Quick Flicks for Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 By Cameron, Cody Director Pearn, Kris Voice by Hader, Bill 2014-01 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396425101 Check Our Catalog Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 picks up where the first film left off. Inventor Flint Lockwood's genius is finally being recognized as he's invited by his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, where the best and brightest inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. Chester's right-hand-gal - and one of his greatest inventions - is Barb (a highly evolved orangutan with a human brain, who is also devious, manipulative and likes to wear lipstick. It's always been Flint's dream to be recognized as a great inventor, but everything changes when he discovers that his most infamous machine (which turns water into food) is still operating and is now creating food-animal hybrids - "foodimals!" With the fate of humanity in his hands, Chester sends Flint and his friends on a dangerously delicious mission, battling hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, apple pie-thons, double bacon cheespiders and other food creatures to save the world again! …More

The Fifth Estate By Condon, Bill 2014-01 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment 0786936839593 Check Our Catalog Through the eyes of Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Bruhl), an early supporter and eventual colleague of Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch), the film follows the heady, early days of Wikileaks to its abrupt end after a series of controversial and history changing info leaks. The website's overnight success brought instant fame to its principal architects, but as their power expanded across the globe, Daniel grew increasingly disillusioned with Julian's questionable tactics and ethics. The rift between the two friends became irreparable and their ideological differences tore them apart, but not before they revolutionized, for better and worse, the flow of information to news media and the world at large. …More

Bad Grandpa By Tremaine, Jeff 2014-01 - Paramount Home Video 0097363590545 Check Our Catalog 86 year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companions, his 8 year-old Grandson Billy in "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa." The signature Jackass character Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) and Billy (Jackson Nicoll) will take movie audiences along for the most insane hidden camera road trip ever captured on camera. Along the way Irving will introduce the young and impressionable Billy to people, places and situations that give new meaning to the term childrearing. The duo will encounter male strippers, disgruntled child beauty pageant contestants (and their equally disgruntled mothers), funeral home mourners, biker bar patrons and a whole lot of unsuspecting citizens. Real people in unreal situations, making for one really messed up comedy. …More

Last Vegas By Turteltaub, Jon 2014-01 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396435469 Check Our Catalog Starring four legends like you've never seen them before, LAST VEGAS tells the story of Billy, Paddy, Archie and Sam (played by Academy-Award winners Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline), best friends since childhood. When Billy, the group's sworn bachelor, finally proposes to his thirty-something (of course) girlfriend, the four head to Las Vegas with a plan to stop acting their age and relive their glory days. However, upon arriving, the four quickly realize that the decades have transformed Sin City and tested their friendship in ways they never imagined. The Rat Pack may have once played the Sands and Cirque du Soleil may now rule the Strip, but it's these four who are taking over Vegas. …More

Quick Flicks for Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Blue Jasmine By Allen, Woody 2014-01 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396425620 Check Our Catalog After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal (Alec Baldwin), elegant New York socialite Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) moves into her sister Ginger's (Sally Hawkins) modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again. …More

Captain Phillips By Greengrass, Paul 2014-01 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396417847 Check Our Catalog Action-thriller Captain Phillips stars two-time Oscar(R) winner Tom Hanks in the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years. …More

In a World... By Bell, Lake 2014-01 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396429314 Check Our Catalog Lake Bell ("Children's Hospital") stars in In a World..., a hilarious romantic comedy about a struggling vocal coach who strikes it big in the cutthroat world of movie-trailer voiceovers, only to find herself in direct competition with the industry's reigning king--her father. …More

Quick Flicks for Tuesday, January 14, 2014

20 Feet from Stardom By Neville, Morgan With Adler, Lou 2014-01 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz 0013132609041 Check Our Catalog They are the voices behind the greatest rock, pop and R&B hits of all time, but no one knows their names. Now, in this award-winning documentary, director Morgan Neville shines the spotlight on the untold stories of such legendary background singers as Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Judith Hill, and more. …More

Carrie By Peirce, Kimberly 2014-01 - Tcfhe/MGM 0883904293699 Check Our Catalog A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White (Chloe Grace Moretz), a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother (Julianne Moore), who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom. …More

Fruitvale Station By Coogler, Ryan 2014-01 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz 0013132607825 Check Our Catalog FRUITVALE was the winner of both the Grand Jury Prize for dramatic feature and the Audience Award for U.S. dramatic film at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. This is the true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: being a better son to his mother, whose birthday falls on New Year's Eve, being a better partner to his girlfriend, who he hasn't been completely honest with as of late, and being a better father to T, their beautiful 4- year- old- daughter. He starts out well, but as the day goes on, he realizes that change is not going to come easy. He crosses paths with friends, family, and strangers, each exchange showing us that there is much more to Oscar than meets the eye. But it would be his final encounter of the day, with police officers at the Fruitvale BART station that would shake the Bay Area to its very core, and cause the entire nation to be witnesses to the story of Oscar Grant. …More

I'm in Love with a Church Girl By Race, Steve 2014-01 - Gaiam Americas 0883476131429 Check Our Catalog Miles Montego was king of the streets as a high-level drug trafficker, and although he has tried to move on, the DEA isn't convinced. When Miles meets Vanessa, a woman who is different than every other woman he's met, he is drawn to her beauty and her spirituality. As their connection grows deeper, both are tested to their last ounce of faith in God and in each other. …More

Enough Said By Holofcener, Nicole 2014-01 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543896975 Check Our Catalog A divorced and single parent, Eva (Julia Louis Dreyfus) spends her days enjoying work as a masseuse but dreading her daughter's impending departure for college. She meets Albert (James Gandolfini) - a sweet, funny and like-minded man also facing an empty nest. As their romance quickly blossoms, Eva befriends Marianne (Catherine Keener), her new massage client. Marianne is a beautiful poet who seems "almost perfect" except for one prominent quality: she rags on her ex-husband way too much. Suddenly, Eva finds herself doubting her own relationship with Albert as she learns the truth about Marianne's Ex. ENOUGH SAID is a sharp, insightful comedy that humorously explores the mess that often comes with getting involved again. …More

Lee Daniels' the Butler By Daniels, Lee 2014-01 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz 0013132611808 Check Our Catalog THE BUTLER tells the story of a White House butler who served eight American presidents over three decades. The film traces the dramatic changes that swept American society during this time, from the civil rights movement to Vietnam and beyond, and how those changes affected this man's life and family. …More

Kick-Ass 2 By Wadlow, Jeff 2014-01 - Universal Home Video 0025192167874 Check Our Catalog After Kick-Ass' insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, led by Colonel Stars and Stripes, our hero joins them on patrol. When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist only the blade-wielding Hit Girl can prevent their annihilation. …More

Short Term 12 By Cretton, Destin Daniel 2014-01 - Uni Dist Corp. (New Video 0025192215247 Check Our Catalog Grace is a twenty-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker, and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason. But Grace's own difficult past - and the surprising future that suddenly presents itself - throws her into unforeseen confusion, made sharper with the arrival of a new intake at the facility, a gifted but troubled teenage girl with whom Grace has a charged connection. …More

The Spectacular Now By Ponsoldt, James 2014-01 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398179306 Check Our Catalog With sly humor and an intensity of feeling, THE SPECTACULAR NOW (directed by James Ponsoldt) creates a vivid, three-dimensional portrait of youth confronting the funny, thrilling and perilous business of modern love and adulthood. This is the tale of Sutter Keely (Miles Teller), a high school senior and effortless charmer, and of how he unexpectedly falls in love with "the good girl" Aimee Finecky (Shailene Woodley). What starts as an unlikely romance becomes a sharp-eyed, straight-up snapshot of the heady confusion and haunting passion of youth - one that doesn't look for tidy truths …More

Quick flicks for Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Despicable Me 2 By Coffin, Pierre Director Renaud, Chris Voice by Carell, Steve 2014-01 - Universal Home Video 0025192123610 Check Our Catalog An all-new comedy animated adventure featuring the return of Gru (Steve Carell), the girls, the unpredictably hilarious minions... and a host of new and outrageously funny characters. …More

Fast & Furious 6 By Lin, Justin 2014-01 - Universal Home Video 0025192164316 Check Our Catalog Since Dom and Brian's Rio heist toppled a kingpin's empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered across the globe. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam have left their lives incomplete. Meanwhile, Hobbs has been tracking an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers across 12 countries, whose mastermind is aided by a ruthless second-in-command revealed to be the love Dom thought was dead, Letty. The only way to stop the criminal outfit is to outmatch them at street level, so Hobbs asks Dom to assemble his elite team in London. Payment? Full pardons for all of them so they can return home and make their families whole again. …More

Inequality for All By Kornbluth, Jacob 2014-01 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz 0013132609249 Check Our Catalog A passionate argument on behalf of the middle class, INEQUALITY FOR ALL features Robert Reich--professor, best-selling author, and Clinton cabinet member--as he demonstrates how the widening income gap has a devastating impact on the American economy. The film is an intimate portrait of a man who's overcome a great deal of personal adversity and whose lifelong goal remains protecting those who are unable to protect themselves. Through his singular perspective, Reich explains how the massive consolidation of wealth by a precious few threatens the viability of the American workforce and the foundation of democracy itself. In this INCONVENIENT TRUTH for the economy, Reich uses humor and a wide array of facts to explain how the issue of economic inequality affects each and every one of us. …More

Runner Runner By Furman, Brad 2014-01 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543840107 Check Our Catalog Princeton grad student Richie (Justin Timberlake), believing he's been swindled, travels to Costa Rica to confront online gambling tycoon Ivan Block (Ben Affleck). Richie is seduced by Block's promise of immense wealth, until he learns the disturbing truth about his benefactor. When the FBI tries to coerce Richie to help bring down Block, Richie faces his biggest gamble ever: attempting to outmaneuver the two forces closing in on him. …More

Thanks for Sharing By Blumberg, Stuart 2014-01 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398181989 Check Our Catalog An unconventional romantic comedy that follows the topsy-turvy lives and loves of three obsessive characters: an overachieving environmental consultant, a stubborn small-business owner and a wisecracking ER doctor. They meet in a support group, and set into motion a life-changing journey filled with laughter and surprises. …More

Quick Flicks for Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Don Jon By Gordon-Levitt, Joseph 2013-12 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543889779 Check Our Catalog Jon Martello (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a strong, handsome, good old fashioned guy. His buddies call him Don Jon due to his ability to "pull" a different woman every weekend, but even the finest fling doesn't compare to the bliss he finds alone in front of the computer watching pornography. Barbara Sugarman (Scarlett Johansson) is a bright, beautiful, good old fashioned girl. Raised on romantic Hollywood movies, she's determined to find her Prince Charming and ride off into the sunset. Wrestling with good old fashioned expectations of the opposite sex, Jon and Barbara struggle against a media culture full of false fantasies to try and find true intimacy in this unexpected comedy written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. …More

Quick Flicks for Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Jobs By Stern, Joshua Michael 2013-11 - Universal Home Video 0025192191442 Check Our Catalog We follow Steve Jobs (ASHTON KUTCHER) from the enthusiasm and self-discovery of his youth through his darkest days, brightest triumphs, and the ultimate power of his drive, his passions, and his undying will to change everything we thought possible. Dark, honest, and uncompromising, "Jobs" plunges into the depths of Steve Jobs' character, uncovering his driving motivations, his gifts, his flaws, his failures, and his ultimate successes. …More

Insidious Chapter 2 By Wan, James 2013-12 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396424401 Check Our Catalog The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world. …More

Quick Flicks for Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Elysium By Blomkamp, Neill 2013-12 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396417236 Check Our Catalog In the year 2154, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. The people of Earth are desperate to escape the planet's crime and poverty, and they critically need the state-of-the-art medical care available on Elysium - but some in Elysium will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve their citizens' luxurious lifestyle. The only man with the chance to bring equality to these worlds is Max (Matt Damon), an ordinary guy in desperate need to get to Elysium. With his life hanging in the balance, he reluctantly takes on a dangerous mission - one that pits him against Elysium's Secretary Delacourt (Jodie Foster) and her hard-line forces - but if he succeeds, he could save not only his own life, but millions of people on Earth as well. …More

The Family By Besson, Luc 2013-12 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543861973 Check Our Catalog A mafia boss and his family are relocated to a sleepy town in France under the witness protection program after snitching on the mob. Despite Agent Stansfield's best efforts to keep them in line, Fred Blake and his family can't help resorting to old habits by handling their problems the 'family' way. Chaos ensues as their former Mafia cronies try to track them down, and scores are settled in the unlikeliest of settings. …More

The Lone Ranger By Verbinski, Gore 2013-12 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment 0786936823455 Check Our Catalog From producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski, the filmmaking team behind the blockbuster "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise, comes Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer Films' "The Lone Ranger," a thrilling adventure infused with action and humor, in which the famed masked hero is brought to life through new eyes. Native American spirit warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of the law, into a legend of justice--taking the audience on a runaway train of epic surprises and humorous friction as the two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and corruption. …More

One Direction: This Is Us By Spurlock, Morgan 2013-12 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396424173 Check Our Catalog ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US is a captivating and intimate all-access look at life on the road for the global music phenomenon. Weaved with stunning live concert footage, this inspiring feature film tells the remarkable story of Niall, Zayn, Liam, Harry and Louis' meteoric rise to fame, from their humble hometown beginnings and competing on the X-Factor, to conquering the world and performing at London's famed O2 Arena. Hear it from the boys themselves and see through their own eyes what it's really like to be One Direction. …More

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters By Freudenthal, Thor 2013-12 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543867685 Check Our Catalog Based on the publishing phenomenon, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters continues the young demigod's epic journey to fulfill his destiny. To save their world, Percy and his friends must find the fabled and powerfully magic Golden Fleece. Embarking on a treacherous odyssey into the uncharted waters of the Sea of Monsters (known to humans as the Bermuda Triangle), they battle terrifying creatures, an army of zombies, and the ultimate Evil. …More

2 Guns By Baltasar Kormakur With Washington, Denzel With Wahlberg, Mark 2013-12 - Universal Home Video 0025192167768 Check Our Catalog For the past 12 months, DEA agent Bobby Trench (Washington) and U.S. naval intelligence officer Marcus Stigman (Wahlberg) have been reluctantly attached at the hip. Working undercover as members of a narcotics syndicate, each man distrusts his partner as much as the criminals they have both been tasked to take down. When their attempt to infiltrate a Mexican drug cartel and recover millions goes haywire, Trench and Stigman are suddenly disavowed by their superiors. Now that everyone wants them in jail or in the ground, the only person they can count on is the other. Unfortunately for their pursuers, when good guys spend years pretending to be bad, they pick up a few tricks along the way. …More

Prisoners By Villeneuve, Denis 2013-12 - Warner Home Video 0883929318636 Check Our Catalog In the rural New England town of Brockton, Massachusetts, neighbors and friends the Dovers and the Birches gather for Thanksgiving dinner, but by the end of the night, their celebration turns to panic when the families' two youngest daughters go missing. As the hours pass and the girls don't turn up, it becomes terrifyingly apparent they've been kidnapped. After the cops fail to find them, Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) decides to take the law into his own hands, running up against dedicated Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal). But even as Loki is diligently working against the clock to solve the case, Keller will stop at nothing to get their prime suspect to talk before it's too late. …More

The World's End By Wright, Edgar 2013-12 - Universal Home Video 0025192175305 Check Our Catalog Twenty years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their hometown and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub - The World's End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind's. Reaching The World's End is the least of their worries. …More

The Sound of Music - Live! By Underwood, Carrie 2013-12 - Universal Home Video 0025192170669 Check Our Catalog An aspiring nun in pre-WWII Austria leaves the abbey to become a governess for the widower Captain von Trapp's seven children and finds herself falling in love. Beloved worldwide, The Sound of Music includes unforgettable songs including "Edelweiss," "Do-Re-Mi," "My Favorite Things," and "The Sound of Music." …More

Quick Flicks for Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Amour By Haneke, Michael 2013-08 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396417380 Check Our Catalog FRE Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested. …More

Battle of the Year By Lee, Benson With Holloway, Josh With Alonso, Laz 2013-12 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396417786 Check Our Catalog Battle of the Year is the Olympics of break dancing, a tournament held every year that attracts all the best teams from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years. Los Angeles Hip Hop mogul and former B-Boy Dante (Alonso) wants to put the country that started the Sport back on top. He enlists his hard-luck friend Blake (Holloway), who was a championship basketball coach, to coach his team. Armed with the theory that the right coach can make any team champions, they assemble a Dream Team of all the best b-boys across the country. With only three months until Battle of the Year, Blake has to use every tactic he knows to get twelve talented individuals to come together as a team if they're going to bring the Trophy back to America where it started. Inspired by the actual World championship held yearly in France. …More

Jayne Mansfield's Car By Thornton, Billy Bob 2013-12 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz 0013132602264 Check Our Catalog In what critics are calling his best work as writer/director since SLINGBLADE, Academy Award winner Billy Bob Thornton stars - along with Oscar winner Robert Duvall, two-time Oscar nominee John Hurt and Golden Globe winner Kevin Bacon - in this story of fathers and sons, wars and peace, and the turbulent time that changed America forever. It's 1969 in a small Alabama town, and the death of a quirky clan's long-estranged wife and mother brings together two very different families for the funeral. But do the scars of the past hide differences that will tear them apart or expose truths that could lead to the most unexpected collisions of all? Robert Patrick (WALK THE LINE), Ray Stevenson ("Dexter"), Frances O'Connor (THE HUNTER), and Katherine LaNasa ("Deception") co-star in the acclaimed comedy/drama. …More

Man of Tai Chi By Reeves, Keanu With Chen, Tiger Hu 2013-12 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz 0013132612812 Check Our Catalog From Keanu Reeves, MAN OF TAI CHI follows a young martial artist whose unparalleled skills land him in a lucrative underworld fight club. As the matches intensify, he must do whatever necessary to survive. …More

The Ultimate Life By Landon, Michael, Jr. 2013-12 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543909583 Check Our Catalog …More