New Quick Flicks for the Week of June 8, 2010

From Paris with Love By 2010-06 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398121305 Check Our Catalog A low-ranking intelligence operative (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) working in the office of the U.S. Ambassador in France takes on more than he bargained for when he partners with a wisecracking, fast-shooting, high-ranking U.S. agent (John Travolta) whos been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack. …More

Animation Express

Take a journey beyond your wildest imagination with this amazingly inventive, hugely entertaining collection of 26 animated shorts. With everything from modern masterworks such as Madame Tutli-Putli and Sleeping Betty to groundbreaking experimental shorts and classic cartoons, emerging talents join seasoned directors from the National Film Board of Canada. Includes: DVD 1. Madame Tutli-Putli -- Forming game -- Hungu -- Rosa Rosa -- Rains -- Retouches -- Subservience -- Spare change -- The spine -- The man who slept -- How people got fire -- Robes of war -- Drux flux -- DVD 2. Sleeping Betty -- The necktie -- Come again in spring -- Ha'Aki -- Here and there -- Flutter -- Engine 371 -- Invasion of the space lobsters -- Sainte Barbe -- Paradise -- Vive la Rose -- Land of the heads -- Runaway.

Code Geass, Lelouch of the rebellion R2, Part I

"The year is now 2018. With Zero dead and the remnants of the Black Knights being swept by the Britannian forces, a forced state of peace settles over Area 11. The rights of the Elevens remain limited but with no one to lead them and the defeat during the Black Rebellion hanging over them, the Japanese people remain under the boot of Britannian oppression with hope to overcome."

Code Geass, Lelouch of the rebellion R2, Part II

Nunnally aspires to re-establish "the Specially Administrated Zone of Japan," the cursed utopian project that once wiped out thousands of innocent Japanese. Lelouch has an existential crisis with his sister now leading the enemy forces. He decides to join the SAZJ with all members of his Black Knight force. Has he given up on rebellion, or conceived a new strategy?

Code Geass, Lelouch of the rebellion R2, Part III

Lelouch began his rebellion as Zero in order to defeat his own father, the emperor of the Holy Britannia. With his Geass, the absolute power to compel anyone to follow any order, and the Black Knights, his own military force, he succeeded in taking over the vast country of the Chinese Federation. While he amasses his strength as a political leader, his high-school girlfriend, Shirley, is killed after her destiny has been tossed around by the power of Geass, and he madly launches a ruthless assault into the secret religious organization called "Order of Geass."

Code Geass, Lelouch of the rebellion R2, Part IV

Lelouch has lost everything. Nunnally, his beloved sister and his reason to fight, disappeared within a nuclear blast of the new weapon, F.L.E.I. J.A., and Black Knights, his loyal armed force, has turned against him after they found out about the secrets of his Geass power. At the depth of his desperation, Lelouch renews his determination to defeat his own father, who is about to achieve his ultimate goal by activating a super-dimensional apparatus, the Sword of Akasha.

Hum Tum Aur Ghost

"Armaan's life is picture perfect; a loving girlfriend, a fabulous job as a fashion photographer, and yet, things aren't as perfect as they seem to be. A chronic patient of insomnia, his sleeplessness is not a function of any sleeping disorder. The truth is that he hears voices; voices that torture him, voices that don't let him have his peace, voices that nobody else can listen to ... Suddenly aware of his special ability to connect with the souls that haven't crossed over and equipped with a will to fulfill the wishes of the spirits that hound him, Armaan now sets out on a mission to help three souls..."

Paa

Auro is an intelligent, witty 13-year-old boy with an extremely rare genetic defect that causes accelerated aging. He suffers from a progeria like syndrome. Mentally he is 13, very normal, but physically he looks five times older. In spite of his condition, Auro is a very happy boy. He lives with his mother Vidya, who is a gynecologist, and his father Amol Arte, a young, progressive, and full of ideals politician.

Shutter Island

When U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn. As the investigation unfolds and Daniels uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he also learns there are some places that never let you go. Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Max Von Sydow. Based on the novel by Dennis Lehane. Directed by Martin Scorsese.

Strike Witches, complete first season

The year is 1944 and the world lives in fear of unidentified flying objects called Neuroi. With the old-boy old guard unable to thwart this deadly menace, humanity turns its desperate eyes to an aerial attack force with much nicer legs. Meet the girls of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, better known as the Strike Witches.