Featuring our pick of the films for September...

The Young Victoria (PG) 105 mins

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée

Cast: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Miranda Richardson

Synopsis: From Martin Scorsese & the makers of Gosford Park and The Departed, comes the story of Queen Victoria's early rise to power.  From an object of a royal power-struggle to her romantic courtship and legendary marriage to Prince Albert, Emily Blunt (Devil Wears Prada) gives a stunning performance as the young Victoria.

Packed with drama, romance, political intrigue, breath-taking cinematography and featuring an outstanding British cast including Jim Broadbent, Mark Strong, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson and Rupert Friend (Pride & Prejudice) this film will captivate Australian audiences.

Adam (M) 99 mins

Director: Max Mayer

Cast: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving

Synopsis:  Romance can be risky, perplexing and filled with the perils of miscommunication - and that's if you aren't Adam, for whom life itself is this way.

In this heartfelt romantic comedy, Hugh Dancy stars as Adam, a handsome but intriguing young man who has all his life led a sheltered existence - until he meets his new neighbor, Beth (Rose Byrne), a beautiful, cosmopolitan young woman who pulls him into the outside world, with funny, touching and entirely unexpected results

Inglorious Bastards (MA15+) 152 mins

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Cast: Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger, Michael Fassbender, Mélanie Laurent, Daniel Brühl

Synopsis:  In German-occupied France, Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.

Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution.  Known to their enemy as 'The Bastards,' Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich.

Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own.

The Cove (M) 91 mins

Director:Louie Psihoyos

Cast:Richard O'Barry

Synopsis: Winner of more than a dozen awards, including the Audience Award at Sundance and the Sydney Film Festival, The Cove is not to be missed.  This powerful documentary is making headlines all over the world, being described as '...a cross between Flipper and The Bourne Identity' by Rolling Stone Magazine, and 'indignant and forceful' by the New York Times.

In the 1960's, Richard O'Barry was the world's leading authority on dolphin training, working on the set of the popular television programme Flipper.  Day in and day out, O'Barry kept the dolphins working and television audiences smiling.  But one day, that all came to a tragic end.

The Cove, directed by Louie Psihoyos, tells the amazing true story of how Psihoyos, O'Barry and an elite team of activists, filmmakers and freedivers embarked on a covert mission to penetrate a hidden cove in Japan, shining light on a dark and deadly secret. The mysteries they uncovered were only the tip of the iceberg.

Awards:  Winner of 13 Festival Awards, including the Sundance Audience Award

Balibo (M) 111 mins

Director: Robert Connolly

Cast: Anthony LaPaglia, Oscar Isaac, Damon Gameau

Synopsis: East Timor, 1975: five journalists are missing. One man searches for the truth. One man fights for justice.

As Indonesia prepares to invade the tiny nation of East Timor, five Australian based journalists go missing.  Four weeks later, veteran foreign correspondent Roger East is lured to East Timor by the young and charismatic José Ramos-Horta to tell the story of his country and investigate the fate of the missing men.  As East's determination to uncover the truth grows, the threat of invasion intensifies and an unlikely friendship develops between the last foreign correspondent in East Timor and the man who will become President.

Balibo is a political thriller that tells the true story of crimes that have been covered up for over thirty years.

The Girlfriend Experience (M) 77 mins

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Cast: Sasha Grey, Chris Santos, Peter Zizzo

Synopsis: Set in the weeks leading up to the 2008 presidential election, The Girlfriend Experience is five days in the life of Chelsea (adult film star Sasha Grey in her mainstream film debut), an ultra high-end Manhattan call girl who offers more than sex to her clients, but companionship and conversation - 'the girlfriend experience.'

Chelsea thinks she has her life totally under control - she feels her future is secure because she runs her own business her own way, makes $2000 an hour, and has a devoted boyfriend (Chris Santos) who accepts her lifestyle. But when you're in the business of meeting people, you never know who you're going to meet.

The twentieth film from Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh, The Girlfriend Experience is a sexy, gorgeously shot time capsule from the not-too-distant past.