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
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