New Quick Flicks for the Week of April 12, 2011

The Chronicles of Narnia The Voyage of the Dawn Treader By Apted, Michael Voice by Pegg, Simon Voice by Neeson, Liam 2011-04 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543707417 Check Our Catalog Precocious siblings Lucy (Georgie Henley, The Chronicles of Narnia series) and Edmund Pevensie (Skandar Heynes, The Chronicles of Narnia series), along with their cousin Eustace (Will Poulter, Son of Rambow), are swallowed into a painting and transported back to Narnia. They join King Caspian (Ben Barnes, Dorian Gray) and a noble mouse named Reepicheep in a quest to rescue noble lords who had been lost fighting evil on another island. Aboard the magnificent ship The Dawn Treader, the courageous voyagers travel to mysterious islands, confront mystical creatures, and reunite with the Great Lion Aslan on a mission that tests their characters to determine the fate of Narnia itself! …More

Country Strong By Feste, Shana 2011-04 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396374461 Check Our Catalog Soon after a rising young singer-songwriter (Hedlund) gets involved with a fallen, emotionally unstable country star (Paltrow), the pair embarks on a career resurrection tour helmed by her husband/manager (McGraw) and featuring a beauty-queen-turned-singer (Meester). Between concerts, romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all. …More

Goodnight for Justice By Priestley, Jason 2011-04 - E1 0741952695394 Check Our Catalog When John Goodnight was a boy he watched in the weeds as his entire family was killed in a ruthless outlaw attack. Now, as a Circuit Judge of the Western Territories, Goodnight travels the west protecting the innocent from injustice. …More

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 By Yates, David 2011-04 - Warner Home Video 0883929139446 Check Our Catalog The first installment of the two-part conclusion to the Harry Potter series finds the bespectacled wizard (Daniel Radcliffe) walking away from his last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever. …More

Ricky By 2011-04 - MPI Home Video 0030306965499 Check Our Catalog …More

A Summer in Genoa By 2011-04 - E1 0741952684992 Check Our Catalog After his wife dies in a tragic accident, Joe moves with his two daughters to Genoa. Seduced by the mysterious city and haunted by their past, the family soon finds themselves in peril. …More

White Material By 2011-04 - Image/Sphe 0715515070416 Check Our Catalog In WHITE MATERIAL, the great contemporary French filmmaker Claire Denis (Chocolat, Beau travail), known for her restless, intimate dramas, introduces an unforgettably crazed character. Played ferociously by Isabelle Huppert (Story of Women, The Piano Teacher), Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her familys crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. Created with Denis signature full-throttle visual style, which places the viewer in the center of the maelstrom, WHITE MATERIAL is a gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind. …More

Behind the Burly Q
"Burlesque and vaudeville acts were America's most popular form of live entertainment in the first half of the 20th century - until cinema drove them from the mainstream. To add insult to injury, the art of burlesque became vilified and misunderstood, and was largely left out of our cultural history. By telling the intimate and surprising stories from its golden age through the women (and men!) who lived it, Behind the Burly Q  reveals the true story of burlesque, even as it experiences a new renaissance."--publisher's website.

Disconnect
A distraught college student finds a phone that enables her to talk to her diseased mother in the past. She learns that her mother was murdered and tries to prevent it using the phone before the killer finds and murders her, too.

Glenn: the Flying Robot
Henry and Jack are two famous, talented pianists: they are rivals and try to outdo each other in the various music events where they regularly compete. They have known each other since their days at the music academy. They met Lana there and Jack had an affair with her then. This friendship deteriorated along the years and Lana left Jack for Henry. Lana slowly realizes that the only thing Henry cares about is his job, she leaves him and finds refuge with Jack who finds a way to get back at Henry.

Heartless
Jamie is a talented young photographer who has a disfiguring birthmark that makes him feel like an outsider. While he is developing pictures, Jamie sees a hooded figure peering from behind a window. Investigating, he stumbles into a horrific world of reptilian monsters posing as street gangs, violence inflicted on the most innocent, and a demon with the power to offer Jamie everything he has ever dreamed of, but at a deadly price.

Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City
The story of Daniel Burnham, a dreamer, who shaped some of America's best-known places and spaces. The film explores Burnham's fascinating career and complex legacy as public debate continues today about how and for whom cities are planned.

Miracle of the Widow
Grace Harrington ran from God, ran from her family, and ran from herself until history caught up with her. Ruth Zeller's family has kept the  secret for centuries. Greedy men, disasters, persecution, even the Nazis could not remove the treasure entrusted to them by God. Humbly and quietly the servants of Yahweh continued their work, always on guard. From the first moment Grace Harrington enters the bakery she is uneasy. Previous prejudices lead Grace to take matters into her own hands. Events intensify as Grace encounters locked doors, odd rumors, and an insistent art dealer. Can Ruth entrust Grace with her family's history? Will Grace have the faith to accept the truth? Or will the gift, kept safe for a thousand generations, be forever lost?

Payback
Kunal Sahay is injured in a fatal accident and admitted to a hospital by a man named Raghu, who disappears into thin air. Three months later, Raghu appears at Kunal's doorstep with a bullet in his shoulder. Kunal impulsively helps him, but as the night progresses, he realizes that Raghu may actually be an assassin. When things get dangerous and his love, Ishita, is dragged into it, Kunal is forced to make a decision. How far will Kunal go to repay Raghu's debt?

Spice & Wolf: Season 1
"Lawrence, a traveling merchant searching for profit, finds a naked girl with the ears and tail of a wolf asleep in his cart. Her name is Holo -- a harvest goddess with an untamed beast lurking inside who longs to return to her beloved northern home. Armed with his street smarts and her animal insticts, a simple peddler and a forgotten deity begin a journey through the wild countryside. Along their path, the riches of happiness shall be reaped, even as the bankruptcy which dwells in the human heart is exposed."--Container.

Superman/Shazam!: The Return of the Black Adam
Chosen the world's protector against the Seven Deadly Enemies of Man (pride, envy, greed, hatred, selfishness, laziness, and injustice) young Billy Batson accepts his destiny as Captain Marvel. Battling alongside Superman against nefarious Black Adam, Billy soon discovers the challenge superheroes ultimately face; is it revenge or justice? Superman, Green Arrow and Black Canary follow an internal moral code to guide their actions.

Well Done Abba
Mumbai-based businessman Rahul Singh decides to fire his chauffeur, Armaan Ali, who has returned to work after being absent without authorization for about two months. Armaan pleads to reinstate him and offers to drive him to Pune, to which Rahul wearily relents. It is during this journey that Armaan offers an explanation to his employer as to why he was absent from work. First to try and get his Chikatpally-based feisty daughter, Muskan, married. Next to drill a well on his property in this parched region where theft of water is common, and finally to comically try and stay below the poverty line in order to get benefits under the Kapildhara scheme. His tale includes his arrest at the hands of the local police, his truant twin, Rehman, and the mysterious 'theft' of his well.--IMDb.