Release the Kraken!
A remake of the 1981 Ray Harryhausen adventure, Clash of the Titans sends a strangely Australian-sounding Perseus on a hero's journey when he turns out to be a demi-god and the son of Zeus. When Hades takes revenge on humans for neglecting the gods, Perseus must undertake an epic quest and find a way to save the city of Argos and stop the fearful citizens from sacrificing the beautiful Andromeda. Accompanied by the warrior Draco and the ageless Io, and fought every step of the way by the powerful Calibos, Perseus must find a way to defeat the Kraken... a Titan that fears no weapon. On DVD and Blu-Ray.In a secret underground compound where all the operatives are named after tarot cards, The Fool (Joe Anderson) is having a hard first day in Operation: Endgame. While he's being shown around by the drunk and caustic Chariot (Rob Corddry), the base goes into lockdown and will self destruct in one hour. Suddenly all the operatives are attacking one another and taking sides, as the Emperor (Bob Odenkirk) and Empress (Ellen Barkin) square off, their teams of spies and assassins start killing each other off, and they're all hunted by the Hermit (Zach Galifianakis)... but Temperance (Odette Yustman) is searching for a way out and a reason for battle royale. With Adam Scott and Emilie de Ravin. On DVD and Blu-Ray.
Waiting for organ donors is a thing of the past in the futuristic Repo Men, but the company that makes the new, hi-tech, artificial organs will repossess their property if the transplant recipients can't make their payments. Remy (Jude Law) and Jake (Forest Whitaker) track down the non-payers, knock them out, open them up, reclaim the organs, and return them to their boss (Liev Schreiber). Remy's wife (Carice van Houten) hates the repo life, but his growing a conscience could mean all out war against the company and his bosses. With Alice Braga. On DVD and Blu-Ray.The story of the first man to teach Wing Chun kung fu, Ip Man stars Donnie Yen as Master Ip. Set in the 1930s in southern China, Master Ip is a private citizen in a city known for martial arts, and though he doesn't teach, he is a gracious host and will practice or host private matches with visiting masters. With the event of the Japanese invasion, the peaceful Master Ip is pushed to fight, and stand up for his honor and his community against the Japanese general who demands a public display of karate versus kung fu.
Tough Situations
Bubba's (Patrick John Flueger) unemployed and trying to find a way to make a living and marry Taryn Manning, when an affable stranger (Ron Perlman) gives him a lead in The Job. Bubba passes the interview with the employment (Joe Pantoliano) and gets the job... but only later finds out what the job actually is: he has to strangle a man to death. With Mark Harelik and Gregory Itzin.
Robert Hansen, a disgraced Copenhagen cop, gets sent to be the marshall of a small town in the Danish Terribly Happy. The town is peculiar and doesn't trust outsiders, especially as Robert starts looking into abuses and violence that the town has grown accustomed to ignoring. Hansen walks through a strange noir landscape, with petty thugs and femme fatales, but the complications of a small town could eat a city man alive.A troubled director travels to Romania to remake a long lost horror film in Don't Look Up, but the sensitivity to horrors and lingering spirits that make him such a successful filmmaker could be the reason his crew keeps dropping off, one by one. The set may be haunted, or the director insane, but the dead keep piling up (and with Eli Roth involved, there's sure to be some eye trauma). With Henry Thomas and Kevin Corrigan.
Tom Selleck returns as Jesse Stone in No Remorse, suspended from his job as police chief, now moonlighting for the State Homicide Commander (Stephen McHattie) and investigating a series of Boston murders. When Stone's investigation leads him to a mob boss (William Sadler), his freelancing job suddenly becomes deadly serious. With Kathy Baker.
Dramatic
Giovanna Mezzogiorno stars as Ida Dalsar, the mistress (and later, wife) of Benito Mussolini, in the Italian Vincere. Following their relationship from 1914, when she is well off and he is an impoverished activist, through their estrangement during the war years, and to their reunion. Since Mussolini had remarried, he had Dalsar erased from his past, and the film follows the dark and tragic life he left for her.The story of a 14 year old girl from a small Bahamian island, Rain sends the girl in search of her mother after her grandmother dies. When Rain arrives in the city and finds her mother (Nicki Micheaux) living as a prostitute, she must adapt to a more dangerous and violent world than she's known, but finds support at school from a track coach (CCH Pounder) who sees a future for the girl that the world would otherwise deny her.
Husband and wife Marthe (Isabelle Huppert) and Michel (Olivier Gourmet) live with their three children in a remote house at the end of a dead end road in the French Home, where they live an idyllic life in a world all their own.
A new motorway plows its way through their lives and upsets the balance of their secluded lives, and where they were once free to do whatever they liked, they are now almost aliens in a world of traffic, pollution, and passers-by.Timothy (Tanner Cohen) is an openly gay senior at a private boy's school in Were the World Mine, and his sexuality brings confrontation with his mother and abuse from the boy he has a crush on: the aggressive captain of the rugby team. When his drama teacher (Wendy Robie) casts him as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, he finds a recipe for a spell that will cause the homophobic townsfolk to see the world through Timothy's eyes.
Lifetime & Disney
Mae Whitman is a senior in Lifetime's Acceptance, submitting to ivy league schools and hoping for the bright future her mother (Joan Cusack) is pushing her toward, but she's drifted away from being an overachiever and started to rebel. When she sees her friends obsess about their test scores and their schools, she begins to understand that true acceptance is harder to find than ACT scores.Adapting the popular Disney Channel show, the Wizards of Waverly Place movie sends the magical Russo family (including Selena Gomez and Jake T. Austin) on vacation in the Caribbean, but a spell gone wrong threatens the entire family's existence, and the kids have to find a way to undo the harm and save their family.
A documentary about a 25 billion dollar art collection, The Art of the Steal is about the Barnes Art Collection. The film discusses the powerful players in Philadelphia and their efforts to break Arthur C. Barnes's will, which was drawn up specifically to keep the art in his home/museum, and away from the institutionalized art world he despised.
New this week to Reckless Video's TV New Releases are the second half of season 1 of the Stargate spinoff, Stargate Universe, as well as the complete Sharpe's series, starring Sean Bean. We also have the the first season of the parody of instructional science videos Look Around You, and the romance Wallis & Edward. Finally, the animated Batman: Under the Red Hood is new this week pitting the Dark Knight against a masked villain who knows his every move.
[X]Henry Thomas:
Dead Birds, Gangs of New York
Dead Birds, Gangs of New York
[X]Isabelle Huppert:
I Heart Huckabees, Time of the Wolf
I Heart Huckabees, Time of the Wolf
[X]Donnie Yen:
Kill Zone, Hero
Kill Zone, Hero
[X]Tom Selleck:
In & Out, Mr. Baseball
In & Out, Mr. Baseball
[X]Joe Pantoliano:
The Matrix, Memento
The Matrix, Memento
[X]Nicki Micheaux:
Their Eyes Were Watching God, My Giant
Their Eyes Were Watching God, My Giant
[X]Giovanna Mezzogiorno:
Love in the Time of Cholera, The Last Kiss
Love in the Time of Cholera, The Last Kiss
[X]Tanner Cohen:
The Life Before Her Eyes
The Life Before Her Eyes
[X]Wendy Robie
The Attic Expeditions, Twin Peaks
The Attic Expeditions, Twin Peaks
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