Tuesday, November 18, 2008

New Quick Flicks for the Week of 11/18/08

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.

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Kung Fu Panda
By Stevenson, John Wayne
2008/08 - DreamWorks
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When China's Valley of Peace is threatened, lazy Po the panda discovers his destiny as the chosen one and trains to become a kung fu hero. Master Monkey and Master Viper impart their knowledge to Po, but transforming this slacker into a brave warrior isn't going to be easy. ...More

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2008/04 - Monterey Home Video
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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
By Hamri, Sanaa
2008/11 - Warner Home Video
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Three years later, the famed sisterhood is going strong even as Bridget, Lena, Tibby and Carmen scatter throughout the country for their first year of college. Separated by geography, the fabulous foursome remains united in friendship in this sequel to the beloved 2005 hit, which finds the characters facing new challenges in the realms of romance, school and growing up. ...More

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Star Wars The Clone Wars
By Filoni, Dave
Lucas, George
2008/08 - Warner Brothers
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On the battlefield of the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi and his friend Anakin Skywalker—the future Darth Vader—fight to keep the republic together in this feature-length animated addition to the Star Wars franchise. ...More

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Stuck
By Gordon, Stuart
2008/10 - Image Entertainment
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Mena Suvari unforgettably stars as Brandi, a hard-partying, overworked nursing assistant in this delicious, darkly humorous psychological thriller from director Stuart Gordon. Brandi accidentally steers her car into a homeless man, movingly played by Stephen Rea, sending him flying through the windshield. Not wanting to jeopardize a possible job promotion, she chooses not to get him medical help, leaving him clinging to life in her garage. But soon her psyche begins to unravel as captor and captive are pitted against each other in a bloody...even outrageous battle for survival. ...More

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Tropic Thunder
By Stiller, Ben
2008/11 - Dreamworks
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Drawing inspiration from films like Apocalypse Now and Platoon, this war movie send-up from director and star Ben Stiller follows a group of dimwitted actors forced to become real-life soldiers when they're abandoned in the jungles of Southeast Asia. ...More

The Unforeseen
By Dunn, Laura
2008/09 - New Yorker Films Video
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The American dream of owning a house with a white picket fence goes head-to-head with environmental sustainability in this urgent, beautifully crafted documentary. When an ambitious real estate developer sets out to transform thousands of acres of pristine hill country around Austin, Texas into a suburban development¢¬threatening a nearby natural spring and local treasure¢¬the community fights back. In the conflict that ensues, we see in miniature the struggle between development and preservation that today plays out in cities and towns across the country. A work of stunning visual beauty and epic scope, The Unforeseen is a grand meditation on the destruction of the natural world in pursuit of an often fleeting dream. ...More

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