Here's what to watch in September

What decade is it? Because here come Ryan Reynolds and Sir Kenneth Branagh with a Cold War-era action-comedy movie set inside the late ‘80s Soviet Union. You will guess Reynolds's role correctly: He plays a military operative (a U.S. Navy pilot) who gets stranded behind enemy lines. Branagh gets the Jackman role as a gruff former KGB agent with a secret fetish for American culture. Okay, I am staying home yet again on a Friday night (Apple TV tends to do this to me with their original movies). The nice guys who co-directed Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves are behind this survival story. -- Arno

Kyle Chandler (“Friday Night Lights”) and Aaron Pierre (Rebel Ridge) join the DC Universe as two members of the intergalactic peacekeeping group, the Green Lantern Corps. In what looks to be a very grounded premise for the HBO series, Hal Jordan (Chandler) takes new recruit John Stewart (Pierre) under his wing as the pair investigate a murder in Nebraska. Fans of the “Watchmen” limited series will be interested to know that “Lanterns” shared co-creator in Damon Lindelof ("Lost," "The Leftovers"), who worked wonders with that source material. Crossing our ring fingers that he can do the same for the DCU. -- James

Beloved writer-director Na Hong-jin returns ten years after The Wailing with a monster movie that premiered at Cannes, where it divided audiences, racked up distribution deals around the world, and made further news by providing the mostly civilized festival with nonstop alien mayhem. Hwang Jung-min (The Wailing) and Hoyeon (“Squid Game”) co-star as police officers who are dispatched to the brewing chaos happening in a remote South Korean village. Sit tight for head turning appearances from Hollywood stars (and real-life couple) Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender. For big-big-picture people, distributor NEON scored a two-day large format release in the States starting September 7. -- Arno

My blood. Your blood. Our blood. Sequel blood. Thank you to the spirit world for sending Practical Magic 2 to us, and for making it feel like no time has passed over the last 28 years. Good to see Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing (both my king and queen), and Dianne Wiest are still calling the corners together. In this story of family bonds, cozy New England drama, and the seductive embrace of dark magic, the youngest generation of the Owen's family -- Sally's kids, Kylie and Antonia -- will help the coven hopefully break the curse that forbids any of them from having true love. Even though Practical Magic created its own subgenre, right now I'm into the entire The Craft / “Widow's Bay” feeling the sequel is emanating. -- Arno

Director Paul Greengrass' retelling of the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381 pits a mad-as-hell Andrew Garfield against the tyranny of King Richard II. The Uprising sits firmly in Greengrass' wheelhouse, mixing the gritty, shaky-cam action of his Jason Bourne films, as well as his passion for historical dramas, especially stories about regular people collectively fighting for their survival (Bloody Sunday, United 93). -- James

Season 6 finds Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) and the Slough House crew on the run as they're being systematically targeted and turning up dead. While signs point to a connection to MI5 operator Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas), things get interesting with the surprise return of Sid Baker (Olivia Cooke), the agent believed dead since Season 1. The new season adapts two Mick Herron novels (“Joe Country” and “Slough House”) and the Apple TV hit has already been renewed for a seventh season. -- James

“Reacher” becomes its own universe with this spin-off series centered on the character Frances Neagley, Jack Reacher's former military protégé who now works as a private investigator in Chicago. Neagley, played by Maria Sten, appeared in the first three seasons of “Reacher” before her series went into production. Alan Ritchson will guest star in Season 1 of “Neagley,” which finds the PI on a hunt for answers and justice after one of her longtime friends is killed in a suspicious accident. -- Arno

We're deep into Ryan Murphy season with "American Horror Story" back later this month and "The Shards" wrapping up its freshman debut. The fourth installment of Murphy's slayer series will tell the story of accused ax murderer Lizzie Borden. Ella Beatty (“Feud”) stars as Lizzie, a young woman who stood trial for the murder of her father and stepmother in 1892. In typical “Monster” fashion, the show will take a highly editorialized approach, spinning out unproven theories into plot points about everything from family tensions to a homicidal love story between Lizzie and the maid (Vicky Krieps). Charlie Hunnam, who played Ed Gein in “Monster” Season 3, returns alongside frequent Murphy collaborator Billie Lourd and Rebecca Hall to round out the doomed Borden brood. -- Adrienne

Forget everything you know about the Resident Evil film franchise. Director Zach Cregger (the creator of last year's horror breakout Weapons) has been quoted as saying he's never seen any of the previous seven Resident Evil movies, choosing to ground his film in the world of the video game series. After hilariously stealing scenes in Weapons as the drug addict James, Austin Abrams (also in the upcoming Whalefall) gets top billing as a medical courier whose delivery route takes a turn when a viral outbreak turns Raccoon City into a hotbed of zombies. -- James

Tom Hardy's mob fixer Harry Da Souza is back for a second season of "MobLand," the massive hit series that set and broke some viewership records during its freshman run on Paramount+. Season 2 will reveal the cracks in the Harrigan family's criminal empire as a civil war breaks out within its own ranks. Season 3 is reportedly in development already, though you might have heard a row between Hardy and showrunner Jez Butterworth found Hardy's participation hanging in the balance for a moment. Ten new episodes will roll out weekly starting September 18. -- Arno

Lili Reinhart (“Riverdale”) and Tom Bateman (“Behind Her Eyes”) star in this adaptation of Ali Hazelwood's bestselling novel as a PhD candidate and her professor who start a fake relationship in order to test their theories on love. Maybe you can see where this is going, but did you know that Hazelwood's novel originally began as a Star Wars fan fic about Kylo Ren and Rey? -- James

It doesn't work for everybody, but “AHS” fans love Ryan Murphy's everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach to his longest-running TV series. From Season 1 all the way back in 2011 -- which featured sexy ghosts, haunted neighbors, mad scientists, teenage stalkers, demonic fetuses, and red-headed murder twins -- Murphy and his collaborators haven't been afraid to slash for the fences, so to speak. Expect nothing less from Season 13. While there were rumors the next installment was a “Coven” sequel, the producer says it's actually “all the seasons” combined. Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Kathy Bates, and Emma Roberts will all return to reprise their roles as ... everyone, as they each portray multiple characters from the previous seasons. “It's like the Avengers!” Murphy told Variety, “They all come together to defeat the ultimate evil.” -- Adrienne

Let's re-enroll at Hillman College in the present day, where Deborah Wayne, the daughter of Whitley and Dwayne from the beloved ‘80s series, arrives on campus for her freshman year. She'll be joined by an ensemble of other first-year coeds, as well as OG “ADW” characters Whitley Gilbert (Jasmine Guy), Dwayne Wayne (Kadeem Hardison), Freddie Brooks (Cree Summer), and Ron Johnson (Darryl M. Bell). For some of us, the world will never quite be the same without Lisa Bonet's Denise Huxtable in the mix, though. -- Arno

For Robert Pattinson's next trick, the transformative actor will step into the shoes of Chris Hansen, TV journalist and host of “To Catch a Predator.” The rise and fall of Hansen's hidden camera show, which lured potential predators to meet up with minors before arresting them, was an early 21st century phenomenon. But all viral hits come to an end, and by 2008 the series was canceled in the wake of horrifying events that will likely make up the climax of the movie. Expect a crime thriller in the style of Nightcrawler, and don't skip out on watching the trailer for this one, which is a work of art in itself. -- Adrienne

Netflix continues to expand its reach into true crime with a new film about Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber. Jacob Tremblay stars as Kaczynski in dual timelines that reveal the young math prodigy's journey from Harvard undergrad to test subject to domestic terrorist. Supporting Tremblay is Shailene Woodley as FBI agent Joanne Miller and Russell Crowe as Henry Murray, a Harvard professor who used Kaczynski in a series of unethical psychological experiments. -- Adrienne