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Mike Leigh's newest slice-of-life film about class and family in Britain is Another Year, where Tom and Gerri Hepple (Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen) continue their happy marriage into their senior years. The story of their relationship is simple and blissful, but their stability makes them the support system for all their less predictable friends... such as Gerri's emotionally messy co-worker (Lesley Manville). On DVD and Blu-Ray.
Adam Sandler plays a successful L.A. plastic surgeon who pretends to be unhappily married to attract women in Just Go with It. Though he meets Palmer, a beautiful middle school teacher, honestly, she discovers his fake wedding ring-- now he has to rope his best friend (Jennifer Aniston) into pretending to be his estranged wife and reassuring Palmer... but as fast as as you can say "Three's Company," the comic misunderstanding spirals out of control. On DVD and Blu-Ray. Obsessed with the Wrong Woman
Young Eun-Yi is hired as a nanny for a wealthy husband and his pregnant wife in the Korean The Housemaid, but introducing a young woman into the household tempts the husband to begin an affair. As the domestic situation slowly falls apart, the rights and wrongs of the family begin to reveal themselves, and Eun-Yi's choices narrow as she's forced into an impossible position.William Vincent (James Franco) he returns to New York after years in exile to reclaim the woman he loves in Shadows and Lies. Four years ago, Vincent assumed a new identity and restarted his life as a small time crook when a stranger (Martin Donovan) approached him and offered him a job: he would work for The Boss (Josh Lucas). Threatened with death if he ever returned, Vincent comes back for Julianne Nicholson, The Boss' favorite call girl, and the reason for his exile. On DVD and Blu-Ray.
Told in flashback from the point of view of superstar matador Manuel Rodriguez Sanchez (Adrien Brody), A Matador's Mistress follows Manolete's ascent in
the bullfighting ring and his passionate affair with actress Lupe Sino (Penelope Cruz). Set during the 1940s, the film plays out the all-consuming romance that led to Sanchez's last fight. On DVD and Blu-Ray.Erik (Ricky Mabe) pursues his girlfriend to a Live Action Role Playing weekend in The Wild Hunt. Erik has no interest in role playing, but his brother Bjorn (Mark Antony Krupa) leads a tribe of Vikings in the games and helps him get in. Unfortunately, Erik's girlfriend (Kaniehtiio Horn) is with the leader of the Celts (Trevor Hayes), and the play competition of the games begins to mix with the mens' real competition over a woman, until the rules start to blur and the battles are no longer safe.
Down Under
In an ensemble crime comedy centered around crime lord Terence Fink, the Australian Pros & Ex Cons follows an irreverent series of coincidences that crosses a handful of slackers, a pair of hackers trying to electronically rob a bank, and four hired killers (including Sam Worthington). As the heists, cons, and hits get in each others' way, there's no telling who'll be left standing in the end.Based on a true story, In Her Skin begins with the parents of Rachel Barber (Guy Pearce and Miranda Otto) searching for their daughter when she doesn't come home from dance class. Their story merges with the life of Caroline Reid (Ruth Bradley), a disturbed young woman who envies everything about Rachel's life, and the tragedy that progresses as Caroline loses touch with reality. With Sam Neill and Rebecca Gibney.
A master diver (Richard Roxburgh) and his team, along with his son and his financiers (Ioan Gruffudd and Alice Parkinson), get trapped in an underwater cave system in Papua New Guinea in Sanctum. With limited supplies and diving gear, they can't go back the way they came, and the only way out is to explore the underground caverns and search for a new exit. On DVD and Blu-Ray. GTX, a company in a down turn, begins to downsize in The Company Men, as the company president (Craig T. Nelson) starts laying people off. Hotshot salesman Bobby Walker (Ben Affleck) is unemployed in the first round and struggles to find new work to support his wife (Rosemarie DeWitt) and son, as the senior members (Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper) question the firings while the president purchases extravagant new office space. With businesses struggling, nothing is certain, and the company men have to compromise to stay afloat. On DVD and Blu-Ray.
A documentary about the influential comedian, American: The Bill Hicks Story interviews friends and family throughout Hicks' life, beginning with his early days writing and performing while still in school. Continuing with his early attempts for stardom in Los Angeles and struggles with addiction to finding his voice and becoming an icon with comedy, the film combines interviews and performance footage to realize a portrait of Bill Hicks.
A tire wakes up in the desert, discovers it can kill, and heads into town on a rampage in Rubber. For some reason, it decides not to kill Roxane Mesquida, who becomes part of the tire's story as the local police (led by Stephen Spinella) try to stop the killing spree. The movie warns to audience early that all movies contain elements that aren't explained or make no sense... and it goes on to continue to confound expectations, providing an audience within the film and a running commentary about the events as they unfold. On DVD and Blu-Ray.A privileged teenager (Sasha Jackson) runs away to surf her mother's old stomping grounds in South Africa in Blue Crush 2: No Limits. Quickly befriending a local surfer (Elizabeth Mathis), she proves herself on the waves, wins the love of a local boy, and makes a rival/enemy in the local circles as she tries to find herself in a new place.
New this week to Reckless Video's TV New Releases is the 3rd season of the critically acclaimed Breaking Bad, as Walter White (Bryan Cranston) continues to work towards providing for his family with the help of Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), a local, small-time drug dealer.Also new is the 4th season of Burn Notice, as Michael Westen (Jeffery Donovan) finances tracking the people who ruined his life by solving cases in Miami with his trigger-happy ex-girlfriend (Gabrielle Anwar) and his former special ops buddy (Bruce Campbell), as well as the 2nd season of White Collar, which commissions a former white collar crook (Matt Bomer) to assist with FBI agents on his particular area of expertise.
Reckless has just acquired the debut seasons of The Big C, about Cathy Jamison's (Laura Linney) struggles with cancer as she tries to keep her suburban life in tact, and Pretty Little Liars, where four friends (including Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson, and Lucy Hale) begin receiving threatening notes from an anonymous adversary after the leader of their clique (Sasha Pieterse) goes missing.
Finally, we have the newest release by DC Comics, Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, setting up a story that inhabits the universe of the upcoming summer live action movie.
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