Friday, May 28, 2010
Summer Pass
Reckless Video's Summer Pass lets you have an unlimited number of movies from Friday, May 28th to Thursday, September 2nd. When you buy a Summer Pass for $99, all of the non-New Releases (the movies in the front room) in the store are free to you. You can have three discs out at a time, but there's no limit to how quickly you go through the rentals: you can get three discs in the morning, watch them, come in to drop them off that evening and grab three more.
TV Movies
- Aeon Flux
- Batman (1966)
- Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm
- Beavis & Butthead Do America
- Battlestar Galactica
- Battlestar Galactica: Razor
- Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer
- Cowboy Bebop, The Movie
- Bender’s Big Score
- Bender’s Game
- Into The Wild Green Yonder
- The Beast With A Billion Backs
- Homicide: The Movie
- Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
- Reno 911!: Miami
- Serenity
- Sex & City
- The Simpsons Movie
- South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- Stargate Atlantis Rising
- Stargate: Ark Of Truth
- Strangers With Candy
- Trailer Park Boys: Countdown To Liquor Day
- Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
- Twilight Zone: The Movie
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
- X-Files: Fight the Future
- X-files: I Want To Believe
Spotlight On... TV Movies
With the finalization of our TV Perfect List, as we tabulate our votes, the new Spotlight section is going to be television themed: namely, TV movies.Our current Spotlight section groups together the movies that saw our small screen characters arrive in theaters, like the girls from Sex and the City, or take on bigger events than a show's running time would allow, like the Trailer Park Boys movies. This lets us bring in the Adam West version of Batman, too... since that's a Batman movie that came directly from a television show.
We're also including the feature-length broadcast movies, like the Battlestar Galactica movies The Plan and Razor (and even the original 1970s Battlestar Galactica movie). The four Futurama movies are included in this section, too, as are the movies featuring the cast of the Stargate series.
There's a lot of variety here, from the cartoons that stormed theaters, like Beavis and Butthead Do America and The Simpsons Movie, to odd comedies like Strangers with Candy and Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, to epic science fiction that used film push the boundaries of what their television budget would allow, like Serenity and X-Files: Fight the Future.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Week of May 25th
Bestsellers
Adapted from Cormac McCarthy's best-selling novel, The Road follows Viggo Mortensen as an unnamed man walking a post-apocalyptic world with his young son. As they wander through the almost completely dead countryside, they scavenge food and try to avoid the few remaining people... many of whom have turned to cannibalism to survive. With the sole mission of keeping the boy alive in a world where there is almost no hope or humanity left, they walk slowly to the coast, looking for a better life. With Robert Duvall. On DVD and Blu Ray.Lasse Hallstrom directs the newest adaptation of bestselling author Nicholas Sparks with Dear John, about the love affair between Channing Tatum, a soldier deployed overseas, and Amanda Seyfried, the love of his life. Though the two share a bond, their relationship is mostly based on letters sent while he is away... until she sends him a Dear John letter, telling him she's engaged to someone else.
Action
Kippei Shiina is a former US government agent who's gone rogue and become a hitman in Rain Fall... but he ends up on the wrong side of Gary Oldman and the CIA when they target a woman close to his heart.Another telling of the legendary tale, Robin Hood stars Patrick Bergin as the nobleman pushed to the wrong side of the law, and Uma Thurman as his Maid Marian, promised to marry an evil knight and in need of a hero.
Comedians
Mystery Team is the first movie put together by the popular internet comedy team at Derrick Comedy, where a group of Hardy Boys-style boy detectives have gotten older, but never grown up. Though the boys are seniors in high school, they've just gotten their first case that isn't a lost cat or stolen lunch money... Can a group of naive boy adventurers take on real world conspiracies and murderers?The documentary Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story is the story of comedian and actor Eddie Izzard from his early influences, to the events that shaped his life, and the successes he's come to achieve.
Our foreign language films this week include the Arabic Captain Abu Raed, about a janitor who assumes a new identity to tell imaginative tales that brighten the world of the children in a poor neighborhood, the Vietnamese Owl and the Sparrow, about a young runaway who plays matchmaker between a beautiful flight attendant and a zookeeper with a broken heart, and the Hungarian Taxidermia, which interconnects three surrealisticly damaged men: an obsese speed eater, and embalmer of giant cats, and a man who shoots flames out of his penis.
New this week to Reckless Video's TV New Releases is the second season of HBO's popular vampire romance True Blood, as well as the first seasons of the doctor comedy/drama Royal Pains and the BBC period medical drama Bramwell. We also have the third season of the internet series The Guild, and the complete series of the late 80s science fiction series Alien Nation.
[X]Cormac McCarthy:
All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men
All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men
[X]Viggo Mortensen:
A History of Violence, Lord of the Rings
A History of Violence, Lord of the Rings
[X]Lasse Hallstrom:
Hachi: A Dog's Tale, An Unfinished Life
Hachi: A Dog's Tale, An Unfinished Life
[X]Nicholas Sparks:
Nights in Rodanthe, The Notebook
Nights in Rodanthe, The Notebook
[X]Channing Tatum:
Fighting, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Fighting, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
[X]Amanda Seyfried:
Jennifer's Body, Mamma Mia!
Jennifer's Body, Mamma Mia!
[X]Kippei Shiina:
Reincarnation, Shinobi
Reincarnation, Shinobi
[X]Gary Oldman:
Sid & Nancy, Immortal Beloved
Sid & Nancy, Immortal Beloved
[X]Patrick Bergin:
King of Texas, Sleeping with the Enemy
King of Texas, Sleeping with the Enemy
[X]Uma Thurman:
My Zinc Bed, Kill Bill
My Zinc Bed, Kill Bill
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Week of May 18th
Dramatic Turns
Set in 1994, Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) has a tough job ahead of him, trying to lead a divided country in post-apartheid South Africa, in Clint Eastwood's Invictus. When he attends a rugby match, he sees all of the black attendees cheering against the South African team. Amidst trying to work on unemployment and crime, Mandela undertakes the task of uniting the country behind their rugby team, to change the attitudes towards them, their colors, and their players. If he can make the team and their captain (Matt Damon) a symbol for the new South Africa instead of a reminder of the country's tumultuous past, Mandela will have taken the first step to unifying a rift in his country. On DVD and Blu Ray.Ben Foster returns from Iraq as a hero, recovering from injuries, and is given a special duty assignment for the last few months of his enlistment in The Messenger. He's teamed up with Woody Harrelson, who teaches him how to be a part of the Army's Casualty Notification service-- when they receive a call that a soldier has died in Iraq, they drive to the next of kin to deliver the news. The job has an incredible impact on both men, as they deal with grief, duty, hostility, and compassion, and never know what will happen when they knock on a door. With Samantha Morton. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Returning due to popular demand!
The Screen Gems section has returned. These are those tiny movies that you may miss on the new release wall. In general they have either gotten good reviews or someone at Reckless is very excited about it and they want to share their find. This section changes a bit every week, so make sure you always check it out. You never know what you will find.And the New old stuff has moved.
New To Reckless. Every week, movies that hadn't been previously available on DVD are released, resurrecting them from late-night cable broadcasts and poorly transferred VHS tapes... and Reckless makes them available!
The New Daughter stars Kevin Costner as a single father who moves into a remote country house with his two children, Louisa (Ivana Banquero) and Sam (Gattlin Griffith). When the children discover a mysterious burial mound by their house, Louisa begins acting less like the girl they knew and more like a stranger,
while frightening phenomena start occurring in the house. With Samantha Mathis.Romance
Interweaving multiple stories of couples, marriage, and romance, Garry Marshall's Valentine's Day stars... well... just about everyone, as Julia Roberts and Bradley Cooper meet on a plane, Ashton Kutcher proposes to Jessica Alba, Jennifer Garner falls in love with Patrick Dempsey, Emma Roberts makes plans to lose her virginity, Jessica Biel is developing a crush on Jamie Foxx, and Anne Hathaway starts dating Topher Grace... just to name a few, and the pieces of this elaborate rom-com puzzle connect, scatter, and reconnect as they all look for (or look to keep) love. On DVD and Blu Ray.Kids
Jackie Chan is a CIA agent ready to give up his spy life and settle down with Amber Valletta, but first he has to win over her three opinionated kids in The Spy Next Door. He has to babysit the children and fend off his archenemy, keeping his spy life from crossing over into his family life, with the help of his best friend and partner (Billy Ray Cyrus).Docs
Israeli director Yaov Shamir investigates anti-Semitism from a variety of angles in Defamation, interviewing people with a variety of views around the world, from Israel to Russia to Brooklyn, including a trip to to Auschwitz, Poland, with Israeli school kids.Werner Herzog's Wheel of Time records the pilgrimage to, and ritual surrounding, the Buddhist quest for enlightenment in Bodh Gaya, India. Recording intricate Buddhist rituals, some never before caught on film, Herzog delves into what the practice and rituals mean to some of Buddhism's most devout followers.
Poliwood is a documentary by Barry Levinson, focusing on the political activists in Hollywood, and the impact celebrities and their media presence have on the public's view of politics, and includes celebrities such as Susan Sarandon, Anne Hathaway, Alan Cumming, David Crosby, Tim Daly, Ellen Burstyn, Rachael Leigh Cook, Josh Lucas, and many others.
[X]Samantha Morton:
Jesus' Son, The Libertine
Jesus' Son, The Libertine
[X]Samantha Mathis:
The Punisher, Broken Arrow
The Punisher, Broken Arrow
[X]Jackie Chan:
The Myth, Project A
The Myth, Project A
[X]Garry Marshall:
Raising Helen, Georgia Rule
Raising Helen, Georgia Rule
Friday, May 14, 2010
TV Perfect List-- update
Here's the current leader board for Reckless Video's TV Perfect List
So... if there's something that you think should be higher on the list (or a show that's not in the Top 10 yet that you want to see on the list), there's only one way to correct it: come in and vote. Voting ends on May 28th, when our Summer Pass starts... and your ballots enter you in a drawing to win a free Summer Pass.
- Arrested Development
- Firefly
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- The Wire
- 30 Rock
- Deadwood
- The X-Files
- Breaking Bad
- South Park
- Spaced
So... if there's something that you think should be higher on the list (or a show that's not in the Top 10 yet that you want to see on the list), there's only one way to correct it: come in and vote. Voting ends on May 28th, when our Summer Pass starts... and your ballots enter you in a drawing to win a free Summer Pass.
With summer coming, it is time to dive into the TV section again. Reckless Video’s TV on DVD offers the perfect wind down after a day in the sun, and since the networks are mostly re-runs in the summer, this is a chance to get back into the shows that you have enjoyed before or try something you might have missed.
The crew here at Reckless has each compiled their top ten TV shows for you to peruse.
Since our opinions are not the only ones to listen to, we are going to compile a “perfect list” of sorts for TV. To do this, we need you to submit your top ten favorite TV shows. We will be drawing one entry to win a Summer Pass. (contest ends May 27th)
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Week of May 11th
Tension
Mel Gibson returns to the screen in Edge of Darkness, which, like State of Play, has been adapted from BBC miniseries into a major feature film. Directed by Martin Campbell (who also directed the BBC original), Gibson plays police detective Thomas Craven, whose daughter (Bojana Novakovic) is gunned down and dies in his arms. At first he thinks the assassin had come for him... but as he begins to suspect that his daughter was the real target, Craven starts an investigation into the circumstances around her death, and why someone would want her dead. With Ray Winstone. On DVD and Blu Ray.Based on a true story, the German North Face tells the story of mountain climbers in 1936. Starring Benno Furmann and Florian Lukas, the film balances adventure, suspense, and the pre-WWII political climate as two pair of mountain climbers compete to be the first to scale the Eiger north face in the Swiss Alps. The first team to scale the north face will be hailed as heroes by their nation (and the Nazi party)... if they survive.
Supernatural Action/Horror
In Daybreakers, almost all of the world has become vampires... they live normal lives at night, but with fewer and fewer humans left in the world, their future depends on a scientist's (Ethan Hawke) work to develop a blood substitute. When he meets a member of the human underground (Claudia Karvan) she leads him to meet their leader, Elvis (Willem Dafoe), who could hold the future of human survival:
a cure for vampirism... good news for humanity, but some immortals will do anything to keep their new everlasting lives. With Sam Neill and Michael Dorman. On DVD and Blu Ray.The Archangel Michael (Paul Bettany) arrives on Earth, cuts off his wings, and grabs as many guns as he can find in Legion-- as teeming hordes begin to exterminate humanity, Michael arrives in a secluded New Mexico diner owned by Dennis Quaid. Locked inside and forced to fight for their lives, the owner's son (Lucas Black), the cook (Charles S. Dutton), and a patron just passing through (Tyrese Gibson) discover that the angel in their midst is there to protect the only hope for the future of the human race: the unborn child of the diner's waitress (Adrianne Palicki). On DVD and Blu Ray.
Martial Arts
After years studying ninjitsu in Japan, Casey (Scott Adkins), a westerner, is sent to New York on a mission in Ninja: he has to protect an ancient chest containing the weapons of the Koga Ninja from bloodthirsty and ruthless Yakuza assassins... but his former friend (Tsuyoshi Ihara), expelled from their dojo, has turned to the dark side and will do anything to avenge himself on Casey.A new mockumentary by Justin Lin, Finishing the Game is a fictional comedy about the death of Bruce Lee, and the casting call to see who could replace him and finish filming Game of Death. Set within the kung fu movie culture of the late 70s, including a star who never does his own stunts or fighting (Roger Fan), and an actor more interested in appeasing his girlfriend/manager than actually acting (Sung Kang). With James Franco.
New this week to Reckless Video's TV New Releases are two David Attenborough-narrated documentaries, including the lizard/amphibian Life in Cold Blood and the Blu Ray set of the acclaimed Planet Earth series. Finally released on DVD, the complete series of MTV's 90's animated Daria is new this week, as is the 13th season of Comedy Central's South Park.
[X]Sam Neill:
Wimbledon, Jurassic Park
Wimbledon, Jurassic Park
[X]Willem Dafoe:
American Psycho, Born on the Fourth of July
American Psycho, Born on the Fourth of July
[X]Mel Gibson:
Conspiracy Theory, Lethal Weapon
Conspiracy Theory, Lethal Weapon
[X]Lucas Black:
Sling Blade, Jarhead
Sling Blade, Jarhead
[X]Tyrese Gibson:
Four Brothers, Annapolis
Four Brothers, Annapolis
[X]David Attenborough:
Planet Earth, Blue Planet
Planet Earth, Blue Planet
[X]Florian Lukas:
Goodbye Lenin, Girls on Top
Goodbye Lenin, Girls on Top
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Week of May 4th
Music
In Rob Marshall's new musical Nine, Daniel Day-Lewis is a director struggling with writing his next film, and the key to his midlife crisis-fueled writer's block lies in balancing the relationships of the women in his life. Through a series of elaborate musical numbers, these relationships unfold, from his wife (Marion Cotillard) to his mistress (Penelope Cruz), all the way to his relationship with his mother (Sophia Loren). With Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench, and Kate Hudson. On DVD and Blu Ray.In the Christian film Preacher's Kid, based on the parable of the prodigal son, singer Letoya Luckett plays a young woman who leaves behind her life as a preacher's daughter and becomes a singer in a traveling gospel show, but worries about returning home with nothing to show for her efforts. With Tammy Townsend.
RomCom
Because an Irish tradition says a woman can propose to a man on February 29th, Amy Adams travels to Ireland to propose to her fiance (Adam Scott) in Leap Year, but she ends up off course and catches a ride with Matthew Goode to get her to Dublin in time. As they make their way across the countryside to make her proposal before
Leap Day expires, a series of comic misadventures brings them closer together and makes her question her motives. With John Lithgow.Family
When Dwayne Johnson steals a dollar from under a child's pillow (their tooth fairy money), he discovers the consequences in Tooth Fairy: the head fairy (Julie Andrews) sentences him to two weeks as a tooth fairy himself. Though he tries his best to be a good tooth fairy, his day job as a minor league hockey enforcer hasn't prepared him for work with kids, and he has a long way to go unless he wants to be known as the worst tooth fairy ever. With Ashley Judd.Flicka 2 stars Tammin Sursok as a skateboarding city girl who thinks she'll be miserable on her father's (Patrick Warburton) ranch in Wyoming. When she meets Flicka, a wild mustang who's as free spirited and strong willed as she is, the two form a strong bond, and become best friends.
Drama
Francis Ford Coppola's newest film is Tetro, about two Italian American brothers in Argentina. When 17-year-old Bennie leaves home and travels to Buenos Ares and drops in on his older brother Tetro (Vincent Gallo) and his girlfriend (Maribel Verdu),
their reunion after ten years apart highlights their differences and their relationship with their shared past and family. With Carmen Maura.Teruyuki Kagawa lives a normal, middle class life until he's downsized into unemployment in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata. When he meets an old friend, also unemployed, he learns a few methods to make his wife (Kyoko Koizumi) believe he still has a job, but their separate paths lead them each to their own conclusions about their current standings in an uncertain world.
John Malkovich is a South African English professor who is dismissed from his teaching position after an affair with a student in Disgrace. As he loses everything that comprised his identity, he moves in with his daughter on her farm and starts to embrace a simple, rural life... but his new life is as unpredictable as the one he lost.
The BBC's release of the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Hamlet stars David Tennant as the Danish prince who returns home after his father's murder and Patrick Stewart as his throne-seizing uncle. Set in a modern but ambiguous setting and time frame, the BBC production uses mixed footage, with conventional filming mixed with security cameras and personal Super-8 first-person cameras.
Paul Wesley discovers he has powers on his eighteenth birthday in Fallen... it turns out he's a Nephalim (the child of a human and an angel), and must team up with the fallen Ezekiel (Tom Skerritt) to fight against angels who consider Nephalim "abominations," and try to find a way to live a normal life. With Rick Worthy.
The new documentary this week is 9 to 5: Days in Porn, which looks inside the multi-billion dollar adult film industry. Shot over the course of a year, the film looks at the actors, actresses, filmmakers, and producers who make the industry tick, and the different lifestyles and personalities of the people starting out in the industry, the people who have been there for years, and those who have left the industry and can look back with the benefit of hindsight.
New this week to Reckless Video's TV New Releases are the complete Iron Man animated series, along with volume 6 of The Spectacular Spider-Man. We also have the first series of both Steve Coogan's comedy I'm Alan Partridge and the BBC procedural New Tricks.
[X]Paul Wesley:
Roll Bounce, Peaceful Warrior
Roll Bounce, Peaceful Warrior
[X]Tom Skerritt:
Top Gun, For Sale By Owner
Top Gun, For Sale By Owner
[X]Patrick Stewart:
X-Men, Star Trek: The Next Generation
X-Men, Star Trek: The Next Generation
[X]John Lithgow:
Harry and the Hendersons, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Harry and the Hendersons, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
[X]Rob Marshall:
Chicago, Memoirs of a Geisha
Chicago, Memoirs of a Geisha
[X]Sophia Loren:
The Pride and the Passion, El Cid
The Pride and the Passion, El Cid
[X]Nicole Kidman:
To Die For, Bewitched
To Die For, Bewitched
[X]Tammy Townsend:
The Five Heartbeats, The Brady Bunch Movie
The Five Heartbeats, The Brady Bunch Movie
[X]Vincent Gallo:
Palookaville, Buffalo '66
Palookaville, Buffalo '66
[X]Carmen Maura:
Dark Habits, Garden of Eden
Dark Habits, Garden of Eden
[X]Kiyoshi Kurosawa:
Cure, Bright Future
Cure, Bright Future
[X]Kyoko Koizumi:
Onmyoji
Onmyoji
[X]Ashley Judd:
De-Lovely, Bug
De-Lovely, Bug
[X]Julie Andrews:
The Princess Diaries, Mary Poppins
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The Princess Diaries, Mary Poppins
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