New Quick Flicks for the Week of 7/21/09

Do you want to know the newest DVD titles available at your library? Check here to find the newest Quick Flicks released at the Gail Borden Library. This fast turnover, no reserves collection is where you will find multiple copies of the most popular DVDs.

Coraline By Selick, Henry 2009/07 - Universal Home Video 0025195016445 Check Our Catalog A high-definition stop-motion animated feature the first to be originally filmed in 3-D with spectacular CG effects, based on Neil Gaimans international best-selling book. A young girl (Dakota Fanning) walks through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life. On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life only much better. But when this wondrously off-kilter, fantastical adventure turns dangerous, and her counterfeit parents (including Other Mother [Teri Hatcher]) try to keep her forever, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness, determination, and bravery to get back home and save her family. ...More

The color of magic
Discworld is a magical realm quite unlike, yet hauntingly familiar to, Earth, and it finally has it's first tourist. Rincewind is an inept ex-student wizard who is given the task of guiding Twoflower through the city-state of Ankh Morpork. But unfortunately Rincewind has two problems. First, he is an expert coward and he doesn't feel that he is the best person to guard a naive, and extremely rich, tourist through one of the roughest cities in the multiverse. Secondly, the world is coming to an end. What they come to learn is that they have become part of an elaborate board game being played by the gods.

Now Showing at the Gail Borden Library: Igor

Igor

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 10:00 AM

Igor is a brilliant young scientist sidelined by a physical deformity. Despite his position as a lowly assistant to mad Dr. Glickenstein, Igor dreams of winning the Evil Science Fair and the heart of Gretchen, a village beauty. Aided by a zombie rabbit and a brain in a jar, Igor might just hit the big time.

New Quick Flicks for the week of 07/14/09

Do you want to know the newest DVD titles available at your library? Check here to find the newest Quick Flicks released at the Gail Borden Library. This fast turnover, no reserves collection is where you will find multiple copies of the most popular DVDs.

Grey Gardens By Sucsy, Michael 2009/07 - HBO BL08099DVD Check Our Catalog Based on a true story, this made-for-TV drama stars Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore as the aunt and cousin of Jackie Kennedy Onassis (Jeanne Tripplehorn) -- both named Edie Beale -- who retreat from tony Manhattan society to a mansion in East Hampton, N.Y. After years in isolation, the women are thrust into the spotlight when journalists report on a series of health inspections that find the house -- and its owners -- in shocking disarray. ...More

Haunting in Connecticut By Cornwell, Peter 2009/07 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment BL07867DVD Check Our Catalog In this supernatural thriller, the Campbell family's move to Connecticut takes a mysteriously dark turn when a series of shocking paranormal events reveals that their inviting new home is a former mortuary with a sordid past. Based on a true story. ...More

Watchmen By Akerman, Malin Snyder, Zack 2009/07 - Warner Brothers BL07091DVD Check Our Catalog Zack Snyder directs this adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's graphic novel set in a parallel Earth in 1985, where despite the threat of nuclear war, superheroes are prohibited from using their powers. ...More

New Quick Flicks for the Week 7/7/09

Do you want to know the newest DVD titles available at your library? Check here to find the newest Quick Flicks released at the Gail Borden Library. This fast turnover, no reserves collection is where you will find multiple copies of the most popular DVDs.

Knowing By Proyas, Alex 2009/07 - Summit Entertainment 0025192031885 Check Our Catalog In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule but one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, Professor John Koestler (Nicolas Cage) makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts every major disaster of the past 50 years. As John further unravels the documents chilling secrets, he realizes the document foretells three additional eventsthe last of which hints at destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow involve John and his son. ...More

Love Takes Wing By Phillips, Lou Diamond 2009/05 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543580898 Check Our Catalog From award-winning author Janette Oke comes the seventh chapter in the Love Comes Softly series, Love Takes Wing. The story picks up where the last chapter left off as Dr. Belinda Simpson (Sarah Jones) returns from Boston and takes on a new adventure as she makes her way to Missouri with her best friend Annie (Haylie Duff) to become the town doctor. ...More

The Marriage Counselor By Perry, Tyler 2009/01 - Lions Gate BL08863DVD Check Our Catalog Marriage counselor Judith may be better at giving advice than taking it in this Tyler Perry play. Judith and her accountant husband Roger seem to have the perfect life, but some unexpected guests reveal the cracks in their relationship. When Hurricane Katrina forces Roger's dad and Judith's mom to seek refuge with their children, Judith turns to an old friend for advice about her suddenly unstable home environment. ...More

Praying with Lior By Trachtman, Ilana 2009/03 - Frist Run Features BL07866DVD Check Our Catalog Lior Liebling, a Jewish boy with Down syndrome, spends his days praying endlessly to God, much to the delight -- and occasional befuddlement -- of those around him. Follow Lior, nicknamed the little rebbe, as he approaches his bar mitzvah. ...More

Push By McGuigan, Paul 2009/06 - Summit Entertainment BL06091DVD Check Our Catalog On the run from the Division, a dangerous government agency that uses people with psychic abilities to do their bidding, telekinetic Nick Gant and clairvoyant Cassie Holmes team up to find a third psychic who can help them destroy the organization. ...More

The Unborn By Goyer, David S 2009/07 - Universal Home Video 0025195054645 Check Our Catalog Enter a world of unrelenting evil as terror finds a new form in The Unborn. In this shocking supernatural thriller, a young woman, Casey (Yustman), is plagued by chilling dreams and tortured by a demonic ghost that haunts her waking hours. Her only hope to break the debilitating paranormal curse is in an exorcism with spiritual advisor Sendak (Oldman). See what lies beyond the doorway of our world in this non-stop nightmare of the undead. ...More

Now Showing at the Gail Borden Library: The Music Man

The Music Man

Monday July 13, 2009 at 10:00 am

Robert Preston made his musical debut--both live and on film—in the role he was born to play: "Professor" Harold Hill, the upbeat charlatan who promises to teach a small-town boys band by the "think system." Composer Meredith Willson’s memorable songs include "Gary, Indiana", "Goodnight My Someone", "Till There Was You", "Trouble," and "76 Trombones". With Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett and Ron Howard.