Imagination
Doctor Parnassus (Christopher Plummer), his daughter (Lily Cole), and the rest of the performers in his traveling show (Andrew Garfield and Verne Troyer) try to bring wonder into normal peoples' day to day lives in Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, but the doctor has a tangled past... he's over a thousand years old, and won his immortality in a bet with the Devil (Tom Waits).Parnassus and the Devil have been making bets over the centuries, and the Doctor's most recent wager has come due: the Devil is to claim his daughter on her 16th birthday. With the deadline only a few days away, the troupe rescues an amnesiac stranger (Heath Ledger) who helps the Imaginarium's show, but his mysterious arrival comes at the same time as the Devil's new wager for the soul of Parnassus' daughter. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Meryl Streep is a successful divorcee in It's Complicated when she ends up having an affair with her ex-husband (Alec Baldwin)... but they've been divorced ten years now, both moved on,
and he's now married to a younger woman (Lake Bell). Not only is she the "other woman" in this triangle, she's beginning to get to know the architect (Steve Martin) remodeling her house, and the situation of ex-husbands, affairs, kids, and dating becomes more and more complicated.Released from prison after an IRA assassination, Liam Neeson has become a media presence, providing a warning for kids not to be brainwashed into killing in Five Minutes of Heaven, but his next TV appearance is to be a sit-down with James Nesbitt, his victim's younger brother and witness to the murder, who's lived with the consequences for 30 years... and is dreaming of revenge, not forgiveness.
The sequel to 2004's parkour/action film, District 13: Ultimatum is the newest release from Luc Besson's action brand, reuniting the officer Damien (Cyril Raffaelli) and the rogue Leito (David Belle) as they try to bring peace to the worst district in futuristic Paris... but the deck is stacked against them, as the government is set to level the entire area and give the lucrative rebuilding contract to the corrupt Harriburton company, and the two partners have to unite the gangs in District 13 and take on the government to stop the whole area from being nuked.
Recently released from prison for the killing of a small boy, Jan Thomas (Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen) has always maintained his innocence in Troubled Water. He gets a job as an organist at an Oslo church and wins the favor of the pastor and the parish with his gentle demeanor, effectively putting the past behind him until a teacher named Agnes comes to the church... and recognizes him as the man who killed her son.
When a German art critic (Ulrich Tukur) rents an apartment outside of Paris in 1914, he doesn't pay much attention to the 50-something housekeeper (Yolande Moreau) who maintains the rooms until he finds one of her paintings in Seraphine... and so begins the art career of Seraphine Louis, and the relationship between the artist, divinity, and madness that defined her life.Joan Allen plays another famous artist in Georgia O'Keeffe, recounting her complicated life and relationship with Alfred Stieglitz (Jeremy Irons), her promoter and most stalwart supporter. The film dramatizes O'Keeffe's artistic awakening in New Mexico in the 1920s, her successes, and much of the turmoil caused by Stieglitz's actions. With Henry Simmons.
A L'aventure is the newest film by the director of The Exterminating Angels, about Sandrine, a young woman unfulfilled by her life. She quits her job and walks out of her unsatisfying relationship and departs on a journey for satisfaction... both spiritual and physical.
The sequel to 2005's subterranean horror film, The Descent: Part 2 takes place immediately after the events of the US version of the first film, as the only survivor (Shauna Macdonald) of the first expedition is held accountable for the disappearance of her friends. The local sheriff (Gavan O'Herlihy) leads a team back underground to discover why there was only one survivor, and why she was found covered in her friends' blood.
New this week to Reckless Video's TV New Release section is the first season of Star Wars' Clone Wars animated series, as well as the 5th volume of The Spectacular Spider-Man. We also have Doctor Who's The Waters of Mars, completing our collection of David Tennant's time as The Doctor, and the complete BBC series Survivors, where most of the world's population has been wiped out by a super flu.
[X]Gavan O'Herlihy:
Never Say Never Again, Sharpe's Eagle
Never Say Never Again, Sharpe's Eagle
[X]James Nesbitt:
Waking Ned Devine, Jekyll
Waking Ned Devine, Jekyll
[X]Jeremy Irons:
Dead Ringers, Eragon
Dead Ringers, Eragon
[X]Terry Gilliam:
12 Monkeys, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
12 Monkeys, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
[X]Heath Ledger:
Monster's Ball, Brokeback Mountain
Monster's Ball, Brokeback Mountain
[X]Steve Martin:
The Pink Panther, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
The Pink Panther, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
[X]Alec Baldwin:
30 Rock, State and Main
30 Rock, State and Main
[X]Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen:
House of Fools
House of Fools
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