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Best Actress
Kate Winslet (Finding Neverland, Heavenly Creatures) took home an Oscar this year for her performance in The Reader. Beginning in Germany in 1958, Winslet stars as Hanna Schmitz, who has an affair with Michael Berg, a boy half her age... but in the late 60's, the adult Michael (Ralph Fiennes: The Duchess, Strange Days), now a lawyer, begins to uncover unsettling information about her past in Nazi Germany, but the ties of their time complicate the investigation. With Bruno Ganz (Downfall, Youth Without Youth).
New This Week
Directed by comic book legend Frank Miller (Sin City, 300), The Spirit stars Gabriel Macht (Because I Said So, Behind Enemy Lines) as the titular hero, a nearly indestructible masked vigilante who works with the police in Central City. When a heist goes wrong, and femme fatale Sand Serif 
(Eva Mendes: Training Day, We Own the Night) ends up with a package meant for the villainous Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson: Lakeview Terrace, Coach Carter) and his henchwoman Silken Floss (Scarlett Johansson: The Other Boleyn Girl, Match Point), The Spirit finds himself in the middle of a larger-than-life fight that challenges his past, and his origins.
Lost In Austen stars Jemina Rooper (The Black Dahlia, Kinky Boots) as a Jane Austen fan who falls into the fictional world of Pride & Prejudice, switching places with Elizabeth Bennet (Gemma Arterton: Quantum of Solace, RocknRolla)... who, in turn, takes her place in the real world. As a fan of the book, she tries to make sure the story progresses as it should, but when Mr. Darcy (Elliot Cowan: Love and Other Disasters, Alexander) starts drifting from the story, she has her work cut out for her.
Liu Ye (Curse of the Golden Flower, Purple Butterfly) stars as an ambitious physics student from a humble Chinese family who pursues an unpopular theory in Valley State University in Dark Matter. Taken in by Meryl Streep (Doubt, Adaptation) and brought in to work under a famous cosmologist (Aidan Quinn: Legends of the Fall, Benny & Joon), he struggles for acceptance against the prejudices and intolerances of his new home.
An elaborate came of cat and mouse, The Caller focuses on a successful businessman (Frank Langella: Superman Returns, Good Night and Good Luck) with a contract on his life and the private detective (Elliot Gould: The Deal, Ocean's Eleven) he hires. As the two men form a strange alliance,
the details of the case pass between them, and they inch closer to strange lies and unexpected truths.
When a vacationing couple (Paulo Costanzo: Everything's Gone Green, Road Trip and Jill Wagner: Blade: The Series, Junebug) pick up a hitchhiking fugitive (Shea Whigham: Pride & Glory, Wristcutters: A Love Story) in Splinter, their situation looks bleak... but when they find themselves stranded in a remote gas station, with a strangely mutilated body in the bathroom, the hostage situation takes a back seat to survival.
Ready? OK! is the story of 10-year-old Lurie Preston (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Step Brothers). His mother (Carrie Preston: Vicky Christina Barcelona, The Legend of Bagger Vance) is concerned that the boy is more interested in dolls and braiding hair than more manly pursuits, and when she tries to sign him up for wrestling, he joins the cheerleading squad instead, but they find support with their neighbor (Michael Emerson: Lost, Saw) who encourages the boy's decision to be himself.
The Japanese film Shinobi is a forbidden love story, where Yukie Nakama (Ring 0) and Jo Odagiri (Azumi) are on opposite sides of a ninja clan war. Set in the early 1600s, the warring clans choose to of their finest warriors to duel to the death, though the two warriors chosen have been secretly married.
New this week to Reckless Video's TV New Releases are the complete animated series' The Spectacular Spider-Man and Superman: The Animated Series, as well as the first 10 seasons of the popular medical drama E.R.
