Blu-ray Discs have arrived!

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  Blu-ray Discs have arrived!  View our initial collection of over 100 titles. 
Each Gail Borden library cardholder may check out one (1) Blu-ray Disc for 3 days, no renewal, no grace period.  Extended use fees are $1/day. 
Enjoy high quality movies on your HD TV or your computer's BD drive.  Titles are available at the Main library and in the Rakow branch's MediaBank.  Come checkout the latest blockbuster titles like Iron Man 2 and Kick-Ass.  Check back every week for the newest titles!

 

No School Day Movie: Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue

Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
Friday, October 8, 2010 at 10am

Years before meeting Wendy and the Lost Boys, Tinker Bell met Lizzy, a little girl with a steadfast belief in the power of pixie dust and the magic land of fairies. During the fairies’ summer visit to the flowering meadows of England, two very different worlds unite for the first time and Tink develops a special bond with a curious child in need of a friend. (Rated G)

New Quick Flicks for the Week of September 28, 2010

Babies By Balmes, Thomas 2010-09 - Universal Home Video 0025192047664 Check Our Catalog Everybody loves... BABIES. This visually stunning new movie simultaneously follows four babies around the world - from first breath to first steps. From Mongolia to Namibia to San Francisco to Tokyo, BABIES joyfully captures on film the earliest stages of the journey of humanity that are at once unique and universal to us all. …More

Collapse By 2010-06 - MPI Home Video 0030306500096 Check Our Catalog In an avant-garde soliloquy, investigative journalist Michael Ruppert details his unnerving theories about the inexorable link between energy depletion and the collapse of the economic system that supports the entire industrial world. Helmed by filmmaker Chris Smith, Ruppert's monologue explains how the lies and political propaganda fed to Americans by big business will eventually lead to human extinction. …More

Frozen By 2010-09 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz 0013132143392 Check Our Catalog A typical day on the slopes turns into a chilling nightmare for three snowboarders when they get stranded on the chairlift before their last run. As the ski patrol switches off the night lights, they realize with growing panic that theyve been left behind, dangling high off the ground with no way down. …More

Get Him to the Greek By Stoller, Nick 2010-09 - Universal Home Video 0025192049507 Check Our Catalog Ambitious young record company intern Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) will let nothing get in the way of his planned rise to the top in the music business -- not even the unruly rock star (Russell Brand) he must escort to Los Angeles for the start of his anniversary concert. Doing whatever it takes to get the rocker from Point A to Point B, Aaron encounters all manners of mishaps in this comedy directed by Nicholas Stoller and produced by Judd Apatow. …More

Iron Man 2 By Favreau, Jon 2010-09 - Paramount Home Video 0097361399744 Check Our Catalog In Iron Man 2, the world is aware that billionaire inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is the armored Super Hero Iron Man. Under pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military, Tony is unwilling to divulge the secrets behind the Iron Man armor because he fears the information will slip into the wrong hands. With Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), and James Rhodey Rhodes (Don Cheadle) at his side, Tony forges new alliances and confronts powerful new forces. …More

The Killer Inside Me By Winterbottom, Michael 2010-09 - MPI Home Video 0030306975795 Check Our Catalog Lou Ford is a handsome, charming, unassuming small town sheriff's deputy named in an idyllic West Texas town in the early 1950s. As a lifelong resident, Ford has difficulty juggling his long-term girlfriend Amy, the prostitute named Joyce that he mistakenly falls for, and the sociopathic tendencies inside him. …More

Mrs. Washington Goes to Smith By 2010-09 - Inception Media Group 0815300010044 Check Our Catalog …More

Perrier's Bounty By Fitzgibbon, Ian Voice by Byrne, Gabriel 2010-09 - MPI Home Video 0030306975597 Check Our Catalog …More

Stiffs By 2010-09 - Monterey Home Video 0012233402223 Check Our Catalog Academy Award nominated Danny Aiello stars as Frank Tramontana, a hearse driver who unwittingly gets drawn into a scheme his co-workers have concocted for a series of unfortunate accidents designed to clean up the neighborhood and fill their funeral parlor with much needed customers. As the body count rises, they stumble and bumble their way through the sidesplitting antics of this new business plan strewn with familiar faces like Jon Polito (American Gangster) and Frank Vincent (Phil Leotardo The Sopranos). But things get a bit complicated and problems are further exacerbated when Franks provocative ex-wife (Academy Award nominated Lesley Ann Warren) reappears to give Frank a dose of reality. …More

Bumm bumm bole
Pinu loses his sister Rimzim's shoes so they both decide to share a pair of shoes untill their father saved enough money to buy a new pair.

The Escapist
Frank Perry is a tough lifer determined to bust out of a London penitentiary to see his terminally ill daughter before she dies. But first he'll have to assemble a hardcore crew, battle the brutal prison kingpin, and pull off one of the most daring and suspenseful escapes in movie history.

Gangster's Paradise
Starting off with simple smash and grabs, Lucky Kunene quickly graduates to more aggressive heists such as armed robbery and carjacking. Soon Lucky realizes he needs a bigger score to fulfill his goals of making it big and escaping from the slums to a dream house by the sea. Kunene hatches an elaborate and violent plan to make his fortune, hijacking buildings from landlords of Johannesburg tenements by winning the favor of the tenants and holding their rent hostage from the landowners.

Good
When John Halder's latest novel is enlisted by the Nazi party to push their agenda, his career and social standing instantly advance. But after learning of the Reich's horrific plans for the future, John must decide whether to do nothing and keep his fame or risk losing everything.

Mercy
A best selling novelist one-night stands his way through LA until he finally meets his match with Mercy, a book critic who calls his bluff in this powerful romance.

The Oath
A spectacularly gripping documentary that unfolds like a great political thriller. It's the cross-cut tale of two men whose fateful meeting propelled them on divergent courses with Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court. The Oath offers a rare window into a hidden realm and the international impact of the U.S. War on Terror.

Teen Patti
"Perci Trachtenberg, widely regarded as the world's greatest living mathematician, meets Venkat, a reclusive math genius from India, at a high rolling casino in London. Venkat tells Perci about an equation that could not only change the dialogue on mathematics forever, but one that has already left an indelible impression of guilt - for many painful reasons - on Venkat's life. As it turns out, the reclusive genius Venkat has cracked a theory that could redefine the principles of probability and randomness. Venkat is encouraged to test his theory in the real world by professor Shantanu, an ambitious colleague of Venkat, to see if his equation could crack Teen Patti, a poker game. ) he eventually succumbs to Shantanu's charismatic persuasion. Soon, with the help of a few students, they explore the addas (underground gambling dens) of wild Bombay. But what starts out as an experiment between a charismatic young professor and an eccentric older one soon descends into a game neither of them can control. When their lives sink into maddening chaos, the greed and desperation that had fueled them on can no longer save them."--container

www.love.com
Love.com is directed by debutant director Vinod Mukhi's film who touches the subject of internet use by contract killers. Lead character played by Mika Singh is shown as a fun loving club owner who enjoys singing dancing but does not tolerate any misconduct inside his joint. The club becomes the hub for contract killers.

Reel Women for Real Women: In the Time of Butterflies

In the Time of Butterflies
Tuesday, September 29, 2010 at 6pm

A true story based on the novel by Julia Alvarez about three sisters who were in fierce opposition to the dictatorship of General Leonidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. Starring Salma Hayek.

Co-sponsored by the American Association of University Women Elgin Area Branch. Enjoy a film and discussion regarding movies focused on women and women’s issues.

Quick Flicks for the week of September 21, 2010

Amish Grace By Champion, Gregg 2010-09 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543700838 Check Our Catalog Based on a true story and the book Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy by Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, and David L. Weaver-Zercher, Amish Grace chronicles the community of Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, forever changed when a gunman senselessly takes the lives of five girls in a schoolhouse shooting before taking his own life in October of 2006. What transpires takes the town by storm, as the media descend on the city and criticize its Amish leaders for their notion of unconditional forgiveness and their outreach of support to the gunmans widow. Through the eyes of a grieving mother, Ida Graber (Kimberly Williams-Paisley; Father of the Bride films, According to Jim), and other devastated families, the film explores the Amish communitys astonishing reaction of compassion to the horrific events that shook their town and tested their faith. …More

Ondine By Jordan, Neil 2010-09 - Magnolia Pict Hm Ent 0876964003124 Check Our Catalog ONDINE is the story of Syracuse, a simple fisherman who catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his trawler nets. The woman seems to be dead, but then she comes alive before Syracuses eyes and he thinks he may be seeing things. However, with the help of his ailing, yet irrepressible daughter, Annie, he comes to believe that the fantastical might be possible and that the woman (Ondine) might be a myth come true. Ondine and Syracuse fall passionately in love, but just as we think the fairytale might go on forever, the real world intercedes. Then, after a terrible car crash and the return of a dark and violent figure from Ondines past, hope eventually prevails and a new beginning is presented to Syracuse, Ondine and Annie. …More

Robin Hood By Scott, Ridley 2010-09 - Universal Home Video 0025192037122 Check Our Catalog Russell Crowe stars as Robin Longstride in director Ridley Scott's big-budget twist on the celebrated legend. When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey. …More

The Square By Edgerton, Nash 2010-08 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396355545 Check Our Catalog …More

Stomp the Yard: Homecoming By Hardy, Rob 2010-09 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396356054 Check Our Catalog In the countdown to a national step-off, rivalries at Truth University run red hot. The Theta Nus are counting on new pledge Chance Harris (Collins Pennie) to lead the team to victory. But hes too caught up in his own problems to focus. At odds with his father, caught up in romantic troubles and targeted by a street gang for an unpaid debt, Chance must decide what is truly important and make the choices that will shape his life. Stomp the Yard: Homecoming unites a powerful cast featuring Terrence J and Pooch Hall with a soundtrack packed with pulse-pounding tracks. …More

Untitled By Parker, Jonathan 2010-09 - Gaiam Americas 0814838010762 Check Our Catalog After falling in with an unfamiliar social circle peopled with critics of every persuasion, avant-garde composer Adrian Jacobs becomes smitten with art gallery dealer Madeleine Gray -- the same woman his brother, Josh, is trying to impress. Jonathan Parker directs this comic meditation on love, creative expression and the pitfalls of sibling rivalry when it comes to romance. …More

The Experiment
Twenty-four men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a scientific research project to test the psychological effects of prison life. However, something goes horribly wrong and the experiment ultimately spirals out of control.