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Hollywood, Compromises, Egos, and Greed
There's a line in Barry Levinson's (Wag the Dog, Man of the Year) new film What Just Happened: "Hunter S. Thompson once said to me, 'The movie business is a cruel and shallow money trench, where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs.' And then he added, 'There's also a negative side.'" As said by Bruce Willis (The Fifth Element, Live Free or Die Hard), playing himself, it's an attack on Ben (Robert De Niro: Righteous Kill, Midnight Run), the producer of his new movie... and that's only one of Ben's problems. Besides a stubborn, tantrum-prone, bearded, overweight Bruce Willis on one film, he has another movie about to go to Cannes where the director (Michael Wincott: Narc, The Count of Monte Cristo) insists on an audience-alienating ending. The comedy about Hollywood spirals out of control as Ben tries to keep his movies on line, while one of his associates (Stanley Tucci: The Hoax, Road to Perdition) is sneaking around with Ben's ex-wife, his daughter (Kristen Stewart: Jumper, The Messengers) is living a secret life, and Bruce Willis' agent (John Tuturro: The Man Who Cried, Miracle at St. Anna) refuses to confront his star client. Can Ben get his movies finished, survive Cannes, keep his life together, and remain one of Vanity Fair's Most Powerful Producers In Hollywood? On DVD and Blu-Ray.
Road Trip
Sex Drive is a new teen sex comedy blending the Apatow-style of Superbad with the 80s road trip, as the unlucky-with-ladies Ian (Josh Zuckerman: Feast, Lions for Lambs) gets an offer from the girl he chats with online... but he needs to take his brother's (James Marsden: Superman Returns, Enchanted) car and drive to Knoxville to seal the deal. Teaming up with his smooth talking best friend (Clark Duke: Superbad) and the girl he can't admit he likes (Amanda Crew: John Tucker Must Die, She's the Man), they head out to to meet "Ms. Tasty," but nothing goes smoothly on comedy road trips: the journey to Knoxville leads the trio through psychotic trailer parks, an Amish-hosted Fall Out Boy concert, and even jail. With Seth Green (Without a Paddle, The Italian Job) and Alice Greczyn (The Dukes of Hazzard, Sleepover).
Hayley Bennett (College, Music & 
Lyrics) plays Molly in The Haunting of Molly Hartley, recovering from the trauma of being attacked by her mother... but as she approaches her 18th birthday, and she begins to exhibit the same psychotic symptoms her mother did, she has to solve the mystery of her family, and her nightmares. The third installment in the series, The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice features the return of Noah Wyle (W., Donnie Darko) as he quests for the "evil" version of the Holy Grail, a treasured relic of vampires.
New this week to Reckless Video's TV New Releases are the fourth direct-to-DVD Futurama movie Into the Wild Green Yonder, and the first season of the provocative AMC series Breaking Bad, where a chemistry teacher (Brian Cranston: Malcolm in the Middle, Little Miss Sunshine) has one of the world's epic mid-life crises, and "breaks bad" in the drug trade with an ex-student (Aaron Paul: K-Pax, Mission Impossible III)
