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Mammoths and Faeries
Action director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Patriot) brought out a prehistoric epic this spring, and 10,000 B.C. is new this week on DVD and Blu-Ray at Reckless Video. When a prehistoric warrior's 
(Steven Strait: Sky High, The Covenant) tribe are being hunted by strange warriors, and when they abduct the beautiful Camilla Belle (The Chumscrubber, When a Stranger Calls), he and his friend (Cliff Curtis: Live Free or Die Hard, Sunshine) have to voyage across the prehistoric world to save her. An adventure of mammoths, saber-tooth tigers, and winged horrors through jungles and deserts, the adventurers have to face adversaries they'd never imagined to win the day.
Based on a popular series of novels, The Spiderwick Chronicles is the new family adventure from Nickelodeon Movies. Freddie Highmore (August Rush, Finding Neverland) stars as twins who discover a magical world in his family's new home: the Spiderwick Estate. Along with their sister (Sarah Bolger: Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker, In America), they have to try and save the enchanted land from the mysterious dangers that threaten the faeries, sylphs, and gryphons that inhabit this new world.
Down to Earth
Ryan Reynolds (Blade: Trinity, The In-Laws) stars as a man in the middle of a divorce in Definitely, Maybe, as he tells a story to his young daughter (Abigail Breslin: Little Miss Sunshine, No Reservations). The story-- how he met her mother. In recounting his time in the early nineties, he remembers the women in his life, Elizabeth Banks (The 40 Year Old Virgin, 
Seabiscuit), Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener, The Mummy), and Isla Fisher (The Lookout, Wedding Crashers), and in recalling the past with his daughter, he may find the secret to his future happiness with the right woman.
Jessica Lange (Broken Flowers, Titus) leads two friends (Jessica Lange: Broken Flowers, Titus and Kathy Bates: Failure to Launch, About Schmidt) on a trip to deliver her deceased husband's ashes to her daughter. A warm comedy and road movie, Bonneville allows the women to "come of age" a second time, allowing the women to meet a variety of colorful characters along the way.
Next-Gen Comedy
Modern updates of equal parts Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Pump Up the Volume, Charlie Bartlett stars Anton Yelchin (Alpha Dog, House of D) as a privileged seventeen-year-old who's been expelled from every prep-school he's ever attended. Now in public school, Charlie's found a way to win the love of his classmates: he'll become a self-made psychologist , complete with 
prescription drugs. Charlie's on the wrong side of the school principal (Robert Downey Jr: Zodiac, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), and the right side of the principal's daughter (Kat Dennings: Down in the Valley, London), but how long can a kind ear and unlimited drugs keep him popular?
Careless is a twisted romantic comedy about Wiley (Colin Hanks: Untraceable, Orange County), a book store clerk who finds a severed finger in his kitchen. His father (Tony Shalloub: Barton Fink, Men in Black) inspires him to investigate the finger, and a chance meeting with a beautiful nine-fingered girl (Rachel Blanchard: Snakes on a Plane, Without a Paddle) shakes Wiley out of his slacker rut, and, even if he doesn't solve his mystery, there's still a new woman in his life.
Primus' Les Claypool wrote and directed the mockumentary Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo, about a group that decides to become a "jam band" after their guitarist discovers a tortilla with the image of Jerry Garcia on it. The mockumentary follows the band as they try to get a spot in the ultimate jam band festival: Festeroo.
add some guns to the list...
Collin Farrell (Miami Vice, Daredevil) and Brendan Gleeson (The Butcher Boy, Cold Mountain) are a pair of hitmen laying low after a job gone wrong in In Bruges. 
Exiled to the Belgian town by their boss (Ralph Feinnes: The White Countess, Strange Days), the two fail miserably at laying low, and make Bruges their own personal Purgatory. A black comedy gangster film, the antics escalate until Finnes has to track the men down, and gunplay becomes inevitable.
A Canadian mismatched partner comedy, Bon Cop, Bad Cop teams an English speaking Toronto cop (Colm Feore: Night Falls on Manhattan, Paycheck) with a French speaking Montreal cop (Patrick Huard) and puts them on the trail of a serial killer. When a body is left draped over the Quebec/Ontario border sign, the two are forced to team up in a film that mixes procedural, comedy, and suspense.
Imports
Nominated for a Best Animated Feature Oscar, Persepolis is a stylishly animated film following Marjane from her life as a young girl in Iran, and moving to different parts of the world over the 
course of her young life. An autobiographical tale, it follows the Islamic Revolution in Iran, as well as the young woman's first experiences with Communism, punk rock, teen nihilists, independence, and her evolving relationship with her family and country.
Belle Toujours is a high concept film built around the characters of Belle de jour, by Luis Bunuel. It takes the two characters and puts them into a strange new scenario, nearly forty years later.
...and more
Honeydripper is the newest film by John Sayles (Eight Men Out, Sunshine State), starring Danny Glover (Dreamgirls, Be Kind Rewind) as the owner of the Honeydripper Lounge, a 1950 establishment on the verge of shutting down. If he can bring in the famous Guitar Sam to have one big, moneymaking weekend, he might just be able to keep his juke joint rocking.
A portrait of the notorious serial killer through the eyes of the people who raised him, Raising Jeffery Dahmer focuses on the family of the killer, who do their best to recount what went wrong 
with his childhood and upbringing that led him to such a notorious end.
This week's horror film is The Tattooist, starring Jason Behr (Skinwalkers, The Grudge) who unleashes a powerful spirit when he attempts to learn the Samoan art of Tatau.
New TV shows to Reckless Video this week include the second direct-to-video full length Futurama movie, Beast with a Billion Backs, as well as the first season of Burn Notice
