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Then & Now
George Clooney (Michael Clayton, O Brother Where Art Thou?)directs and stars in Leatherheads, a comedy and romance set against football in the 1920s. Styled after the Cary Grant "screwball comedies" of the 1940s, Clooney plays the captain of a struggling football team who hires a new star player and war hero (John Krasinski: The Holiday, Kinski). When a feisty reporter (Renee Zellweger: Miss Potter, Nurse Betty) sees a story in debunking the new golden boy's claims of heroics, she ends up involved with both men, and then the comedy dice start to roll...
A return to the past in a different sense, the new movie Sex and the City reunites Sarah Jessica Parker (State and Main, Failure to Launch), Kim Cattrall (Big Trouble in Little China, Ice Princess), Kristin Davis (Deck the Halls, The Shaggy Dog), and Cynthia Nixon (Little Manhattan, Igby Goes Down), as Carrie prepares to marry Mr. Big, the ladies all moving forward with their lives, four years after the end of the series, and proceed through newer and wilder situations, with a Hollywood budget that allows the girls to go places the series couldn't cover.
A man is looking for some redemption and respect after leaving his pregnant fiance at the altar in the comedy Run, Fat Boy, Run. Though he'd always regretted running away, Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz, Spaced) is forced into action when his ex (Thandie Newton: Gridlock'd, Crash) finds the successful, wealthy, and athletic mr. right (Hank Azaria: Mystery Alaska, Cradle Will Rock), and feels he has to prove his worth... and after announcing that he'll run a marathon, his compulsive gambler best friend (Dylan Moran: Shaun of the Dead, Black Books) becomes very interested in the outcome of the race.
Dark Corners
A few new thrillers are also new this week: Ewan McGregor (The Island, Moulin Rouge!) plays a bookish, lonely accountant who gets introduced to a hedonistic world by a savage and slick stranger (Hugh Jackman: X-Men, The Prestige) in Deception. But when he breaks the rules this new system by falling in love with a mystery woman (Michelle Williams: Brokeback Mountain, But I'm a Cheerleader), all of the rules suddenly change, and he finds himself forced into situations he never anticipated.
Sean Bean (Patriot Games, Flightplan) stumbles into the lives of two arctic women (Michelle Yeoh: Sunshine, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Michelle Krusiec: Pumpkin, Daddy Day Care) in Far North. The women, in exile because of a violent past, have their reclusive lives upset by the stranger, which quickly leads to romance, betrayal, and a thirst for revenge.
A group of pathologists use their profession to play a game of Who Can Commit The Perfect Murder in Pathology. When a gifted doctor (Milo Ventimiglia: Heroes, Rocky Balboa) joins a leading pathology program, the current star pupil (Michael Weston: Garden State, Coyote Ugly) invites him to join the murderous game.
The new film by The Pang Brothers (The Eye, Bangkok Dangerous) is Re-Cycle. The famous writer of a trilogy of romance novels announces that her next novel will be a supernatural thriller called "Re-Cycle," but the more she writes, the more of her new strange fiction begins to bleed into her real life.
Our new documentary this week is Kicking It, a Sundance Official Selection about The Homeless World Cup, a globe-spanning soccer tournament that inspires hope in the world's homeless population.
The Jim Henson company produced this week's family film, the Unstable Fables Tortoise vs. Hare, a 3D animated film that puts an modern style to an old fairy tale.
New to Reckless Video's TV New Release section this week are the first seasons of the female executive comedy/drama Cashmere Mafia, the imported-from-radio This American Life, and BBC's complex character series The Street. We also have season 4 of both the lawyer comedy Boston Legal and the procedural CSI: NY, as well as a season 2 of Brothers and Sisters. Finally, we have the complete miniseries The Corner, by the creator of HBO's The Wire.
