Tuesday, June 29, 2010

New Quick Flicks for the week of 6-29-10

Creation



Creation
By Amiel, Jon
2010-06 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment
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From director Jon Amiel and writer John Collee comes Creation. A psychological, heart-wrenching love story starring Paul Bettany as Charles Darwin, the film is based on Annies Box, a biography penned by Darwins great-great-grandson Randal Keynes using personal letters and diaries of the Darwin family. We take a unique and inside look at Darwin, his family and his love for his deeply religious wife, played by Jennifer Connelly, as, torn between faith and science, Darwin struggles to finish his legendary book On the Origin of Species, which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology. The film co-stars Toby Jones and Jeremy Northam, and was produced by Jeremy Thomas at Recorded Picture Company with BBC Films and Ocean Pictures. …More

Don McKay



Don McKay
By Goldberger, Jake
2010-06 - Image Entertainment
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In this edgy thriller, Don McKay (Thomas Haden Church, Sideways) flees his hometown after a horrendous tragedy and vows never to return. But 25 years later he comes back to find a dark menace looming over the town. As he attempts to rekindle his romance with an old high school girlfriend (Elisabeth Shue, Leaving Las Vegas), Don is pulled into a malevolent world from which he may never escape. …More

The Eclipse



The Eclipse
By McPherson, Conor
2010-06 - Magnolia Pict Hm Ent
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In a seaside Irish town, Michael Farr (Ciaran Hinds), a teacher raising his two kids alone since his wife died two years earlier, begins to believe his house is haunted. Michael sparks interest in a visiting horror novelist, Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle), who writes books about ghosts and the supernatural. However, Lena has been having an affair with the world-renowned novelist Nicholas Holden (Aidan Quinn). Both authors are visiting the town for an international literary festival, and as the festival progresses, the trajectories of these three people draws them into a life-altering collision involving challenges of love, fear of the unknown and release from the burden of grief. …More

Hot Tub Time Machine






Hot Tub Time Machine
By Pink, Steve
2010-06 - Tcfhe/MGM
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Fueled by energy drinks, vodka and nostalgia for their younger, wilder days, a group of aging best friends travels back in time to 1987, where they get the chance to relive the best year of their lives. And their time machine? Well, it's a hot tub. …More

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief






Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
By Columbus, Chris Lerman
Director Jackson, Brandon T.
2010-06 - Twentieth Century-Fox
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Modern and mythical worlds collide in this thunderous fantasy-adventure starring Pierce Brosnan, Kevin McKidd and Uma Thurman as youve never seen them before! Percy Jackson is no ordinary teenager...hes just learned hes the son of Poseidon and is accused of stealing Zeus lightning bolt the most powerful weapon ever created! With storm clouds brewing, Percy embarks on an incredible cross-country journey to prove his innocence, recover the bolt and prevent a war amongst the gods that could destroy our world! …More

The Warlords



The Warlords
By Chang, Peter
2010-06 - Magnolia Pict Hm Ent
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This lavish historical epic, set in the midst of war and political upheaval during the Taiping Rebellion of the 1860s, WARLORDS stars Jet Li as General Pang, who barely survives a brutal massacre of his fellow soldiers by playing dead, and joins a band of bandits led by Er Hu (Andy Lau) and Wu Yang (Takeshi Kaneshiro). After fighting back attackers from an helpless village, the three men take an oath to become blood brothers, pledging loyalty to one another until death, but things quickly turn sour and the three men become embroiled in a web of political deceit, and a love triangle between Pang, Er Hu and a beautiful courtesan (Wu Jing-Lei). …More

The White Ribbon






The White Ribbon
By Haneke, Michael
2010-06 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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At a rural school in northern Germany in 1913, a form of ritual punishment has major consequences for students and faculty. But the practice may have bigger repercussions on the German school system -- and maybe even on the growth of fascism. Celebrated Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke helms this Golden Globe-winner. …More

The crazies
After a strange toxin contaminates the water supply in a small town in Iowa, the residents are suddenly turned into bloodthirsty psychopaths. The town sheriff does all he can to make sense of the outbreak, as his wife and two other unaffected people fight for their survival.

Gintama: Collection 2
"Life isn't easy in feudal Japan, especially since the aliens landed and conquered everything! Sure, the new health care is great, but the sword ban has left a lot of samurai scrounging for a living! Enter Gintoki Sakata, an out-of-work samurai who will take just about any job so long as the money's right. Unfortunately for Gintoki and his friends, the bug-eyed monsters, upwardly mobile yakuza, and E.T. entrepreneurs doing the hiring usually don't pay very well - not considering all the pain and suffering involved!"

Kenichi, the mightiest disciple. Season 2, part two
Kenichi's a lot tougher than he used to be - living in a dojo with six martial arts masters will do that to you. But thanks to his reputation as a skilled fighter, the guy's got more problems than ever. The goons in Ragnarok are gunning for him in a big way, especially the gang's leaders: the Eight Fists, a dangerously unpredictable crew known to play dirty.

Mind over money: how human psychology and finance interact
Investigates the shattering impact the recent global financial meltdown had on how economists think. Why did so few of the brightest minds in finance not only fail to predict the crash but also argue that it was impossible? With insights from experts and scientific experiments that highlight the hidden money drives in us all, explore a seismic shift in our efforts to understand the marketplace.