New Quick Flicks for the Week of 1/13/09

Do you want to know the newest DVD titles available at your library? Check here to find the newest Quick Flicks released at the Gail Borden Library. This fast turnover, no reserves collection is where you will find multiple copies of the most popular DVDs.

Drona
"From the times, when time itself was a newborn babe, the universe has kept one secret carefully camouflaged within its folds. A secret, which if unraveled, could unlock the destruction of mankind and the entire cosmos. Today, only one man can protect the universe's precious secret and thus, save the human race from absolute annihilation" In Hindi.

Heroes
Best friends Sammy and Ali travel a thousand miles to deliver three letters as part of their film school assignment. Little do they know that the journey that they have embarked on will give them a new meaning of life. In Hindi.

Hulla
Raj and his girlfriend seem to have a great life, great jobs, and now have moved into a great apartment. When the security guard starts keeping Raj up every night warding off prowlers, it causes problems in every part of Raj's life. In Hindi.

Pandurangadu
This is the story of Lord Panduranga, a flirt and irresponsible son. In Hindi.

Appaloosa By Harris, Ed 2009/01 - New Line Home Video BL02099DVD Check Our Catalog When a malicious, land-hungry rancher has the marshal and deputy of Appaloosa killed, two gunmen arrive and try to bring law and order back to the frontier town. Based on the novel by Robert B. Parker. ...More

Brick Lane By Gavron, Sarah 2009/01 - Sony Pictures BL10874DVD Check Our Catalog Set in the 1980s, this cross-cultural drama follows young Nazneem, a Bangladeshi woman who's immigrated to London for an arranged marriage to a middle-aged man, leaving her beloved family, including her sister Hasina, behind. While Hasina leads a life of adventure back home, Nazneem struggles to accept the isolation and unhappiness in her new life, until an unexpected visitor comes along and changes everything. ...More

Brideshead Revisited By Jarrold, Julian 2008/12 - Miramax BL01091DVD Check Our Catalog Capt. Charles Ryder is an officer stationed at England's Brideshead Castle during World War II, in this big-screen adaptation of the classic novel by Evelyn Waugh. The suspenseful drama builds as Captain Ryder becomes infatuated with the castle's owners, the aristocratic Marchmain family -- particularly their grown son, Sebastian Flyte, and his elegant sister, Julia. ...More

Mirrors By Aja, Alexandre 2009/01 - 20th Century Fox BL09875DVD Check Our Catalog This creepy supernatural thriller from director Alexandre Aja stars Kiefer Sutherland as troubled security guard Ben Carson, who discovers malevolent spirits living within the mirrors of a fire-ravaged department store. ...More

My Best Friend's Girl By Deutch, Howard 2009/01 - Lions Gate BL02094DVD Check Our Catalog When Dustin's girlfriend, Alexis, breaks up with him, he employs his best buddy, Tank, to take her out on the worst rebound date imaginable in the hopes that it will send her running back into his arms. But when he begins to really fall for Alexis, Tank finds himself in an impossible position. ...More

Swing Vote By Stern, Joshua Michael 2009/01 - Touchstone Disney BL02098DVD Check Our Catalog It's Election Day, and the eyes of the nation have fallen on one beer-swigging couch potato named Bud Johnson, who, through no fault of his own, finds himself in the position of being able to single-handedly choose the next American president. ...More

The Family That Preys By Perry, Tyler 2009/01 - Lions Gate BL02091DVD Check Our Catalog Tyler Perry writes, directs and stars in this poignant dramedy centered on a pair of friends -- wealthy socialite Charlotte and working-class Alice -- whose families stand to be ripped apart by greed and scandal. ...More

Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet won two Golden Globe awards last night for Best Actress in the movie Revolutionary Road and Best Supporting Actress for the movie The Reader. View some of this talented actresses other performances in these movies available for check out at the Gail Borden Public Library.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind By Gondry, Michel 2004/09 - Umvd BL05040DVD Check Our Catalog A man goes in for a procedure to erase his memory of his ex-girlfriend, after she erased her memory of him, but changes his mind during the procedure and fights to keep their relationship in his mind. ...More

Finding Neverland By Forster, Marc Winslet, Kate Christie, Julie 2006/08 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment 5559226599 Check Our Catalog Set in early 20th century England, the story follows J.M. Barrie and his quest to breathe life into Peter Pan. From the moment of inspiration to the debut of the play, Barrie's life mirrors the action of the story he has written and vice versa. ...More

Flushed Away By Bowers, David 2007/02 - Paramount Home Video BL03072DVD Check Our Catalog London high-society mouse Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Syd, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the bowels of Ratropolis, where Roddy meets the resourceful Rita, the rodent-hating Toad and his faithful thugs Spike and Whitey. ...More

Hamlet By Zeffirelli, Franco 2004/02 - Warner Home Video BL05044DVD Check Our Catalog From director Franco Zeffirelli this two-hour version of Shakespeare's play stars Mel Gibson as the Danish prince. The supporting cast is outstanding, including Glenn Close as Gertrude, Alan Bates as Claudius, Ian Holm as Polonius, and Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia. ...More

The Holiday By Meyers, Nancy Diaz, Cameron Law, Jude 2007/10 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 1424840392 Check Our Catalog Two women on opposite sides of the globe, Amanda Woods (Diaz) and Iris Simpkins (Winslet) find themselves in a similar predicament. Desperate for a change of scenery, the two women meet on the internet and swap houses for the Christmas holiday discovering that a change of address really can change your life. ...More

Iris By Eyre, Richard Fox, Robert Rudin, Scott 2005/05 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment 5554183883 Check Our Catalog The true life story of novelist-philosopher Iris Murdoch. A young idealist with aspirations of writing meets and falls in love with her soulmate, John Bayley. But it's Bayley who stands in the shadows and supports his wife through everything, including her battle with Alzheimer's Disease. ...More

Little Children By Field, Todd 2007/05 - New Line Home Video BL06079DVD Check Our Catalog The lives of several adult suburbanites, who have yet to surpass adolescence, intersect on the streets of their small town in unexpected ways. While on-the-go wife and mother Kathy is preoccupied with her career, Sarah, a mother who does not know how to mother, is busy having an affair with stay-at-home dad Brad—Kathy's husband. ...More

Quills By Kaufman, Phillip Kaufman, Philip Rush, Geoffrey 2003/06 - Twentieth Century-Fox 5554455964 Check Our Catalog A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun, inadvertently stoking the excitement to a fever pitch. ...More

Sense and Sensibility By Lee, Amy Lee, Ang Various Artists 2005/11 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 5555283687 Check Our Catalog Adapted from Jane Austen's novel, "Sense And Sensibility" is the romantic story about a mother and her three daughters, the eldest two of which are searching for true love in a straitlaced high-society. This highly acclaimed cinematic success portrays how the lives of the characters intertwine and exhibits the most triumphant finale ever seen on screen. ...More

Titanic By Cameron, James DiCaprio, Leonardo Winslet, Kate 2007/01 - Paramount Home Video 1415713634 Check Our Catalog Two and a half miles beneath the waves of the North Atlantic, a mystery is unfolding. A secret love, bravery, treasure and treachery, hidden by time but never forgotten. A beautiful socialite. A penniless artist. A priceless diamond. A romance so passionate that nothing on earth could stop it. A destiny so incredible that no one could have imagined it. A collision of lives that could only happen on Titanic, the ship of dreams. ...More

Now Showing at the Gail Borden Public Library: National Treasure

National Treasure

Monday, January 19, 2009, 6:00 p.m.

Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Franklin Gates, search for a treasure chest rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as funds for the Revolutionary War. The whereabouts of the chest may lie in a secret code embedded in the U.S. Constitution and in a map drawn on the back of the Declaration of Independence.