The Dark Knight

While The Dark Knight swoops into theaters on July 18th, you may wish to revisit Batman's crime fighting past:

Batman Returns By Burton, Tim Keaton, Michael DeVito, Danny 2007/05 - Warner Home Video 141985500X Check Our Catalog The Caped Crusader clashes with Catwoman and saves gloomy Gotham City from the foul Penguin's plot. Directed by Tim Burton. ...More

Batman Begins By Nolan, Christopher 2005/10 - Warner Brothers BL10057DVD Check Our Catalog Bruce Wayne returns to Gotham City after years of training in excile following his parents murder. He finds the city infested with crime and begins a one-man war against evil disguised at Batman. ...More

Batman 2007/05 - Warner Home Video 1419854992 Check Our Catalog The Caped Crusader saves dismal Gotham City and gorgeous Vicki Vale from the freaky Joker. Directed by Tim Burton. ...More

Justice League By Lukic, Butch Riba, Dan Murakami, Glen 2006/11 - Warner Home Video 079076590X Check Our Catalog When global catastrophe strikes, the world's greatest super heroes answer the call to join Justice League. Justice League works together as a team to overcome a dangerous array of interstellar invaders and world-conquering megalomaniacs. ...More

New Quick Flicks for the week of 7/15/08

The Bank Job By Donaldson, Roger 2008/07 - Lions Gate 5557398023 Check Our Catalog Based on a true 1971 event, this thriller tells the story of Terry, a car dealer who becomes involved in a London bank heist only to find that the contents of the bank vault will draw him deeply and irrevocably into the city's criminal underbelly. ...More

College Road Trip By Kumble, Roger 2008/07 - Buena Vista BL07080DVD Check Our Catalog College-bound Rachel finds her tour of prospective schools taking a detour when her overprotective police chief father insists on coming along. ...More

For My Country: The History of the National Guard By 2008/05 - Repnet LLC 5557426132 Check Our Catalog Narrated by legendary music icon PAT BOONE, FOR MY COUNTRY takes you on a journey of the rich history of the UNITED STATES NATIONAL GUARD. This moving documentary offers an insider¢¬¢s view of the impact the National Guard has made throughout our history and reaches into the heroic lives of the dedicated men and women who sacrifice to defend the United States and its interests at home and all over the globe. This acknowledgment to patriotism culminates with a beautifully filmed and emotionally charged music tribute by PAT BOONE to fallen heroes and the brave soldiers who continue to stand tall for our country. ...More

For One More Day By 2008/05 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 5557452885 Check Our Catalog ...More

Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control By 2008/07 - Warner Home Video 1419860852 Check Our Catalog ...More

Meet Bill By Goldmann, Bernard 2008/07 - First Look Home Entertain 5557432248 Check Our Catalog MEET BILL (Aaron Eckhart) - a doormat if ever there was one. A man reduced to a mere accessory to his family by working a dead end job at his father-in law's bank and arguing about his overindulgent love for chocolate with his wife Jess (Elizabeth Banks) who is loathe to explain her friendship with the local news anchorman (Timothy Olyphant). But Bill's fate begins to change when he becomes mentor to a self-assured boy (Logan Lerman) who engineers Bill's recovery with the help of a cute lingerie sales girl named Lucy (Jessica Alba). Together, the trio confronts Bill's hapless life with humor and energy while forcing him to capture his dream of being financially independent and self-confident. MEET BILL is a film about what it means to let go of your inhibitions and find the path you're destined for. ...More

The Onion Movie By 2008/06 - Tcfhe 555741827X Check Our Catalog This just in...The Onion invades DVD! Based on the wildly popular satirical newspaper hailed by The New Yorker as ¢¬the funniest publication in the United States, ¢¬ The Onion Movie brings you uncensored, uninhibited, UNRATED news and views from around the world. And in a stunning development, when Onion News anchorman Norm Archer (Len Cariou) is asked to compromise his journalistic integrity to please a new corporate sponsor, he doesn¢¬¢t just get mad, he gets...angry. Taking aim at pop stars, party games, prisoners and peace talks, The Onion Movie delivers hard-hitting headlines¢¬and side-splitting laughs! ...More

Penelope By Palansky, Mark Ricci Palansky, Mark Ricci Ricci, Christina Witherspoon 2008/07 - Uni Dist Corp (Music) 5557408649 Check Our Catalog Christina Ricci stars as Penelope, a lonely heiress who has spent her entire life trying to break a strange family curse that left her with the nose of a pig. When she meets a charming aristocrat (James McAvoy) who seems to see beyond her physical appearance, Penelope begins to learn that loving herself is more important than breaking the curse. Also starring Reese Witherspoon and Catherine O'Hara, Penelope is a delightful modern-day fairy tale for the entire family. ...More

A Raisin in the Sun By Leon, Kenny Combs, Sean Rashad, Phylicia 2008/05 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 5557454810 Check Our Catalog Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads where the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a new home for the family? Perhaps a liquor store? Or even pay for medical school tuition? While no choice is easy, life on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s is even harder. ...More

Jesse Stone: Sea Change By 2008/09 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 1424870852 Check Our Catalog Jesse Stone: Sea Change is the fourth in the series of films starring Selleck as Jesse Stone, the former Los Angeles homicide detective who has been fired from the LAPD, left his wife and comes to Paradise, Massachusetts, to start life over again as the New England town’s police chief. ...More

Shutter By Ochiai, Masayuki 2008/07 - 20th Century Fox BL07888DVD Check Our Catalog This American remake of a Thai horror blockbuster follows the Shaws, a young newlywed couple who become haunted by strange shadowlike images in the photographs they develop after their involvement in a car accident. As more terrifying supernatural occurrences befall them, they begin to wonder whether the photographic ghosts are connected to the accident -- and to question whether they can survive learning the truth. ...More

Step Up 2: The Streets By Chu, Jon M. Evigan, Briana Sevani, Adam G. 2008/07 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment 5557409831 Check Our Catalog STEP UP 2 THE STREETS is the follow-up to the smash hit "Step Up," which ignited theaters in August 2006. When rebellious street dancer Andie (BRIANA EVIGAN) lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. When she joins forces with the school's hottest dancer Chase (ROBERT HOFFMAN) to form a crew of classmate outcasts to compete in Baltimore's underground dance battle The Streets, she ultimately finds a way to live her dream while building a bridge between her two separate worlds. ...More

New Quick Flicks for the week of 7/08/08

Superhero Movie By Mazin, Craig Bell, Drake Finally, the guys behind the outrageously silly Scary Movie franchise have used their own "special powers" to spoof superhero movies. After being bitten by a genetically altered dragonfly, high school loser Rick Riker develop superhuman abilities like incredible strength and armored skin. Rick decides to use his new powers for good and becomes a costumed crime fighter known as "The Dragonfly". However, standing in the way of his destiny is the villainous Lou Landers. After an experiment gone wrong, Lou develops the power to steal a person's life force and in a dastardly quest for immortality becomes the supervillain, "The Hourglass." With unimaginable strength, unbelievable speed and deeply uncomfortable tights, will the Dragonfly be able to stop the sands of The Hourglass and save the world? More importantly, will we stop laughing lo ...More

New Quick Flicks for the week of 7/01/08

Bhoothnath By Vivek Sharma "This is a story about a seven year old naughty yet innocent boy, who unknowingly turns a foe into a friend"

Drillbit Taylor By Brill, Steven Three high school freshmen devise a novel plan for dealing with the treacherous school bully: They hire a bodyguard. Salvation comes in the form of Drillbit Taylor, a beach bum ex-soldier who teaches the boys some handy life lessons. ...More

The Jungle Book 2 By Trenbirth, Steve Osment, Haley Joel Goodman, John The jungle is jumping again as Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera, and the rest of your favorite characters return in this fun-filled musical adventure. Mowgli (Haley Joel Osment) has been living in the village among the humans. His new life includes his little stepbrother, Ranjan, and his best friend, Shanti, but the man-cub still has that jungle rhythm in his heart, and he misses his old buddy Baloo (John Goodman). When Mowgli wanders back into the wild for some swingin' fun, he soon finds Baloo isn't the only one waiting for him '- the man-eating tiger Shere Khan is lurking in the shadows and planning his revenge. If he is to defeat his nemesis, Mowgli will need the help of both his old friends and his new family. ...More

Vantage Point By Travis, Pete Quaid, Dennis Eight strangers with eight different points of view try to unlock the one truth behind an assassination attempt on the president of the United States. Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) are two Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Ashton (William Hurt) at a landmark summit on the global war on terror. When President Ashton is shot moments after his arrival in Spain, chaos ensues and disparate lives collide in the hunt for the assassin. In the crowd is Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker), an American tourist who thinks he's captured the shooter on his camcorder while videotaping the event for his kids back home. Also there, relaying the historic event to millions of TV viewers across the globe, is American TV news producer Rex Brooks (Sigourney Weaver). As they and others reveal their stories, the pieces o ...More

New Quick Flicks for the week of 6/24/08

Charlie Bartlett By Poll, Jon 2008/06 - Tcfhe/MGM 5557425578 Check Our Catalog The kids at Western Summit High have issues, and newcomer Charlie Bartlett is coming to their rescue. With a briefcase full of prescription pills and a head full of pop psychology, this rebel with a cause brings hilarious help to the student body and unending grief to their neurotic principal, Mr. Gardner (Robert Downey, Jr.). Suddenly, Charlie is the hottest man on campus and he's even caught the eye of Gardner's sultry daughter. An outrageous send-up of today's Prozac generation, Charlie Bartlett has your prescription for laugh-out-loud insanity! ...More

Control By Corbijn, Anton 2008/04 - Weinstein Company BL11882DVD Check Our Catalog In a blistering breakthrough performance, Sam Riley stars as Ian Curtis, the troubled Joy Division singer whose personal, professional and romantic battles ended in suicide at age 23. ...More

Definitely Maybe By Brooks, Adam 2008/07 - Universal BL07084DVD Check Our Catalog Will Hayes is getting a divorce, prompting his precocious 11-year-old daughter, Maya, to ask how her parents met. As Will relates his romantic history (changing the names of his past girlfriends), Maya tries to guess which of the three women in his story would someday become her mother. ...More

Funny Games By Haneke, Michael Watts, Naomi Roth, Tim 2008/06 - Warner Home Video 5557412867 Check Our Catalog In this provocative and brutal thriller from director Michael Haneke, a vacationing family gets an unexpected visit from two deeply disturbed young men. Their idyllic holiday turns nightmarish as they are subjected to unimaginable terrors and struggle to stay alive. ...More

In Bruges By McDonagh, Martin Farrell, Colin Fiennes, Ralph 2008/06 - Universal Home Video 5557413723 Check Our Catalog In Bruges (pronounced broozh) is a darkly comic suspense thriller from Academy Award-winning writer/director Martin McDonagh tells the story of hit men Ray and Ken (Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson). After a botched job in London, the team is ordered by their boss Harry (Ralph Fiennes) to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges, Belgium. Very much out of their comfort zones, the men find themselves drawn into increasingly dangerous entanglements with locals, tourists, and a film shoot. As their stay in Bruges gets weirder, they realize Harry may have other plans for them than a simple vacation. ...More

Lost in Beijing By 2008/05 - New Yorker Films Video 1567304761 Check Our Catalog ...More

Persepolis By Paronnaud, Vincent Satrapi, Marjane 2008/06 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 1424883148 Check Our Catalog Marjane (voiced by Chiara Mastroianni) just wants to be an ordinary kid, but that isn't easy in 1978 Iran. This profound animated film follows Marjane's childhood in a repressive society, her adolescence in France and return to Tehran as an adult. Based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel. ...More

Diary of the Dead By Romero, George A. Morgan, Michele 2008/05 - Genius Products 5557425470 Check Our Catalog A group of film students are making an independent horror film when they become trapped in a world being consumed by flesh-eating zombies. In an obsessive, unflinching eye, one filmmaker documents each death on camera. As the lucky survivors take final refuge, the film continues to roll, recording every detail for future generations¢¬! if any survive. ...More

The Signal By 2008/06 - Magnolia Pict Hm Ent 5557432752 Check Our Catalog ...More

The Spiderwick Chronicles By Waters, Mark 2008/07 - Paramount BL07083DVD Check Our Catalog When city-raised twins Jared and Simon move to an old country mansion with their mother and sister, it's quite an adjustment—especially when they uncover a magical and sometimes dangerous fantasy world. Based on the best-selling children's books. ...More