New Quick Flicks for the Week of 5/4/10

Crazy Heart By Cooper, Scott 2010-04 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543665892 Check Our Catalog Four-time Academy Award nominee JEFF BRIDGES stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film CRAZY HEART from writer-director Scott Cooper. Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad cant help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL), a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one mans crazy heart. …More

Defendor By Stebbings, Peter 2010-04 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396342941 Check Our Catalog Despite lacking any actual superpowers, Arthur Poppington transforms himself into costumed vigilante "Defendor." But danger beckons when the hero tries to protect young prostitute Kat from an assailant. …More

Leap Year By Tucker, Anand 2010-05 - Universal Home Video 0025192044205 Check Our Catalog When Annas (Amy Adams) four-year anniversary to her boyfriend passes without an engagement ring, she decides to take matters into her own hands. Inspired by an Irish tradition that allows women to propose to men on Leap Day, Anna follows Jeremy (Adam Scott) to Dublin to propose to him. But after landing on the wrong side of Ireland, she must enlist the help of the handsome and carefree local Declan (Matthew Goode) to get her across the country. Along the way, they discover that the road to love can take you to very unexpected places. …More

The Missing Person By Buschel, Noah 2010-04 - Strand Releasing Home Video 0712267291328 Check Our Catalog This thrilling film noir stars Academy Award Nominee Michael Shannon as John Rosow, a private detective hired to tail a man, Harold Fullmer, on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers Harolds identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed dead after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Persuaded by a large reward, Rosow is charged with bringing Harold back to his wife in New York City against his will. Ultimately Rosow must confront whether the decision to return Harold to a life that no longer exists is the right one. …More

Nine By Marshall, Rob 2010-05 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396348837 Check Our Catalog World famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his film star muse, his confidant and costume designer, an American fashion journalist, his agent, and his mother. …More

The Slammin' Salmon By 2010-04 - Starz/Sphe 0013132138794 Check Our Catalog …More

Tenure By 2010-04 - Uni Dist Corp (Music) 0883476013350 Check Our Catalog …More

Tokyo Sonata By Kurosawa, Kiyoshi 2010-05 - Koch Vision 0741952681199 Check Our Catalog From Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa comes a drama about the Sasakis, an ordinary Japanese family living a bucolic life -- until the father is abruptly laid off from his job and decides to keep the news from his wife and kids. Soon, the father's sense of shame, and the indignity he faces while passing each day in the park in his suit and tie, quickly turns into a rage that proves to hold irrevocable consequences for all concerned. …More

The queen and I
When Nahid Persson Sarvestani, an Iranian exile, set out to make a documentary about Empress Farah Phalavi, the wife of the Shah of Iran, she expected to encounter her opposite. As a child, Persson Sarvestani had lived in dire poverty, watching Pahlavi's royal wedding as if it were a fairy tale. She joined the Communist faction of Khomeini's revolution that deposed the Shah when she was a teenager, sending him and his family volleying from country to country. When Khomeini betrayed his promise for democracy, imposing even more violent measures, Persson Sarvestani was also forced to flee. 30 years later, she needs key questions answered and goes directly to the source. Surprisingly, Empress Farah welcomes her as a fellow refugee from their beloved homeland, granting unprecedented access. Over the next year and a half, Persson Sarvestani enters the queen's world, planning to challenge the shah's ideology; instead, she must rethink her own.

Soul eater. Part one, episodes 1-13
Maka is a meister and Soul is her weapon. As students at the Grim Reaper's Death Weapon Meister Academy, their study habits couldn't be more different. But in battle against the supernatural forces of evil, they're a freakin' lethal team. That's when Soul transforms - literally - into a razor sharp scythe, and every defeated wicked soul he sucks down makes him more deadly. That's when Maka unleashes the merciless slayer within, wielding her partner and dropping monsters. ... Every freakish ghoul Maka and Soul take out strengthens their bond, and fighting alongside their fellow Meister/Weapon classmates, Maka and Soul are the world's last line of defense against evil.

Soul eater. Part two, episodes 14-26
The witch Medusa and her ghoulish minions are out to unleash the Kishin, who isn't just a demon, he's the greatest force of darkness ever known, a wicked fiend of unspeakable power. Luckily, Maka and Soul are used to saving the world from evil. But if they can't stop Medusa's freakish army in time, Maka, Soul, and their fellow Weapon/Meister classmates will be fighting to save themselves.