New Quick Flicks for the Week of June 14, 2011

Adrift By Dhalia, Heitor 2011-06 - Universal Home Video 0025192092350 Check Our Catalog From Focus Features, the premiere global brand in original and daring cinema, comes Focus World. Charged with finding the most exciting new voices in international and independent film, Focus World is proud to bring you Adrift, the sexy new thriller produced by Fernando Meirelles, Oscar-nominated director of City of God and Focus' Oscar-winning The Constant Gardener. Adrift is written and directed by Heitor Dhalia. While spending summer vacation with her family on the idyllic southeast coast of Brazil, fourteen-year-old Filipa (newcomer Laura Neiva) discovers that her father (Vincent Cassel of Black Swan), a famous author, is betraying her mother by dallying with a beautiful young American woman (Camilla Belle of From Prada To Nada). Wrestling with the truth, Filipa will soon discover that her father's infidelity is only the first of many dark secrets that lurk beneath the surface of her seemingly perfect family. …More

Battle Los Angeles By Liebesman, Jonathan 2011-06 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396376915 Check Our Catalog Witness the end of civilization unfold as hostile alien invaders attack the planet. As people everywhere watch the worlds great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. Now it's up to a Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) and his platoon to draw a line in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike any theyve ever encountered in this epic sci-fi action film. …More

Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son By Whitesell, John 2011-06 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543746539 Check Our Catalog After stints as an undercover grandmother and an undercover nanny, FBI agent Malcolm Turner (Martin Lawrence) adds undercover housemother to his resume in BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON. In this hefty new comedy, Big Momma is hired to go deep undercover as the Headmistress of the Atlanta Girls School for the Arts attended by aspiring music student and leading love interest Haley (Jessica Lucas). Proving like father, like son, Turner brings along his stepson Trent (Brandon T. Jackson) to double as Big Mommas grand-niece Charmaine and go undercover as a student in the school with hilarious results. The duo tries in vain to derail attempts by the schools security guard (Faizon Love) to get control of the debauchery. …More

Hall Pass By Farrelly, Peter 2011-06 - New Line Cinema Corporation 0794043144417 Check Our Catalog Rick and Fred are best friends who have a lot in common, including the fact that they have each been married for many years. But when the two men begin to show signs of restlessness at home, their wives take a bold approach to revitalizing their marriages: granting them a "hall pass," one week of freedom to do whatever they want...no questions asked. At first, it sounds like a dream come true for Rick and Fred. But it isn't long before they discover that their expectations of the single life -- and themselves -- are completely, and hilariously, out of sync with reality. …More

Kill the Irishman By Hensleigh, Jonathan 2011-06 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz 0013132219790 Check Our Catalog Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson) and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greenes heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob. …More

N-Secure By Matthews, David M. 2011-06 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543752516 Check Our Catalog Cordell Moore, Denise Boutte and Lamman Rucker (co-stars of Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Marrired?) come together once again for the gripping thriller N-SECURE. Wealthy businessman David Washington (Moore) wants to control every aspect of his life, including his beautiful girlfriend Robyn (Essence Atkins). But his domineering nature only pushes Robyn into the arms of the handsome fianc of her best friend. Haunted by Robyn's betrayal and his own insecurities, David soon finds himself ensnared in a web of revenge and murder, leading to a shocking climax that will leave you breathless. …More

Red Riding Hood By Hardwicke, Catherine 2011-06 - Warner Home Video 0883929189618 Check Our Catalog Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) is a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry (Max Irons). Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. For years, the people have maintained an uneasy truce with the beast, offering the creature a monthly animal sacrifice. But under a blood red moon, the wolf has upped the stakes by taking a human life. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon (Gary Oldman), to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon's arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them. As the death toll rises with each moon, Valerie begins to suspect that the werewolf could be someone she loves. Panic grips the town as Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast - one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect...and bait. …More

Vanishing of the Bees By Langworthy, George Narrated by Page, Ellen Voice by Page, Ellen 2011-06 - E1 0826262006792 Check Our Catalog …More

Can Go Through Skin
A brutal assault changes Marieke's life. She leaves her familiar city rhythms for the solitude of a dilapidated house in an empty countryside. Her irrational fears on the frozen farm are a constant struggle. As spring's orchestra begins, her curiosity for new things that cover the cold rot of winter pulls her out of the suffocating interior of her mind. Slowly she accepts the help of John, her neighbor, but as the seasons change so does she.

Kingdom of War
Follows the life of King Naresuan the Great, who liberated the Siamese from the control of Burma, changing the destiny of a nation. Part I depicts Naresuan's boyhood, when he was taken hostage by Burmese King Bayinnaung to keep the vassal Ayudhya Kingdom  subservient. Part II portrays Naresuan as a young adult prince, who leads his army on exploits against breakaway kingdoms for King Bayinnaung's successor, King Nonthabureng, then breaks away to declare sovereignty for Siam.

Wartorn 1861-2010
Beginning with the first documented cases from the Civil War, the film examines occurrences of PTSD through two World Wars and Vietnam, as well as more recent cases involving soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The stories are told through soldiers' revealing letters and journals; photographs and combat footage; first-person interviews with veterans of WWII, the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm, and Operation Iraqi Freedom; and interviews with family members of soldiers with PTSD.