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Get Smart...
Steve Carell (Little Miss Sunshine, Dan in Real Life) plays Maxwell Smart in the big screen adaptation of the popular 1960s spy spoof Get Smart. Max gets the promotion he's always wanted when all of the agents in CONTROL have their identities revealed to evil supervillians KAOS. The Chief (Alan Arkin: Thirteen Conversations about One Thing, Catch 22) promotes Max to "Field Agent," and partners him with the beautiful Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway: Becoming Jane, The Devil Wears Prada) while CONTROL's top agent (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson: The Scorpion King, Southland Tales) has to sit behind a desk after his cover is blown. It's up to Max and 99 to sort out KAOS's evil dealings, and maybe even save the world... if they don't get sidetracked by too many comic misadventures.
... and loud ...
Larry Bishop (Underworld, Kill Bill V.2) directs and stars in the biker epic Hell Ride as a rough and tumble biker who, along with his friend The Gent (Michael Madsen: Bloodrayne, Free Willy) lead an unrestrained rampage of violence and hedonism to seek revenge against the Six Six Six's, led by Vinnie Jones (Snatch, Mean Machine).
Vincent Gallo (Palookaville, Buffalo '66) leads a team under the city 
of Moscow in Moscow Zero, searching for a missing anthropologist. In the twisting caves and catacombs beneath Moscow, he finds Val Kilmer (The Salton Sea, Deja Vu), who leads a group of underground Moscovites.
... or quiet
Director Brad Anderson (The Machinist, Session 9) has just released his newest thriller, Transsiberian. A mild mannered American couple, Roy (Woody Harrelson: A Scanner Darkly, No Country for Old Men) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer: Match Point, Redbelt) returning from missionary work in China aboard the Trans-Siberian Railway befriend a younger, but more worldly couple (Kate Mara: We Are Marshall, Tadpole and Eduardo Noriega: The Devil's Backbone). But while Roy is inviting towards their new companions, Jessie is more cautious... and when Roy misses the train after one of the stops, she is left alone with her new companions, and the trip gets more threatening.
Guy Pearce (L.A. Confidential, Memento) stars as Harry Houdini in Death Defying Acts, focusing on his tour of England in the 20s. When he meets a Scottish psychic (Catherine Zeta-Jones: The Mask of Zorro, Chicago), she tells him engaging tales of the supernatural, and invites Houdini to contact his dead mother at a publicized seance.
A young man struggles with two dead end jobs, a house with no electricity, and an Alzheimer's-
suffering mentor in The Good Life. He dreams of leaving small town middle America, but can't seem to find a way out... but he could possibly make his own.
Flashbacks of a Fool stars Daniel Craig (Casino Royale, Layer Cake) as a fading movie star, whose housekeeper (Eve: The Woodsman, xXx) is the only person in his life that can deal with his self-destructive excess. When he gets the news that a childhood friend has died, he flies home and remembers the events that led him to fame, self-indulgence, and his the current crossroads of his life.
Colin Firth (Love Actually, Nanny McPhee) is a successful poet traveling home to see his dying father (Jim Broadbent: Vanity Fair, Hot Fuzz) in When Did You Last See Your Father. As the two reconnect, and the elder man's health fails, they remember their shared past, and both the good and bad memories that led them to their current relationship.
Finally, Y.P.F. is a Canadian ensemble romantic comedy that follows the intertwining of five couples in an independent, and award-winning, sex comedy.
grue
Chill is a new horror film based on H.P. Lovecraft's Cold Air, about a clerk who takes a job working for a doctor with a strange condition: he must keep himself refrigerated, but When women start vanishing from the neighborhood, could it mean that the doctor is a mad scientist keeping himself alive by unorthodox means? Trailer Park of Terror, based on the comics of the same name, follows a group of six teens as their bus crashes in a trailer park that doesn't take too kindly to strangers, and the group finds themselves hunted by a Redneck Reaper. Based on the horror video game, Dead Space: Downfall is a bloody animated feature set in the future, where find miners find an ancient artifact that wreaks havoc on its discoverers.
Because Christmas is just around the corner, we have a couple new seasonal titles in the store. Mike Myers (The Cat in the Hat, The Love Guru), Eddie Murphy (The Haunted Mansion, Norbit), and Cameron Diaz (Vanilla Sky, What Happens in Vegas) all reprise their roles in Shrek the Halls, and the Dickens classic gets a Barbie makeover in Barbie's Christmas Carol.
New to the TV New Releases this week are the third Futurama movie Futurama: Bender's Game, the BBC adventure sci-fi series Primeval, and the supernatural comedy Reaper.
