tuesday 20
September
Patton
Oswalt: We All Scream
Wednesday 21
September
Designing
Miami
Fortune
Teller: A TV Scam
Iron
Chef: Mexico
Only
For Love
Thursday 22
September
Snabba
Cash, season 2
Friday 23
September
Athena
The
Girls At the Back
A
Jazzman’s Blues
Lou
Saturday 24
September
Rolling
Stone: Life and Death of Brian Jones
Wednesday 28
September
Blonde
Too Hot to Handle: Brazil, season 2
Thursday 29
September
The
Empress
Friday 30
September
Entergalactic
Rainbow
