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Screwball comedy (circa 1938)
A lighthearted film in the style of the old Myrna Loy and Irene Dunn comedies of the 30's and 40's, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day pairs an unfocused actress (Amy Adams: Charlie Wilson's War, Enchanted) with a finicky, and frequently unemployed, housekeeper (Frances McDormand: Laurel Canyon, Fargo), as their day spirals off into unexpected directions. As Miss Pettigrew goes from housekeeper to "social secretary," she learns more about high society than she imagined possible, and manages to teach her singer/actress a little bit about real life.
This week's other romantic comedy, My Faraway Bride, stars Jason Lewis (Havoc, The Jacket), who meets a the beautiful Kashmira Shah on Venice Beach and, as he realizes he's fallen in love, she disappears. When he flies to India to find her, he discovers that she's the biggest star in Bollywood, he has his work cut out for him in winning the girl of his dreams.
Swords and Guns
Street Kings is a police drama about a cop who works outside of the law (Keanu Reeves: A Scanner Darkly, My Own Private Idaho) and the captain that uses him to take care of his tougher problems (Forest Whitaker: The Crying Game, Even Money). But when other cops start getting killed under suspicious circumstances, an investigating officer who is reluctantly "playing ball" Chris Evans (The Perfect Score, Fantastic Four) and an internal investigations officer (Hugh Laurie: House M.D, Flight of the Phoenix) make him question which side he's really on, and who he can trust.
Russell Mulcahy (Highlander, Resident Evil: Extinction) directs the sequel to the Mummy prequel, Scorpion King 2, where the young Mathayus (Michael Copon: Bring It On: In It to Win It, Disgdogz) adventures to find the the king (WWE wrestler Randy Couture) who killed his father. His quest will eventually make him "the scorpion king."
Rated G
Disney's newest musical movie is Camp Rock, staring new hopeful Demi Lovato as a girl who gets to go to Camp Rock, makes new friends (including Alyson Stoner: Step Up, Alice Upside Down), and tries to live her dream of becoming a rock star.
In another introductory role, Leah Pipes stars in Her Best Move as a talented soccer player with hopes of joining the US National Team, but she has to balance her father and coach's (Scott Patterson: Saw IV, Gilmore Girls) hopes for her future and her own desires for a social life, and for Drew Tyler Bell (The Seeker, Love's Abiding Joy).
a bit more intense
The Life Before Her Eyes tells the story of a tragedy that forever changes the course of best friends Diana (Evan Rachel Wood: Thirteen, The Upside of Anger) and 
Maureen (Eva Amurri: Saved!, The Banger Sisters). Told in intercutting flashbacks, the gown Diana(Uma Thurman: Sweet & Lowdown, Prime) with a daughter of her own, remembers the life changing events of her past.
The underground thriller Quid Pro Quo stars Nick Stahl (Disturbing Behavior, Terminator 3) as a reporter, paralyzed since childhood, who sees a man offer a doctor $250,000 dollars to amputate a perfectly healthy leg. Compelled to find the story in willing amputees, he finds a mysterious informant (Vera Farmiga: The Departed, The Hard Easy) that can take him into a strange subculture.
Written by Sarah Waters (Fingersmith, Tipping the Velvet), Affinity stars Anna Madeley (In Bruges, Sense & Sensibility) as a high society woman who finds purpose in bringing solace to the inmates of a women's prison in the 1870s, and becomes infatuated with an inmate who claims to be a medium.
The new horror movie this week is Prom Night, starring Brittany Snow (Hairspray, The Pacifier) as a girl preparing for her senior prom, trying to lead a normal life after her parents were killed by a stalker (Johnathon Sachaech: The Doom Generation, That Thing You Do!), but when the killer escapes, high school students start dying.
Recount is the HBO original film about the 36 days in 2000 when the next President of the United States was left undecided. Kevin Spacey (Beyond the Sea, The Life of David Gale) plays Democrat John Klain and Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) plays Republican James Baker as both sides battle for Florida, the Presidency, and chads.
Our only foreign film this week is the Italian The Orange Thief, about a petty thief who steals fruit to survive, but ends up in jail with a man who calls himself "The Smooth Blade," and when his cellmate offers him a deal, he sees a way to change his life.
Reckless Video's TV New Releases this week include the 4th Season of the popular medical drama House, M.D., the first season of the action/scifi series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the second season of Showtime's police/serial killer series Dexter, season two of How I Met Your Mother, the first season of the teen drama Gossip Girl, and the short-lived Fox series Roar, starring a young Heath Ledger.
A number of new BBC shows are also new this week. We have the complete class drama The Grand, the family secrets of Almost Strangers, D.H. Lawrence's The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, the period romance Lillie, and Michael Palin's newest travelogue New Europe.
