Just cause summer blockbuster season is coming to an end doesn't mean there's a lack of great action on the silver screen this month! From the Coen brothers to a Pacino/DeNiro reunion, we've got all you need to know about movies hitting theaters this September.

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Bangkok Dangerous



Release Date: Sept. 5
Director: Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang
Starring: Nicholas Cage and a bunch of people you've never heard of
Rating: R

Nic Cage lends his majestic brilliance to this story of a hitman hired to pull off a series of kills in Bankok that falls for a local woman. The girl's a deaf-mute, a brilliant move on the directors' parts, being that the less Mr. Wicker Man actually speaks, the better the film is likely to be.

Crave Online's Call: I was kidding about the majestic brilliance part, if you didn't catch it - he sucks harder than Sharon Stone in a producer's office. I don't care what the film is - Nicholas Cage ruins every movie he's in.

Burn After Reading



Release Date: Sept. 12
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Starring: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton
Rating:

The Coen Brothers' comic tale of greed, double-crossing and blackmail boasts an all-star cast consisting almost entirely of Oscar winners or nominees. This dark spy comedy centers on an ousted CIA official's memoir, which falls into the hands of two bumbling gym employees hellbent on exploiting their discovery.

Crave Online's Call: With a combined cast and crew like this, the film being anything less than awesome should result in a class-action lawsuit against everyone involved. We're there - with high expectations.

Righteous Kill



Release Date: Sept. 12
Director: Russell Gerwitz
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, 50 Cent, John Leguizamo
Rating: R

Two detectives searching for a serial killer, who happens to only kill bad guys. Specific plot details do not matter. Al Pacino. Robert DeNiro. Together.

Crave Online: What the hell do you think, we're gonna NOT see it? Would you stare at other constellations while Haley's Comet is flying by? I'm queueing up Heat on Netflix right now.

Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys



Release Date: Sept. 12
Director: Tyler Perry
Starring: Tyler Perry, Jennifer Hudson, Sanaa Lathan
Rating: PG-13

Tyler Perry's a stone's throw away from being a billionaire, for one reason only: he makes lowest-common-denominator movies on pocket-lint budgets, fat suits and cross-dressing. Sure, it's probably good for a laugh on DVD, but why anybody would actually see this in a theater, especially when ticket prices these days require you to take out a loan, is beyond me.

Crave Online's Call: I think we just cleared that up.

Ghost Town



Release Date: Sept. 19
Director: David Koepp
Starring: Ricky Gervais, Gerg Kinnear, Kristen Wiig
Rating: PG-13

In this new comic romp with the undead, a man named Bertram Pincus is unexpectedly killed, only to be revived a few minutes later. Soon after, he discovers that he can see ghosts, and the ghosts need a few favors. Hilarity ensues as one of the ghosts pesters Bertram into breaking up the new engagement of his widow, and a strange love triangle unfolds.

Crave Online's Call: Triple lame with a side of yawn. What's the last good thing Greg Kinnear has been in?

Igor



Release Date: Sept. 19
Director: Anthony Leondis
Starring: John Cusack, Eddie Izzard, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese
Rating: PG

This animated comedy puts a new spin on the classic monster genre. The hunchbacked scientist's assistance of lore has dreams of becoming a scientist himself, hoping someday to win first place at the Evil Science Fair.

Crave Online's Call: With a star-studded voice cast like this, you'd think we'd have heard more about it. That makes us suspicious. And thankful we have DVD players.

Lakeview Terrace



Release Date: Sept. 19
Director: Neil LaBute
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington, Eva La Rue
Rating: PG-13

An LAPD officer with a psychopathic streak will stop at nothing to force out the interracial couple who moved in next door. Having anointed himself the neighborhood watchdog, he patrols the streets on foot at night and increasingly torments the newlyweds, until they fight back.

Crave Online's Call: Sam Jackson is scary enough. Add a badge and a mean streak, and you've got straight terror. I could barely get through the trailer, but I'm definitely hitting this one up.

Miracle at St. Anna



Release Date: Sept. 26
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso
Rating: R

Four black American soldiers, members of the all-black "Buffalo Soldier" division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during the second World War, find themselves trapped behind enemy lines when one of their unit tries to save a young Italian boy. A deeply inspiring film, drawn from true historical events, that is bound to touch the soul.

Crave Online's Call: Spike Lee's heading in an entirely new direction with this one. The trailer looks awesome, and we've got a feeling the rest of it will be, too. But why isn't it getting any press?


Choke



Release Date: Sept. 26
Director: Clark Gregg
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Brad William Henke, Kelly Macdonald
Rating: R

Another Chuck Palahniuk favorite is adapted into a movie - but this aint no Fight Club. Victor Mancini is a sex addict who works as a Colonial War re-enactor, who also happens to run a con scheme that involves making himself choke nearly to death in restaurants and latching on to his rescuers. This is all to provide for his institutionalized mother, who happens to believe that she owns the foreskin of Jesus Christ. This is not a joke.

Crave Online's Call: Hell to the yes. Everything Chuck's published has been fantastic, except for his last one (Rant) which chewed ass. And they're all being made into movies.

Eagle Eye



Release Date: Sept. 26
Director: D.J. Caruso
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Billy Bob Thornton
Rating: PG-13

In this Big Brother thriller, two strangers become pawns in a terrifying plot, masterminded by a woman who seems to know their every move. They have to work together to outwit the voice on the other end of the line before she has them killed.

Crave Online's Call: Blindly following Michelle Monaghan wherever she may appear. Interesting plotline as well, given the current wiretap and surveillance-happy environment of today's world.