Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Week of August 19th

Website is best viewed at RecklessVideo.com.  Pop-up credits links are inactive on Blogger.

Larger Undertaking

Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) has adapted to his superhero lifestyle in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, swinging through New York, fighting crime, and cracking wise... even if it means staying away from Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) to keep her safe from Spider-Man's enemies. Spider-Man has become a hero and an icon to underdogs like Oscorp employee Max Dillon (Jamie Foxx), but a tragic accident turns Max into super-powered Electro and transforms his idolization of Spider-Man into jealousy. With Oscorp (led by Colm Feore) hoping to use Electro fro their own ends and Peter's childhood friend Harry Osborne (Dane DeHaan) seeking Spidey for his own reasons, Spider-Man is suddenly up against clashing powers that he may not be able to match. With Paul Giamatti. On DVD and Blu Ray.


When photographer Patrick (Kentucker Audley) tells his friends (AJ Bowen and Joe Swanberg) from online multimedia company Vice about his sister Caroline's (Amy Seimetz) involvement in a remote community, they decide it would make a great story in Ti West's The Sacrament. Invited by Caroline, Patrick and his film crew fly to the community and are escorted into Eden Parish. Though they're met by heavily armed perimeter guards, their tour of the community paints the picture of happy people living an idealistic, sharing, technology-free life. Overseen by the nurturing Father (Gene Jones), the Eden Parish members are open to the film crew about the perfect life they've built for themselves, but the Vice film crew begins to discover hints that not everything Father tells them is true.


Rock star Adam (Tom Hiddleston) lives in seclusion in his Detroit apartment while his long-time partner Eve (Tilda Swinton) wanders Tangier in Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, but their connection to one another is thousands of years old. Adam and Eve are vampires, and while Eve enjoys traveling the world and conversing with fellow undead 16th century playwright Kit Marlowe (John Hurt), Adam is withdrawn from modern humanity, reclusively recording his music, and only connecting to the world through Ian (Anton Yelchin), who brings him anything he wants. Eve flies back to the United States to reconnect with him, and their time together is both a celebration of their love and a clash of their informed-by-millenia worldviews, complicated by the arrival of Eve's younger sister (Mia Wasikowska). On DVD and Blu Ray.


When a wealthy, successful Dr. Parker (Sharon Stone) says she'd like to arrange a ménage à trois, Murray (Woody Allen) says he can help her in Fading Gigolo. Even though the deal would pay $1,000, Fioravante (John Turturro) is hesitant when Murray explains the offer, he agrees, first seeing Dr. Parker alone. Knowing the system can work, Murray sets up more dates for Fioravante, and they find themselves operating a thriving business. Their success attracts the attention of Hasidic neighborhood watch (Liev Schreiber) and Fioravante becomes more interested in a vulnerable widow than the job, so they might not make the date with Dr. Parker and her girlfriend (Sofia Vergara) that started the whole situation. On DVD and Blu Ray.


Josh Wheaton (Shane Harper) enrolls in a philosophy class and is shocked to discover devout atheist Professor Jeffrey Radisson (Kevin Sorbo) requires his students to sign a declaration stating "God Is Dead" to pass the class in God's Not Dead. A noble Christian, Josh refuses to sign, a decision that puts him in direct conflict with the atheist literati that runs the university. Though he's consistently beaten by Professor Radisson in debates in front of the class and his moral stand alienates him from many of his friends and classmates, his devotion stands in stark contrast to the mean-spirited, empty lives led by Jeffrey and his arrogant, wealthy brother (Dean Cain). All Josh can do is stand by his principles, an act of courage that could change hearts and even win him the support of his favorite Christian rock band.


The Scooby gang travels to a haunted castle deep in the murky wilds of Pennsylvania in Scooby Doo: Franken Creepy. Velma's great-great Uncle Dr. Von Dinkenstein left Velma the castle in his will, and the gang convinces her to claim her inheritance, but the Ghost of Von Dinkenstein Castle blows up the Mystery Machine after they arrive. Now Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby have no choice but to get to the bottom of the mystery of the Dinkenstein Monster.

New this week in our TV New Releases:
Boardwalk Empire
Season 4
Nucky (Steve Buscemi) reclaimed control of Atlantic City and brokered a tentative peace with the New York bosses, but as the 1930s progress, making money from prohibition attracts interest from ruthless pinkertons and competitors that would take his territory for themselves, and his life as a gangster slowly overtakes his life as a businessman.
The Good Wife
Season 5
Never given their due from Lockhart & Gardner, Alicia and Cary start their own firm... but leaving their employer and striking out on their own converts them from employees to competitors, and they quickly become underdogs in a war with their former law firm.
Once upon a Time
Season 3
The fairytale inhabitants of Storybrooke, freed from the curse that turned them from creatures of fantasy to every day suburbanites, have to travel to Neverland to rescue one of their own, but tangling with Pan has its own curses and consequences to further complicate their world.
Parenthood
Season 5
As the Braverman family moves forward, a cancer-free Kristina sets out to take control of her life, Crosby and Jasmine add a new member to the family, and Camille and Zeke learn to adapt to an empty nest.
Rosemary's Baby
Now & Then
Rosemary (Zoe Saldana) and her husband move to Paris and are brought into an ideal apartment building by their charming, wealthy neighbors in this ABC miniseries. Learning she's pregnant eclipses her investigation into her new home's dark, mysterious past, but she starts to suspect the two things are connected.
Parks & Recreation
Season 5
Now on the city council, Leslie has to adapt to politics that run a little differently from the Parks department she's used to, and has to deal with Pawnee's outdated laws while Ben is in Washington, D.C.
The Mindy Project
Season 2
Mindy still sees the bright side of everything-- even after returning to New York from Haiti for emergency surgery-- but, upon arriving home, she finds everything in life and love is always more complicated than she thought.
NCIS
Season 11
After an explosion cripples the agency, the team has to keep solving cases while continuing the hunt for the people working to take them out one-by-one, but they will persevere with the help of new agents and a mission to track down members they've lost.

No comments:

Post a Comment