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Bad, Bad Billy Bob
After a few weeks of gunplay and mayhem, we have a stack of comedies in the New Release section. Billy Bob Thornton (Bad Santa, The Man Who Wasn't There) is the P.E. teacher nightmares are made of in Mr. Woodcock. Seann William Scott (American Pie, Bulletproof Monk) returns home to find his mother (Susan Sarandon: Elizabethtown, Thelma & Louise) dating the evil gym coach that tormented him as a seventh grader.
Dane Cook (Waiting, Mr. Brooks) is Chuck, a human good luck charm in Good Luck Chuck, as any woman he takes home invariably finds her true love immediately afterward. His luck seems to run out when he meets Jessica Alba (Fantastic Four, Sin City), the girl of his dreams, but making any advances toward her will guarantee that she will find her true love and leave Chuck behind. Jason Biggs (American Pie, Guy X) gets engaged to Isla Fisher (The Lookout, London), a total stranger, in Wedding Daze, as they are forced through the misadventures of friends and family as their wedding day approaches. The Ten is a series of ten comic shorts, each based on one of the Ten Commandments, with Framke Janssen (X-Men, Goldeneye) and Winona Ryder (Heathers, The Darwin Awards).
A city girl is given custody of five Amish children in the PG-rated Saving Sarah Cain, where she learns to care for her nieces and nephews. Sarah Michelle Gellar (The Grudge, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) stars in the romantic comedy Suburban Girl, where she moves to New York and has to find a balance between her career and romance.
Seven couples are investigated in Scenes of a Sexual Nature, a comedy/drama about love and sex, featuring Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, Down with Love). Innocence is a dark fable about a girls' boarding school, as a six year old watches girls from the school disappear one by one. The Serbian Awakening from the Dead follows a professor at the end of his life, as he tries to liberate the people closest to him.
Christian Slater (Bobby, Who Is Cletis Tout?) has a pair of new movies this week, playing a reluctant hero in He Was a Quiet Man, who accidentally stops an office shooting rampage and forms a relationship with Elisha Cuthbert (Old School, The Girl Next Door), a wheelchair bound shooting victim. Slater is a corrupt DEA agent looming over Brian Geraghty (We Are Marshall, The Guardian), who finds a duffel bag full of drug money and finds himself in over his head.
Reckless Video has also acquired the new 2-disc director's cut of David Fincher's (Seven, Fight Club) Zodiac.
By the producers of March of the Penguins, Arctic Tale follows the adventures of both a polar bear cub and a walrus pup as they progress through the Arctic. National Geographic explores the human body in the documentary Incredible Human Machine.
The Star Wars themed Family Guy: Blue Harvest is new this week, taking the animated Griffin clan and placing them in a space-opera universe. Reckless Video also has the first season of Metalocalypse creator Brendon Small's Home Movies, as well as the first season of Julia Louis-Dreyfus' (Seinfeld) new show, The New Adventures of Old Christine.
