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Returning as both actor and director, Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby, Absolute Power) brings the story of Walt Kowalski, a grizzled and curmudgeonly Korean War vet, in Gran Torino. Recently widowed and alienated from his family, Walt looks at his crumbling neighborhood with intolerance and a handful of racial epithets. When he intervenes in a conflict that spills onto his lawn, he finds himself a hero to the neighborhood, and grudgingly befriending the Hmong family next door, including the teenager who attempted to steal his beloved 1972 Gran Torino. With Christopher Carley (Lions for Lambs, Garden State). On DVD and Blu-Ray.
Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Witness) stars as an immigration agent in Crossing Over, he finds himself sympathetic to the people his job helps to deport, and the defense attorney (Ashley Judd: Bug, High Crimes) who fights for their rights. While conflicted over tracking illegal immigrants, he also finds trouble within his own system, such as the officers (Ray Liotta: Battle in Seattle, Cop Land) who provide green cards for favors.
Clive Owen (Children of Men, Derailed) stars as an Interpol agent fighting against the corrupt and seemingly omnipotent International Bank of Business and Credit in The International, the newest film by director Tom Tykwer (The Princess and the Warrior, Perfume: The Story of a Murder). Investigating along with Naomi Watts (Funny Games, King Kong), they dig to the core of a bank with control over governments and police, and the ability to cover up the removal of anyone who can incriminate them. With Armin Mueller-Stahl (Eastern Promises, The Game). On DVD and Blu Ray.
A group of mercenaries led by Cuba Gooding Jr (American Gangster, Norbit) find a mysterious subterranean horror in the middle east in The Devil's Tomb. Gooding's team (including Ray Winstone: Compulsion, The Departed and Taryn Manning: Hustle & Flow, Weirdsville) descend into an archeological site to rescue a scientist (Ron Pearlman: Hellboy, Outlander), but find themselves dealing with a danger they can't comprehend.
Quirk, Com, and Indie
Torrey DeVitto (I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, One Tree Hill) stars in Shooting Star as a spoiled Hollywood actress who flees rehab and ends up in a small town, where she meets a Yale theater student who's returned to his small town to fix up his family's run-down theater. Unrecognized and anonymous in her new surroundings, she might be able to let go of her ego and tantrums to star in the local Shakespeare production.
When a hate crime occurs on campus, the dean (Sarah Jessica Parker: Sex & the City, The Family Stone) and a department head Miranda Richardson (The Phantom of the Opera, The Crying Game) 
try to stop the backlash and racial hatred that could be spilling into their world in Spinning into Butter. With Mykelti Williamson (Lucky Number Slevin, After the Sunset).
When the stars of a high school football team (Nicholas D'Agosto: Extreme Movie, Rocket Science and Eric Christian: Eagle Eye, License to Wed) decide to ditch their summer football camp, they decided to spend the summer surrounded by beautiful girls by going to cheer camp in Fired Up! When one of the cheerleaders (Sarah Roemer: Disturbia, Asylum) suspects they're not really interested in cheers, the boys have to try and prove their worth. In both theatrical PG-13 and Unrated versions.
A fairytale narrated by Kate Winslet (The Reader, Revolutionary Road), The Fox & the Child tells the story of a young girl and her friendship with the fox she sees one day out her window. The two spend their time as the fox and the child find each other, and their friendship causes new hardships as the wild fox learns the boundaries of the human world.
Reckless Video's TV New Releases for the week include the 7th and final season of the gritty police drama The Shield and the 1st season of The Cleaner, with Benjamin Bratt (Thumbsucker, Catwoman). We also have Sheep on the Loose, a new disc of Shaun the Sheep, as well as Spongebob's The Big One.
