Friday, March 25, 2011

New Quick Flicks for the Week of March 22, 2011

Attack on Darfur



Attack on Darfur
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2010-10 - Phase 4 Films
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Attack on Darfur, which stars Billy Zane, Edward Furlong and Kristanna Loken, is the story of a group of Western journalists in Sudan who visit a small village to gather footage and interviews in hopes of reporting on the atrocities they have seen. When they hear that the Janjaweed are heading towards the village, they are confronted with the dilemma of whether to run for safety or to stay behind and attempt to avert the villages slaughter. …More


Caged Animal


Caged Animal
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2010-12 - Phase 4 Films
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How
 Do You Know



How Do You Know
By Brooks, James L.
2011-03 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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Feeling spurned after being cut from the national team due to her age, newly single softball player Lisa finds herself in the middle of a heated love triangle, as a professional baseball player and a business executive compete for her affections. …More


Off Jackson Avenue


Off Jackson Avenue
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2010-11 - E1
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OSS
 117: Lost in Rio



OSS 117: Lost in Rio
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2010-08 - Southport Music Box Corpo
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The pride of French intelligence, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (code name OSS 117) has a new mission that takes him to Bossa Nova Brazil of the 1960s. Teaming up with a sexy Mossad agent, he has to capture a Nazi blackmailer with a embarrassingly long list of World War II French collaborators. …More


Return to Tarawa: The Leon Cooper Story


Return to Tarawa: The Leon Cooper Story
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2010-07 - Victor Multimedia-05
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Skyline



Skyline
By Strause, Colin
2011-03 - Universal Home Video
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It was supposed to be a simple birthday weekend in Southern California. But when sunrise arrives two hours early in the form of a haunting light from an unknown source, a group of friends watch in terror as people across the city are drawn outside and swept into massive alien ships that have blotted out the L.A. skyline. From tankers to drones and hydra-like extraterrestrials, the aliens are inescapable and seemingly indestructible. Now, it will take every survival instinct the group has to elude capture in this riveting, action-packed sci-fi adventure. …More


The Tourist



The Tourist
By Donnersmarck, Florian Henckel Von
2011-03 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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Frank (Johnny Depp), a mild-mannered American on vacation in Venice, Italy, is befriended by Elise (Angelina Jolie), a breathtakingly beautiful woman with a mysterious secret. Soon, their playful romantic dalliance turns into a complicated web of dangerous deceit as they are chased by Interpol, the Italian police, and Russian hit men in this suspense-filled, international action thriller. …More


Unmade Beds



Unmade Beds
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2011-02 - MPI Home Video
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Young Argentinian director Alexis Dos Santos fulfills the promise of his acclaimed debut Glue with Unmade Beds, a sexy tale of two young people adrift in London. Axl (Fernando Tielve of Guillermo Del Toro s The Devil s Backbone) is a Spanish kid trying to track down the British man who fathered him 20 years ago. Vera (Deborah Franois of The Page Turner and the award-winning L Enfant) has come from France to get over a heartbreak. They both wind up living in a wild, bohemian apartment and embark on adventures of discovery and romance. Axl finds out his biological father is a real estate broker and pretends to be in the market for an apartment just so he can get to know his dad. Vera tries hard not to fall in love she won t even tell a new boyfriend her name but sometimes the heart knows better. With driving pop music, nights of ecstatic dancing and mornings spent untangling threesomes, Unmade Beds is a dazed and confused tale of youthful possibility. …More


Yogi Bear



Yogi Bear
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2011-03 - Warner Home Video
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When the greedy mayor decides to close Jellystone Park to cash in by selling the land, Yogi Bear and his sidekick Boo-Boo must team with their adversary, Ranger Smith, to save their home. …More


A Crime
Vincent's life is on hold until he finds his wife's killer. Alice, his neighbor, is convinced she can make him happy. She decides to invent a culprit so that Vincent can find revenge and leave the past behind. But there is no ideal culprit and no perfect crime.

Donkey
After spending two years in the slammer for grand theft auto, Don Keys is back on the street with only two things on his mind: love and revenge. With the help of his buddies, spastic Ricky, and Stevie the lesbian drug dealer, Don sets out to track down Tommy, the slimy thief who bolted from the cops and left him to take the heat, and find happiness with Bella, the girl he's loved since childhood. But fate has other plans for the two-bit thug.

Full Signal
"Since 1997 and the onset of GSM telephony, more and more cellular antennas have been popping up in neighborhoods, near children's schools and on neighbor's rooftops all around the world to support an ever-growing number of cell phone users and people are feeling the effects...[The filmmaker] talks to a number of leading scientists that have been studying the effects of cellular technology on human beings for years; sheds light on the triumphs and tribulations of lawmakers, lawyers and activists fighting to regulate antenna placement; and hears from those who have suffered and lost due to cellular technology." -- Container.

Journey to Promethea
A tyrannical king reigns over his kingdom with an iron fist, but there is hope. A prophecy foretold long ago states that a boy will rise up against the oppressive regime and lead his people to the promised land of Promethea. The journey of this one boy sparks a rebellion and ignites a vicious clash of wills between king and commoner, where only one group can emerge alive and victorious.

No One Killed Jessica
Jessica, a model trying her hand at bartending, is shot dead at a celebrity party. Her crime? Refusing to serve a drink after closing hours. The culprit, Manish, son of a prominent politician, inebriated by a deadly cocktail of alcohol and a sense of entitlement, pulled the trigger in a fit of rage. With 300 of Delhi's swish set present at the party, many of whom are witnesses to the murder, Manish looks all set to go to the gallows. Except that it doesn't quite go that way. Jessica's sister Sabrina and the feisty TV reporter Meera have to drum up every resource to beat Manish at his own game.

Race Across the Sky
Tells the story of the  2009 Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race. At 10,000+ feet, against the misty backdrop of a former mining town, Leadville, Colorado, 1228 cyclists start the grueling 100 mile race. Racers include Lance Armstrong, Dave Wiens and Rebecca Rusch.

Vanquisher
After completing a covert mission, a fearsome female CIA agent finds herself forced to fight off operatives who've been ordered to take her out at all costs.