Wednesday, January 9, 2008

New Quick Flicks for the week of 1/6/08




Rancher Dan Evans agrees to transport the captured outlaw Ben Wade to the nearest town with a rail station, where they'll wait for a train to prison in Yuma. Director James Mangold's suspense-filled Western is a remake of the 1957 classic.
Learn about Lee Adama's first mission as commander of the Battlestar Pegasus, and how Admiral Cain served her ship during the original Cylon attack on the colonies. Includes deleted scenes and outtakes; documentary; commentary; and more.
After finding sex-addicted 22-year-old Rae beaten and near death, blues musician Lazarus acts as a father figure to help redeem her in director Craig Brewer's Southern-fried drama. But before saving anyone else, Lazarus -- whose wife deserted him -- must face his own demons.
Salvatore is a very poor farmer and a widower who decides to emigrate to the U.S. with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is a British woman who wants to go back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, needs to marry someone before she arrives at Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts her proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.
To get back at Sheetal's father, Raaj, Neelam and Bonny kidnap Sheetal and demand a ransom. When she is murdered, they have no way to prove their innocence in this Hindi film.
Explores the volatile and turbulent relationship between an actress and a writer in 1950s-60s India. In Hindi.
Jigsaw is missing, and with his new apprentice, Amanda, the puppet master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture. While the city detectives scramble to locate him, Dr. Denlon and Jeff are unaware that they are about to beome the latest pawns on Jigsaw's vicious chessboard.
Mr. Smith is not the best idea for looking after a child, yet after stumbling upon a blazing shoot-out, helping to birth a child amidst a hail of gunfire, and seeing the mother die before his eyes, he becomes determined to protect the young innocent at all costs. His adversaries are equally determined, and they will not stop until the newborn is dead. Now, in order to ensure that maniacal criminal mastermind Mr. Hertz and his gang of henchmen do not succeed in accomplishing their evil deeds, Mr. Smith joins forces with a prostitute known as the Dairy Queen, who specializes in lactation fetishes, and flees into the bowels of the city while facing almost certain death on every street corner.
Underdog -- the canine superhero who debuted in the TV cartoon that ran in the 1960s and 1970s -- is about to become a movie star with the release of this live-action film based on the character.
FBI agent Jack Crawford is out for revenge when his partner is killed and all clues point to the mysterious assassin Rogue. But when Rogue turns up years later to take care of some unfinished business, he triggers a violent clash of rival gangs. Will the truth come out before it's too late? When the dust settles, who will remain standing?