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Re-Living the Past

Source Code is director Duncan Jones' follow-up to Moon, where Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) is being projected into a time loop-- through strange technology, he's inserted into someone else's body, repeatedly experiencing the last 8 minutes before a terrorist bomb goes off on a train. His handlers (Vera Farmiga and Jeffrey Wright) have sent him onto the train in an eight-minute-loop before the bomb goes off to find the identity of the bomber, but every time his mission starts, he finds himself face-to-face with Christina (Michelle Monaghan). As Colter develops a relationship with Christina, he begins to question the rules of his time loop, the inevitability of the bombing, and his future beyond the next eight minutes. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Shattered Lives

14-year-old Annie Cameron meets and becomes infatuated with Charlie, a boy she meets over the internet, in Trust. After months of online activity, their first meeting reveals her online boyfriend is nothing like he described himself. Annie's father (Clive Owen) becomes obsessed with revenge and her mother (Catherine Keener) tries to give her comfort, while Annie is convinced Charlie still loves her, only staying away because the case is being investigated by the FBI. With Jason Clarke and Viola Davis. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Wartime

Returning to the lives of the characters (but not the cast) of Happiness, Life During Wartime applies director Todd Solondz's dry humor to the tragedies of Trish (Allison Janney), Joy (Shirley Henderson), and Helen (Ally Sheedy). Though Helen has cut ties with the family and retreated to California, the ensemble story sees Trish's husband (Ciaran Hinds) out of prison after serving his sentence, while Trish has begun dating Michael Lerner. Joy has married Allen (Michael Kenneth Williams), who is still driven to making obscene phone calls, but she's haunted by the suicide of Andy (Paul Reubens) from Happiness' prologue. Though the characters have been slightly distorted and reinvented, their lives progress as the characters from the first movie must...

Set in Nazi-occupied Holland in 1945, the Dutch Winter in Wartime follows 13-year-old Michiel as he discovers Jack (Jamie Campbell Bower), a downed British pilot. Aiding Jack ushers Michiel into the resistance with his favorite uncle (Yorick van Wagening), which Michiel sees as an adventure. As the seriousness of the situation dawns on him, Michiel begins to understand the war around him and the danger of not knowing which adults he can trust. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Siege

After signing the Magna Carta and reducing the power of the throne, King John (Paul Giamatti) refuses to honor the document and begins executing the Barons who signed it in Ironclad. One baron (Brian Cox) recruits a Templar Knight (James Purefoy) and a band of misfits to hold Rochester Castle-- the legendary siege plays out in bloody, extended battles as the warriors holding the castle fight for their freedom and the king fights to reclaim the power of his throne. With Kate Mara and Jason Flemyng. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Imports

Kohei's clone agreement becomes active when he dies in an accident in the Japanese The Clone Returns Home, and his clone-self sets off to pick up his life where it left off. The terms of the cloning resurrect him exactly as he was at the time of the agreement, with all of Kohei's memories and feelings, including his guilt and grief over the death of his twin when they were both children, but coupled with the burden of being a duplicate of himself.

Helena, obsessed with medical illustrations and finding imperfections in her own body, strikes up a relationship with Benoit, a radiologist who notices her interest in X-rays, in the French The Sentiment of the Flesh. As their relationship continues to push new boundaries, they start a journey of exploration that includes medical instruments and a new definition of "knowing" one another.

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The Undead

Once, Dylan Dog (Brandon Routh) was the barrier between the normal world and the zombies, werewolves, and vampires that walk the streets of New Orleans... but he's resigned himself to photographing infidelity as a two bit detective in Dylan Dog: Dead of Night. When a murder case falls into his lap, he doesn't want to get involved with Elizabeth (Anita Briem) whose father was murdered by a werewolf, but the case won't let go of him. Soon, he and his sidekick (Sam Huntington) are calling on connections from Dylan's supernatural past, vampire entrepreneurs (Taye Diggs) and the heads of werewolf clans (Peter Stormare), but what seemed like a murder case could be something more complicated and dangerous. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Michael travels to Berlin to return his ex-girlfriend Gabi's keys, but he arrives at the beginning of a citywide crisis in Rammbock Berlin Undead. As an infection spreads on the streets below, Michael is trapped in his ex's apartment complex with limited food and water. Banding with the few survivors in the building, he tries to find his way out of a zombie apocalypse and hopefully reunite with Gabi.

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New this week in Reckless Video's TV New Releases are Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe, a prequel story before the first season of Burn Notice, where Sam (Bruce Campbell) gets involved in a mission in South America that eventually leads him to his fate in Miami, and Supernatural: The Animated Series, the animated continuation of the Supernatural series.