New Quick Flicks for the Week of May 1, 2012

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey By Marks, Constance 2012-04 - New Video Group 0767685264041 Check Our Catalog Beloved by children of all ages around the world, Elmo is an international icon. Few people know his creator, Kevin Clash, who dreamed of working with his idol, master puppeteer Jim Henson. Displaying his creativity and talent at a young age, Kevin ultimately found a home on Sesame Street. Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, this documentary includes rare archival footage, interviews with Frank Oz, Rosie ODonnell, Cheryl Henson, Joan Ganz Cooney and others and offers a behind-the-scenes look at Sesame Street and the Jim Henson Workshop. …More

Haywire By Soderbergh, Steven 2012-05 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398152156 Check Our Catalog Mallory Kane is a highly trained operative who works for a government security contractor in the dirtiest, most dangerous corners of the world. After successfully freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, she is double crossed and left for dead by someone close to her in her own agency. Suddenly the target of skilled assassins who know her every move, Mallory must find the truth in order to stay alive. Using her black-ops military training, she devises an ingenious and dangerous trap. But when things go haywire, Mallory realizes she'll be killed in the blink of an eye unless she finds a way to turn the tables on her ruthless adversary. …More

Joyful Noise By Graff, Todd 2012-05 - Warner Home Video 0883929239528 Check Our Catalog The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. The choir has always known how to sing in harmony, but the discord between its two leading ladies now threatens to tear them apart. Their newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill (Latifah), stubbornly wants to stick with their tried-and-true traditional style, while the fiery G.G. Sparrow (Parton) thinks tried-and-true translates to tired-and-old. Shaking things up even more is the arrival of G.G.'s rebellious grandson, Randy (Jeremy Jordan). Randy has an ear for music, but he also has an eye for Vi Rose's beautiful and talented daughter, Olivia (Keke Palmer), and the sparks between the two teenagers are causing even more friction between G.G. and Vi Rose. If these two strong-willed women can put aside their differences for the good of the people in their town, they--and their choir--may make the most joyful noise of all. …More

Neverland By Willing, Nick Voice by Knightley, Keira 2012-03 - Uni Dist Corp (Music) 0883476062174 Check Our Catalog Neverland introduces us to a young lad named Peter and his streetwise gang, who are mysteriously transported from turn-of-the-century London into an enchanting parallel world where time stands still and an adventure awaits like nothing you've ever seen before. In Neverland, no one ever ages and lost souls have been plucked out of time. The lost boys are soon caught in a war with the man who will become Captain Hook and change the fate of this mystical land forever. …More

New Year's Eve By Marshall, Garry 2012-05 - New Line Cinema Corporation 0794043157813 Check Our Catalog "New Year's Eve" celebrates love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts, in the intertwining stories told amidst the pulse and promise of New York City on the most dazzling night of the year. …More

Stuck Between Stations By Kiernan, Brady 2012-03 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398150091 Check Our Catalog …More

W.E. By Madonna, 2012-05 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz 0013132470597 Check Our Catalog W.E. tells the story of two fragile but determined women - Wally Winthrop and Wallis Simpson - separated by more than six decades. In 1998, lonely New Yorker Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish) is obsessed with what she perceives as the ultimate love story: King Edwardas VIII's abdication of the British throne for the woman he loved, American divorce Wallis Simpson. But Wally's research, including several visits to the Sotheby's auction of the Windsor Estate, reveals that the couple's life together was not as perfect as she thought. Weaving back and forth in time, W.E. intertwines Wally's journey of discovery in New York with the story of Wallis (Andrea Riseborough) and Edward (James D'Arcy), from the glamorous early days of their romance to the slow unraveling of their lives in the decades that followed. …More

Kashma Kash
Ramesh and his friend's sister Hemanalini love each other, but Ramesh has to marry another girl due to pressure from his family.

Recoil
A cop turns vigilante after his family is murdered, exacting vengeance on the killers and then on all criminals who have slipped through the system.
 
Redline
The most dangerous and exciting car race in the universe is held only once every five years. And that's tonight. The competitors are lined up at the starting block. In his vehicle, JP, the most daredevil driver on the circuit, is ready for the green light. Female driver Sonoshee, with whom he is secretly in love, is also on the starting line. She will stop at nothing to get on to that podium. In this race, not only is anything possible, but also anything is allowed.

Swastika
Uses home movie footage shot by Eva Braun, Nazi propaganda films, and other film footage of Germany in the 1930s and 1940s to document how Hitler and the Germans viewed themselves and wished themselves to be seen.

New Quick Flicks for the week of April 24, 2012

Amer By Cattet, Helene Director Forzani, Bruno 2011-10 - Olive Films 0887090027304 Check Our Catalog Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani's pastiche tour-de-force plays out a delirious, enigmatic, almost wordless death-dance of fear and desire. Its three movements, each in a different style, correspond to the childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of its female protagonist. Drawing its stylized, hyperbolic gestures from the playbooks of Bava, Leone, Argento, and De Palma, it takes them into a realm of near-abstraction. …More

Birdsong By Martin, Philip 2012-04 - PBS 0841887016643 Check Our Catalog …More

Catch .44 By Harvey, Aaron 2012-06 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz 0013132424996 Check Our Catalog …More

Contraband By Kormakur, Baltasar 2012-04 - Universal Home Video 0025192104381 Check Our Catalog Mark Wahlberg leads the cast of Contraband, a fast-paced thriller about a man trying to stay out of a world he worked so hard to leave behind and the family hell do anything to protect. Set in New Orleans, the film explores the cutthroat underground world of international smuggling full of desperate criminals and corrupt officials, high-stakes and big payoffs where loyalty rarely exists and death is one wrong turn away. Chris Farraday (Wahlberg) long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy (Caleb Landry Jones), botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), Chris is forced back into doing what he does best running contraband to settle Andys debt. Chris is a legendary smuggler and quickly assembles a crew with the help of his best friend, Sebastian (Ben Foster), to head to Panama and return with millions in counterfeit bills. Things quickly fall apart and with only hours to reach the cash, Chris must use his rusty skills to successfully navigate a treacherous criminal network of brutal drug lords, cops and hit men before his wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), and sons become their target. …More

How to Die in Oregon By Richardson, Peter 2012-02 - New Video Group 0767685262672 Check Our Catalog In 1994, Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. As a result, any individual whom two physicians diagnose as having less than six months to live can lawfully request a fatal dose of barbiturate to end his or her life. Since 1994, more than 500 Oregonians have taken their mortality into their own hands. In How to Die in Oregon, filmmaker Peter Richardson gently enters the lives of the terminally ill as they consider whether – and when – to end their lives by lethal overdose. …More

Let the Bullets Fly By 2012-04 - Well Go USA, Inc 0812491012970 Check Our Catalog …More

Life 2.0 By Spingarn-Koff, Jason 2012-01 - Virgil Films and Entertai 0829567078426 Check Our Catalog Life 2.0 follows a group of people whose lives are dramatically consumed by the virtual world of Second Life. More than an examination of a hot new technology, Life 2.0 is an intimate, character-based drama about people who look to a virtual world in search of something they are missing in their real lives. The results are unexpected and often disturbing: reshaping relationships, identities, and ultimately the very notion of reality. …More

Little Big Soldier By Ding, Sheng 2011-08 - Well Go USA, Inc 0812491012185 Check Our Catalog …More

Pariah By Rees, Dee 2012-04 - Universal Home Video 0025192113260 Check Our Catalog …More

Plastic Planet By Boote, Werner 2011-04 - First Run Features BL06116DVD000 Check Our Catalog In the tradition of Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock, this feisty yet informative documentary takes us on a journey around the globe - from the Moroccan Sahara to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, from a factory in China to the highest peaks of the Alps - to reveal the far-flung reach of plastic. Interviews with the world's foremost experts in biology, pharmacology, and genetics shed light on the perils of plastic to our environment and expose the truth of how plastic affects our bodies...and the health of future generations. …More

The Rebound By Freundlich, Bart 2012-02 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543784388 Check Our Catalog You'll love this fresh and funny romantic comedy starring Academy Award Winner Catherine Zeta-Jones* (No Reservations, Ocean's Twelve) and Justin Bartha (The Hangover, National Treasure). When Sandy (Zeta-Jones) catches her husband fooling around with her friend, she packs up the kids, moves to Manhattan, and starts a new life. Desperately needing a babysitter, Sandy turns to a handsome coffee shop clerk named Aram (Bartha). Soon, unexpected sparks are flying between Sandy and her new "nanny" - who also happens to be twenty years younger! Falling in love and freaking out, Sandy must decide if her feelings for Aram are real or is Aram catching her on "the rebound"? …More

Roadie By Cuesta, Michael 2012-03 - Magnolia Pict Hm Ent 0876964004497 Check Our Catalog Jimmy, a longtime roadie for the legendary Blue Oyster Cult, has been fired by the band. With nowhere else to go, he returns home to see his aging mom in Forest Hills, Queens, where a wild encounter with two old high school friends shows him that some things never change. …More

Texas Killing Fields By Mann, Ami Canaan 2012-06 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz 0013132382197 Check Our Catalog Inspired by true events, this tense and haunting thriller follows Detective Souder, a homicide detective in a small Texan town, and his partner, transplanted New York City cop Detective Heigh as they track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims' mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call 'The Killing Fields.' Despite his partner's warnings, Detective Heigh sets out to investigate the crimes. …More

Be-careful
The best way for Sameer and Anand to enjoy a moment of sensuous bliss is to take a trip away from home... and away from their respective wives, Anjali and Kiran. But fun becomes a far fetched dream for the boys when they realise the wives themselves are up to something naughty in Bangkok.

Celtic Woman: Believe Live
Filmed during their concert at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia in September 2011. Celtic Woman stars classic Irish performers interpreting traditional, popular, and classical songs. Songs: Awakening-- Follow on-- Foxhunter -- Nocturne -- Sailing-- Bridge over troubled water -- Black is the colour-- World fades away-- My heart was home again-- Tribute to Broadway-- Teir abhaile riu -- Woman's heart -- Water is wide -- Green grow the rushes -- You'll never walk along -- Smile -- Walking the night -- Spaceman came traveling -- Ave Maria -- Mna na heireann-- Parting glass.

Da Wu Sheng
A sweeping story of love, honor, and revenge set against the backdrop of Chinese opera during its heyday in 1920s Shanghai. Written by Zou Jingzhi, one of China's most popular writers, the story centers around two sworn brothers and their quest to regain their master's honor. Highly trained in martial arts and focused on revenge, their relentless quest leads them to fame and love, but also to their own downfall.

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
Best selling comic book artist Joann Sfar delivers an inventive biography of famed French singer Serge Gainsbourg. Born Lucien Ginsburg to Russian-Jewish parents, Sfar follows him from his childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris, his transition from painter to jazz musician to pop superstar and his many relationships including Juliette Greco, Brigitte Bardot, and Jane Birkin while employing a witty surrealistic style and a soundtrack that acts like a time capsule to '60s Paris.

Glitch in the Grid
Jay Masonek is feeling down and out. Although he is a talented artist, Jay has seldom left his small town in Northern California. One day, Jay's cousins Jeff and Eric (who are also artists) visit from LA. They offer Jay the opportunity to come live with them for a period of time in Hollywood. Jay soon begins to feel the oppression of what he describes as 'the grid', heightening his spiritual crises. Jay reaches out to God, who in the form of a dove directs and leads him.

Have a Little Faith
Mitch Albom has a pretty great life. He lives in Detroit and is happily married, he's an award-winning sportswriter, a must-read newspaper columnist, a screenwriter, a radio and television broadcaster. Then two men come into his life, and he realizes something's missing. Rabbi Albert Lewis presides over a thriving synagogue in a comfortable New Jersey suburb, and pastor Henry Covington, a recovering drug user and dealer, preaches to the poor and homeless in a crumbling Detroit inner-city church.

Kalevet ("Rabies")
A psychotic serial killer on the loose in the woods crosses paths with a group of unsuspecting teenagers. Soon people are dying one by one, but the bad guy isn't who you think.

Left Handed
Takes place in a suburb of Tokyo and centers around a disaffected teenage boy, Hiroshi, who is struggling at school, socially and academically. One day he shuts himself away in his bedroom and for the next two years refuses to come out or let anyone in. Hiroshi's parents are so ashamed that they attempt to conceal his condition from family and friends.

Lost on the Island
Detective Chung-su takes a secret mission from a dying president of a big company. The businessman wants to see his first love before he dies. The only information the detective has is that her name is Kkotnim and she now lives on an island called Tongbaek. He rides on a boat to the island with an anonymous passenger, but the boat is wrecked in a storm. In a struggle to escape from the island, Chung-su meets five grandmothers who will not let him or the other man escape.

Lovelorn
After she is involved in a motorcycle accident that kills her boyfriend, young Londoner Lorna falls into a coma and subsequently finds herself in a strange dreamlike world. In order to bring her back to reality, Lorna's brother ventures into the surreal limbo and challenges Death to a battle for her life.

Private Eye
1900s, Seoul, Korean Empire. Hong Jin-ho is a down and out detective. He makes his living mostly by catching cheating spouses, until a corpse is discovered in the woods. A rich man's son is dead and the killer must be found. Gwang-soo, a medical student, teams up with Jin-ho to solve the murder. But what they discover is a conspiracy far more evil and sinister than anything they imagined.

Der Rauber ("The Robber")
A champion marathoner leads a double life as a serial bank robber, sprinting between fixes, and away from police cavalcades, as many as three times a day. A lean, visceral study of pathological compulsion from Austrian director Benjamin Heisenberg, featuring a riveting central performance by Andreas Lust.

Romantics Anonymous
Jean-Rene is the boss of a chocolate factory and Angelique is a talented chocolate maker. They are both emotionally challenged people. Drawn together through a shared passion for chocolate, Jean-Rene and Angelique fall in love, but neither is able to express how they feel. Sadly, their crippling shyness is driving them apart. But eventually, they manage to overcome their lack of self-confidence, and risk baring their true feelings.

Sala samobójców ("Suicide Room")
A series of humiliating events 100 days before his graduation pushes privileged Dominik into the virtual world for comfort. He begins spending all his time as an avatar in the 'Suicide Room', but soon his online adventures begin to dangerously bleed into his real life. Breathtaking animated sequences draw the viewer into the virtual world portrayed in this psychological drama of a teenager trying to escape the torment of bullying.

New Quick Flicks for the Week of April 17, 2012

Helldriver By 2011-11 - Well Go USA, Inc 0812491012505 Check Our Catalog …More

Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol By Bird, Brad 2012-04 - Paramount Home Video 0097363558842 Check Our Catalog This is not just another mission. The IMF is shut down when its implicated in a global terrorist bombing plot. Ghost Protocol is initiated and Ethan Hunt and his rogue new team must go undercover to clear their organizations name. No help, no contact, off the grid. You have never seen a mission grittier and more intense than this. …More

Revenge of the Electric Car By Paine, Chris Narrated by Robbins, Tim 2012-01 - New Video Group 0767685262658 Check Our Catalog …More

Superheroes By Barnett, Mike Director Barnett, Michael 2011-11 - New Video Group 0767685254431 Check Our Catalog …More

When Strangers Click By Kenner, Robert 2011-11 - E1 0826262007195 Check Our Catalog Director Robert Kenner tells the revealing stories of people whose lives were transformed in unexpected ways by online encounters. …More

Bao Ying
A Hong Kong real estate tycoon suffers an unbearable loss when his daughter is kidnapped and killed: a victim of her decadent lifestyle and cocaine addiction. He turns to his trusted bodyguard to seek out the perpetrators and exact revenge.

Pappu Can't Dance Saala
A man with old world values finds it difficult to adjust in Mumbai, a city of fast track individuals with a dry and professional outlook toward life. Worst of all is his loud brach neighbor Mehak, a chorus dancer in Bollywood who has learned the tricks of surviving in Mumbai. They clash immediately, but in the end they realize their fondness for one another.

Secrets of the Titanic
National Geographic remembers the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic with a special collection of programs including the original classic "Secrets of the Titanic" and the new special "Save the Titanic with Robert Ballard".

Trigun Badlands Rumble
In town surrounded by quicksand, an outlaw from Vash the Stampede's past has resurfaced after twenty years. His name is Gasback - and he's looking to cause a little trouble. It seems Gasback has a serious beef with the town's mayor, who's paying dozens of bounty hunters to protect his turf. One of those hired guns is a beautiful woman with a vendetta against Gasback. Will she get a shot at revenge? Maybe, if she can get through Gasback's bodyguard, Wolfwood.

Vampires
"The 'true' story of a clan of vampires trying to hold their family together and get along with the neighbors. Dad seems to be channeling Bela Lugosi. Mom's a little bit off. Throw a rebellious son and a daughter pining for her lost mortality into the mix and it's a recipe for family discord. Add a bewildered documentary crew and things are bound to get a little chaotic."

The Veteran
When soldier Robert Miller returns home from Afghanistan he finds it hard to fit back into society. He takes a job in undercover surveillance and soon becomes obsessed with taking down a group of local gangsters who are linked to a suspected terrorist cell. His plan to assassinate the thugs is sabotaged and his rage spirals out of control as he embarks on a brutal quest for justice with devastating consequences.

New Quick Flicks for the Week of April 10, 2012

Battle Royale: The Complete Collection By 2012-03 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz 0013132456690 Check Our Catalog …More

Carnage By Polanski, Roman 2012-03 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396395916 Check Our Catalog CARNAGE is a razor sharp, biting comedy centered on parental differences. After two boys duke it out on a playground, the parents of the "victim" invite the parents of the "bully" over to work out their issues. A polite discussion of child-rearing soon escalates into verbal warfare, with all four parents revealing their true colors. None of them will escape the carnage. …More

The Darkest Hour By Gorak, Chris 2012-04 - Uni Dist Corp (Music) 0025192133213 Check Our Catalog The DARKEST HOUR is the story of five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack. The thriller highlights the classic beauty of Moscow alongside mind-blowing special effects. …More

Dirty Pictures By Sauret, Etienne 2011-11 - Breaking Glass Pictures 0853937002872 Check Our Catalog …More

The Iron Lady By Lloyd, Phyllida Director Cunha, Alice Da 2012-04 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz 0013132471396 Check Our Catalog THE IRON LADY is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world. …More

The Other F Word By 2012-01 - Oscilloscope Pictures 0896602002425 Check Our Catalog …More

Retreat By Tibbetts, Carl 2012-02 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396392281 Check Our Catalog …More

Wallace & Gromits World of Invention By Crossingham, Merlin Director K, Nick Park Voice by Sallis, Peter 2012-03 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398150367 Check Our Catalog …More

The Conquest
Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to the French presidency through the lens of his unraveling marriage to then-wife Cecilia. This lampoon depicts the future president as a bold and unashamed virtuoso of political combat, whose inattention to his disintegrating domestic partnership emerges as his chief vulnerability.

Eames: The Architect and the Painter
"The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames is widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products ... But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life ... has been less widely understood. Narrated by James Franco, this is the first film dedicated to these creative geniuses and their work"--Container.

Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven
An intimate portrait of Le Cirque founder Sirio Maccioni and his three sons, Mauro, Marco and Mario, to whom he will one day leave his formidable cultural and culinary legacy. Director Andrew Rossi not only gains unbelievable access to the larger-than-life Maccioni family but also catches the family at a dramatic transition: the closing of Le Cirque in 2004, its celebrated re-opening two years later followed by the nerve-wracking wait for New York's restaurant critics.

Making the Boys
"Explores the drama, struggle, and enduring legacy of the first-ever gay play and subsequent Hollywood movie to successfully reach a mainstream audience. The boys in the band sparked heated controversy that still exists four decades later. Featuring anecdotes from the surviving cast and filmmakers"--Container.

Memphis
The Tony Award-winning musical Memphis takes place in the smoky halls and underground clubs of the segregated '50s, where a young white DJ named Huey Calhoun falls in love with everything he shouldn't: rock n' roll, and an electrifying black singer. Bursting off the stage with explosive dancing, irresistible songs, and a thrilling tale of fame and forbidden love, this incredible journey is filled with laughter, soaring emotion, and roof-raising rock n' roll.

Miss Representation
"As the most persuasive and pervasive force of communication in our culture, media is educating yet another generation that a woman's primary value lay in her youth, beauty and sexuality--and not in her capacity to lead, making it difficult for women to obtain leadership positions and for girls to reach their full potential. The film accumulates startling facts and statistics that leave audiences shaken, armed with a new perspective"--Container.

Ocean of an Old Man
In the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and amid the stunning natural beauty of India's Andaman and Nicobar islands, an elderly British teacher struggles to run a small primary school despite the loss of many of the islands' children to the recent tragedy. Ignoring the overwhelming grief that washes over the islands, he continues to teach his few remaining students until a government official delivers a relocation order to all residents, causing him to embark on a heartbreaking search for his missing students, convinced they must still be alive. Blending exquisite vistas with the ubiquitous sound of the ocean to convey the precarious balance between human life and the inexorable forces of nature, Rajesh Shera's debut feature quietly unfolds as a delicate meditation on grief and loss.

RideBack: The Complete Series
After an injury forces Rin to trade her stage career for college life, she finds new thrills as a member of the RideBack Club. When she discovers an unusual connection with one machine in particular, Fuego, she is forced into the middle of a revolution. The tyrannical new government rules with an iron fist, and Rin is reluctant to take them on. Contains episodes 1-12.