Week of July 6th

A Day in the Life

Collin Firth stars in A Single Man as George Falconer, a middle aged college professor in 1962. Mourning the loss of his partner (Matthew Goode) in a car accident, the film takes place over the course of one day in Falconer's life as he deals with both his own personal losses and the changing world around him (including the culture of fear induced by the looming Cuban Missile Crisis), and makes plans for a future he may not be able to embrace. With Julianne Moore and Nicholas Hoult. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Oscar-winning director Antoine Fuqua's Brooklyn's Finest is an ensemble crime drama set in the high-crime Brownsville district of Brooklyn, and moral grey areas in which the police have to operate. Mixing the stories of a detective (Ethan Hawke) who's started taking criminals' money to support his wife (Lili Taylor), a burnt out officer (Richard Gere) doing the bare minimum until his retirement in one week, and an undercover detective (Don Cheadle) struggling with his job inside the drug trade alongside his wrong-side-of-the-law oldest friend (Wesley Snipes), the film intertwines all three officers' stories as they all chose their difficult paths. With Ellen Barkin. On DVD and Blu Ray.

A disgraced investigative journalist (Michael Nyqvist) is hired to find a missing girl in the Swedish The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Set on the investigation by a powerful family and aided by a troubled girl (with the titular tattoo), their search for the missing girl leads them down a violent, twisted, and perverse path into a dark underworld that may already have claimed many lives.

An English language adaptation of Run Lola Run, And Then Came Lola finds Lola late for a meeting that could cost her everything: her job, her life, and her girlfriend. The high energy comedy sends her to get to the meeting three times, as each try has a different ending because of tiny variables, and each journey through the story uncovers a little more about Lola.

Ian McKellen tackles one of Shakespeare's most challenging characters in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production on King Lear, where the elderly king offers to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, the power hungry Goneril (Frances Barber), the selfish Regan (Monica Dolan), and the honest and faithful Cordelia (Romola Garai), and the epic tragedy of madness and betrayal that follows.

A 14-year-old boy, his friend, and his dog are searching for Conquistadors' buried treasure in the family-friendly The Gold Retrievers, but they have to outpace the robber (Steve Guttenberg) and professor (Curtis Armstrong) who are willing do to whatever it takes to win the treasure. With Billy Zane.

Our concerts and documentaries this week are Tom DiCillo's documentary When You're Strange: A Film About the Doors, the documentary Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, and standup comedian Lewis Black's live performance Stark Raving Black.

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New this week to Reckless Video's TV New Releases are the debut seasons of the Canadian tactical police series Flashpoint and and the criminal/con artist series Leverage. We also have the 4th series of the medial comedy drama Doc Martin, season 7 of Project Runay, and the BBC nature series Last Chance to See. Finally, Reckless Video has picked up the entirety of the Inspector Morse series, completing our collection of that show, and we have season 2 of the insanely popular True Blood on Blu Ray.

[X]Antoine Fuqua:
Training Day, King Arthur

[X]Ethan Hawke:
Before Sunrise, Daybreakers

[X]Lili Taylor:
The Promotion, I Shot Andy Warhol

[X]Richard Gere:
Unfaithful, Amelia

[X]Don Cheadle:
Crash, Hotel for Dogs

[X]Wesley Snipes:
Blade, New Jack City

[X]Ellen Barkin:
Drop Dead Gorgeous, Happy Tears

[X]Michael Nyqvist:
Downloading Nancy, Together

[X]Billy Zane:
Fish Tales, Demon Knight

[X]Steve Guttenberg:
Home for the Holidays, Short Circuit

[X]Curtis Armstrong:
Revenge of the Nerds, Southland Tales

[X]Ian McKellen:
Six Degrees of Separation, Lord of the Rings

[X]Frances Barber:
Goal!, Evilenko

[X]Monica Dolan:
Tipping the Velvet, Topsy Turvy

[X]Romola Garai:
Scoop, Atonement

[X]Lewis Black:
Man of the Year, Hannah and Her Sisters

[X]Colin Firth:
The English Patient, St Trinian's

[X]Matthew Goode:
The Lookout, Imagine Me & You

[X]Julianne Moore:
The Forgotten, Cookie's Fortune

[X]Nicholas Hoult:
About a Boy, The Weather Man

[X]Tom DiCillo:
Living in Oblivion, The Real Blonde