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Bring us the comedy
Tina Fey (Mean Girls, 30 Rock) plays a successful businesswoman who has put her career ahead of her personal life in Baby Mama. Because she can't have a baby on her own, she hiress Amy Poehler (Blades of Glory, Wet Hot American Summer) to carry her fertilzed egg... but the two women come from different worlds, and they have completely different ideas about how to see their arrangement through.
The Promotion stars Seann William Scott (Southland Tales, Bulletproof Monk) as an assistant manager who seems perfect for an open manager position, until John C. Reilly (Walk Hard, Gangs of New York) gets transferred in and starts competing for the job. Each of them starts to take wilder and crazier steps to get the promotion and cut the other man down to size.
Not technically a comedy, the documentary Heckler looks into not only the hecklers at comedy clubs and sporting events, but questions film critics and the internet as well. Started as an attempt by Jamie Kennedy (Malibu's Most Wanted, Kickin It Old School) to come to terms with his critics, the film features a wide range of comedians, including Lewis Black, David Cross, and Bill Hicks.
Schemes, Epics, and Action
Michael Angarano (Sky High, Lords of Dogtown) plays a boy obsessed with kung fu movies who finds himself in The Forbidden Kingdom, on an epic quest. Helped along by a drunken wanderer (Jackie Chan: Drunken Master, Rush Hour) and a stoic monk (Jet Li: Unleashed, Once Upon a Time in China) who never seem to get along, he has to learn enough kung fu to fight an epic battle, choreographed by Yuen Woo-Ping (Twin Warriors, The Matrix).
Another visual epic this week is The Fall, by Tarsem Singh (The Cell). An injured man spins a fantastic yarn to a young girl hospitalized by a fall in the 1920's... the story casts a Governer Odious and his five heroes in a mythical land of magic. Fantasy begins to creep into the little girl's world, but the real world still has consequences for both the storyteller and the girl.
The new caper film this week is How to Rob a Bank, where bank robber Gavin Rossdale (Constantine, Little Black Book) finds his heist plan complicated when a slacker (Nick Stahl: Terminator 3, In the Bedroom) and a hacker (Erika Christensen: The Perfect Score, Traffic) get locked inside the vault he is trying to rob. With a bank full of hostages and a frustrated gunman, the situation turns into a thinker's game of who gets out of the bank, gets the money, and gets away.
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! is the action/horrow/comedy of the week, pitting a group of drug-induced zombies against a small group of strippers, armed with guns and chainsaws and intent on keeping the undead from swarming into their strip club.
Skewing Younger
Hot on the heels of High School Musical, American Mall, and Camp Rock, Taking 5 has two misfit girls kidnapping their favorite pop band to get them to play a free concert at Homecoming... which leads to a series of revelations and comic misadventures.
Reckless also has the newest Barbie animated movie: Barbie and the Diamond Castle
Halloween's Coming
Because Halloween always has familys asking for the ghost stories and creature features that are good for all ages, Reckless Video has brought in the PG rated Sarah Langdon and the Paranormal Hour, where a teen detective has to unravel the town mystery of psychics and ghosts. We also have the Nickelodeon show Edgar & Ellen, about two twins who live in a creepy mansion with tinges of Addam's Family and Tim Burton; we have the first season and the Trick or Twins Halloween special.
New this week in Reckless Video's TV New Release section are the 7th season of the superhero series Smallville and the 6th season of the police drama CSI: Miami. We also have the 4th season of the supernatural procedural Medium and the 2nd seasons of both The Unit and Ugly Betty. Finally, Reckless has picked up the first season of Spider-Man: The New Animated Series as well as the full length animated feature The Spectacular Spider-Man: Attack of the Lizard.
