New Quick Flicks for the Week of March 1, 2011

127 Hours By Boyle, Danny 2011-03 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543736325 Check Our Catalog 127 HOURS is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's (James Franco) remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolate canyon in Utah. Over the next five days Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary, scale a 65 foot wall and hike over eight miles before he is finally rescued. Throughout his journey, Ralston recalls friends, lovers (Clmence Posy), family, and the last two people he ever had the chance to meet? A visceral thrilling story that will take an audience on a never before experienced journey and prove what we can do when we choose life. …More

Burlesque By Antin, Steve 2011-03 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396366381 Check Our Catalog Ali (Christina Aguilera) is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship and an incertain future to follow her dreams to LA. Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress at The Burlesque Lounge from Tess (Cher), the clubs proprietor and headliner. Soon enough, Ali builds a friendship with a featured dancer (Julianne Hough), finds an enemy in a troubled, jealous performer (Kristen Bell), and garners the affection of Jack (Cam Gigandet), a bartender and fellow musician. With the help of a sharp-witted stage manager (Stanley Tucci) and gender-bending host (Alan Cumming), Ali makes her way from the bar to the stage. Her spectacular voice restores The Burlesque Lounge to its former glory, though not before a charismatic entrepreneur (Eric Dane) arrives with an enticing proposal. …More

Faster By Tillman, George 2011-03 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396371514 Check Our Catalog After 10 years in prison, Driver (Dwayne Johnson) has a singular focus -- to avenge the murder of his brother during the botched robbery that led to his imprisonment. Now a free man with a deadly to-do list in hand, he's finally on his mission... but with two men on his trail -- veteran cop (Billy Bob Thornton) just days from retirement, and a young egocentric hitman (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) with a flair for the art of killing and a newfound worthy opponent. The hunter is also the hunted. It's a do-or-die race to the list's finish as the mystery surrounding his brother's murder deepens, and new details emerge along the way hinting that Driver's list may be incomplete. …More

Dogtooth By Lanthimos. Yorgos 2011-01 - Kino Video 0738329067328 Check Our Catalog In this Greek drama, siblings who grow up cut off from the world -- homeschooled and dependent on one another for entertainment -- develop their own blissful alternative universe. That universe is shattered when their father lets in an outsider. Sex enters the picture when dad begins bringing home a female security officer to satisfy his son's sexual needs. Suddenly, nothing is quite the same within this highly idiosyncratic family unit. …More

Love and Other Drugs By Zwick, Edward 2011-03 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543733973 Check Our Catalog Maggie (Hathaway) is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone - or anything - tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie (Gyllenhaal), whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love. …More

Riverworld By 2011-02 - Uni Dist Corp (Music) 0883476013763 Check Our Catalog …More

Doghouse
When nine men head to a small village to make one of their friends feel better about his life, they encounter a town full of women who have been exposed to a biological weapon and turned into man-hating cannibals.

Genius Within
An unprecedented array of never-before-seen footage of Gould, photographs, and excerpts from his private home recordings and diaries, plus personal interviews with Gould's most intimate friends and lovers, some who have never spoken about him publicly before, to reconstruct his thoughts on music, art, society, love, and life. An enigmatic musical poet, world-renowned pianist Glenn Gould continues to captivate 27 years after his untimely death.

The Other Side of Immigration
This documentary is based on over 700 interviews with men and women in the Mexican countryside. The film explores why so many people leave small Mexican towns to work in the United States and what happens to the families and communities they leave behind. The audience is encouraged to think about new and creative ways that the U.S. and Mexican governments can work together to solve the problem of undocumented immigration.

New Quick Flicks for the Week of February 22, 2011

Due Date By Phillips, Todd 2011-02 - Warner Home Video 0883929139163 Check Our Catalog Peter Highman is an expectant first-time father whose wife's due date is a mere five days away. As Peter hurries to catch a flight home from Atlanta to be at her side for the birth, his best intentions go completely awry when a chance encounter with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay forces Peter to hitch a ride with Ethan - on what turns out to be a cross-country road trip that will ultimately destroy several cars, numerous friendships and Peter's last nerve. …More

Fish Tank By Arnold, Andrea 2011-02 - Image/Sphe 0715515064910 Check Our Catalog British director Andrea Arnold (Red Road) won the Cannes Jury Prize for the searing and invigorating FISH TANK, about a fifteen-year-old girl, Mia (electrifying newcomer Katie Jarvis), who lives with her mother and sister in the depressed housing projects of Essex. Mias adolescent conflicts and emerging sexuality reach boiling points when her mothers new boyfriend (a lethally attractive Michael Fassbender [Hunger, Inglourious Basterds]) enters the picture. In her young career, Arnold has already proven herself to be a master of social realism (evoking the work of Mike Leigh and Ken Loach), investing her sympathetic portraits of dead-end lives with a poetic, earthy sensibility all her own. FISH TANK heralds the official arrival of a major new filmmaker. …More

Get Low By Schneider, Aaron 2011-02 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396353138 Check Our Catalog Academy Award winner Robert Duvall (1984, Best Actor, Tender Mercies) is Felix Bush, the Hermit of Caleb County, a man so haunted by his secrets that he has lived in quiet desolation in the Tennessee backwoods for over 40 years. Realizing that he is near his own mortality, Bush decides to have a living funeral party, inviting people to tell their stories about him. Enlisting the help of Frank Quinn (Golden Globe winner Bill Murray, 2004, Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, Lost in Translation) and Buddy Robinson (Lucas Black, Legion), Bush goes through a process of self-discovery, allowing him to deal with his past secrets, including ones involving old flame (and new widow) Mattie (Academy Award winner Sissy Spacek, 1980, Best Actress, Coal Miner's Daughter). …More

The Locksmith By 2010-09 - Millennium Media Services 0687797131492 Check Our Catalog Out of prison on a work release program, Mike (Anslem Richardson) is doing his best to stay on the straight and narrow, but his job as a locksmith threatens to undermine his efforts when the nutty and profane Margo (Ana Reeder) calls seeking his services. After helping Margo in her quest to find out whether her fiance's been fooling around, Mike has a twinge of conscience that only ends up pulling him deeper into a dicey and chaotic situation. …More

Megamind By McGrath, Tom 2011-02 - Paramount Home Video 0097361329949 Check Our Catalog When a cunning supervillain (voiced by Will Ferrell) accidentally kills his crime-fighting nemesis, the rogue suddenly finds life boring and uninspired. So, he creates a new enemy (Jonah Hill) who seeks to destroy the world, forcing Megamind to play the hero role for once in his life. …More

Braving Iraq
In the early 1990s, Saddam Hussein destroyed the Mesopotamian Marshes, once the richest wildlife habitat in the Middle East. Now one man is making an extraordinary effort to restore both animals and people to the scene of one of the greatest ecocides of the twentieth century. Is it a dream too far? Can man and animal live again in what remains one of the most politically troubled and dangerous places on Earth?

Colin
Colin is the first zombie movie told from the zombie's perspective. Our hero Colin is bitten by a zombie; he dies and returns as one of the undead. We follow him as he wanders through suburbia during the throes of a cadaverous apocalypse. Through his encounters with objects, places and people, we learn who Colin was and more pertinently, what he has now become. Including a broad daylight zombie versus human street battle, an epic housebound siege and bags of gore.

Partir
When stay-at-home mom Suzanne wants to return to work, her husband agrees to remodel a garage to serve as her office. Ivan, a sexy Spanish builder, enters their lives and changes them in ways no one could have expected. Suzanne and Ivan are irresistibly drawn together by an erotic passion that threatens to destroy her marriage, her family, and everything she holds dear. Her husband will stop at nothing to destroy her first.

Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War, remains a source of fascination and, for some, veneration. This film examines the life and reputation of the general, whose military successes made him the scourge of the Union and the hero of the Confederacy, and who was elevated to almost god-like status by his admirers after his death.

Sword of War
Brandishing his unstoppable sword of war, German Emperor Barbarossa will stop at nothing to conquer enemy lands and to revive the empire that once belonged to Charles the Great. But a young man from Milan, along with his army of 900 men known as the Company of Death, is prepared to challenge the Emperor and his relentless dominance. Special features include trailers.

New Quick Flicks for the Week of February 15, 2011

Glorious 39 By 2011-02 - E1 0741952684190 Check Our Catalog In this tense WWII-era thriller, Anne Keyes, a young woman from a powerful, political family, stumbles upon sinister evidence relating to a secret Nazi conspiracy plot. As war rages throughout Europe, Anne discovers the dark truths hidden by her family and becomes caught in a deadly web of lies and betrayal. …More

Life as We Know It By Berlanti, Greg 2011-02 - Warner Home Video 0883929139170 Check Our Catalog Holly Berenson is an up-and-coming caterer and Eric Messer is a promising network sports director. After a disastrous first date, the only thing they have in common is their dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter, Sophie. But when they suddenly become all Sophie has in the world, Holly and Eric are forced to put their differences aside. Juggling career ambitions and competing social calendars, they'll have to find some common ground while living under one roof. …More

Love Ranch By Hackford, Taylor 2010-11 - National Ent Media 9781417212767 Check Our Catalog Grace and Charlie make a fine couple. She provides the mind behind their schemes, while his work as a gangster allows the swindles to be carried out. But a new scam involving a handsome boxer threatens both their plan and their two-decade marriage …More

Prayers for Bobby By Mulcahy, Russell 2010-10 - A&E Home Video 9781422910542 Check Our Catalog A Presbyterian wife and mother discovers that her son is gay and seeks to change him through prayer. …More

Storm Warriors By 2011-02 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398131083 Check Our Catalog …More

Unstoppable By Scott, Tony 2011-02 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543716600 Check Our Catalog Hang on for the ride of your life as Oscar Winner Denzel Washington and Chris Pine (Star Trek) team up for the years most electrifying action-thriller. A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Scranton, Pennsylvania, and only two men can stop it: a veteran engineer (Washington) and a young conductor (Pine). Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes attempt to chase down one million tons of hurtling steel and prevent an epic disaster. Helmed by visionary director Tony Scott (Man on Fire), this story inspired by true events delivers excitement and suspense that are UNSTOPPABLE! …More

Waiting for Superman By Guggenheim, Davis 2011-02 - Paramount Home Video 0097363565048 Check Our Catalog From the Academy Award-winning Director of An Inconvenient Truth comes the groundbreaking feature film that provides an engaging and inspiring look at public education in the United States. Waiting For Superman has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of five unforgettable students such as Emily, a Silicon Valley eighth-grader who is afraid of being labeled as unfit for college and Francisco, a Bronx first-grader whose mom will do anything to give him a shot at a better life. Waiting For Superman will leave a lasting and powerful impression that you will want to share with your friends and family. …More

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger By Allen, Woody 2011-02 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396369047 Check Our Catalog After her husband's midlife crisis drives him into the arms of a younger woman, Helena consults a psychic to learn what fate has in store for her and is told that she'll soon meet a tall, dark stranger who will become the love of her life. Meanwhile, the pair's daughter and her husband grapple with their own extramarital attractions. …More

Game of Death
Marcus, a Secret Ops agent, is sent to Detroit to eliminate an arms dealer and take out the hedge fund that has been financing him. Unfortunately, his CIA backup has other plans and decides to turn on him. When they end up in the same hospital it will be a fight for survival.

Kites: The Remix
A Las Vegas hustler is engaged to the daughter of the city's most powerful and dangerous casino owner. But all bets are off when he falls in love with the ravishing Natasha, an illegal immigrant engaged to J's jealous and violent future brother-in-law. When their illicit romance is discovered, J and Natasha flee for the border with the  police and relentless hired killers on their trail.

New Quick Flicks for the Week of February 8, 2011

For Colored Girls By Perry, Tyler 2011-02 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398131212 Check Our Catalog Janet Jackson, Thandie Newton, and Whoopi Goldberg head up an all-star cast in a vibrant world where friends and strangers dream, fear, cry, love, and laugh out loud in an attempt to find their true selves. Adapted by writer/director Tyler Perry from Ntozake Shange's acclaimed choreopoem, this gripping film paints an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a woman of color in the modern world. …More

Its Kind of a Funny Story By Boden, Anna Director Fleck, Ryan 2011-02 - Universal Home Video 0025192074288 Check Our Catalog 16-year-old Craig (Gilchrist), stressed out from the demands of being a teenager, checks himself into a mental health clinic. There he learns that the youth ward is closed and finds himself stuck in the adult ward. One of the patients, Bobby (Galifianakis), soon becomes both Craigs mentor and protg. Craig is also quickly drawn to another 16-year-old, Noelle (Roberts). With a minimum five days stay imposed on him, Craig is sustained by friendships on both the inside and the outside as he learns more about life, love, and the pressures of growing up. …More

Middle Men By Gallo, George 2011-02 - Paramount Home Video 0097363563747 Check Our Catalog In 1995, everyone had a VCR, music was sold in record stores, and the world-wide-web was a new found discovery. Businessman Jack Harris (Luke Wilson) had the perfect life - a beautiful family and a successful career fixing problem companies. And then he met Wayne Beering (Giovanni Ribisi) and Buck Dolby (Gabriel Macht), two genius but troubled men, who had invented the way adult entertainment is sold over the internet. When Jack agrees to help steer their business, he soon finds himself caught between a 23 year-old porn star and the FBI all the while becoming one of the wealthiest entrepreneurs of his time. Inspired by a true story that proves business is a lot like sex] getting in is easy, pulling out is hard. …More

Mutants By Morley, David 2010-11 - MPI Home Video 0030306976594 Check Our Catalog In a world devastated by a pandemic virus that turns human beings into primitive and bloodthirsty creatures, Marco and Sonia set off to find a secret base to escape from the mutants. When the latter attack them, Marco is contaminated too. Little by little, he undergoes the same changes. Sonia, who is expecting a baby, is then forced to fight her worst enemy, the man she loves. …More

My Soul to Take By Craven, Wes 2011-02 - Universal Home Video 0025195053914 Check Our Catalog On the day the Riverton Ripper vanished without a trace, seven children were born. Today, theyre all turning 16... and turning up dead. Legendary director Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream) keeps your heart racing with a suspense-thriller filled with twists, turns and a dark secret that will send your soul searching for cover. …More

Paranormal Activity 2 By Williams, Tod 2011-02 - Paramount Pictures 0097363563044 Check Our Catalog Just as Dan and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare. Security cameras capture the torment, making every minute horrifyingly real. …More

You Again By Fickman, Andy 2011-02 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment 0786936810233 Check Our Catalog For Marnie (Bell), high school was a horror movie, and her brothers wedding is the sequel when her archrival comes back to haunt her as his bride. Its nice girl versus mean girl in this hysterical reunion with the one person Marnie would really like to forget. And if that werent enough, Marnies mom (Curtis) reunites with her own high school nemesis (Weaver). …More

Frontline: Facing Death
How far would you go to sustain the life of someone you love or your own? When the moment comes, and you're confronted with the prospect of 'pulling the plug', do you know how you'll respond? Unfounded rumors of federal 'death panels' grabbed headlines last summer, but the real decisions of how we die, the questions that most of us prefer to put off, are being made quietly behind closed doors, increasingly on the floors of America's intensive care units.

The Girl
In the summer of 1981, a 9-year-old girl is left behind in her aunt's care while the rest of her family goes to Africa as aid workers. The aunt is soon courted by a man and leaves the girl with the promise to return in a few days. The abandoned girl keeps this a secret from everyone and uses her freedom to discover the world around her as the summer passes by. With sharpening senses she gradually discovers the often absurd and careless world of adults.

Gun
"In the face of rising crime rates and gun violence, the Detroit Police lauch a full-scale war against gun  runners."--Container.

Ong Bak 3
Tien is captured and almost beaten to death before he is saved and brought back to the Kana Khone villagers. There he is taught meditation and how to deal with his Karma, but very soon his archrival returns, challenging Tien to a final duel.

The Romantics
Alliances are tested when seven college pals reunite to watch two of their own say 'I do' at a seaside wedding. But the maid of honor and the groom share a passionate history, and the bride isn't the only one who's wondering if it's all in the past, proving that nothing complicates friendship like love. Included is a featurette.

San Qiang Pai An Jing Qi (A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop)
When an older, abusive husband discovers his younger wife is having an affair, he devises a scheme to murder her. This sets off a series of revengeful activities.

New Quick Flicks for the Week of February 1, 2011

Conviction By Goldwyn, Tony 2011-02 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543714927 Check Our Catalog Convinced that her brother is innocent, Betty Anne puts herself through high school, college and, finally, law school in an 18 year quest to free Kenny. With the help of best friend Abra Rice (Academy Award nominee Minnie Driver), Betty Anne pores through suspicious evidence mounted by small town cop Nancy Taylor (Academy Award nominee Melissa Leo), meticulously retracing the steps that led to Kenny's arrest. Belief in her brother - and her quest for the truth - pushes Betty Anne and her team to uncover the facts and utilize DNA evidence with the hope of exonerating Kenny. …More

Let Me in By Reeves, Matt 2011-02 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz 0013132146195 Check Our Catalog Twelve-year old Owen is viciously bullied by his classmates and neglected by his divorcing parents. Achingly lonely, Owen spends his days plotting revenge on his middle school tormentors and his evenings spying on the other inhabitants of his apartment complex. His only friend is his new neighbor Abby, an eerily self-possessed young girl who lives next door with her silent father. A frail, troubled child about Owens's age, Abby emerges from her heavily curtained apartment only at night and always barefoot, seemingly immune to the bitter winter elements. Recognizing a fellow outcast, Owen opens up to her and before long, the two have formed a unique bond. When a string of grisly murders puts the town on high alert, Abby's father disappears, and the terrified girl is left to fend for herself. Still, she repeatedly rebuffs Owen's efforts to help her and her increasingly bizarre behavior leads the imaginative Owen to suspect she's hiding an unthinkable secret. …More

Never Let Me Go By Romanek, Mark 2011-02 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543714262 Check Our Catalog Kathy (Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan, AN EDUCATION), Tommy (Andrew Garfield, BOY A, RED RIDING) and Ruth (Oscar nominee Keira Knightley, PRIDE & PREJUDICE, ATONEMENT) live in a world and a time that feel familiar to us, but are not quite like anything we know. They spend their childhood at Hailsham, a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. When they leave the shelter of the school and the terrible truth of their fate is revealed to them, they must also confront the deep feelings of love, jealousy and betrayal that threaten to pull them apart. …More

Skin By 2011-02 - E1 0741952684794 Check Our Catalog Despite being born to Afrikaner parents, Sandra faces prejudice from her community due to her dark skin and African features. Torn between her family and the man she loves, Sandra must overcome the racial intolerance of her society in this uplifting true story. …More

The Tillman Story By 2011-02 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396372351 Check Our Catalog Pat Tillman decided to leave a multimillion-dollar professional football contract and join the military because he felt it was the right thing to do. When he died in a friendly-fire incident in Afghanistan in 2004, the military is shown to have manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a glorifying propaganda tool. …More

Welcome to the Rileys By Scott, Jake 2011-02 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396364134 Check Our Catalog Golden Globe winner James Gandolfini, (The Sopranos) is Doug Riley, a man at the crossroads. Ever since the tragic death of his teenage daughter, he's led a life of quiet desperation... and now, something has to give. On a business trip to New Orleans, he encounters Mallory (Kristen Stewart, the Twilight films) -- a raw, angry runaway living a dangerous life as a stripper. Moved by emotions he barely understands, Riley abandons his old life to save hers. The tenuous balance is threatened when his wife Lois (Academy Award nominee Melissa Leo, Best Actress, Frozen River, 2008) shakes off the fears that have kept her homebound for years. Now three lost souls seek hope and forgiveness in each other... and together, they discover a rare gift of connection that feels like family. …More

Discovering Hamlet
Derek Jacobi and Kenneth Branagh star in this absorbing documentary, which follows the Renaissance Theatre Company's production of Hamlet  from first read-throughs to opening night. Narrated by Patrick Stewart. Chronicles Derek Jacobi's directorial dispute and Kenneth Branagh's first professional appearance as the Danish prince. Bonus disc with hours of never-before-seen footage.

Floored: For Some Risking Everything is Nothing
"With 'an elegaic poignancy' (New York Times), director James Allen Smith (My Name is Smith) "captures the waning heyday of the Chicago Trading Pits" (ABC News) and tells the bizarre and gripping stories of the traders -- 'overgrown kids with money, brains, and a pathological need to release stress' (Barron's) whose chaotic, audacious, and thrill-seeking way of life has all but vanished with the recent shift toward automated computerized stock trading." -- from container.

Monsters
Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within the solar system. Soon after, new life forms began to appear and half of Mexico was quarantined. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain 'the creatures.' Now a U.S. journalist has agreed to escort a shaken American tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.

One Piece. Season 3, Fourth Voyage
"Lightning bolts rain from the heavens and cloud-dwelling citizens run for their lives as Luffy and Eneru go toe-to-toe to determine the fate of Skypiea! The rubber-man is eager to make this exceedingly evil villain pay for his sins against the innocent, but Eneru won't be easily defeated. With his electric ark chock full of gold, the heinous holy man sets in motion a petrifying plan to obliterate life on Angel Island! Luffy is ready to rumble, but his shipmates are falling one  by one, and his punching power bottoms out after Eneru encases his hand in a giant ball of gold. Only one hope remains: Nami and Luffy must risk their lives in a desperate attempt to ring the sacred bell of Shandora - and chase away Eneru's looming cloud of death!"--Container.

Ip Man 2
Ip Man's migration to Hong Kong in 1949 as he attempts to propagate his discipline of Wing Chun martial art.