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Dust, Bears, and Alternate Universes
Set in a parallel world where people's souls walk beside them in the form of animals, The Golden Compass follows Lyra, a young girl at the center of a mysterious prophecy. Pulled between Daniel Craig (Casino Royale, Enduring Love) and Nicole Kidman (To Die For, Margot at the Wedding), Lyra is guided by a golden compass to the arctic north, meeting witches, gyptians, and armored bears along the way. Based on the first book of a popular fantasy trilogy, The Golden Compass also features Sam Elliott (Tombstone, The Big 
Lebowski) and Ian McKellen (Gods and Monsters, Flushed Away).
RomCom
Katherine Heigl (100 Girls, Knocked Up) suffers from "always a bridesmaid, never a bride" syndrome in 27 Dresses, when her younger sister (Malin Akerman: The Heartbreak Kid, Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle) begins planning her wedding with Edward Burns (Ash Wednesday, The Holiday). Turning to James Marsden (X-Men, Disturbing Behavior) for comfort, she hopes that after 27 bridesmaid dresses, he next would be a wedding gown.
Editing Elle
After a stroke left the editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, paralyzed and only able to control the blinking of his left eye, he used over 200,000 blinks to dictate his memoir, Diving Bell 
& the Butterfly. The film, by director Julian Schnabel (Before Night Falls, Basquiat), focused on being afflicted with Locked-In Syndrome, was critically well received and is new to DVD this week.
Susan Sarandon (A Dry White Season, Mr. Woodcock) plays real-life of tobacco billionaire Dorris Duke, who tends to fire her staff in Bernard & Doris. Because Dorris needs new help, Bernard (Ralph Fiennes: The Constant Gardener, The English Patient) arrives to serve as a butler, fresh out of rehab and starting over. The opposites may eventually form a bond, if Bernard can convince Dorris not to fire him for the slightest faults...
The story of Japan's 1937 invasion and occupation of China, Nanking features Stephen Dorff (Cold Creek Manor, Blood & Wine) and Woody Harrelson (After the Sunset, Wag the Dog), who read letters and first hand accounts of the people who witnessed the events. As the situation in Nanking became more and more dire, a group of westerners banded together to try and save 250,00 Chinese from the invading Japanese army.
A story of otherworldly romance, The Book of the Dead is a stop-motion animated feature by animator/puppet maker Kihachiro Kawamoto. As Buddhism is being introduced to Japan from 
China, a woman has an entrancing vision and becomes obsessed with a long dead prince.
New TV
Several TV shows are new to the Reckless Video this week, bringing in the third season of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones. We also have the first seasons of sketch comedies The Whitest Kids U Know and the mTV run Human Giant. The first season of the Boston-set law program The Practice, is also new, as well as several new chapters of the mystery series Poirot, and the British Hugh Laurie comedy Fortysomething. We have also just put out the first three seasons of the classic comedy Gilligan's Island.
