Week of January 26th

Ladies

Drew Barrymore directs her first movie with Whip It, where Ellen Page, stuck in a small Texas town and pushed to compete in pageants, finds a new life when she joins an Austin roller derby team. Though her mother (Marcia Gay Harden) wants her to live up to a 1950s ideal, she loves her secret life as "Babe Ruthless," which earns her new friends, the respect of her coach (Andrew Wilson), and a competitive rival (Juliette Lewis). With Alia Shawkat and Kristen Wiig. 

Talulah Riley is a shy girl who ends up in a chaotic school full of outcasts when she enrolls at St. Trinian's because the headmistress (Rupert Everett) is her aunt... but just when she starts fitting in with her rowdy classmates, she finds her new friends in jeopardy. The new Education Minister (Collin Firth), who wants to see a more proper class of girls coming from the schools, wants to close St. Trinian's-- so the girls have to rally together and save their home. With Gemma Arterton and Tamsin Egerton. 

Based on the popular series of books and directed by Gruinder Chadha, Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging follows 15-year-old Georgia and her gang of friends as they try to win Georgia the heart of the new boy in school. Unfortunately, he's already dating the perfect, blonde rival-- so Georgia, her gang, and Angus the flamboyantly dressed cat set into motion a series of clever plans to win the day, and the school year. 

Often compared to Amelie, the Russian Mermaid is a film about a silent young girl who believes she can make wishes come true. When she's moved from her seaside village to Moscow, her quaint small town behavior is thrown into sharp relief by the big city, as she pits her innocence against the realities of urban life.

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Action

Surrogates is set in 2017, in a world where people control lifelike avatars (called "surrogates") instead of venturing out in the world. Crime is almost nonexistent with no real people on the streets, but FBI agents Bruce Willis and Radha Mitchell are called in to solve the first real murder in years-- someone's found a way to kill users by attacking their surrogates, and the first victim is the son of the inventor of the surrogate system (James Cromwell). With the whole world plugged into surrogates, and a Prophet (Ving Rhames) demanding that the world unplug the robots and return to "real" life, the murders could bring the whole world to a standstill. With Rosamund Pike. On DVD and Blu-Ray. 

Bound together since their boyhood days training at an elite martial arts academy, a group of young men stumble upon a kidnapping in Wushu. As skilled martial artists, they stop the crime, but make a dangerous enemy of the criminal mastermind: a former martial arts tournament champion. Featuring Sammo Hung.

A blind samurai adventure like the classic Zatoichi series, Ichi is the story of a blind young woman on a quest to find the swordsman that taught her to kill. She wanders the countryside as a traveling musician and stumbles into a gang war, where Ichi turns out to be the wild card in a deadly conflict.

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Non Fiction

Directed by Kenny Ortega, the behind-the-scenes documentary This Is It was being filmed to accompany the next Michael Jackson tour. As it is now, the film is one of the last looks at the day to day life and works of one of the world's most famous icons.

Act of God is a documentary about being struck by lightning, and its effects. Interviewing lightning-strike victims, the film explores the effects of lightning, and the effect as a force.

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Horror

The sixth installment of the series, Saw VI continues the trials and test of the notorious Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), who has left a series of designs, traps, and tests to continue his work, even after his death. Once again, a determined cop (Costas Mandylor) has to unravel the puzzles that threaten a group in peril, and stop Jigsaw's grizzly master plan from unfolding.

A morning radio talk personality (Stephen McHattie) in the small town of Pontypool has a hard first day: his first reports of school busses and missing cats quickly give way to teaming hordes of cannibals on the streets. While he and his small crew are safe in the studio, they keep receiving reports of a world gone mad, but don't dare go outside to see.

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Clive Owen loses his wife (Laura Fraser) and has to adapt to his new life as a single parent in The Boys Are Back. With two young boys in his care, and trying to cope with his grief, he takes on the task with a new idea: "Just Say Yes." As he tries to bring joy to his household and his sons, their behavior becomes both joyous and reckless, and is always on the edge of disaster. With George MacKay and Natasha Little. 

Jane Campion's Bright Star stars Ben Whitshaw as the poet John Keats, low on funds and unable to make a living with his writing. Charles Armitage Brown (Paul Schneider) helps the destitute poet and rents the two of them part of a house, where Keats meets his muse in the girl next door, Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), and the two begin a courtship that inspires Keats' most loved work. 

An 18-year-old Salvador Dali (Robert Pattinson) arrives at university and forms life changing relationships with Luis Bunel and Frederico Lorca in Little Ashes. The three artist friends are rebellious, even within the art world, but as they continue on their course, their lives become more and more complex. 

Lorraine Pilkington is having a terrible morning in In a Day, when a stranger (Finlay Robertson) offers to help... but once he starts, he doesn't stop. As their afternoon progresses, they move from situation to situation, and she slowly learns that he has made it his mission to give her one great day, but he won't tell her why.

A series of dark, comic vignettes, the Swedish You the Living was an Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival. An absurdist comedy, the collection of shorts is described as an exploration of "the grandeur of living," as the vignettes interconnect the characters, and the dreams that reflect their inner lives and desires.

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New this week to Reckless Video's TV New Releases are the first seasons of the both the space station drama Defying Gravity and the animated comedy Clone High, by the creators of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. We also have the 7th season of the spy series MI-5, and the 6th season of Penn & Teller's B.S.

[X]Gruinder Chadha:
Bend It Like Beckham, Bride & Prejudice

[X]Clive Owen:
Children of Men, Duplicity

[X]Laura Fraser:
The Flying Scotsman, Titus

[X]George MacKay:
Thief Lord, Defiance

[X]Natasha Little:
Greenfingers, Vanity Fair

[X]Jane Campion:
The Piano, In the Cut

[X]Ben Whitshaw:
Perfume: The Story of a Murder, Brideshead Revisited

[X]Abbie Cornish:
A Good Year, Stop-Loss

[X]Kerry Fox:
Shallow Grave, Welcome to Sarajevo

[X]Paul Schneider:
Away We Go, Lars and the Real Girl

[X]Thomas Sangster:
Nanny McPhee, The Last Legion

[X]Gerard Monaco:
Vera Drake, Starter for 10

[X]Lorraine Pilkington:
Monarch of the Glen, Human Traffic

[X]Finlay Robertson:
Alfie, Persuasion

[X]Robert Pattinson:
Twilight, The Haunted Airman

[X]Kenny Ortega:
High School Musical, Newsies

[X]Stephen McHattie:
Watchmen, Shoot 'Em Up

[X]Tobin Bell:
Malice, The Quick and the Dead

[X]Costas Mandylor:
Beowulf, Virtuosity

[X]Talulah Riley:
Pride & Prejudice

[X]Rupert Everett:
Cemetery Man, Stardust

[X]Gemma Arterton:
Quantum of Solace, RocknRolla

[X]Tasmin Egerton:
Driving Lessons, Keeping Mum

[X]Bruce Willis:
Assassination of a High School President, Tears of the Sun

[X]Radha Mitchell:
Finding Neverland, Pitch Black

[X]Rosamund Pike:
The Libertine, Fracture

[X]James Cromwell:
I Robot, The Queen

[X]Ving Rhames:
Dawn of the Dead, Pulp Fiction

[X]Drew Barrymore:
Music and Lyrics, Never Been Kissed

[X]Ellen Page:
Juno, Hard Candy

[X]Marcia Gay Harden:
Welcome to Mooseport, The Mist

[X]Alia Shawkat:
Arrested Development, Amreeka

[X]Andrew Wilson:
Fever Pitch, Rushmore

[X]Kristen Wiig:
Extract, Adventureland

[X]Juliette Lewis:
The Way of the Gun, Catch and Release

[X]Sammo Hung:
Kill Zone, Mr. Nice Guy

[X]Colin Firth:
Love Actually, Bridget Jones' Diary

Week of January 19th

Super-Sized Action

This week's new action movies leave reality in the rear view and charge ahead towards larger than life characters, an insane amount of bullets, and explosions, explosions, explosions. 

Featuring the trademark excess of directors Neveldine & Taylor, the futuristic Gamer pits as convicts against one another in a Death Race-style contest to win their freedom... but in this world, an eccentric businessman (Michael C. Hall) has developed a way for people to go online and control the game's players in a real-life first person shooter. Made famous by his success in the game Gerard Butler is about to win his freedom, and the kid at the controls (Logan Lerman) has become an internet star, but the people in control are willing to do anything to make sure the game can't be beaten. Now the players have to step outside the game, take the stylized ultra-violence beyond the rules, and smash the system that wants to make playthings of the human race. On DVD and Blu Ray. 

A prequel to the madness of Smokin Aces, Smokin' Aces 2: Assassin's Ball sets up another contract-for-hire free for all, where an FBI agent (Clayne Crawford) is charged with protecting Tom Berenger, a mid level office worker at the Bureau who has an inexplicable open-ended contract out on his life. The contract brings out every assassin and psycho in the world, and the FBI has to play defense against a master of disguise (Tommy Flanagan), a femme fatale poison master (Martha Higareda), a surgeon with a fetish for power tools (Vinnie Jones), and many others. All hired by a mysterious mastermind with shadowy motives, the assassins are sent into a chaotic battle royale to claim their bounty.

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Life and Laughs

Writer/actor Ricky Gervais lives in a world where everyone tells the absolute truth in The Invention of Lying, which means Jennifer Garner tells him directly that he's too fat, and not the kind of guy she'd want to be with. Then he does something no one's ever done before: he tells a lie. Since no one has ever heard a lie before, everyone accepts whatever he says as absolute truth, and suddenly he's successful, famous, and more influential than his chief rival (Rob Lowe)... but the power of making anything he says true becomes a mixed blessing, as he accidentally becomes a prophet, and making the film a mix of romantic comedy, social satire, and religious farce. 

"Exiled" by her mother (Melissa Leo), Hilary Duff is a troubled 17-year-old in According to Greta. Sent to live with her grandparents, she's working on a list of suicide methods and plans to kill herself before she turns 18. Over the summer, as she becomes closer with her grandmother (Ellen Burstyn) and meets her first summer romance (Evan Ross), she slowly starts to rethink her future, and focus more on life than death. 

A Palestinian mother and son move into the Chicago suburbs but have trouble reaching the American dream in Amreeka. Though she used to be a banker, the only job the mother can find is at White Castle, and her son has to deal with anti-Arab sentiments at school, but with a little help from friends and family, they might find happiness in their new home.

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Suspense

Emerging from suspended animation, Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster wake up to a mostly empty ship in the sci-fi Pandorum. Remembering they're on a 60,000 passenger ship headed to a new Earth-type planet, they slowly get their senses back, but they can't find any other crew, there's no communication throughout the ship, and the bridge is locked. When one of them stays to get to the ship's controls and the other adventures into the ship to keep the life support online, they both discover what's been happening during their hibernation, and that they are not alone. On DVD and Blu-Ray. 

Set in the isolation of a research station in Antarctica, Kate Beckinsale is a federal marshal with little to do but wait out the last two days left in her two year assignment in Whiteout. The first murder in the station's history changes everything: without knowing who to trust, and with the sudden arrival of a UN investigator (Gabriel Macht), she has to solve a murder where the motive is obscured, the stakes are unknown, and the murderer must be one of her crew. 

A brother and sister reunite to visit their dying father in the Argentinean The Appeared, but when they discover a diary, they face a shocking family truth. When they witness a family murdered before them in the exact manned described in the diary, the vision could be from the past, current reality, or fallout from the grisly reign of the country's military dictatorship

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The two non-fiction movies this week include Kirby Dick's documentary Outrage, which focuses on the anti-gay politicians and crusaders that secretly live the same lifestyle they campaign against, and the investigators and protestors that seek to expose their hypocrisy. Also new is No Impact Man, which follows a family as they attempt to live for a full year in a way that makes no impact on the environment.

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New this week to Reckless Video's TV New Releases are the 5th season of the popular Showtime suburban comedy Weeds, and the 2nd season of FX's lawyer drama Damages.

[X]Neveldine & Taylor:
Crank, Crank 2

[X]Gerard Butler:
The Ugly Truth, Beowulf & Grendel

[X]Michael C. Hall:
Dexter, Six Feet Under

[X]Logan Lerman:
Meet Bill, 3:10 to Yuma

[X]Tom Berenger:
Training Day, Born on the Fourth of July

[X]Clayne Crawford:
Swimfan, The Great Raid

[X]Tommy Flanagan:
Face/Off, Sin City

[X]Vinnie Jones:
Midnight Meat Train, Snatch

[X]Martha Higareda:
Street Kings, Borderland

[X]Dennis Quaid:
Horsemen, The Rookie

[X]Ben Foster:
30 Days of Night, Northfork

[X]Kate Beckinsale:
Underworld, Vacancy

[X]Gabriel Macht:
The Good Shepherd, The Spirit

[X]Ricky Gervais:
The Office, Ghost Town

[X]Jennifer Garner:
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Juno

[X]Rob Lowe:
The Outsiders, Thank You For Smoking

[X]Hilary Duff:
Raise Your Voice, War, Inc

[X]Ellen Burstyn:
How to Make an American Quilt, The Wicker Man

[X]Melissa Leo:
Frozen River, Mr. Woodcock

[X]Evan Ross:
Pride, ATL

[X]Kirby Dick:
This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Sick

[X]Patton Oswalt:
Observe and Report, Ratatouille

Week of January 12th

Tension

When an Explosives Ordinance Disposal team leader (Guy Pearce) dies in the line of duty in Iraq, a new explosives expert (Jeremy Renner) steps up in Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker. Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty, the other two members of the team, have to try and keep up with their new, reckless team leader, who charges headlong into hostile situations that could get the whole team killed... that their new team leader, who keeps souvenirs of the hundreds of bombs he's disarmed under his bed, may be addicted to the rush of life or death situations, and will go out of his way to find danger, regardless of the consequences. On DVD and Blu Ray. 

Rob Zombie's follow-up to his remake, Halloween II explores the life of the traumatized survivors one year after the first film: the traumatized Laurie (Scout Taylor-Compton), the knife-scarred friend Annie (Danielle Harris) and her small town sheriff father (Brad Dourif), and the doctor (Malcolm McDowell) made famous by his books about the murders. As Halloween approaches, they begin to suspect that their boogeyman Michael Myers (Tyler Mane) isn't dead, and is leaving a trail of bodies as he comes back for Laurie.

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Isolation

Coming to the end of his three year tour on the moon, Sam Rockwell is all alone, maintaining a mostly automated mining facility in Moon. With no real-time communication with the outside world (he can record and send messages), and only the mining base's computer (Kevin Spacey) as company, three years have taken a toll on him: he's not sure if he's hallucinating, losing his mind, or worse when he discovers another version of himself in the facility. On DVD and Blu Ray. 

Robert Siegel, writer of The Wrestler, writes and directs Big Fan, the story of a die-hard New York Giants fan (Patton Oswalt) who spends his nights calling in to sports radio shows and game days in a parking lot with his best friend (Kevin Corrigan), listening to games on a portable radio. When his fandom takes a turn that affects his team and causes the Giants to lose games, his life and self worth have to be weighed against the only thing he loves.

David Zellner writes, directs, and stars in Goliath. In the middle of a divorce, living alone, and working a dead end job, he loses his last comfort: his cat, Goliath. Now on a quest for meaning and for his beloved pet, he papers the city with fliers, which puts him in the path of misfits, oddballs, and other comically quirky characters.

Unhappily married and emotionally suffering, Maria Bello finds her solace online in Downloading Nancy. Her husband (Rufus Sewell) comes home one day to find her gone, and must piece together the mystery of his missing wife, who left a note saying she had gone to stay with friends. The truth is darker, stranger, and more disturbing: she has found Jason Patric, who can give her what she needs, and what she needs is unfathomable. With Amy Brenneman.

Told out of sequence, Guillermo Arriaga's The Burning Plain centers on the fallout of the affair between Kim Basinger and Joaquim de Almeida, both married and with their own families. Looking forward into the lives of their families (including Charlize Theron and Jose Maria Yazpik), the film charts the effects of the disasters that can tear families apart, and the epiphanies that can be found in understanding history.

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Comedy

The sharp tongued British comedy In The Loop is a government farce, as medium-to-minor players in international politics scramble to save their own jobs when an incompetent minister (Tom Hollander) makes a mistake on camera. With war on the line and everyone scrambling to save their careers, a foul mouthed communications manager (Peter Capaldi), and an American general (James Gandolfini) scheme, maneuver, spin, and plot... all hoping to come out ahead, even if their machinations start a war. With Anna Chlumsky.


Alexis Bledel stars in Post Grad as a girl who can't land a decent job after graduating college. Forced to move back in with her family, she and her best friend (Zach Gilford) team up to reclaim her dreams of the future, namely, the perfect job and the perfect man. With Michael Keaton and Jane Lynch.

Pretty Ugly People reunites a group of college friends for a mountain wilderness getaway in Montana when they get a message from Lucy (Missi Pyle) who wants to spend the "time she has left" with her old gang. She wants to them to see how she's changed since college... but once they're alone in the mountains, she sees that they've all changed, too.

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Music

Re-imagined from the 1980 drama, Fame follows a talented group of students (including Kay Panabaker and Naturi Naughton) through four years at the New York Academy of Performing Arts. The film follows the students through drama, voice, dance, and music, as they strive to be the greatest entertainers in the world. Buoyed by a tough but skilled group of teachers, they have a chance to make their dreams come true.

Spike Lee's Passing Strange is a Tony Award-nominated musical stage play captured on film. The rock opera, with the live band on stage and part of the story, follows a young black man on his journey to leave his suburban, church-going upbringing, rebel against his mother, and find something real.

Featuring cameos by R&B all-stars, I Can Do Bad All By Myself is the newest film by Tyler Perry, reprising his role as Madea, who catches a group of youths looting her house and sends them to live with their aunt (Taraji P. Henson), a nightclub singer who wants nothing to do with them. Her world is suddenly richer with the kids clogging her house and a stranger (Brian White) renting her basement, and she discovers the truth about love and family.

When a cellist's orchestra disbands, he leaves Tokyo and returns to his home in the country in Departures. Desperate for work, he finds a job "assisting departures" only to discover his new job is to prepare the deceased for their funeral ceremonies. With no other options, he finds ways to embrace life when surrounded by death.

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Our non fiction releases this week include the documentary Beautiful Losers about the Do It Yourself (DIY) art culture and the group of directors, painters, artists, skaters and more that banded together in the early 1990s. We also have the new stand-up performance Kathy Griffin: She'll Cut a Bitch, where Kathy Griffin discusses fame, celebrity, and the behind-the-scenes of the Emmys and the Grammys.

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New this week to Reckless Video's TV New Releases are the 20th season of The Simpsons and the 3rd season of the BBC adventure series Robin Hood.

[X]Patton Oswalt:
Observe and Report, Ratatouille

[X]Kevin Corrigan:
Pineapple Express, American Gangster

[X]Guillermo Arriaga:
Amores Perros, 21 Grams

[X]Charlize Theron:
In the Valley of Elah, The Italian Job

[X]Kim Basinger:
The Informers, Cool World

[X]Jose Maria Yazpik:
Sueno, Innocent Voices

[X]Joaquim de Almeida:
Che, The Celestine Prophecy

[X]Maria Bello:
A History of Violence, Payback

[X]Jason Patric:
My Sister's Keeper, Narc

[X]Rufus Sewell:
Vinyan, The Illusionist

[X]Amy Brenneman:
88 Minutes, Heat

[X]Kay Panabaker:
Nancy Drew

[X]Naturi Naughton:
Notorious

[X]Rob Zombie:
The Devil's Rejects, House of 1,000 Corpses

[X]Scout Taylor-Compton:
Obsessed, Sleepover

[X]Danielle Harris:
Super Capers, Killer Bud

[X]Brad Dourif:
Blue Velvet, Lord of the Rings

[X]Malcolm McDowell:
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, A Clockwork Orange

[X]Tyler Mane:
Troy, X-Men

[X]Kathryn Bigelow:
Near Dark, Point Break

[X]Jeremy Renner:
SWAT, The Assassination of Jesse James

[X]Anthony Mackie:
Half Nelson, We Are Marshall

[X]Brian Geraghty:
I Know Who Killed Me, Art School Confidential

[X]Guy Pearce:
Traitor, Memento

[X]Tyler Perry:
Madea Goes to Jail, The Family That Preys

[X]Taraji P. Henson:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Talk to Me

[X]Brian White:
Stomp the Yard, Fighting

[X]Peter Capaldi:
Torchwood, Lair of the White Worm

[X]Tom Hollander:
The Soloist, Enigma

[X]Anna Chlumsky:
My Girl, Trading Mom

[X]James Gandolfini:
The Sopranos, The Man Who Wasn't There

[X]Kathy Griffin:
Four Rooms, Shakes the Clown

[X]Sam Rockwell:
Frost/Nixon, Galaxy Quest

[X]Kevin Spacey:
Shrink, Glengarry Glen Ross

[X]Spike Lee:
Inside Man, When the Levees Broke

[X]Alexis Bledel:
Gilmore Girls, I'm Reed Fish

[X]Zach Gilford:
Friday Night Lights, Rise: BloodHunter

[X]Michael Keaton:
The Merry Gentleman, Jackie Brown

[X]Jane Lynch:
Spring Breakdown, Role Models

[X]Missi Pyle:
Visioneers, Bringing Down the House

Week of January 5th

It's Raining Food

On a small island, hidden on maps under the "A" in "Atlantic Ocean," a misfit inventor (Bill Hader) comes up with an idea that can save the island's inhabitants from their all-sardine diet: a machine that turns water into food. In Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, his invention works-- it makes him the island's biggest celebrity, and the mayor (Bruce Campbell) uses the invention the make the town a world-renown tourist attraction... but his father (James Caan) thinks something might be wrong with food falling from the sky three times a day, the poster boy (Andy Samberg) for the old sardine industry doesn't like being pushed out of the limelight, and the weather girl (Anna Faris) broadcasting the event begins to suspect danger on the horizon. They band together as a group of unlikely heroes to stop a food-hurricane from covering the globe... or end up living under ground, wearing clothes made of bacon. On DVD and Blu Ray.

 

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Ike's Corner

So you were one of the lucky ones that came out of the holidays with one of them new-fangled Blu-Ray machines.  It's all hooked up and ready to go...so...now what?  You need some kind of tester movie.  Lucky for you, Reckless Video has a large selection of Blu-Ray titles for you to choose from.  Below are a few suggestions that will tickle your ears and dilate your pupils.

1) Blade Runner, the 5-disk Complete Collection:  This is the movie that you want to see on your new system.  Warner put extreme effort into encoding this movie with the highest-quality digital restoration they possibly could.  In other words, It's really freakin' pretty.  Best of all, you only need to use ONE of your punches to get the Theatrical Edition, the Directors Cut and the Final Cut, since they are all included in one box.  There is no better option at this point.

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2) 2001 A Space Odyssey:  It's a Stanley Kubrick classic.  Watch it in the comfort of your own personal theatre, you lucky dog.  This movie was made for Blu-Ray...or maybe Blu-Ray was made for it...  It's filled with psychedelic scenes, pretty colors and tantalizing sound that give you the sensation of floating in space.  Now you can see the facial expressions of the people in all the long shots.  Beware of firmware upgrades making your Blu-Ray player self-aware.

3) Children of Men:  This was the first Blu-Ray that went into my own player.  The sound design will blow your hair to the back of the room.  This movie, like the two above it, is on The Perfect List for good reason.  Those single-take shots that seem to go on forever were no easy task to complete.  Therefore, they didn't skimp when it came time to distribute the movie on the High-Definition format of choice.  You will forget that you are only watching a movie.

Drama

Jim Sturgess stars as Martin McGartland in Fifty Dead Men Walking, based on McGartland's autobiography, telling the story of his infiltration of the Irish Republican Army. Starting out as a petty criminal, McGartland has solid roots in the Northern Ireland community, but his reluctance to accept an invitation from the IRA attracts the attention of Fergus (Ben Kingsley) who recruits him to work for the police, saving lives by going undercover... a complicated, dangerous life, where the IRA would kill him if they discover him, the police will deny their involvement if he's caught, and his girlfriend (Natalie Press) worries that he'll end up in a ditch. With Kevin Zegers and Rose McGowan. 

Michelle Monaghan is a long-haul driver in Trucker, living a life of one-night stands, no attachments, and all-night drinking sessions with Nathan Fillion... until she is introduced to her 11-year-old son (Jimmy Bennett) who is suddenly her responsibility when the boy's father (Benjamin Bratt) is hospitalized. The two make an uneasy pair, but the mother and son find themselves facing a new future that neither of them expected. With Joey Lauren Adams and Mika Boorem.

Jean-Pierre Dardenne's newest film is Lorna's Silence, where a young woman sees her chance to move up in the world when she's offered a role in a mobster's plan... but the more she learns about the part she has to play, the worse the deal works. When her silence is the only thing keeping the plan from flying apart, her situation becomes even more dangerous.

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The fourth in the series, The Final Destination revisits the franchise's theme of a group of kids that cheat death-- this time, they avoid being crushed by a race car that flies off the track. Death never takes these things lightly, and it slowly catches up with each of them, one by one, and snuffs them out in increasingly grizzly ways. Starring Bobby Campo, Nick Zano, Mykelti Williams, Krista Allen, and Andrew Fiscella.

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New this week to Reckless Video's TV New Releases are the second season of the spy comedy series Chuck, and the third season of HBO's polygamist drama Big Love. Also new this week is documentary filmmaker Warren Miller's "Riders Collection," containing three skiing/snowboarding films: Freeriders, Snowriders, and Snowriders 2.

[X]Bill Hader:
Adventureland, Knocked Up

[X]Anna Faris:
Observe and Report, The House Bunny

[X]James Caan:
Misery, The Godfather

[X]Andy Samberg:
I Love You, Man, Hot Rod

[X]Bruce Campbell:
Burn Notice, My Name is Bruce

[X]Bobby Campo:
Legally Blondes

[X]Nick Zano:
Beverly Hills Chihuahua, College

[X]Mykelti Williams:
Lucky Number Slevin, August Rush

[X]Krista Allen:
Feast, Paycheck

[X]Andrew Fiscella:
Vacancy, Quarantine

[X]Ben Kingsley:
Elegy, Suspect Zero

[X]Jim Sturgess:
Across the Universe, Crossing Over

[X]Kevin Zegers:
The Jane Austen Book Club, Dawn of the Dead

[X]Natalie Press:
Nightwatching, My Summer of Love

[X]Rose McGowan:
Scream, Planet Terror

[X]Jean-Pierre Dardenne:
L'enfant, The Son

[X]Michelle Monaghan:
Gone Baby Gone, Eagle Eye

[X]Joey Lauren Adams:
Chasing Amy, Dazed & Confused

[X]Mika Boorem:
Sleepover, Blue Crush

[X]Jimmy Bennett:
Star Trek, Shorts

[X]Benjamin Bratt:
The Great Raid, Demolition Man

[X]Nathan Fillion:
Firefly, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog