Thursday, January 17, 2008

New Quick Flicks for the Week of 1/13/08




Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal
Southall United is an all Asian football club going through a major crisis. The team has no stars, no sponsors, no spectators and most importantly, no coach. Yet, it nurtures thehope that it will win the cup this time. In Hindi with optional subtitles.

Good Luck Chuck
It all started when Charlie Logan was ten years old. Breaking the cardinal rules of spin-the-bottle, Charlie refused to lip-lock with a demented Goth girl. She puts a hex on Charlie. Now, twenty-five years later, Charlie is a successful dentist and still, well, cursed. He discovers that every woman he's ever slept with has found true love - with the next guy after him. Before he knows it, Charlie has become a "good luck charm" for women. But, Charlie is lonely, that is, until he meets Cam. Cam is a beautiful, but accident-prone penguin specialist. When true romance develops, Charlie realizes he has to find a way to break his good-luck curse.


It's Breaking News
When Viday, a young TV news correspondent, gets switched from covering entertainment to covering crime; she finds herself at odds with the decisions of the news channel. In Hindi with English subtitles.


Mr. Bean's Holiday
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Rowan Atkinson returns as the hapless Mr. Bean, the incredibly awkward misfit with a knack for turning any situation into an all-out disaster. This time around, Bean heads to the French Riviera for a vacation and, along the way, becomes ensnared in an accidental kidnapping and a case of mistaken identity.

When self-help author John Farley returns home to visit his mother, he's shocked to find out that she's fallen for his sadistic high school gym teacher, Mr. Woodcock. Now, with their upcoming nuptials looming, it's all John can do to apply his self-help techniques to his own life and make sure his mom says "I don't."


In this quirky update on a classic fairy tale, freshman Sydney White pledges a once dignified sorority, only to find it has devolved into a nasty, backhanded clique. Disenchanted by the experience, Sydney takes up with a group of seven outcasts. Together with her band of merry misfits, she challenges the school's social hierarchy and looks to take down sorority president Rachel, the wicked campus villain.