New Quick Flicks for the week of 6/3/08

The Eye By Moreau, David Sydney Wells (Alba) is an accomplished, independent, Los Angeles-based concert violinist. She is also blind, and has been so since a childhood tragedy. As our story opens, Sydney undergoes a double corneal transplant, a surgery she has waited her whole life to have, and her sight is restored. After the surgery, neural ophthalmologist Dr. Paul Faulkner (Nivola) helps Sydney with the difficult adjustment, and with the support of her older sister Helen (Posey), Sydney learns to see again. But Sydney's happiness is short-lived as unexplainable shadowy and frightening images start to haunt her. Are they a passing aftermath of her surgery, Sydney's mind adjusting to sight, a product of her imagination, or something horrifyingly real? As Sydney's family and friends begin to doubt her sanity, Sydney is soon convinced that her anonymous eye donor ...More

Meet the Spartans The heroic Leonidas, armed with nothing by leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag group of 13 - count 'em, 13! - Spartans to defend their homeland against the invading Persians (whose ranks include Ghost Rider, Rocky Balboa, the Transformers, and a hunchbacked Paris Hilton...no one is safe when the Spartans take on the biggest icons in pop culture). ...More

My Best Friend By Leconte, Patrice So single-minded is antique dealer François Coste in his pursuit of the deal that he's failed to make a single personal friend over the years -- a point his business partner is willing to bet on. Forced to cough up a best pal in 10 days -- or pay up -- François turns to a gregarious taxi driver to teach him how to make friends in this buddy movie from Patrice Leconte. ...More

Semi-Pro By Alterman, Kent Will Ferrell stars in Semi-Pro, an outrageous comedy set in 1976 against the backdrop of the maverick ABA -- a fast-paced, wild and crazy basketball league that rivaled the NBA and made a name for itself with innovations like the three-point shot and slam dunk contest. Ferrell plays Jackie Moon, a one-hit wonder who used the profits from the success of his chart-topping song -- Love Me Sexy -- to achieve his dream of owning a basketball team. But Moon's franchise, the Flint Michigan Tropics, is the worst team in the league and in danger of folding when the ABA announces its plans to merge with the NBA. If they want to survive, Jackie and the Tropics must now do the seemingly impossible -- win. ...More

New Quick Flicks for the week of 5/27/08

Moondance Alexander By Damien, Michael Panabaker, Kay Johnson, Don Life is a rough ride for awkward, friendless, 12-year-old Moondance (Panabaker). But when a Pinto pony named Checkers leaps into her life, Moondance pursues a dream she never knew she had. Convinced that Checkers has champion potential, she enters him in the Bow Valley Classic, and in the process learns that only perseverance lands you in the winner's circle. Directed by Michael Damian, and featuring an irresistible soundtrack, Moondance Alexander is an uplifting story the whole family will enjoy. ...More

Prehistoric Predators Travel back in time and go face-to-face with the most ferocious animal giants of the Ice Age. Animals such as the saber-toothed cat, the short-faced bear, and the dire wolf. Brings these lethal creatures to life in a startling portrait of their wild existence and puzzling extinction in the ancient Americas. Learn how these remarkable creatures wielded power over the prehistoric kingdom's largest beasts and how they disappeared. Find out why their smaller, present-day cousins survived. Join leading paleontologists as they uncover fossilized bones of these super-predators, revealing details about their lives and disappearance from the Earth.

Rambo By Stallone, Sylvester View Windows Media-formatted Preview When governments fail to act on behalf of captive missionaries, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo sets aside his peaceful existence along the Salween River in a war-torn region of Thailand to take action. Although he's still haunted by violent memories of his time as a U.S. soldier in Vietnam, Rambo is unable to turn his back on the aid workers who so desperately need his help. ...More

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.