GREEN ZONE - From the capable director of THE BOURNE SUPREMACY and THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM comes another political thriller starring everyman Matt Damon, this time as a soldier in Iraq whose search for WMD's leads him to uncover a web of deceit and corruption.

THE LAST STATION - Helen Mirren plays the passionate, devoted wife of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (and mother of his thirteen children), fighting to win back the heart and will of her aging husband (Christopher Plummer), after he has joined a religion that requires celibacy, vegetarianism, and loyalty to The People over one's family.

BLUEBEARD - French director Catherine Breillat (FAT GIRL, SEX IS COMEDY) adapts Charles Perrault's fairy tale about the child bride who outsmarts the notorious wife killer.

ENTOURAGE Season 6 - Vince is back in the spotlight after a role in a Martin Scorsese film - does he still need his babysitters?

THE MAID - The chronically grumpy live-in maid of an upper-class Chilean family must find creative ways to chase away the competition when the family decides she needs an assistant.

SHE'S OUT OF MY LEAGUE - She's a super hot, successful event planner. He's a lowly airport security guard with spiffy hair...I imagine the trailer begins something like this.

HUNG Season 1 - In this new HBO series, a terminally unlucky high school basketball coach in Detroit reaches for the American dream with his...third leg, after a get-rich-quick seminar urging participants to find their "unique tool" and use it.

THE GOOD GUY - This romantic comedy is a modern adaptation of Ford Madox Brown's novel THE GOOD SOLDIER, with the action moved to Wall Street. Urban conservationist Beth must choose between hotshot broker Tommy and his shy, sensitive co-worker Daniel, the "good guy."

TIMER -  Sweet rom-com/sci-fi hybrid in which special timers embedded in peoples' wrists count down to the exact moment when they will meet their soul mates. Oona is about to turn 30 and her timer is still blank...

CLOSE-UP - Two of the biggest names in Iranian cinema team up in this intriguing blend of documentary and meta-movie. Abbas Kiarostami (TASTE OF CHERRY) dramatizes the arrest of unemployed movie lover Hossein Sabzian for impersonating director Mohsen Makhmalbaf (KANDAHAR), with the two playing themselves.  Kiarostami and Makhmalbaf are both 'featured filmmakers' in La Dolce Video's Middle Eastern cinema section.

YOUTH IN REVOLT - Based on the series of novels by C.D. Payne, this clever comedy stars Michael Cera in his usual role of sensitive virginal dweeb, with an added bonus that makes this more enjoyable: an EVIL Michael Cera alter ego! He chain smokes, talks dirty, blows up cars, and wears an ascot. Which Michael Cera will get the girl...?

BOOK OF ELI - Just when you thought the string of apocalypse movies was over, enter Denzel Washington as a man protecting the very last Bible on earth from those who would use it as a means of controlling the illiterate, post-apocalypse population. This one is actually pretty watchable, despite my occasionally wondering what the filmmaker has against house cats... Dog person, I guess.

HAPPY TEARS - From the director of acclaimed indie TEETH, who also happens to be the son of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, comes a family dramedy about living in the shadow of one's father. Demi Moore and Parker Posey play sisters who must come home to take of their irresponsible father Rip Torn, who has become so senile that he believes the prostitute living with him is a nurse.

BURMA VJ: REPORTING FROM A CLOSED COUNTRY - One of this year's Oscar nominees for Best Documentary. A harrowing but inspirational account of the Democratic Voice of Burma, a collective of anonymous journalists who smuggled video footage out of the country when foreign news crews were banned and internet access was shut down.

MARY AND MAX - Charming claymation feature from an Oscar-winning Australian animator, starring Toni Colette and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Alternately hilarious and melancholy, it's the story of a shy Australian girl who picks a random name out of a New York phone book as a pen pal. She ends up with an obese 44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger's syndrome, and over 20 years they bond over their inability to fit in.

UNTHINKABLE - Samuel L. Jackson is an out of control Black-ops interrogator, and Carrie Anne-Moss is an FBI agent, in this psychological thriller about terrorism and torture.

WHEN IN ROME - This week's obligatory chick flick stars Kristen Bell as a New Yorker who steals magic coins from a fountain of love while vacationing in Rome...with the result that several strangers immediately fall in kinda-creepy-stalker-love with her...

COLLAPSE - Among all the fictional apocalypses, this documentary by the director of AMERICAN MOVIE and THE YES MEN may be the scariest. Former L.A.P.D. detective turned investigative journalist Michael Ruppert, who (attempted to) blow the whistle on CIA drug running, and predicted our current economic crisis back in 2005, explains why we should be a bit more nervous about peak oil. The ramblings of a mad conspiracy theorist, or something more alarming?

TRUE LEGEND - The latest from Yuen Woo-ping (DRUNKEN MASTER, IRON MONKEY), one of the most successful directors of Hong Kong martial arts cinema since the 1970s. This historical action epic stars Michelle Yeoh, Vincent Zhao, and David Carradine in his final performance before his death in Bangkok. This import is only available at La Dolce Video, with no U.S. release date set.

JAFFA - Set in the titular Israeli seaside town, this family drama by Keren Yedaya concerns a Jewish girl who is ignored by her parents in favor of her boorish brother. She falls in love with a young Arab who works in her father's garage, but a chain of violent events threatens their plan to run away together...

SEX POSITIVE - A fascinating new documentary about the controversial early AIDS activist Richard Berkowitz, a gay man who was seen as a pariah in the community for his promotion of safe sex in the early 80s.

LEWIS BLACK: STARK RAVING BLACK - New stand-up by Lewis Black, known to young 'uns mostly as the angry commentator on THE DAILY SHOW. Includes 35 extra minutes of stand-up not seen in the Comedy Central special of the same name, plus the 70 minute documentary BASIC BLACK, about the life of the comedian.

Here's a couple 1980s highlights from our JUST ADDED section of rare delights and re-issues:

LOOKER - This 1981 cult classic, both written and directed by master of suspense Michael Crichton, satirizes media manipulation, television commercials, and overly idealized standards of beauty. Albert Finney stars as a top plastic surgeon who finds himself pulled into a mind-control conspiracy when his model patients begin mysteriously committing suicide.

CLOAK & DAGGER - This 1984 espionage-movie-for-kids, starring the kid from E.T., was one of my favorites growing up, and I have a feeling this one just might stand the test of time. Davey is a neglected kid who retreats into a world of video game obsession. When Davey stumbles upon a real-life conspiracy, he relies on the sometimes risky advice of his imaginary friend, retro super-spy Jack Flack, to evade the enemy agents after him.