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Violence for Hire
Hit man and weapons designer Jack (George Clooney) is on the run, hiding in a small, Italian town in Anton Corbijn's The American. Jack is told to wait in small-town solitude by his contact (Johan Leysen) who commissions him to make a rifle for an assassin (Thelka Reuten). Happy to have a job that doesn't require him to pull a trigger, Jack goes about his work professionally, but can't manage to stay isolated: he makes connections with the local priest (Paolo Bonacelli) and prostitute (Violante Placido), both of whom make him question his dangerous life. Unfolding slowly, The American progresses like a cross between a Jason Bourne adventure and Michelangelo Antonioni film from the 1970s. On DVD and Blu Ray.After taking the head of a kingpin, assassin Bo (Jacky Wu) is stranded on one of Hong Kong's outlying islands during a typhoon in Legendary Assassin. He makes a connection with a woman who happens to be a police officer, and, after he intervenes on their behalf, the police befriend him as a wanderer with excellent kung fu... but when violence erupts on the island, and gangsters seek to avenge their fallen boss, Bo has to make a choice between his lethal profession and his new friends.
Action hero Alice (Milla Jovovich), surviving three Resident Evil movies, is stripped of her mutant superpowers by evil Umbrella scientist Wesker (Shawn Roberts) in Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil: Afterlife.
Reunited with Claire (Ali Larter), she must help the leader (Boris Kodjoe) of a team of survivors (including Wentworth Miller and Kim Coates) in Los Angeles find Arcadia: a sanctuary from the zombie-like madness that has overrun the world. In her way are hordes of bloodthirsty zombies and seemingly indestructible Umbrella Corporation bio-weapons; on her side are scrappy fighters, guns that never run out of bullets, and lots of Matrix-style slo-mo and effects. With Spencer Locke. On DVD and Blu Ray. The conservative Stephanie (Amber Heard) and her wilder, more reckless friend Ellie (Odette Yustman) fight and split up during their bicycle trip through Argentina in And Soon the Darkness. When Ellie disappears, Stephanie searches for her; though the local police doubt her insistence that something's wrong, a stranger (Karl Urban) who's also lost someone is willing to help... but can Stephanie trust him?
Harry (Jamey Sheridan) is summoned to his old friend's (Steve Buscemi) death bed to deal with the guilt of something from their past in Handsome Harry. Harry travels to the remaining members of his old Navy unit (including Aidan Quinn and John Savage) to ask them each about the night they savagely beat David Kagan, one of their own... a night he can barely remember. If Harry can piece together the story, then maybe he can find Kagan (Campbell Scott) and ask his forgiveness.
Set during a rainy summer in a small town, the French comedy Let It Rain stars Agnes Jaoui as Agathe Villanova, an acclaimed feminist author. Traveling to the country to put her childhood home up for sale, she's followed by Jean-Pierre Bacri, who wants to make a documentary film about her. The comedy of class and station unfolds between the filmmaker, Agathe's family, and Jamel Debbouze, whose mother has worked for the Villanovas all her life.
Will (Patrick Wilson) is an architect who lives by his designs in Life In Flight, and has designed himself a perfect life: a good career, a wife (Amy Smart), and a son. While working on a project that seems to be cursed, he partners with a talented designer (Lynn Collins) and the chemistry between the two of them make Will second guess the "perfect" life he's constructed for himself.
This week's entry into Reckless Video's TV New Releases is the 2nd season of the Showtime drama The United States of Tara, rejoining the story of Tara's treatment for dissociative identity disorder and her struggles to lead a normal life under trying circumstances.
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