New Quick Flicks for the Week of May 15, 2012

Albert Nobbs By Garcia, Rodrigo 2012-05 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398151487 Check Our Catalog Award winning actress Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs) plays a woman passing as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making. …More

Chronicle By Trank, Josh 2012-05 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543767770 Check Our Catalog Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over. …More

Cirkus Columbia By Tanovic, Danis 2012-05 - Strand Releasing Home Video 0712267310227 Check Our Catalog BOS …More

The Grey By Carnahan, Joe 2012-05 - Universal Home Video 0025192131745 Check Our Catalog In The Grey, Liam Neeson leads an unruly group of oil-rig roughnecks when their plane crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness. Battling mortal injuries and merciless weather, the survivors have only a few days to escape the icy elements and a vicious pack of rogue wolves on the hunt before their time runs out. …More

Mother's Day By 2012-05 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz  0013132512990  0013132512990 Check Our Catalog …More

One for the Money By Robinson, Julie Anne 2012-05 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398151524 Check Our Catalog Stephanie Plum (Katherine Heigl) can't catch a break. At 30, she finds herself newly-divorced, recently laid-off, and living with her hamster in Trenton, N.J. Broke and desperate, she lands a job working for her slimy cousin and his bail bond business. In need of fast cash she latches on to his biggest case a local cop wanted for murder who just happens to be the guy that broke her heart in high school. Stephanie gets resourceful and tough, as she is swept up in a suspenseful world of murder, deceit, with a bit of romance. …More

Rampart By Moverman, Oren 2012-05 - Millennium Media Services 0687797135599 Check Our Catalog Los Angeles, 1999. Officer Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson) is a Vietnam vet and a Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing "the people's dirty work" and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as the consequences of his past sins and his refusal to change his ways in light of a department-wide corruption scandal seal his fate. Brown internalizes his fear, anguish and paranoia as his world, complete with two ex-wives who are sisters, two daughters, an aging mentor dispensing bad advice, investigators galore, and a series of seemingly random women, starts making less and less sense. In the end, what is left is a human being stripped of all his pretense, machismo, chauvinism, arrogance, sexism, homophobia, racism, aggression, misanthropy; but is it enough to redeem him as a man? …More

The Vow By Sucsy, Michael 2012-05 - Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 0043396398177 Check Our Catalog A young couple has a car accident that puts the wife in a coma. After she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband sets his sights on winning her heart again. …More

War of the Arrows By Kim, Han Min 2012-02 - Well Go USA, Inc 0812491012857 Check Our Catalog …More

Behind Your Eyes Young, hopeful couple Erika and Steve embark on a weekend retreat to meet Steven's parents. Things take a turn for the worst when they are unexpectedly kidnapped and held hostage. Now, it's a fight for their lives against their mysterious abductor and the secrets he possesses. As he tortures and teases them, secrets from the past emerge and change everything. When Erika escapes things only get worse. Farmageddon Documented is the story of family farms who were providing healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop by agents of misguided government bureaucracies. Frontline: Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown In the desperate hours and days after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the fate of thousands of Japanese citizens fell into the hands of a small corps of engineers, firemen and soldiers who risked their lives to prevent the Daiichi nuclear complex from complete meltdown. This is their story, with rare footage from inside the plant and eyewitness testimony from the people on the frontlines. National Geographic: Inside the NSA You've heard the conspiracy theories and seen the movies. Now find out what really goes on inside one of the world's most secretive government organizations: the National Security Agency.

New Quick Flicks for the Week of May 8, 2012

Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel By Stapleton, Alex 2012-03 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz 0013132387697 Check Our Catalog …More

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within By Padilha, Jose 2012-02 - New Video Group 0767685257395 Check Our Catalog POR Tenente-Coronel Nascimento, a hardened vet of Rio de Janeiro's drug wars, is now head of a special police unit. With his new title comes new responsibilities and dangers, which the captain navigates with brashness and resolve. …More

In Their Own Words By 2012-03 - Acorn Media Publishing 0054961873999 Check Our Catalog …More

The Man Nobody Knew By Colby, Carl 2012-04 - First Run Features 0720229914901 Check Our Catalog As powerful and riveting as a John Le Carre thriller, The Man Nobody Knew uncovers the hidden life of legendary CIA spymaster William Colby. The consummate American soldier-spy, Colby took on the government's dirtiest assignments without question - until the day he defied presidential orders and revealed to Congress the CIA's "family jewels" - their darkest, deepest secrets. Told by his son Carl Colby and featuring a who's who of the intelligence community as well as top journalists and writers, Colby's indelible story unmasks the lies, myths, truths, sacrifices and causalities of a covert spy. …More

Ocean Heaven By Xue, Xiao Lu 2012-02 - Well Go USA, Inc 0812491012673 Check Our Catalog …More

!Women Art Revolution By Leeson, Lynn Hershman 2012-03 - Zeitgeist Films 0795975113939 Check Our Catalog …More

The Dirty Picture
The love story between an actress and a director with a picture set against the colorful and entertaining backdrop of the South film industry of the 80's. The film was inspired by the life of the Indian actress Silk Smitha.     

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.