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Fatherhood
Javier Bardem was nominated for Best Actor this year of his performance in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Biutiful, starring as Uxbal, a father of two trying to survive both his personal issues and his life in the criminal underworld of Barcelona. Estranged from his wife and hiding health problems from his children, Uxbal struggles through a bleak life, though not all of his secrets are dangerous... some are inexplicable and magical. On DVD and Blu-Ray.Young Ivan and his teenage brother Andrei are growing up in the care of their mother in the Russian The Return until the father they've never known mysteriously reappears. Recognizing the man from an old photograph, the two boys hop into his car and head out for a fishing trip, but their newly returned father has plans for them. As he tests Ivan and Andrei, they try to understand what role their father has in their lives, and what they mean to him.
John Milton (Nicolas Cage) breaks out of Hell to avenge the death of his daughter in Drive Angry. Adopting a surrogate daughter (Amber Heard) on his adventure, Milton shoots, punches, stabs, and drives his way through the world,
tracking down the cult leader (Billy Burke) that destroyed his daughter's life... but Hell doesn't take escapees lightly, so as Milton borrows a series of classic muscle cars to hunt down his enemies, an agent of Hell (William Fichtner) is chasing him down as well. With David Morse. On DVD and Blu-Ray.Artists
A young man returns to Strasbourg looking for Sylvia, a woman he met years before, in In the City of Sylvia. Armed with only a drawing he made when they met, he sits at an outdoor cafe sketching the beautiful women around him, always watching for Sylvia... and when he sees a face that matches his sketch, is it really her?Left for dead, a down-on-his-luck trumpet player (Mickey Rourke) stumbles upon a traveling carnival in the desert in Passion Play. When he sees Lily (Megan Fox), the birdwoman in the sideshow, he's amazed; not a cheap gimmick, she has real wings. While he could be Lily's ticket to a new life, she could be his way of making amends with Bill Murray, the gangster who wanted him dead in the first place... but Lily could be more than that; she could be his salvation. With Kelly Lynch.
Love and Success
Late night sports talk DJ John (Matt Bush) travels to New York for a job interview in Edward Burns' Nice Guy Johnny. While his fiance and her family want him to take a high paying, but boring, job, John's uncle (Burns) tells him he's too young to marry, and to stay with the job he loves... but it's hard to take advice from his unreliable scoundrel of an uncle. However, when he meets Brook (Kerry Bishe), a free spirit who also thinks he should reject a job that would make him unhappy, John begins to reconsider the obligations
standing before him.Journalist Liam Marple (Robson Green) charms his way into private access with Prime Minister Laura Bowden (Caroline Goodall) in Me & Mrs. Jones. Liam writes under a the name Mrs. Jones, so the stories aren't traced back to him and he keeps his access to the PM, but things get much more complicated when he falls in love with Laura, and she with him. With Keeley Hawes.
New this week to Reckless Video's TV New Releases are the 3rd season of HBO's vampire romance series True Blood, as well as the second and final season of the science fiction Stargate Universe.
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