New Quick Flicks for the Week of 10/13/09

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.

American Violet By Disney, Tim 2009-10 - Image Entertainment 0014381293821 Check Our Catalog Falsely accused of distributing narcotics in a school zone, Dee Roberts (Beharie) is offered a deal she can't refuse: plead guilty and accept a 10-year suspended sentence. The alternative: risk serving 16-to-25 in jail. Realizing a conviction would ruin her life, Dee decides to fight back. Suing the DA for racial discrimination, Dee battles impossible odds in a case that will not only change her life but the laws of Texas as well. …More

Drag Me to Hell By Raimi, Sam 2009-10 - Universal Home Video 0025195055338 Check Our Catalog After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is skeptical. Now, her only hope seems to lie in a psychic who claims he can help her lift the curse and keep her soul from being dragged straight to hell. …More

Land of the Lost By Silberling, Brad 2009-10 - Universal Home Video 0025195038935 Check Our Catalog After accidentally uncovering a portal to an alternate universe peopled with dinosaurs, park ranger Rick Marshall (Will Ferrell) and his two kids are forced to navigate a dangerous new world. Brad Silberling directs this big-screen adaptation of the classic 1970s adventure series "Land of the Lost." …More

Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death By Park, Nick 2009-09 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0884487104211 Check Our Catalog The bread business booms for Wallace and his clever pooch, Gromit, when they open their windmill-powered bakery, Top Bun. But danger looms when local bakers begin disappearing without a trace in this tongue-in-cheek mystery. Convinced that Wallace's new lady friend, Piella Bakewell -- a former model for the Bake-O-Lite bread company -- is behind the crimes, Gromit enlists the help of Piella's own dog, Fluffles, to save his beloved master. …More

The Proposal By Fletcher, Anne 2009-10 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment 0786936797770 Check Our Catalog When she learns that she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported back to her native Canada, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds), to marry her. …More

The Village Barbershop By Ford, Chris J. 2009-03 - Monterey Home Video 0012233479829 Check Our Catalog Art Leroldi is terminal. Terminally irritable, that is. A small-time Reno barber stuck in a rut of haircuts, hot dogs and horse books, he lives every day like a warmed-over version of the last. Hit with the unexpected death of his long-time business partner and last apparent friend, he's faced with losing the only thing in life hes got left-his man's man barbershop. To keep it, hell be forced to hire the last person on earth he'd ever want working there-a woman. More specifically, Gloria MacIntyre, a spitfire young lady who suddenly finds herself unable to take Arts no for an answer. …More

Now Showing at the Gail Borden Library: Monsters Vs. Aliens

No School Day Movie: Monsters Vs. Aliens

Monday, October 12, 2009 at 2:00pm
When a mysterious alien robot lands on earth, the U.S. military calls upon a ragtag crew of monsters, including Insectosaurus, The Missing Link, Dr. Cockroach and a blob named B.O.B. to save the world from destruction. With Seth Rogen, Reese Witherspoon and Hugh Laurie. (Rated PG, 94 minutes)

Now Showing at the Gail Borden Library: "The Magnificent Seven"

Brown Bag Lunch Classic Films: "The Magnificent Seven"
Monday, October 12, 2009

The beleaguered denizens of a Mexican village, weary of attacks by a gang of banditos, hire seven gunslingers to repel the invaders once and for all. The leader of the Seven is Chris (Yul Brynner); the gunmen he gathers are played by actors just on the cusp of stardom: Vin (Steve McQueen), Britt (James Coburn), Bernardo (Charles Bronson), Lee (Robert Vaughn). The storytelling is clear and strong, and the charisma of the young guns fairly flies off the screen. Also featuring the unforgettable music of Elmer Bernstein. With Eli Wallach and Horst Buchholz. (Not Rated, 128 minutes)

New Quick Flicks for the Week of 9/29/09

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.

Away We Go By Mendes, Sam 2009-09 - Focus Features 0025195050135 Check Our Catalog Directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty) from an original screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, this funny and heartfelt film follows the journey of an expectant couple (John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph), as they travel the U.S. in search of the perfect place to put down roots and raise their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time. The movie features the music of Alexi Murdoch. …More

Generation RX: Reading, Writing & Ritalin By 2009-07 - Repnet LLC 0718122850815 Check Our Catalog …More

Management By Belber, Stephen 2009-09 - Image Entertainment 0014381540529 Check Our Catalog MANAGEMENT is a romantic comedy that chronicles a chance meeting between Mike Cranshaw (Steve Zahn) and Sue Claussen (Jennifer Aniston). When Sue checks into the roadside motel owned by Mike's parents in Arizona, what starts with a bottle of wine compliments of MANAGEMENT soon evolves into a multi-layered, cross-country journey of two people looking for a sense of purpose. Mike, an aimless dreamer, bets it all on a trip to Sue's workplace in Maryland only to find that she has no place for him in her carefully ordered life. Buttoned down and obsessed with making a difference in the world, Sue goes back to her yogurt mogul ex-boyfriend Jango (Woody Harrelson), who promises her a chance to head his charity operations. But, having found something worth fighting for, Mike pits his hopes against Sue's practicality, and the two embark on a twisted, bumpy, freeing journey to discover that their place in the world just might be together. …More

Monsters vs Aliens By Letterman, Rob 2009-09 - Paramount 0097361197548 Check Our Catalog After Susan Murphy (voiced by Reese Witherspoon) is struck by a meteor and grows to be 50-feet tall, she's captured by the government and shuttled to a secret compound where she meets a team of other monsters -- soon to be Earth's only defense when an alien attacks. Under orders from the president (Stephen Colbert), Susan and her cohorts Dr. Cockroach (Hugh Laurie), the Missing Link (Will Arnett) and B.O.B. (Seth Rogen) set out to save the world. …More

New Quick Flicks for the Week of 9/22/09

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.

Battle for Terra By Tsirbas, Aristomenis 2009-09 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 031398113478 Check Our Catalog When the peaceful inhabitants of the beautiful planet Terra come under attack from the last surviving members of humanity adrift in an aging spaceship, the stage is set for an all-out war between the two species for control of the planet. But will an unlikely friendship between a rebellious young Terrian (voiced by Evan Rachel Wood) and an injured human pilot (Luke Wilson) somehow convince their leaders that war is not the answer? …More

Che: Part 1 - Argentine By Soderbergh, Steven 2009-08 - E1 Entertainment BL12094DVD Check Our Catalog Benicio Del Toro delivers a searing, emotional performance as Ernesto "Che" Guevara, an asthmatic Argentine doctor who became one of Latin America's most legendary revolutionary leaders in the 1950s. The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S. - friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista. …More

Echelon Conspiracy By 2009-07 - Paramount Home Video 0097360705140 Check Our Catalog After stumbling upon a strange cell phone that seems to steer him toward limitless wealth, a young engineer goes along for the ride. But the road veers into dangerous territory when he becomes the target of a global conspiracy. …More

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past By Waters, Mark 2009-09 - Warner Home Video 1419873776 Check Our Catalog When he attends his younger brother's wedding, playboy Connor (Matthew McConaughey) is troubled to discover that the ghosts of his many girlfriends have come to give him a piece of their mind and teach him a thing or two about true love. As the apparitions visit him, he rediscovers old feelings for the first love of his life. Mark Waters directs this delightful romantic comedy also starring Jennifer Garner and Michael Douglas. …More

Frontline: Heat By 2009-04 - PBS 079369499X Check Our Catalog …More

Observe and Report By Hill, Jody 2009-09 - Warner Home Video BL10097DVD Check Our Catalog Rent-a-cop Ronnie Barnhardt (Seth Rogen) is tasked with keeping the peace at the Forest Ridge Mall, but when a flasher strikes, Ronnie has no gun -- and no power to stop the exhibitionist. A rivalry ensues when the police send in Det. Harrison (Ray Liotta) to crack the case. Can Ronnie bring the flasher to justice before the well-armed Harrison does? …More

S. Darko: A Donnie Darko Tale By Fisher, Chris 2009-08 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543575184 Check Our Catalog Seven years after her brothers death, Samantha Darko is on the run]from her shattered home, from her bizarre past, and even from herself. But when she and her friend Corey are stranded in a desert town, they witness a meteorite crash that fractures time]and begins a countdown to the end of the world. Now Sam must rely on the frightening visions that plague her dreams to overcome her own dark destiny and set time back on course before everything she knows is destroyed! …More