New Quick Flicks for the Week of October 19, 2010

Agora By 2010-10 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398125266 Check Our Catalog Set in ancient Egypt under Roman rule, AGORA follows the brilliant and beautiful astronomer Hypatia (Weisz) who leads a group of disciples fighting to save the wisdom of the ancient world, as violent religious upheaval spills into the streets of Alexandria. Among these disciples are two men competing for her heart: the witty, privileged Orestes (Isaac) and Davus (Minghella), Hypatias young slave, who is torn between his secret love for her and the freedom he knows can be his if he chooses to join the unstoppable surge of the Christians. …More

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Oceans By Perrin, Jacques Director Cluzaud, Jacques 2010-10 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment 0786936804591 Check Our Catalog Nearly three-quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water and OCEANS boldly chronicles the mysteries that lie beneath. Directors Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud dive deep into the very waters that sustain all of mankind - exploring the harsh reality and the amazing creatures that live within. Narrated by Pierce Brosnan and featuring spectacular never-before-seen imagery captured by the latest underwater technologies, OCEANS offers an unprecedented look beneath the sea. …More

P-Star Rising By Noble, Gabriel 2010-05 - PBS 0841887012188 Check Our Catalog …More

Please Give By Holofcener, Nicole 2010-10 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396350342 Check Our Catalog Life gets knotty when successful Manhattan couple Alex and Kate develop a relationship with the granddaughters of Andra, the cantankerous elderly woman who owns the apartment next to theirs -- and who must die so they can expand their home. …More

Predators By Antal, Nimrod 2010-10 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543671992 Check Our Catalog PREDATORS, a bold new chapter in the Predator universe, shot under the creative auspices of Robert Rodriguez, stars Adrien Brody as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they've been brought together on an alien planet... as prey. With the notable exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers - mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members - human predators that are now being systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators. …More

The Six Wives of Henry Lefay By 2010-10 - E1 0652405004390 Check Our Catalog When Lefay is presumed dead, his daughter is left to make the funeral arrangements but is suddenly caught in the middle of a hysterical 6-way power struggle when her dads multiple wives begin appearing out of the woodwork. …More

25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
Features live and previously unseen performances, and includes the 2009 celebration of the Hall's silver anniversary, marked by two all-star New York Concerts that aired on HBO. Features U2 performing with Fergie and Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen with John Fogerty, Metallica, Aretha Franklin, and more.

The Gates
Starting with an original attempt in 1979, this film documents the ambitions, planning, and ultimate achievement of Christo's project to install a series of cloth-hung gates in Central Park. The film follows the artists Christo and Jeanne Claude and they navigate through various meetings, arguments, facing an opposing host of city officials, private representatives, artists, and citizens. Over 20 years later the artists fulfill their hope of creating a shared artwork for the community, the camera capturing the ultimate result and public reactions.

Giallo
In Italy, a serial killer known only as Yellow kidnaps foreign women in his unlicensed taxi. After drugging them, he mutilates his victims and documents his deeds with photographs. Celine fears that her sister has been kidnapped and teams up with Inspector Enzo Avolfi to rescue her from the sadistic killer.

Hell Girl, Two Mirrors
Collection 2.  When there is Hell to pay, Ai Enma is the collector. Now, the volatile emotions she has entombed are beginning to exhume themselves, and a cycle of reprisal and retribution wields its deadly scythe on the people of Lovely Hills. Hell girl and her companions find themselves facing visions of their own mortality. Who were they, before becoming Hell's Collectors? And what will be their fate? Ai Enma must take a journey to find the answers to these questions, and others. Includes episodes 14-26.

How Sweet It Was
A best of the best compilation covering a span of over 40 years. Compiled by gospel music expert Anthony Heilbut, this exciting multi-faceted package offers great film of gospel icons, filmed in the 1960s, as well as many all-time classic music tracks from the 1940s-1960s on the accompanying CD. Also includes booklet with biographical notes and photos.

I Hate Love Stories
"'I hate love storys' is the maxim Jay lives by. But as an assistant director to Veer, the most famous romantic filmmaker of Indian Film Industry, Jay has little option but to live with larger than life, glossy, cinematic love  on an everday basis. Things only get worse when he is made to work under the new production designer on the film... Simran, with whom he shares the strangest first encounter"--Container.

Ladies & Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones
Filmed in Texas in 1972 over four nights of the 'Exile On Main Street' US tour, it was billed at the  time as the most powerful rock film ever made and is considered by many fans to be the  finest Rolling Stones performance ever captured on film.

Magadheera
Four people involved in a power struggle over the fate of medieval Udayghad die and are reincarnated together in contemporary India to resolve their conflicts.

Mandie and the Cherokee Treasure
When Uncle John forbids Mandie from joining his quest to keep an old promise, Jason Bond and Mandie's  newfound mother, Elizabeth, make other plans. Mandie  and friends then embark on a harrowing journey by train to protect Uncle John.

Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai
This is the story of two gangsters. While one was ethical the other was reckless. It has inspirations of the characters of infamous smuggler Haji Mastan and now infamous don Dawood Ibrahim. The film is about Sultan (Ajay Devgan) who labored through his childhood and became a  smuggler as he grew up completely ruling the sea routes. He however always preferred keeping the city clean and never smuggles which was against his conscience. Shoaib (Emraan Hashmi) is inspired by Sultan's life as a child and wants to it as big. He is a son of a  police officer but has no inclination towards the law. As he grows up he makes his way to Sultan's gang and proves himself good enough to go up the ladder fast. However his reckless ambitions soon outgrew Sultan and he decided to take over the city on his own.

Udaan
After being abandoned for eight straight years in boarding school, Rohan returns to the small industrial town of Jamshedpur and finds himself closeted with an authoritarian father and a younger half brother who he didn't even know existed. Forced to work in his father's steel factory and study engineering against his wishes, he tries to forge his own life out of his given circumstances and pursue his dream of being a writer.