Website is best viewed at RecklessVideo.com. Pop-up credits links are inactive on Blogger.
Flash, Spectacle, and Chase
Taking place immediately after the events of Resident Evil: Afterlife, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is held captive by the Umbrella Corporation in Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil: Retribution. Rescued by Rain Ocampo (Michelle Rodriguez), returning from the first Resident Evil movie, Alice plans to escape Umbrella by infiltrating the base under the polar ice caps they use to test their zombie-making T Virus. Pursued by Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory), brainwashed by Umbrella to side against Alice, she has to put her more-than-human skills at fighting, running, and shooting to work to prevent an Umbrella Corporation apocalypse from wiping out what's left of humanity. On DVD and Blu Ray.
New York bike messenger and fixie enthusiast Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) makes his living dodging city traffic in Premium Rush, but he's got a lot more to out-maneuver when he picks up a hotly contested package. When Michael Shannon demands Wilee give up his cargo, something a courier can't do, Wilee just bikes away...
but
he doesn't know how dangerous the man chasing him really is. Using real
bicycle stunts instead of CGI, what follows is a break-neck chase
through New York city as Wilee has to contend with New York bicycle
cops, rival messengers, and the pursuer that seems to want him dead.
With Dania Ramirez. On DVD and Blu Ray.Just out of prison, master thief Will Montgomery (Nicolas Cage) wants to leave the life of crime behind him and focus on his family in Simon West's Stolen, but no ex-con is ever allowed to do that: he gets drawn into one last job. His former partner (Josh Lucas), wanting compensation for the failed job that sent him away has kidnapped Will's daughter. If he's going to have a family to live a clean life with, Will has to pull one more heist, even if the cop that busted him (Danny Huston) is waiting and watching for his return to capers.
Comedies
from high-strung to low-key
35-year-old Jesse (Josh Radnor, who also writes and directs) returns from New York to his Ohio alma mater for his second-favorite professor's (Richard Jenkins) retirement in Liberal Arts. While there, he re-discovers college life, the campus, the parties... and meets Zibby (Elizabeth Olsen), a bright, thoughtful, 19-year-old student. He writes Zibby when back in New York, and she's inspired him to look at his life in a new way. She asks him to come back to campus, but Jesse has a lot to consider before starting a relationship with a girl 16 years his junior. With Allison Janney. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Aspiring DJ and remixer Beca (Anna Kendrick) is reluctantly attending college in Pitch Perfect where she's talked into joining the Bellas, an all-girl a cappella group. Though the Bellas' leader, Aubrey (Anna Camp),
keeps a tight grip on the group, Beca knows they'll have to diversify
the music if they want to contend with rival campus vocal group the
Treble Makers and their showboating front man (Adam DeVine). Aubrey's control of the group goes so far as to forbid dating rivals, keeping Beca from a Treble Maker (Skylar Astin) who could be worth her time, but the Bellas need Beca's fresh ideas to stay competitive. On DVD and Blu Ray.An ensemble cast gathers for their ten year high school reunion in 10 Years, mingling the stories of a group of friends that kept in touch after school. Prom king turned successful mortgage broker Jake (Channing Tatum) is considering proposing to his girlfriend when his prom queen (Rosario Dawson) unexpectedly arrives. Marty (Justin Long) tries to impress their class' party girl (Lynn Collins) with tales of New York success, but he's stuck with the worst wing-man ever (Max Minghella). Former bully Cully (Chris Pratt) tries to apologize to his former victims, but the more he drinks, the more his apologies sound like harassment as his boorishness embarrasses his wife (Ari Graynor). Reeves (Oscar Isaac) has a song on the pop charts but ignores his classmate-fans to spend time with the wallflower (Kate Mara) no one ever seems to notice. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Greg (Zachary Gordon) could be in real trouble in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days-- Roderick (Devon Bostick) is a model student after being sent to military school, and if Greg doesn't stop causing trouble, his father (Steve Zahn) will send him too. This doesn't stop Greg and Rowley (Robert Capron), his best friend, from finding a way into the country club where Holly (Peyton List) works, because he'd do anything to get her number. Greg, Rowley, and country clubs don't mix, and trouble is guaranteed, but maybe Greg can earn some good behavior points in the Wilderness Explorers. With Rachel Harris. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Sticky Situations
Robert Miller (Richard Gere) is a hedge fund power player about to sell his company and retire, spending more time with his wife (Susan Sarandon) and family in Arbitrage. When he crashes a car, killing his mistress (Laetitia Casta), he flees the scene, and the detective (Tim Roth) looking into the death would love to make a manslaughter arrest involving such a rich, high profile suspect. With his daughter (Brit Marling), also his chief investment advisor, questioning some unorthodox numbers in the company records and the police suggesting murder, the walls are closing in on Robert's life from all sides. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Chris (Emile Hirsch) is a small-time Texas loser with big-time gambling debts in William Friedkin's Killer Joe, but he comes up with an easy way out. He proposes to his father (Thomas Haden Church) and step-mother (Gina Gershon) to hire an assassin: a cop who moonlights as a hit man called Killer Joe (Matthew McConaughey). If Joe kills Chris' mother, her life insurance policy will pay out to his little sister Dottie (Juno Temple),
and Dottie's inheritance will pay Joe's fee, Chris' debt, and earn the
family some spending money... but there's never been a scam that Chris
couldn't botch. If the deal goes south and they can't pay Joe, they've
still got something the killer wants: Dottie. On DVD and Blu Ray.British Doctor Martin Blake (Orlando Bloom) transfers to a Southern California hospital in The Good Doctor to begin his residency, but the day-to-day grind of medical work isn't everything he imagined. A young patient (Riley Keough) forms a bond with Doctor Blake, and though he treats her successfully, he doesn't want to lose the one face in the hospital that makes him happy... so he alters her treatment to keep her dependent on him. Though his superiors (Rob Morrow) have faith in Martin, one orderly (Michael Pena) knows the truth, and he has to decide how far he'll go to keep his secrets. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Family
Georgia teenager Flik is sent to Brooklyn to spend a summer with his grandfather, Bishop Enoch Rouse (Clarke Peters), in Spike Lee's Red Hook Summer. Though Flik's new environment is a little rough-- his grandfather's tenement isn't exactly grandiose-- his grandfather's world exposes him to the moral implications of pollution, poverty, and cultural disintegration. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Gus (Clint Eastwood) is an aging baseball scout with a questionable recent record in Trouble with the Curve, but his boss, Pete (John Goodman), loyal and standing by Gus' long-term record, is fighting to give him one more chance. Pete asks Gus' daughter Mickey (Amy Adams)
to accompany him on the next scouting trip-- though she's now a lawyer,
Mickey grew up around baseball, and knows more about the sport than
even Johnny (Justin Timberlake),
one of Gus' pro ball recruits turned scout. With Gus and Johnny both on
the road, an old baseball scout trying to stay relevant and a young
scout trying to prove himself, Mickey's got her hands full and a short
time before she has to return to her law office. On DVD and Blu Ray.Julio and his mother find a baby in an alley in the Venezuelan Hermano. Sixteen years later, Julio is the captain of his barrio's football team and his little brother Daniel is proving himself to be unusually gifted on the field. When a scout arrives, the bond between the brothers is tested, and the realities of their lives in the slums of Caracas are brought into sharp focus.
Johnny stumbles into a world he's not prepared for when he meets Stephanie at the gym in Bro'. She introduces him to her rough and tumble brother, motocross professional Jesse... but suburban Johnny is slowly introduced to Jesse's downtown world of parties, drugs, casual hookups, and violence, providing a cautionary tale that casts motocross bikers across from actors like Danny Trejo and Larry Fessenden.
Behind the Scenes
Italian-American actor John Tuturro travels to Sicily to look at the indigenous perceptions of death, theatricality, and puppetry in the documentary Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy. Tuturro visits the birthplace of his maternal grandparents, and explores the Sicilian penchant for foreboding and darker themes.New this week in our TV New Releases:
 |
House of Lies Season 1 |
Don Cheadle runs a team of management consultants (including Kristen Bell) that will go to any extreme to close business deals, with little concern for honesty or ethics. |  |
Shameless Season 2 |
Frank (William H. Macy)
will probably never get his life together, but his six kids still try
to maintain the family they've cobbled together around him. |
|
 |
Californication Season 5 |
Three years after Hank (David Duchovny) published his novel at the end of season 4, he's licking his wounds in New York City... but ends up drawn back into his normal routine. | ||||
No comments:
Post a Comment