Thursday, August 9, 2007

New Quick Flicks for the week of 8/5/07






Angels Fall by Ralph Hemecker

A chef moves to a small town in Wyoming to start over after her famous restaurant is closed due to a deadly shooting.


A poor but ambitious young man strives to make good in one of the most competitive institutions on Earth in this military drama.


Conversations with God by Stephen Simon
Based on the true story of Neale Donald Walsch. When a tragic car accident left him paralyzed and homeless, he starts to question God. He is shocked when the questions are actually answered.


Crossover By Whitmore, Preston

View Windows Media-formatted PreviewNoah Cruise is a naturally talented basketball player, who is determined to become a doctor using his basketball scholarship to UCLA pre-med, rather than succumb to the lure of former sports agent Vaughn and go for the NBA. His best friend, Tech is also an outstanding basketball player and the buddy that took the fall for him and did the time for an assault charge. Tech has less lofty ambitions: he wants to get his GED and win an underground street ball game against his arrogant rival, Jewelz. Their lives change drastically when they both fall in love with two local girls and take fateful trip out to L.A. together.


Darwin Awards by Finn Taylor.
Based on four best-selling non-fiction books of over 700 Darwin Award cases, an insurance claims investigator teams up with a forensic detective, to team up to investigate potential Darwin Award cases. Winners are saluted for the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways.

Dead Silence By Wan, James

View Windows Media-formatted PreviewAfter receiving a strange package with the doll named Billy, Jamie's wife is murdered. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair where the ventriloquist Mary Shaw used to perform and is buried. After she went mad in the 1940s, Mary was accused of kidnapping a young boy who yelled out in one of her performances that she was a fraud. Because of this she was hunted down by townspeople, who in the ultimate act of revenge, cut out her tongue and then killed her. They buried her along with her "children," a handmade collection of vaudeville dolls, and assumed they had silenced her forever.


Disturbia By Caruso, D. J.

View Windows Media-formatted PreviewIn this modern retelling of Hitchcock's thriller Rear Window, Kale, a troubled teen sentenced to house arrest, begins watching his neighbors out of boredom -- only to discover evidence that a serial killer lives a stone's throw from his home.

Hot Fuzz By Wright, Edgar

View Windows Media-formatted PreviewA top London cop is ready to die of boredom when his superiors transfer him to a sleepy English village to work alongside a blundering but well-meaning young constable. Craving some real action, the big-city bobby may just get his wish when the town begins to stir with a series of grisly "accidents." Is foul play afoot in this seemingly idyllic hamlet?



I Think I Love My Wife By Rock, Chris

View Windows Media-formatted PreviewIn this contemporary retelling of director Eric Rohmer's cerebral 1972 film Chloe in the Afternoon, Chris Rock stars as Richard Cooper, a happily married man with a young daughter at home. Problem is, he fantasizes about other women -- and soon finds his fidelity tested when a friend's former paramour enters the picture and puts the moves on Richard.



Life Suport By George, Nelson

Ana is a recovering junkie who tries to atone for her seedy past by being a loving mom to her 9-year-old daughter. In addition, she takes care of her husband, who also has HIV. But Life Support, an AIDS awareness facility that is an integral part of her life, is where Ana feels most at home. Ana has come far from her rocky beginnings. But, she still has much to accomplish before she can repair the damage from her past. One that seems irreparable is the sticky relationship she has with her estranged teenage daughter, who lives with Ana's mother.



Nora Roberts' Montana Sky by Robe, Mike.
When multimillionaire cattleman Jack Mercy dies, he leaves his Montana ranch to his three daughters. The women are half-sisters and complete strangers to one another. But according to his will, the three women will only receive their inheritance under one condition: they must live together at the ranch for a full year. The sisters are challenged by a mysterious saboteur who is determined to see them fail and must solve some mysteries their father left behind in order to receive their inheritance.



Five disparate kids snowed in at the airport on Christmas Eve learn some lessons about friendship in this quirky teen comedy.