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Flash and Spectacle
Director Joe Carnahan delivers the origin story of a group of 80's action icons with The A-Team, jumping into a mission with Hannibal Smith (Liam Neeson) and Faceman Peck (Bradley Cooper) as they meet B.A. Baracus and Howling Mad Murdock (Sharlto Copley) and become an unstoppable team. Framed by a devious CIA agent (Patrick Wilson) and pursued by a 
DCIS lieutenant (Jessica Biel), the team is on the run and must out fight, out run, and out plan everyone that's chasing them and clear their names. On DVD and Blu Ray.Soren (Jim Sturgess) is a young owl who dreams of the epic adventures he hears in legends when he and his brother Kludd (Ryan Kwanten) are captured by a nation of evil owls in Zack Snyder's Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole. Imprisoned by Metalbeak (Joel Edgerton) and Nyra (Helen Mirren) who are brainwashing their captives, Kludd is taken in by them, but Soren escapes to find his legendary guardians and ask them to help wage a war to stop the evil owls and free their prisoners. With Sam Neill and Geoffrey Rush. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Unconventional Families
Supervillain Gru (Steve Carell) is afraid he's being upstaged by Vector (Jason Segel), a new villain who's stealing the world's monuments. To prove his worth, Gru has to steal Vector's shrink ray and then shrink and steal the moon in Despicable Me... but Vector's defenses only seem to have one weakness: he opens his fortress for three orphan girls selling cookies door to door.
Gru works out a cookie-based strategy, but in order to make it work he needs to adopt the girls; now he has to orchestrate an evil scheme while being a dad. Can he be a supervillain while he's taking the girls to Super Silly Fun Land and dance recitals? On DVD and Blu Ray.Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal) has her hands full trying to keep up the family farm, run a village shop with Maggie Smith, and care for her three rambunctious children while her husband is away fighting during WWII. When she suddenly has to care for her spoiled niece and nephew, she needs some magical help in Nanny McPhee Returns, and while Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) can stop the two groups of kids from warring amongst themselves, Isabel's disreputable brother-in-law (Rhys Ifans) might be more trouble than anyone can handle.
A more adult film about family, Jay & Mark Duplass's Cyrus sees John (John C. Reilly), seven years divorced, finally starting up a new relationship with Molly (Marisa Tomei), who lives with Cyrus (Jonah Hill) her 21-year-old son. When John tries to pursue his romance with Molly, he finds that the relationship between mother and son is more intimate than he expected, and Cyrus might see him as an intruder and a threat.
Bazil (Dany Boon) catches a stray bullet in the head that costs him everything and nearly costs him his life in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs. When he's taken in by "Slammer" (Jean-Pierre Marielle), Bazil joins a group of misfits that live underneath a junkyard who adopt him as one of their own. When he decides to strike back at the people who made the weapons that unraveled his life, Bazil uses his new family (and their unique talents) to compose an elaborate revenge caper. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Karen's (Annette Bening) whole adult life has been shaped by giving her daughter, Elizabeth, up for adoption when she was 14 in Mother and Child. Now in her late thirties, fiercely independent Elizabeth (Naomi Watts) is a successful lawyer driven to be in control of her own life; neither mother or daughter have tried to contact the other. Meanwhile, Lucy (Kerry Washington) and her husband are seeking to adopt a baby because they can't have one of their own. As the mothers and daughters work through the adoptions that dominate their lives, they each begin to understand their own paths to happiness. With Jimmy Smits and Samuel L. Jackson.
Cops and Robbers
Desk bound detectives Allen and Hoitz (Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg) aren't the "car chase and explosion" cops like Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson... they're The Other Guys. Too egotistical to realize they're not immortal, the hero cops jump from a 20 story building while chasing bank robbers, leaving laughingstocks Allen and Hoitz to fill the gap. Though Allen is more interested in investigating accounting than the kind of high profile work Hoitz prefers, one of Allen's permit violation cases puts the duo on the trail of Steve Coogan's multi-billion dollar scheme: a serious case than could make them heroes, if they can survive the gunfights, Ray Stevenson, and each other. On DVD and Blu Ray.The directorial follow-up to his acclaimed Gone Baby Gone, Ben Affeck's The Town is the story of a group of Bostonian hijackers and bank robbers. Jem (Jeremy Renner), fresh out of prison and eager to pull another job, re-teams with Doug (Ben Affleck) and his crew only to have a bank job turn sour... which causes hot-headed Jem takes a hostage (Rebecca Hall). While Doug keeps up with their former hostage and the two begin to form a relationship, an FBI agent (Jon Hamm) starts to find ways to take apart the underground fraternity of heist men. With Pete Postlethwaite and Blake Lively. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Documentaries
A film about a film about street artists, Exit through the Gift Shop is directed by the street artist Banksy. Originally, casual filmmaker Thierry Guetta, who fell in love with street art and filmed all the artists he could, intended to make a film about Banksy; once Thierry had thousands of hours of footage, Banksy turned around and made the movie about Thierry, his obsession with art, and what does or doesn't separate art from product and hype... all of which may or may not be real.The critically acclaimed Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work looks at the long professional life of Joan Rivers, and all of the peaks and valleys she's traversed over a decades-long career. Spending time behind the scenes as she continues to work on television, in clubs, and commercials, and the effects of her singular drive to keep her status in show business.
Documentary filmmaker Linda Hattendorf went to find artist Jimmy Mirikitani in the aftermath of 9/11in The Cats of Mirikitani. The film explores the painter's life selling art on the streets of New York, his history during World War II, and eventually to his life in the fallout of the World Trade Center, where he was still on the streets around Washington Square Park.
Based on actual events, Dear Mr. Gacy tells the story of Jason Moss (Jesse Moss) who, in trying to write a thesis paper, began writing letters to notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy (William Forsythe). Posing as a victim in Gacy's "type," the two begin to develop a relationship as Gacy writes to and calls Moss, and Moss allows Gacy to believe he's seducing a vulnerable young man.
New this week to Reckless Video's TV New Releases are the 8th and final season of 24, and the 4th season of the British comedy The IT Crowd.
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