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Adulthood, and Moving Forward
Gary King's (Simon Pegg) life hasn't turned into the unbridled success he assumed it would be when he was 17 and on top of the world in Edgar Wright's The World's End, so he does the only thing he can: he gets the gang back together. His teenage friends Peter (Eddie Marsan), Oliver (Martin Freeman), and Steven (Paddy Considine) have all moved on, living adult lives, and Andy (Nick Frost) hasn't had a drink in years... so they're not thrilled to reform Gary's gang, return to their childhood home, and join him in completing the 12-bar pub crawl they didn't finish the night Gary's life peaked. When they get to their sleepy little hometown, they discover that everything has changed-- either everything seems different because they've grown older, or something sinister is happening, and they'll have to fight for their lives. With Rosamund Pike. On DVD and Blu Ray.
When her best friends (Alia Shawkat and Sarah Steele) force her to go to a party, valedictorian Brandy (Aubrey Plaza) has her first drink, and first near-sexual encounter in The To Do List and realizes something: she has a lot to learn. Her more experienced sister (Rachel Bilson) tells Brandy that she needs to be prepared before she goes off to college, Brandy approaches her sex education like any overachieving mathlete-- she makes a lesson plan. Over her summer vacation, she gets a lifeguard job at a pool (working for Bill Hader) and works on gaining the kinds of skills and experience that will allow her to lose her virginity to the hunky lifeguard (Johnny Simmons) at work. With Scott Porter. On DVD and Blu Ray.
The first movie based on a David Sedaris essay, C.O.G. stars Jonathan Groff as David who graduates Yale and travels to Oregon to live a Steinbeck-inspired dream. Determined to work the soil and see how the other half lives, David is both sheltered and arrogant, and has no idea how to relate to his fellow passengers on a cross-country Greyhound bus, the non-English-speaking laborers working with him at an apple orchard (run by Dean Stockwell), or the deeply religious family man (Denis O'Hare) who takes him in. Aided by a self-depricating sense of humor, he does discover how people outside of his privileged world live, but his experience shows him more than a romantic view of "working the land." With Casey Wilson.
Ambitious Adam (Liam Hemsworth) is working for technology genius Wyatt (Gary Oldman) in hopes of making his fortune and out-running his blue collar past in Paranoia. Wyatt drives Adam to spy on rival company (and former partner) Goddard (Harrison Ford), and he's suddenly a pawn in Wyatt's game of corporate espionage. Groomed by Wyatt's assistant (Embeth Davidtz), Adam is groomed to look and act like an executive and sent to Goddard's company, but an FBI agent (Josh Holloway) tells him he's not the first. Adam has to consider what he really wants from these corporations when he learns the fate of the last protege Wyatt pressed into espionage. With Amber Heard. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Across Borders
Powerful megalomaniacal drug lord Brad Gurdlinger (Ed Helms) forces David (Jason Sudeikis), a small-time pot dealer, to move marijuana across the Mexican border in We're the Millers.
David knows clean-cut, all-American families don't get searched at
border crossings, so he drafts his naive 18-year-old neighbor (Will Poulter), a street urchin homeless girl (Emma Roberts), and a stripper (Jennifer Aniston)
to form a makeshift family: the Millers. They load an RV full of
marijuana and set off to make the delivery, but the drugs actually
belong to a Mexican drug lord (Tomer Sisley)
who has no intention of letting them get away, and the Millers are
going to have to pull together as a family to survive their caper. On
DVD and Blu Ray.Jamie (Michael Cera) is an American living in Chile in Sebastian Silva's Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus. Jamie and his Chilean friends are planning to drive to the beach to prepare a San Pedro cactus and have a mescaline experience, but the night before they leave, Jamie gets wasted and invites a girl he met at a party. They start their journey, but they're joined by Crystal Fairy (Gaby Hoffmann), happy for the invite and excited to join their adventure. Jamie is obnoxious and combative, and he routinely butts heads with the free-spirited hippie (who is a bit of a know-it-all) as the rest of the party just tries to keep the group together and get to the beach.
Jane (Kate Bosworth) accompanies her husband Leonard (Iddo Goldberg) to an island off the coast of Italy in And While We Were Here. Leonard is a violinist preparing for a symphony and has little time for his wife; Jane is depressed and doesn't engage with her husband much. While they wander through their boredom and dissatisfaction, the causes of their ennui slowly reveal themselves. With Jamie Blackley.
Guns
Bobby Beans (Denzel Washington) and Stig (Mark Wahlberg) are small-time crooks planning to rob drug kingpin Papi Greco (Edward James Olmos) in 2 Guns.
They've staked out the bank where Papi keeps his money and execute the
heist... and walk out with more money than they could have imagined.
They know they're in more trouble than they planned for-- Bobby and Stig
turn on each other and try to get free of the situation, but with
everyone involved with the money (James Marsden, Bill Paxton, and Edward James Olmos)
hunting them, they're forced to embrace their "odd couple"
relationship. Goofy Stig and strident Bobby can only rely on each other,
but, luckily, they're both experts at shooting bad guys. On DVD and Blu Ray.Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) is the naive and childlike partner of violent hitwoman Violet (Alexis Bledel) in the surreal fable Violet & Daisy. Together, they treat their executions as a kind of bullet-riddled game, but when they arrive at the home of their latest target (James Gandolfini), they're taken off guard by his calm kindness. He knows why they're there... and he's made them cookies. Violet and Daisy put off killing him for as long as they can, and as they talk with him, he shows them things about themselves the girls never realized. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Animation
Narrated by Jim Broadbent, Lost & Found is the story of a young boy who wakes up one morning to find a penguin at his front door. He knows penguins live at the South Pole, so he hops into a small rowboat and helps his new friend get home. Together, their adventure takes them past many dangers as they learn why their journey is important.
Dusty Crophopper (Dane Cook) is a humble cropduster who dreams of racing in Disney's Planes, but he has a fear of heights. Coached by a wizened old warplane (Stacy Keach) and assisted by Chug the fuel truck (Brad Garrett) and Dottie the forklift (Teri Hatcher), Dusty joins an around-the-world race... but can he compete with Ripslinger (Roger Craig Smith), the plane who won the last three races in a row. On DVD and Blu Ray. Biographical
Hannah Arendt focuses on the titular writer (Barbara Sukowa) and her iconic report on Adolf Eichmann in the 1960s. As Eichmann faces trial, Hannah Arendt's coverage of the proceedings in the New Yorker became one of the most influential views of the Nazi regime (she famously coined the phrase "the banality of evil.") As she becomes an intellectual force in New York, befriending author Mary McCarthy (Janet McTeer) and philosopher Martin Heidegger, her work gains resonance and cements her place in history.The documentary Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Memories of Ricky Jay tells the story of magician Ricky Jay. Ricky was born into illusions and a vaudeville tradition that is quickly evaporating, and his stories of learning a craft from legendary magicians and performers both trace his rise through stage, television, and film... and his journey through the culture of magic beginning in the early 50s.
Set in the summer of 1915, a 74-year-old painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir struggles with his artistic vision in Renoir.
Mourning the recent death of his wife, and coping with two of his sons'
serious war injuries, Renoir refuses to paint the world black. Made
wealthy and famous by his work, the painter is singularly devoted to the
way sunlight plays on a young woman's skin. When he meets his new muse,
her arrogance offends Renoir's caretakers and household, but the
painter is only concerned with painting her beauty.Imports
Set in 1920s France, wealthy lady Therese (Audrey Tautou) marries her best friend's brother, the equally bourgeois Bernard (Gilles Lellouche) in the French Therese. Their marriage increases both families' land and wealth, but Therese isn't fulfilled by the arrangement, spending her days withdrawn and aloof. When she finds a spark of life within herself, she still has to contend with the families and her husband, and a lack of options force her into a drastic situation.A family suffers the loss of their father in the Spanish We Are What We Are, but his traditions guide them in his absence. Brothers and sister observe their traditional rites to put food on the table... but since their father was the one who went hunting, they have to adapt and find their own game: other people. Since they're accustomed to only one kind of meat, they just have to devise a way to bring the meat home.
Holiday
Dennis (Paul Giamatti) is released from prison in time for Christmas in All Is Bright, but returns home to find his wife (Amy Landecker) has given up on him. She's told their daughter he died and is planning on marrying Rene (Paul Rudd)-- his former partner in crime. Since Rene's gone straight and given up the criminal lifestyle, Dennis swears to do the same... but Dennis doesn't have any other friends on the outside. Swallowing his pride, he works for Rene selling Christmas trees in New York, and the two former thieves contend with their new lot in life, getting ready for the holidays.Also new to Reckless Video's Holiday New Release section are the 5th Home Alone movie, Home Alone: The Holiday Heist, the Madagascar holiday special Merry Madagascar, the animated reindeer adventure Little Brother, Big Trouble, and the family dramedy Fitzgerald Family Christmas.
New this week in our TV New Releases:
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Treme Season 4 |
A broad swath of New Orleans culture continues to interact in the HBO ensemble series, weaving a tapestry of the day-to-day dramas of local cooks, musicians, writers, lawyers, and personalities that make up the city. |
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Lost Girl Season 3 |
After barely saving the fae folk at the end of Season 2, Bo struggles to control her dark side as the repercussions of her transformation on the supernatural world of faeries, succubi, sirens, and shapeshifters. |
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