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Way Over the Top
Renny Harlin's (Cleaner, Mindhunters) 12 Rounds is the first of a pair of wild action movies are out this week, starring John Cena (The Marine, WWE) as a cop who gets in the way of a ruthless terrorist (Aiden Gillen: Shanghai Knights, Buddy Boy). The terrorist's revenge: he kidnaps the 
cop's wife (Ashley Scott: Strange Wilderness, Just Friends) and makes him play a game, Die Hard with a Vengence-style. If Cena is still standing after 12 challenges, his wife can go free... if a bloodthirsty terrorist can be trusted to play by his own rules.
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li stars Kristin Kreuk (Smallville, Earthsea) as the classic videogame character, hunting for the evil crimelord known as Bison (Neil McDonough: Traitor, I Know Who Killed Me). With a reformed former member of Bison's mafia as her mentor (Robin Shou: 18 Fingers of Death, Mortal Kombat), and two cops also on the supervillian's trail (Chris Klein: Hank and Mike, American Dreamz and Moon Bloodgood: Pathfinder, What Just Happened), she has to fight her way through Bison's minions, including Vega and Balrog (Michael Clarke Duncan: Talladega Nights, The Green Mile).
The satirical OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies is a French film, setting a comedic version of the James Bond superspy world in Cairo. Designed like a 1960s spy adventure, Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath (codename: OSS 117) must navigate Russian agents, English agents, Egyptians, and even Nazis as he tries to solve the mystery of disappearing OSS agents.
More Serious
Joaquin Phoenix (Reservation Road, Walk the Line) stars in Two Lovers as a possibly suicidal man who's set up with a friend of his family (Vanessa Shaw: 3:10 to Yuma, The Hills Have Eyes) at the same time he meets his alluring neighbor (Gwyneth Paltrow: Running with Scissors, Iron Man). 
All their lives are incredibly complicated, as they struggle to each find their own paths toward happiness.
The directorial debut of Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst, The Education of Charlie Banks stars Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale, The Village) as a privileged prep school student who runs into a bully (Jason Ritter: W., Freddy vs. Jason) from his high school past. The bully quickly charms Charlie's friends and the girl in his life (Eva Amurri: Saved!, The Life Before Her Eyes), but the secrets between the two boys could upset their comfortable, privileged world.
Rated G
An awkward tomboy (Selena Gomez: Another Cinderella Story, Horton Hears a Who) and an undercover princess (Demi Lovato: Camp Rock) teach each other what's missing from their lives in Disney's Princess Protection Program, as Gomez learns to be glamorous and Lovato learns how to be a normal girl, and the two become best friends.
Also from Disney, the Jonas Brothers (Camp Rock) have just released their first DVD: The Jonas Brothers Concert Experience, with the live concert and footage of the stars behind the scenes.
The newest Garfield cartoon is Garfield Pet Force, where a group of pets become superheroes fighting aliens and zombies... except Garfield, who is usually too lazy to save the world.
Scarier
One of Japan's most successful horror directors, Kideo Nakata (Ringu, Dark Water) has just released Kaidan, an atmospheric thriller with roots in the classic, romantic Japanese ghost stories of the 1960s.
A sarcastic teenage outcast unearths a vampire queen in The Kiss, which puts him in the middle of an ancient war. Bringing the vampire back from a shallow grave, he stays by the alluring woman's side as she slowly regains her strength... but can a predator and monster truly love a human?
Reckless Video's TV New Releases this week include the 5th season of the Hollywood fame comedy Entourage and the 3rd season of the quirky sci-fi Eureka, as well as the 2nd season of the BBC sitcom The IT Crowd and the 5th season of Stargate Atlantis. We also have HBO show Eastbound & Down with Danny McBride (Tropic Thunder, The Foot Fist Way), the complete series of the animated Powerpuff Girls, and our first DVD of Rifftrax (by the people behind Mystery Science Theater 3000) Missile to the Moon.
