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A Night to Remember
When Cameron Diaz (In Her Shoes, Being John Malkovich) and Ashton Kutcher (The Guardian, My Boss's Daughter) wake up married after a wild night in What Happens in Vegas. Getting the marriage annulled turns out to be trickier than they thought after winning three million dollars and finding out that their judge won't dissolve the marriage until they've spent six months together... but with three million dollars on the line, they each take wild Romantic Comedy measures to end up with the money in the end.
Director Uwe Boll (Alone in the Dark, In the Name of the King) tries his hand at comedy in Postal, a "shock comedy" with Zack Ward (Transformers, Freddy vs. Jason) and Dave Foley 
(Kids in the Hall, Sky High), that follows a heist-gone-wrong that leads to bikini girls with guns, mini-Nazi's, and Osama Bin Laden.
Kids
A brash young boy shooting his own movie finds his star in a sheltered and shy classmate who finds an inspiration in action movies in Son of Rambow. As the boys start work on their own action movie, filming stunts and action sequences, their film becomes the talk of the school, and even starts to get bigger than the boys themselves.
The newest installment in Disney's Little Mermaid franchise is Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning, before the story of the first movie, when music was banned from the underwater kingdom, and Ariel must decide between her kingdom and her love of music... or bring music and the kingdom together.
The time-travel adventure Crusade is the story of a boy who borrows his scientist mother's (Emily Watson: Gosford Park, Equilibrium) time machine to go back and replay the day's disastrous soccer game... but instead of going back 12 hours, he ends up in the year 1212 during the "children's crusade."
Fish Tales is a mermaid story about a professor (Billy Zane: Silver City, Titanic) who travels to 
Greece to finish his mythology research. When his daughter meets a beautiful mermaid (Kelly Brook: Absolon, The Italian Job) who can walk on land at night, the two meet and follow the course set by films like The Little Mermaid and Splash.
Staying Afloat
Redbelt is a story of honor by writer/director David Mamet (Glengary Glen Ross, Heist) where martial arts instructor (Chiwetel Ejiofor: Serenity, American Gangster) insists on sticking by his principles, even at the expense of his livelyhood. Redbelt also stars Alice Braga (City of God, I Am Legend) and Tim Allen (Who Is Cletus Tout?, Wild Hogs).
Josh Hartnett (Lucky Number Slevin, Wicker Park) stars as a dot-com entrepreneur struggling to keep his company afloat in August. His company is one of the few dot.coms overcoming the 
stock market crash of 2001, but with the economy in freefall, there are still hard choices to be made if he is to survive. Also starring Naomie Harris (Miami Vice, After the Sunset), Adam Scott (Art School Confidential, Torque), and Emmanuelle Chriqui (Detroit Rock City, Waiting).
Non-Fiction
Chicago 10 is part documentary and part dramatization, recounting the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the clash between the Chicago police and the anti-Viet Nam demonstrators and Yippies. Mixing archival footage of Abbie Hoffman, Dave Dellinger, and Bobby Seale and animated recreations from the "Chicago Seven" trials, it also features the voice talent of Nick Nolte (The Peaceful Warrior, The Good Thief), Mark Ruffalo (Zodiac, 13 Going on 30), and Hank Azaria (The Simpsons, Along Came Polly).
A documentary about application of democracy in China, Please Vote for Me is the story of the elections for class monitor in a 3rd grade class. Being the school's first open elections, the campaigning turns to character assassination, smear campaigns, and spin among the competing eight-year-olds.
AKA Tommy Chong covers the arrest and incarceration of Tommy Chong for the selling of drug-related paraphernalia during 2003's "Operation Pipe Dreams." The documentary also includes comedians Bill Maher and Jay Leno.
Smaller Budgets
Outside Sales is an independent comedy about a salesman who loses his confidence when he finds his wife with one of his coworkers. 
He finds his motivation to succeed when he is asked to train his replacement: a beautiful woman who seems like she will end up with everything he ever wanted, but he may not despise his competitor as much as he wants to.
Never Say MacBeth is a theater satire about the one word that should never be said... but a science teacher doesn't know that when he stumbles into an audition, and ends up laying the curse of the Scottish Play on everyone in the house. As everything unravels, the attempts to negate the curse spiral into a series of misadventures.
Making a documentary about the London goth scene, a woman makes a connection with someone she never expected to meet: a woman who happens to be a real 
vampire. Vampire Diary follows the two women as the body count rises.
Hayden Christensen (Jumper, Star Wars: Attack of the Clones) stars as a 14th century scoundrel who takes pride in seducing maidens, but when he finds himself in competition with other formidable suitors, a few sly games have to come into play in Virgin Territory, which also stars Christopher Egan (Alpha Male, Eragon) and Tim Roth (Funny Games, Youth without Youth).
My Sassy Girl is a comedy pairing Jesse Bradford (Happy Endings, Swimfan) with Elisha Cuthbert (He Was a Quiet Man, Old School). His life changes dramatically when she swoops in changes everything about his perfectly planned life, and leaves.
New this week in Reckless Video's TV New Releases are the second season of the superhero series Heroes, and the fourth seasons of both the FX police drama The Shield and HBO's Hollywood celebrity sitcom Entourage. We also have the 80's BBC sketch comedy Alfresco, features Hugh Laurie (House M.D, Street Kings), Robbie Coltrane (Cracker, Harry Potter), Stephen Fry (Gosford Park, V for Vendetta), and Emma Thompson (Remains of the Day, Nanny McPhee).
