New Quick Flicks for the week of 5/20/08

Beowulf and Grendel By Gunnarsson, Sturla Butler, Gerard Curran, Tony This tells the bloody tale of warrior Beowulf's battlewith Grendel, a murderous troll. The battle-scarred hero Beowulf leads a troop of warriors to help King Hrothgar, whose kingdom is destroyed by Grendel. However, Beowulf's attempts to fight the troll are thwarted when Grendel refuses to engage in battle. ...More

The Cutting Edge: Chasing the Dream By Gillard, Stuart Lanter, Matt Raisa, Francia The Cutting Edge: Chasing the Dream follows in the footsteps of the original hit romantic comedy, The Cutting Edge which charmed audiences with its story of an unlikely pair of polar opposites who unite on the ice for a shot at Olympic gold. ...More

Looking for Cheyenne By Minetto, Valerie Dekker, Mila Zidi, Malik Cheyenne is a journalist who decides to leave Paris after being laid off and settles down in the middle of nowhere, far from the society she hates.The trouble is that she has to leave Sonia, her true love, behind. Sonia is a teacher who loves her job and refuses to give up everything, including her comfort, to follow her. Sonia makes all the efforts in the world to forget Cheyenne, whether in the arms of Pierre, a charming anarchist, or in those of Béatrice, a gay woman who soon proves perverse and dangerous, only to realize that her heart belongs to Cheyenne and nobody else. When Cheyenne does not come back, Sonia feels life is not worth living any longer. ...More

National Geographic: Masters of the Arctic Ice Global climate change's most noticeable impact occurs in the Arctic Circle. This fascinating documentary from National Geographic shows how Arctic wildlife, such as seals and polar bears, struggles to survive in a rapidly changing environment. Using innovative "critter cam" technology, filmmakers reveal the ways in which these creatures navigate the harsh seas and melting landscapes in this remote and often hostile region. ...More

National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets By Turtletaub, Jon Cage, Nicholas Benjamin Franklin Gates and Dr. Abigail Chase -- who found riches and romance at the end of their first hunt for national treasure -- reteam with their wisecracking partner in crime, Riley Poole, for another romp through U.S. history. Now, armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben is obsessed with finding the truth behind President Abraham Lincoln's assassination. ...More

National Geographic: The Road to War Iraq Provides frank insight into the decision-making process that led to the invasion of Iraq. Reveals how internal rivalries, murky intelligence and the events of September 11 influenced one of today's most controversial conflicts. Details the internal debate and controversy surrounding the seismic shift in American foreign policy. ...More

Slipstream By Hopkins, Anthony Duncan, Michael Clarke Slater, Christian Written, directed and starring Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins, and featuring a top-notch cast, SLIPSTREAM is an exciting and inventive drama about life and death - - and everything in between. Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer (Hopkins) has lived his life in two states of existence: reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder mystery screenplay, Felix becomes baffled as his characters start appearing in his life, and his life starts slipping into his characters. Soon, he is thrown into a vortex where dreams, time and reality collide in an increasingly whirling slilpstream. ...More

New Quick Flicks for the week of 5/6/08

Bella By Alejandro Monteverde An international soccer star is on his way to sign a multimillion dollar contract when a series of events unfold that brings his career to an abrupt end. A beautiful waitress, struggling to make it in New York City, discovers something about herself that she's unprepared for. In one irreversible moment, their lives are turned upside down-- until a simple gesture of kindness brings them both together, turning an ordinary day into an unforgettable experience.

Dhara By Masud Mirza Dr. Sagar takes in Dhara as a patient who he tries to cure with love and affection. dhara falls for Sahil, but soon realizes that Dr. Sagar is the person she sould love.

First Sunday By Talbot, David View Windows Media-formatted Preview Playwright David E. Talbert serves as both writer and director of this raucous tale of two bumbling crooks who find they've bitten off more than they can chew when their simple plan to rob a local church turns into an all-out hostage crisis. ...More

FM, fun aur masti By Sekhar Surya "'Fun aur masti' is fun film depicting the culture of Old Hyderabad like earlier Hyderbadi movies "The Angrez and Hyderabad Nawabs. Technically, it has better production values than other 'Hyderabadi movies'. It is the story about a set of guys and girls in Hyderabad. Johnny is the street smart guy who sells fake-medicines and quacks on streets. His friend Hussain is a painter who is a bit innocent and carries away by a good looking girl. David is a police officer who is hen-pecked at home. Johnny loves David's sister. On the other hand Lallu Bhai is a street dada who assumes him to be a bhai on par with mafia dons. With this set of characters a story is narrated"

I'm Not There By Haynes, Todd View Windows Media-formatted Preview Six actors portray six persona of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages in the musician's life. Chronicling Dylan's rise from unknown folksinger to international icon, the film reveals how he reinvented himself many times. ...More

Jackie Chan's the Myth Martial arts legend Jackie Chan stars in this mystical, fantasy adventure as an intrepid archaeologist, Jack, who sets out on an adventure that would lead to the greatest discovery in Chinese history. In BC221 Qin Shihuang ¢¬ the first emperor of China ¢¬ started to build a royal tomb for himself despite his infatuation with immortality. Through the prodigious endeavors of more than 700,000 forced labourers, the mausoleum was completed 37 years later. Legend has it that to ensure utmost secrecy, all those who worked on the project were buried alive with the dead emperor. Over the next 2,000 years historians, tomb-raiders and happy-go-lucky adventurers alike had been honing in on the royal treasure, however, no one had ever succeeded in location the entrance to the mausoleum¢¬!until now. ...More

Over Her Dead Body By Lowell, Jeff Devastated when his fiance Kate (Eva Longoria Parker) is killed on their wedding day, Henry (Paul Rudd) reluctantly agrees to consult a psychic named Ashley (Lake Bell) at the urging of his sister Chloe (Lindsay Sloane). Despite his skepticism over her psychic abilities, Henry finds himself falling hard for Ashley, and vice versa. But there is a big snag. Ashley is being haunted by Kate¢¬¢s ghost, who considers it her heavenly duty to break up Henry and Ashley's fledgling romance, if it is the last thing she does on this earthly plane. ...More

P.S. I Love You By LaGravenese, Richard View Windows Media-formatted Preview Holly Kennedy, a young widow living in Dublin, has just lost her beloved husband Gerry to a brain tumor. Inconsolable, Holly finds that Gerry left for her a series of letters to help cope with the grief. As months pass, Holly discovers new messages from Gerry encouraging her to go on living. And while Holly's friends fear the letters will mire her in the past, they, in fact, give her strength for the future. ...More

Shaurya By Samar Khan When Captain Javed Khan is charged with mutiny, treason and killing a fellow officer he refuses to speak in his own defense because he is guarding secrets too powerful for the establishment to handle.

New Quick Flicks for the week of 4/29/08

27 Dresses By Fletcher, Anne View Windows Media-formatted Preview Tired of being a perpetual bridesmaid after helping 27 friends tie the knot, altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores. ...More

Bernard & Doris By Balaban, Bob Inspired by the true story of tobacco billionairess Doris Duke and her devoted Irish butler Bernard Lafferty. ...More

Golden Compass By Weitz, Chris View Windows Media-formatted Preview After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny in this adventure based on the first book of the Philip Pullman trilogy His Dark Materials. ...More

How She Move By Rashid, Ian Iqbal Armstrong, Tracey Following her sister's death from drug addiction, a high school student is forced to leave her private school to return to her old, crime-filled neighborhood. There, she defies all the rules to achieve her dreams as she re-kindles her passion for the competitive world of step dancing. She gets the chance to get out of her drug and crime infested neighborhood to attend an exclusive academy.

New Quick Flicks for the week of 4/22/08

Bobby Z By Herzfeld, John Marked for death by a biker gang, ex-Marine convict Tim Kearney just got one last chance to walk out of jail alive. A scheming DEA agent needs somebody to impersonate recently deceased druglord Bobby Z and Tim happens to be a dead ringer. It's a risky proposition, but if Tim plays his part right, he may be able to claim Bobby's hot ex-girlfriend and a cool fortune in illegal profits. Unfortunately, taking on Bobby's name also means taking on his bloodthirsty enemies. Caught in the crossfire, Tim runs for his life as he tries to find a way out of his deadly masquerade.

Charlie Wilson's War By Nichols, Mike View Windows Media-formatted Preview Texas congressman Charlie Wilson sets a series of earth-shaking events in motion when he conspires with a rogue CIA operative to aid Afghan mujahedeen rebels in their fight against the Soviet Red Army. ...More

Cloverfield By Reeves, Matt Rob is getting ready to leave New York in order to take an executive job at a company in Japan. At his goodbye party in a crowded loft, Rob's brother Jason hands a camcorder to best friend Hud, who proceeds to tape the party over old footage of Rob's ex-girlfriend, Beth. Beth shows up at the party with a new beau, which upsets Rob. Then the unexpected happens: New York is suddenly under attack from a Godzilla-like monster who stomps through midtown, destroying everything and everybody in sight. Rob and his friends take to the streets, but instead of running away with the other evacuees, they head toward the center of destruction so that Rob can rescue an injured Beth.

Helvetica By Hustwit, Gary Helvetica is a documentary film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. An exploration of urban spaces and the type that inhabits them, Helvetica invites us to take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day.

I Want Someone To Eat Cheese With By Garlin, Jeff James is a struggling actor, living with his widowed mother in Chicago, who wants three things in life: someone to love, a great part, and to lose weight. Unfortunately, he is 0 for 3. His girlfriend dumps him, he loses a title acting role, and he sneaks out of an Overeaters Anonymous meeting only to wind up at an ice cream parlor. There, he meets Beth who quickly wins his heart, but will this cause James more problems than it solves? Or has he finally found someone to eat cheese with?

Lars and the Real Girl By Gillespie, Craig Lars is a sweet but shy guy who has a hard time talking with his family, coworkers, and neighbors. Although his family fears the worst when Lars brings home a life-sized companion doll who he thinks is a real girlfriend, named Bianca, a doctor encourages them to play along with him so that he can work through his delusions. The whole community rallies to his support, and Lars begins to deal with all of his emotions. He even begins to develop feelings for Margo, an attractive co-worker, in what becomes "a hilariously unique love triangle."

The Savages By Jenkins, Tamara 2008/04 - 20th Century Fox BL10880DVD Check Our Catalog Carrying the emotional scars of an abusive childhood, siblings Wendy Savage, a long-aspiring playwright, and Jon Savage, a professor of drama, now face the challenge of caring for their ailing elderly father, Lenny, despite their emotional disconnect from him and each other. ...More

Starting Out in the Evening By Wagner, Andrew Battling illness and unable to finish a novel that has taken him ten years to write, aging novelist Leonard Schiller is slipping into literary obscurity. At one time a famous author, Schiller has been all but forgotten by the readers, colleagues and critics who once praised his works. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious graduate student, convinces Schiller that her thesis could reintroduce his writing to the world, the reclusive writer is forced to confront his past regrets.

Wristcutters: A Love Story By Dukic, Goran Distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, Desiree, Zia slashes his wrists. Zia discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that Desiree has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip with his Russian rocker friend to find her. Their journey takes them through an absurd purgatory where they discover that being dead doesn't mean you have to stop living.

New Quick Flicks for the week of 4/15/08

The 11th Hour Explores the indelible footprint that humans have left on this planet, and the catastrophic effects of environmental neglect and abuse, and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity.

Before the devil knows you're dead By Lumet, Sidney A stock broker, who is having financial troubles and in need of extra cash, and his younger brother conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. The only problem is that the owners of the jewelry store are their own parents. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed.

The Final Season By Evans, David Mickey View Windows Media-formatted Preview Norway, Iowa, loves baseball games played by the high school team. So when authorities decide the town is too small for its own school, the residents are devastated. Now, rookie coach Kent Stock must lead the Tigers to victory for one last season. Based on a true story. ...More

Juno By Reitman, Jason View Windows Media-formatted Preview Facing an unplanned pregnancy, worldly teen Juno devises a plan to locate the proverbial perfect parents to adopt her baby. But the seemingly ideal couple Juno chooses appears to still have some growing up to do. Now, everyone in Juno's world must do a little soul-searching. ...More