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Director Wes Anderson's (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums) newest film puts three brothers aboard The Darjeeling Limited, a train with an unknown destination chosen by Francis (Owen Wilson: Starsky & Hutch, Shanghai Noon), the oldest brother. As middle brother Peter (Adrien Brody: King Kong, The Pianist) chafes against Francis' schedules and youngest brother Jack (Jason Schwartzman: Marie Antoinette, I Heart Huckabees) tries to keep the peace, the three of them manage to stumble over each other's quests for any sort of 
spirituality, but as their voyage wears on, they begin to find a different sort of enlightenment.
With a completely different sense of humor from Anderson's, Frank Oz's (The Stepford Wives, Housesitter) Death at a Funeral sets up a comic romp of lost bodies, inappropriate behavior, and over-the-top slapstick, with Peter Dinklage (The Station Agent, Lassie), Alan Tudyk (Serenity, 3:10 to Yuma), and Andy Nyman (Severance, Played).
Period.
A number of period pieces and costume dramas are new this week, but the first on the list is a little different: Beowulf, based on a thousand-year-old epic, is brought to life by director Robert Zemeckis (Contact, Forrest Gump) with the same motion capture he used for The Polar Express. 
When Hrothgar's (Anthony Hopkins: Fracture, Howard's End) men are slaughtered by the monster Grendel, the hero Beowulf (Ray Winstone: The Proposition, Sexy Beast) arrives to save the day.
Michael Pitt (Murder By Numbers, The Hawk is Dying) travels the world, making his fortune off of silkworms to provide for his beautiful wife (Keira Knightley: Pirates of the Caribbean, Love Actually) in François Girard's (The Red Violin, 32 Short Films about Glenn Gould) Silk, but the temptations of Japan threaten to tear him away from everything he loves.
Goya's Ghost is Milos Forman's (Amadeus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) film about the painter Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgård: Beowulf & Grendel, Dancer in the Dark), and his attempt to attempt to free his muse (Natalie Portman: Closer, Leon: the Professional) who has been imprisoned for heresy. As the events unfold during the 
Spanish Inquisition, Goya seeks the help of an Brother Lorenzo (Oscar Winner Javier Bardem: The Sea Inside, Collateral), an Inquisitor.
As King Charles I (Rupert Everett: The Madness of King George, Stardust) is deposed and a Parliament begins to take shape, friends Thomas Fairfax (Dougray Scott: Ever After, Perfect Creature) and Oliver Cromwell (Tim Roth: Even Money, Gridlock'd) begin to disagree more and more over the future of British government, until they can no longer trust one another, and they are forced to take painful actions.
Grrr. Aargh.
Knowing that the sun won't rise on a northern Alaskan town for thirty days, a group of vampires descend upon an isolated group led by the small town sheriff (Josh Hartnett: Lucky Number Slevin, 40 Days and 40 Nights) and his estranged wife (Melissa George: Turistas, Down with Love) in 30 Days of Night, but how far is a local sheriff willing to go to combat the undead?
The Rage is a new splatter/gore picture helmed by makeup and effects man Robert Kurtzman (Evil Dead 2, The Devil's Rejects). Innocent victims are captured by a mad scientist to be infected with his "rage" virus, but when the infected subjects escape, bloody mayhem erupts.
More scary? Less?
Three friends are drafted for the Iraq War in Day Zero, and with thirty days to report for duty, they have to decide what's important to them-- starring Elijah Wood (Green Street Hooligans, Lord of the Rings) and Chris Klein (American Dreamz, Election). Anthony Hopkins (The World's Fastest Indian, Silence of the Lambs) writes, directs and stars Slipstream, playing a writer who, while living both in the real world and the fiction of his new screenplay, sees the divide between worlds start to crumble as fiction begins to invade his reality. Tom Selleck (Stone Cold, Her Alibi) reprises his role as Chief Jesse Stone in Jesse Stone: Sea Change, as he solves another murder mystery. Excellent Cadavers is the new documentary at Reckless Video, focusing on the Mafia in Sicily, and their existence in Italian society.
Justice League: The New Frontier is one of the new animated New Releases, re-imagining the 
Justice League (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and more) into the Cold War of the 50's, placed into Eisenhower's America, interacting with the events that paved the way for J.F.K. The other new cartoon is the newest Barbie DVD, Barbie Mariposa.
New to Reckless Video's TV New Releases include the miniseries Reilly: Ace of Spies, starring Sam Neill as the world's first international superspy, based on the true story of an agent in 1925, as well as the first two series of Robin of Sherwood, a light fantasy telling of the Robin Hood tale. Also new is the miniseries A Dance to the Music of Time, a dramatization of the 12-novel sequence of the same name.
