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Body Snatchers, v4.0
Nicole Kidman (Fur, To Die For) plays a psychiatrist who stumbles on to a Body Snatcher epidemic in The Invasion, and must team up with Daniel Craig (Casino Royale, Enduring Love) to find a way to keep her humanity as her community is slowly overtaken. Daniel Craig is also in Kiss and Tell, another of this week's thrillers, as a police officer involved in uncovering whether a husband had murdered his own wife. Right at Your Door follows Rory Cochrane (A Scanner Darkly, Dazed and Confused) and Mary McCormack (1408, K-PAX) as they are separated by terrorist attacks and the establishing of martial law.
True Stories
Steve Wiebe, a schoolteacher from Kirkland, makes an attempt to wrest the Donkey Kong high score from national record holder and hot-sauce tycoon Billy Mitchell in the documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, which delves into the strange world of competitive video gaming. No End in Sight chronicles the reasons for Iraq's descent into chaos after the fall of Baghdad in 2003, and the failures of United States policies of the middle east. Artist Edward Burtynsky is the subject of Manufactured Landscapes, a documentary that follows him as he photographs the effects of China's industrial revolution. The HBO documentary Coma investigates comas, consciousness, and the unknown world of brain injuries, and the NOVA documentary Earthquake looks into earthquakes and earthquake prediction.
King of California reunites a daughter (Evan Rachel Wood: Thirteen, Running with Scissors) with her father (Michael Douglas: The Game, Romancing the Stone), recently released from a mental institution, and sends them on a road trip to unearth a treasure that may or my not be part of a delusional fantasy. Ben Gourley (Pride & Prejudice, Saints & Soldiers) is tasked with moving his boss' free-spirited daughter across the country in Moving McAllister, a task made even stranger by hitchhiker Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite, Blades of Glory). In the romantic comedy Ira & Abbey, neurotic man and a free spirited woman fall in love and get engaged within a hour of meeting, only to find that their engagement inevitably leads to comic misadventures. The Nines explores the lives of an actor, a writer, and a video game designer as they exist in each others' realities, where they might actually be figments of someone's imagination, with Ryan Reynolds (Van Wilder, Smokin' Aces) and Hope Davis (The Matador, American Splendor). An awkward teenager tries to overcome his stutter, impress a girl, and rise in the social ranks of his high school in Rocket Science, a deadpan comedy by the director of Spellbound.
The story of slave trader John Newton and the song that haunts him is told in The Amazing Grace, as he goes on to pen the world's most memorable hymn. Kevin Kline (Wild Wild West, The Pink Panther) plays a cop as he tries to help a boy reclaim his 13 year old sister who had been kidnapped and put up for sale in Trade. Omarion Grandberry (You Got Served) flees the Bronx in Feel the Noise, and ends up in Puerto Rico to find that music may overcome cultural boundaries.
Cuba Gooding Jr. (Radio, Norbit) stars in the Daddy Day Care sequel Daddy Day Camp, as he takes a 
group of kids to Camp Driftwood only to find managing a day camp is harder than it seems. The Comebacks is a new sports spoof, sending up scenes from classic sports movies in the tradition of Epic Movie, with David Koechner (Thank You For Smoking, Waiting).
New to Reckless Video's TV New Releases is the fifth season of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, as well as the first season of their Adult Swim brethren Squidbillies. We also have the first season of the legal drama Damages, with Glenn Close (Le Divorce, Dangerous Liaisons), and the new installment in the Disney Channel's Hannah Montana series, One in a Million.
