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Stoner Schlubs with Guns
The newest comedy out of Apatow Productions (Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) is Pineapple Express, which breaks from the studio's normal boy/girl relationship comedy by hiring an acclaimed independent director David Gordon Green (George Washington, All the Real Girls) and heading down the action-comedy road. When a slacker (Seth Rogen: Knocked Up, You Me & Dupree) witnesses a murder, he thinks the killer could trace him back to his marijuana dealer (James Franco: Flyboys, Spider-Man), and the two of them are suddenly on the run from a kingpin (Gary Cole: Breach, Office Space) who is out to kill them both. The situation leads them through a series of misadventures and eventually to guns-blazing showdown that could either get them killed, or save their lives.
Another comedy this week (either intentional or unintentional-- opinions vary) is 
The Room. Tommy Wiseau writes, directs, and stars in this "drama" that has become a cult favorite and a hugely successful midnight movie. The plot might be about infidelity, friendship, and trust... but the movie itself is about the most amazing writing and acting this side of Manos: The Hands of Fate.
Finally, Disaster Movie is new this week. Following Epic Movie, Superhero Movie, and Meet the Spartans, it offers up rapid-fire gags based around the biggest-grossing movies of the last year, and parodying Indiana Jones, Hannah Montana, Zohan, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, and many others.
Suspense and Drama
In their first film together since 1995's Heat, Robert Deniro (Stardust, Ronin) and Al Pacino (88 Minutes, Any Given Sunday) play partners Righteous Kill. Both police officers are tracking a serial killer who is ridding the city of 
its most vile, but unarrestable, element. More and more evidence starts piling up, and it starts to look like the killer is a cop: one of the two partners on the case.
Alphabet Killer is another crime drama, loosely based on the Alphabet Murders in the early 70s in New York. Eliza Dushku (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Bring It On) and her boyfriend/ partner (Cary Elwes: The Princess Bride, Shadow of the Vampire) are investigating one of the murders, but she becomes obsessed, and finds herself institutionalized after a nervous breakdown. Two years later, and back on the case, she finds herself falling into old habits, and might not be able to tell the difference between her case and her illness.
Set in New York during the early 90s, Ben Kingsley (You Kill Me, Dave) and Josh Peck (Drillbit Taylor, Havoc) strike up an unlikely friendship in The Wackness. Kingsley's a psychiatrist whose relationship with his wife (Famke Janssen: Rounders, X-Men) and Peck is a friendless drug dealer who trades pot for therapy sessions... the two men strike out about New York in search of a little companionship and find a few new paths in their well-loved city.
Blow Up Real Good
The Pang Brothers (The Eye, The Messengers) remake their own film in Bangkok Dangerous, starring Nicolas Cage (National Treasure, Wild at Heart) as a hitman sent to Thailand to eliminate four targets. When one of his jobs goes wrong, he's goes from being the hunter to the hunted, and has to answer the questions of his code of honor, and the necessity of eliminating the rest of his targets.
Babylon A.D. stars Vin Diesel (The Fast and the Furious, Pitch Black) as a mercenary in the near future, struggling in the warzones of eastern Europe. A mobster (Gerard Depardieu: Last Holiday, Bon Voyage) offers him a new identity and passage to America for a dangerous job, escorting a mysterious young woman (Melanie Thierry: The Legend of 1900) and her guardian (Michelle Yeoh: The Mummy III, Far North) to New York... but the road is long and dangerous, as the girl is being hunted by the leader of a growing American cult (Charlotte Rampling: Swimming 
Pool, Aberdeen) who will do anything capture them.
David Carradine (Hell Ride, Kill Bill) stars in King Fu Killer a monk seeking revenge on the drug dealers who killed his master. Set in 1929 Shanghai, Carradine teams up with an American cabaret singer (Daryl Hannah: Silver City, A Walk to Remember) and begins to fight the good fight against the opium trade.
New to Reckless Video's TV New Release section this week are the 4th season of the science fiction series Battlestar Galactica and the 2nd season of the HBO historical series The Tudors. We also have the complete internet miniseries Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog, the independent superhero musical comedy from director Joss Whedon (Serenity, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) with Neil Patrick Harris, Felicia Day, and Nathan Fillion.
