Website is best viewed at RecklessVideo.com. Pop-up credits links are inactive on Blogger.
Issues
Maria and Henry Bennet (Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor)
are spending their Christmas vacation in Thailand with their three boys
when a giant wave destroys the town and forces them apart in The Impossible.
Based on the true story of a family that survived the 2004 tsunami, the
waves demolish Bennet's resort, sweep them up, and separate them,
leaving Maria and her oldest son to wander the ruined landscape calling
for the rest of their family. Henry has to take care of the two younger
boys while searching for Maria... but they all fight against the
disaster and the wreckage around them, helped by the generous locals, to
reunite their family and return to their home. On DVD and Blu Ray.Steve (Matt Damon) works for Global Crosspower Solutions, convincing landowners to sell their farms to natural gas miners in Gus Van Sant's Promised Land. Traveling with Frances McDormand, Steve's sales pitch is simple: he grew up on a farm and knows what it's like to lose land to the bank, and he offers the residents of a small Pennsylvania town enough money to help them. Though the money sounds good, Steve's speech is interrupted by the school science teacher (Hal Holbrook) at the first town meeting, and the town suddenly wants to know about fracking. The dissent grows worse when an activist (John Krasinski) starts campaigning against Steve, telling everyone about how fracking destroyed his home town. Global Crosspower is a powerful entity willing to do anything to get what it wants, but can Steve live with the consequences? On DVD and Blu Ray.
The lead drag review, Rudy (Alan Cumming) begins seeing closeted lawyer Paul (Garret Dillahunt) at nearly the same time his neighbor (Jamie Anne Allman) is arrested, leaving her 14-year-old son Marco unattended in Any Day Now. Marco is a child with Down syndrome, and Rudy helps the boy, and reaches out to Paul to keep Marco out of a jaded childcare system and win custody of the boy. Set in the late 70s, Rudy and Paul fight to overcome a system that will not let them raise a child, and the prejudices against a gay couple consistently outpace the strong, loving, and accepting relationship the three of them have as a family.
Lawbreakers
Rugged police sergeant John O'Mara (Josh Brolin) goes after the gangsters no one will touch in late-40s Lost Angeles, to the chief (Nick Nolte) gives him a special mission in Ruben Fleischer's Gangster Squad:
destroy organized crime by operating outside the law, using guerilla
tactics with no badges and no official police backing. With ruthless
kingpin Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) consolidating his power in the underworld, O'Mara gathers a tough beat cop (Anthony Mackie), a wire-tapper (Giovanni Ribisi), a legendary gangster hunter (Robert Patrick), and a rookie (Michael Peña), but his old war buddy Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling)
turns down his offer. The squad punishes Cohen's gangsters brutally
and relentlessly, but there is bound to be retribution... and Wooters is
forced into the fight when he starts seeing Cohen's girl (Emma Stone). On DVD and Blu Ray.In a small town under the thumb of the powerful Cavanaugh family, brothers Nate (Spencer Treat Clark) and Skylar (Nick Eversman) are locked up when their hunting accident kills Mayor Cavanaugh's son in Deep Dark Canyon. Though their father (Ted Levine) is the sheriff, the whole town wants to see the boys hang... and their only chance to survive is escape. On the run in the wilderness, the boys have to find their way past the powerful family's reach, while their father tries to find and help them and the head of the Cavanaughs (Michael Bowen) has raised a mob that wants to see the brothers killed, not captured. With Martin Starr.
Documentary
Co-directed by Ken Burns, The Central Park Five is the story of the five kids arrested and convicted of the rape and assault of a jogger in 1989. Though the five suspects have now been cleared of all charges, their trial and conviction reflects the class and race culture of New York at the time, and the documentary explores the media frenzy and drive for retribution that incarcerated five innocent boys for years.
A global tour of trash and toxic dump sites, the documentary Trashed sends on-screen narrator Jeremy Irons
around the world to survey sites that have been destroyed by dumping.
An exploration of how trash is handled (landfill, incineration, and
sea-dumping), the film looks at the fallout and effects of refuse, and
how trash has changed environments and landscapes.Considered the grandmother of performance art, Serbian artist Marina Abramovic is the subject of the documentary The Artist Is Present. Reaching back to her first attempts to create a kind of art that couldn't be hung on walls or sold in galleries, the film recounts Marina's pioneering the concept of ritual, movement, and human performance as a different art form, and captures her preparation and eventual performance of her new show at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Supernatural
Leo runs a crime scene clean-up business and brings in his younger friend Elvis on a job in the Norwegian Thale, but in cleaning up a cabin in the woods, they discover a strange, hidden cellar. Exploring the mysteries below, they're shocked when, from a still bathtub filled with a mysterious fluid, young woman emerges. She never talks, but Elvis and Leo quickly realize there's something special about the girl... and that there are definitely people (or things) searching for her.From one of the original writers of Scary Movie, A Haunted House sends up the recent mass of ghost movies by having Marlon Wayans invite his girlfriend (Essence Atkins) to move in with him... but they're moving into a haunted house. Soon, they've hired a surveillance expert (David Koechner) to install cameras throughout the house, and wind up recording all kinds of crazy and outrageous hauntings.
New this week in our TV New Releases:
 |
Mr. Selfridge Season 1 |
Successful Chicago business magnate Harry Selfridge (Jeremy Piven) sees an opportunity to provide early 1900s London with a large, cutting-edge department store, facing an uphill battle in a world resistant to change. |
No comments:
Post a Comment