Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Week of October 26th

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Detectives, Dealers, Traffickers, and Kidnappers

Seventeen year-old Ree (Jennifer Lawrence) has to take care of her immobile mother and younger siblings in The Sundance Award winning Winter's Bone when her family is threatened. They will be made homeless unless she can find her absentee father, who's put their house up as bond until his trial-- traveling the back roads of the insular Ozark hills, Ree has to become a detective and follow leads through her extended family and back woods clans, never knowing who to trust, but forced to navigate dangerous rivalries, methamphetamine cooks and dealers, bail bondsmen, and family members who may or may not be her enemies. With John Hawkes, Dale Dickey, and Garret Dillahunt. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Police captain Blanca Bravo (Ana de la Reguera) is working to solve a series of murders in the border town of Juarez, Mexico in Backyard. As more and more young women are found dead in the desert, Bravo finds the town has become indifferent to the long-running murders, and she is Jaurez's first captain to keep looking for answers... while the rest of the town sees girls disappearing from near by factories as everyday life. With Joaqui Cosio and Jimmy Smits.

The sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire follows an investigation into human trafficking and prostitution in Sweden. Millennium magazine is working on the story, but when all of their leads turn up dead, only Millennium journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) refuses to believe that dragon tattooed Lisbeth is the killer. As Mikael tries to solve the mystery, Lisbeth is nowhere to be found, but they both must discover the secrets of the Swedish sex trade and the people who would kill to protect them. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Living a sheltered life in his Hasidic community, Sam (Jesse Eisenberg) agrees to help his friend Yosef (Justin Bartha) fly "medicine" overseas in Holy Rollers, based on a true story. As it turns out, Yosef uses Sam as a drug mule because he assumes that no one will search a polite young man in traditional Hasidic dress, and while his plan works, Sam is slowly entangled in questionable work with dangerous men. With Danny A. Abeckaser, Ari Graynor, and Jason Fuchs.

Pushed to the breaking point by a world that gives him no respect, a part-time janitor (DJ Qualls) at a fast food restaurant buys a gun and plans to take his revenge on the Last Day of Summer. Instead of taking revenge on his bully of a boss (William Sadler), he loses control and takes a young woman hostage (Nikki Reed). Now trapped in a situation he never accounted for, he has to deal with his hostage and try to keep her out of the way if he's ever going to fulfil his violent plans.

Comeback

Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda reunite for Sex & the City 2, which sends the four friends from New York to the Middle East seeking adventure, since Carrie's marriage has settled down, Miranda has quit her job, Charlotte's kids are a handful... but Samantha has a job offer that takes them all to Abu Dhabi. Sex & the City 2 offers everything from culture clash comedy in the middle east to the origin of how the four women met and became friends, on DVD and Blu Ray.

Mythology

Young Brendan is learning from his uncle (Brendan Gleeson), an abbot in 9th century Ireland, in the Oscar-winning animated Secret of the Kells. Brendan becomes fascinated by the Book of the Kells, and has to adventure into a forbidden forest to help finish the book, where he's introduced to faeries and spirits that change his world forever. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Monsters

A movie told from the zombie's perspective, the low-budget Colin sees young Colin bitten in the beginning and follows him through London as the town is overtaken by zombies like himself. As Colin wanders the streets, at first avoiding conflict, he's a witness to the zombie rampage even as he slowly becomes a part of it, and the repercussions he has on his family.

Johnny "Flick" Taylor (Hugh O'Conor) is a socially awkward Teddy Boy in 1950's England who dies after a violent encounter at a dance, but returns from the grave 50 years later in Flick. As Flick, animated by the power of rockabilly radio, searches for the girl he never got to dance with, the enemies that tormented him in his youth start turning up dead, and a one-armed detective (Faye Dunaway) from Memphis is on his trail, but can't quite accept that her suspect might have risen from the grave.


Jessica Lowndes has just gotten her pilot's license and takes a group of friends (including Julianna Guill and Ryan Donowho) out for a weekend getaway in Altitude when the plane starts behaving strangely. What at first seem to be instrument malfunctions could be something more unbelievable as the group struggles to survive in a plane they can't land, pursued by something that can't exist.


Al Pacino is controversial doctor Jack Kevorkian in Barry Levinson's You Don't Know Jack, living in his friend's (John Goodman) storeroom when he develops the idea of providing a doctor assisted, painless end for suffering terminal patients. Working with his sister (Brenda Vaccaro), Kevorkian's journey sees him though his first death, controversy, arrest, and trial. With Susan Sarandon.

A single dentist (Sabine Azema) and a married, unemployed man (Andre Dussollier) with a secret meet by chance in the French Wild Grass. At first they're awkward, and not sure how to respond to one another, but their interaction starts to overwhelm their lives and everyone in it. With Emmanuelle Devos and Mathieu Amalric.

New this week to Reckless Video's TV New Releases are the first half of season 4 of Cartoon Network's adventure comedy The Venture Brothers and Cartoon Network's Freaknik: The Musical, as well as season 8 of the procedural CSI: Miami.
[X]Jessica Lowndes:
The Haunting of Molly Hartley, Autopsy
[X]Julianna Guill:
Friday the 13th, Fired Up!
[X]Ryan Donowho:
A Home at the End of the World, Bandslam
[X]Ana de la Reguera:
Eastbound & Down, Cop Out
[X]Jimmy Smits:
The Believers, Lackawanna Blues
[X]Hugh O'Conor:
Botched, The Young Poisoner's Handbook
[X]Faye Dunaway:
Chinatown, The Gene Generation
[X]Jesse Eisenberg:
Adventureland, The Village
[X]Justin Bartha:
National Treasure, The Hangover
[X]Ari Graynor:
Whip It, Mystic River
[X]Jason Fuchs:
Winter Solstice, The Hebrew Hammer
[X]DJ Qualls:
Hustle & Flow, I'm Reed Fish
[X]Nikki Reed:
Twilight, American Gun
[X]William Sadler:
The Shawshank Redemption, Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
[X]Brendan Gleeson:
Green Zone, The Butcher Boy
[X]Sarah Jessica Parker:
The Family Stone, Mars Attacks!
[X]Kristin Davis:
Deck the Halls, Couples, Retreat!
[X]Cynthia Nixon:
Igby Goes Down, I Am the Cheese
[X]Kim Cattrall:
Split Second, Mannequin
[X]Andre Dussollier:
Tell No One, Dark Portals
[X]Sabine Azema:
Not on the Lips, Sunday in the Country
[X]Emmanuelle Devos:
Coco Before Chanel, The Beat That My Heart Skipped
[X]Mathieu Amalric:
La Moustache, Quantum of Solace
[X]John Hawkes:
Small Town Saturday Night, Deadwood
[X]Dale Dickey:
The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love, Princess Protection Program
[X]Barry Levinson:
Man of the Year, Envy
[X]Al Pacino:
Scent of a Woman, 88 Minutes
[X]Brenda Vaccaro:
The Mirror Has Two Faces, Capricorn One
[X]Susan Sarandon:
Stepmom, Solitary Man
[X]John Goodman:
In the Electric Mist, Storytelling

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