Tuesday, April 13, 2010

New Quick Flicks for the Week of 4/13/10

Mammoth

Mammoth
By Bernal, Gael Garcia
2010-04 - MPI Home Video
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Leo is a successful web developer. His wife Ellen is a dedicated emergency room surgeon. Their New York City workaholic ways leave little time for their 8-year-old daughter, who is mostly cared for by their Filipino nanny. But when a series of personal decisions triggers a chain of events on the other side of the world, will they discover the rippling effects of life's smallest choices? About imperfect lives, fateful actions, and the epic ironies that bind us all together. …More

Pirate Radio




Pirate Radio
By Hoffman, Philip Seymour
2010-04 - Universal Home Video
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Pirate Radio is the high-spirited story of how 8 DJs love affair with Rock n Roll changed the world forever. In the 1960s this group of rouge DJs, on a boat in the middle of the Northern Atlantic, played rock records and broke the law all for the love of music. The songs they played united and defined an entire generation and drove the British government crazy. By playing Rock n Roll they were standing up against the British government who did everything in their power to shut them down. …More

The Prisoner

The Prisoner
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2010-03 - Warner Home Video
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Red Cliff

Red Cliff
By Woo, John
2010-03 - Magnolia Pict Hm Ent
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Seraphine

Seraphine
By Tukur, Ulrich
2010-03 - Southport Music Box Corpo
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Awestruck by the vibrant and imaginative artwork of uneducated housekeeper Seraphine Louis -- who spends her days doing menial chores -- German art critic Wilhelm Unde takes the promising painter under his wing. Though her neighbors and others dismiss Seraphine's work, Unde is determined to turn the obscure French artist into a star. …More

Tenderness

Tenderness
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2010-04 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment
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Wonderful World




Wonderful World
By Goldin, Joshua
2010-03 - Magnolia Pict Hm Ent
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Dejected, divorced and jobless, Ben Singer is not inclined to see his glass as half-full. But when his roommate falls ill and Singer must host the man's Senegalese sister in their apartment, his outlook begins to change. Darkman writer Josh Goldin makes his directorial debut with this drama (which he also wrote) about the attitude-adjusting romance that blossoms between Singer and Khadi. …More

Astropia
When Hildur, a beautiful high-society girl and a regular guest in the national celebrity press, finds out that her boyfriend Jolli is about to go to jail, she realizes she has to learn to stand on her own two feet, and quickly. Hildur, possessing no skills that she knows of, or any practical experience, tries to find work without success. She's about to give up when by pure coincidence she lands a job selling roleplaying books and accessories at the popular local fantasy shop, Astropia.

Beeswax
Revolves around the personal and professional entanglements of twin sisters Jeannie and Lauren. Jeannie co-owns a vintage clothing store with Amanda, a semi-estranged friend who she fears is trying to end their partnership. Lauren leads a looser, less tethered existence and is considering getting out of the country altogether. A story about families, friends and lovers, and those awkward moments that bring all of them together.

Chance pe dance
A young man who aspires to be a film star is helped by a beautiful choreographer.

The Daisy chain
Grieving over the death of their baby daughter, Martha and Tomas move to a remote city where they open their home to a traumatized, autistic girl named Daisy.

Ishqiya
Set in Gorakhpur in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, the movie is a tale of romance between individuals caught in a web of crime, suspense and passion. Two thieves, Khalujan (Naseeruddin Shah) and Babban (Arshad Warsi), are on the run from their boss, Mushtaq (Salman Shahid). After every known person in the world turns them down they seek refuge with an old friend Verma, but instead meet his widow, Krishna (Vidya Balan) who is staying alone in her old house.

Kurbaan
Avantika is a teacher who leaves New York to come home after her father has a heart attack. There, she meets Ehsaan and soon, love blossoms. Avantika is asked to come back to New York to teach fall semester. Avantika and Ehsaan get married and move to the States. They buy a house in an Indian neighborhood. Their conservative Muslim neighbors invite them to dinner. The next morning, Salma, a dinner guest, comes over to see Avantika. Salma tells her that she is in grave danger and nothing is what is seems. A series of incidents suck Avantika into a vortex of danger and intrigue.

Mellodrama
"Explores the rising and falling fortunes of the Chamberlin and its better-known successor the Mellotron--the first musical keyboards to play the pre-recorded sounds of other instruments."

Rann
Amitabh Bachchan is the revered head of a privately owned TV news channel. This is a story of conflicts over truth, quality journalism, sensationalism, politics and profits.

Striker
Set in Bombay in the mid '80's and based on true life accounts of the people of Malvani, this is a story of the triumph of human spirit over indomitable odds. It is the story of friendship, life in the city of dreams in the 80's, a story of a game that is most common but non-existent: a story of a Carrom player who grows up on the fringes of a criminal existence but did not succumb to it.

Uncertainty
Every choice has a consequence. But what if the flip of a coin could trigger two separate but parallel destinies? Bobby and Kate are a New York couple at a crossroads whose lives are about to take very different heads/tails directions. A visit to Brooklyn leads them to gentle discoveries about family, loss, and each other, while a day in Manhattan plunges them into an urban nightmare of pursuit, suspense, and murder.

Under great white northern lights
In 2007 Emmett Malloy joined the White Stripes Canadian tour to record their concerts in venues ranging from concert halls to bowling alleys to fishing boats to tiny town squares.

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