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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