This week’s most popular film is also its most highly ranked — Brazil’s Elite da Tropa (Elite Squad). In a rare honor for a high-octane action flick, it picked the Golden Bear at the most recent Berlinale Film Festival, and Criticker’s users have not shy in heaping praise on it. The film was never released properly into American theaters, so its appearance on DVD will be a lot of people’s first chance to see it — don’t miss it! In other new releases, Jenna Jameson stars in Zombie Strippers. I don’t know who’s supposed to be excited about that — can’t we please keep our porn stars focused on what they do best?

Elite Squad – 128 Rankings – Average Tier 6.69
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operation Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged. Captain Nascimento is trying to find a man to replace him because his wife is pregnant and he intends to quit the command and become a trainer of the new recruits… Elite Squad @ Amazon

Journey to the Center of the Earth – 63 Rankings – Average Tier 3.60
On a quest to find out what happened to his missing brother, a scientist, his nephew and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth Journey to the Center of the Earth @ Amazon

Zombie Strippers – 32 Rankings – Average Tier 3.50
In the not too distant future a secret government re-animation chemo-virus gets released into conservative Sartre, Nebraska and lands in an underground strip club. As the virus begins to spread, turning the strippers into “Super Zombie Strippers” the girls struggle with whether or not to conform to the new “fad” even if it means there’s no turning back. Zombie Strippers @ Amazon

Hell Ride – 15 Rankings – Average Tier 3.47
The story deals with the characters Pistolero, the Gent and Comanche and the deadly, unfinished business among them. Hell Ride @ Amazon

Death Defying Acts – 7 Rankings – Average Tier 4.71
During Harry Houdini’s tour of Britain in 1926, the master escapologist enters into a passionate affair with a Scottish psychic. The psychic and her daughter attempt to con Houdini during a highly publicized séance to contact his mother whose death has haunted him for many years. However all does not go to plan… Death Defying Acts @ Amazon