New Quick Flicks for the Week of June 5, 2012

Act of Valor By McCoy, Mike Director Waugh, Scott Director Waugh, Mike McCoy and Scot 2012-06 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543781042 Check Our Catalog An unprecedented blend of real-life heroism and original filmmaking, "Act of Valor" stars a group of active-duty Navy SEALs in a powerful story of contemporary global anti-terrorism. Inspired by true events, the film combines stunning combat sequences, up-to-the minute battlefield technology and heart-pumping emotion for the ultimate action adventure. …More

Coriolanus By Fiennes, Ralph Director Butler, Gerard Fiennes 2012-05 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz 0013132472195 Check Our Catalog Caius Martius Coriolanus (Ralph Fiennes), a revered and feared Roman General is at odds with the city of Rome and his fellow citizens. Pushed by his controlling and ambitious mother Volumnia (Vanessa Redgrave) to seek the exalted and powerful position of Consul, he is loath to ingratiate himself with the masses whose votes he needs in order to secure the office. When the public refuses to support him, Coriolanus as anger prompts a riot that culminates in his expulsion from Rome. The banished hero then allies himself with his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius (Gerard Butler) to take his revenge on the city. …More

Dragonslayer By Patterson, Tristan 2012-05 - First Run Features 0720229915069 Check Our Catalog Documents the transgressions of Josh 'Skreech' Sandoval, a local skate legend from the stagnant suburbs of Fullerton, California, in the aftermath of America's economic collapse. …More

Garbo the Spy By Roch, Edmon 2012-04 - First Run Features 0720229915045 Check Our Catalog The Allies called him Garbo. The Nazis dubbed him Alaric. Both sides in World War II were sure Juan Pujol Garcia was their man. In reality, Pujol was a double agent, and his final allegiance was to the Allies. From the comfort of Lisbon, Garbo fed false information to the Nazis and fabricated a network of phantom agents across Europe. Although he never fired a single shot, Garbo helped to save thousands of lives, most notably by misinforming the Germans about the timing and location of D-Day. …More

Gone By Dhalia, Heitor 2012-05 - Uni Dist Corp (Music) 0025192143113 Check Our Catalog In the suspense thriller GONE, Jill Parrish (Amanda Seyfried) comes home from a night shift to discover her sister Molly has been abducted. Jill, who had escaped from a kidnapper a year before, is convinced that the same serial killer has come back for her sister. Afraid that Molly will be dead by sundown, Jill embarks on a heart-pounding chase to find the killer, expose his secrets and save her sister. …More

In the Land of Blood and Honey By Jolie, Angelina 2012-04 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396397668 Check Our Catalog SRP Set against the backdrop of the Bosnian War that tore the Balkan region apart in the 1990s, In the Land of Blood and Honey tells the story of Danijel (Goran Kosti) and Ajla (Zana Marjanovi), two people from different sides of a brutal ethnic conflict. Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, and Ajla, a Bosnian held captive in the camp he oversees, knew each other before the war, and could have found love with each other. But as the armed conflict takes hold of their lives, their relationship grows darker, their motives and connection to one another ambiguous, their allegiances uncertain. In the Land of Blood and Honey portrays the incredible emotional, moral and physical toll that the war exerts both on individuals and people as a whole, and the terrible consequences that stem from the lack of political will to intervene in a society stricken with conflict. …More

Into the Abyss By Herzog, Werner 2012-04 - MPI Home Video 0030306934594 Check Our Catalog In his fascinating exploration of a triple homicide case iin Conroe, Texas, master filmmaker Werner Herzog probes the human psyche to explore why people kill, and why a state kills. As he's so often done before, Herzog's investigation unveils layers of humanity, making an enlightening trip out of ominous territory. …More

John Carter By Stanton, Andrew 2012-06 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment 0786936818970 Check Our Catalog From Academy Award winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton comes John Carter-a sweeping action-adventure set on the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars). John Carter is based on a classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose highly imaginative adventures served as inspiration for many filmmakers, both past and present. The film tells the story of war-weary, former military captain John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), who is inexplicably transported to Mars where he becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions amongst the inhabitants of the planet, including Tars Tarkas (Willem Dafoe) and the captivating Princess Dejah Thoris (Lynn Collins). In a world on the brink of collapse, Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes that the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands. …More

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island By Peyton, Brad 2012-07 - New Line Cinema Corporation 0794043157912 Check Our Catalog …More

Koch Brothers Exposed By Greenwald, Robert 2012-06 - E1 0826262007591 Check Our Catalog A hard-hitting and revealing investigation of the 1% in America at its very worst. Koch Brothers Exposed is the latest film from Acclaimed Director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed, Iraq For Sale). From environmental pollution to their efforts to dismantle social security for working Americans, the Koch Brothers have launched a large network, attacking our American values. …More

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies By 2012-05 - Universal Home Video 0025192130489 Check Our Catalog …More

Man on a Ledge By Leth, Asger 2012-05 - Uni Dist Corp (Music) 0025192133176 Check Our Catalog An ex-cop and now wanted fugitive (Sam Worthington) stands on the ledge of a high-rise building while a hard-living New York Police Department negotiator (Elizabeth Banks) tries to talk him down. The longer they are on the ledge, the more she realizes that he might have an ulterior objective. …More

Memorial Day By Fischer, Sam 2012-05 - Image/Sphe 0014381806724 Check Our Catalog …More

My Piece of the Pie By Klapisch, Cedric 2012-05 - MPI Home Video 0030306980997 Check Our Catalog …More

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth By Freidrichs, Chad 2012-05 - First Run Features 0720229915090 Check Our Catalog Built in 1956, Pruitt-Igoe was heralded as the model public housing project of the future, 'the poor man's penthouse.' Two decades later, it ended in rubble, its razing an iconic event that the architectural theorist Charles Jencks famously called the death of modernism. The footage and images of its implosion have helped to perpetuate a myth of failure, a failure that has been used to critique Modernist architecture, attack public assistance programs, and stigmatize public housing residents. …More

Safe House By Espinosa, Daniel 2012-06 - Universal Home Video 0025192104404 Check Our Catalog Washington plays the most dangerous renegade from the CIA, who comes back onto the grid after a decade on the run. When the South African safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative (Reynolds) escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead. For the past year, Matt Weston has been frustrated by his inactive, backwater post in Cape Town. A "housekeeper" who aspires to be a full-fledged agent, the loyal company man has been waiting for an opportunity to prove himself. When the first and only occupant he's had proves to be the most dangerous man he's ever met, Weston readies for duty. Tobin Frost has eluded capture for almost a decade. One of the best ops men that the CIA's known, the ex-intelligence officer has given up assets and sold military intel to anyone with cash since he turned. From trading secrets to North Korea to aiding splinter cells, the damage he's done to the U.S. is immeasurable. And he's now back on the reservation with a secret. As soon as Frost is brought in for debriefing, mercenaries come and tear apart Weston's safe house. Barely escaping, the unlikely partners must discover if their attackers have been sent by terrorists or someone on the inside who will kill anyone standing in the way. Now it's up to Weston to figure out who he can trust before they're both eliminated from the game. …More

We Need to Talk about Kevin By Ramsay, Lynne 2012-05 - Oscilloscope Pictures 0896602002432 Check Our Catalog A suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller, Lynne Ramsay's WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN explores the factious relationship between a mother and her son. Tilda Swinton, in a bracing, tour-de-force performance, plays the mother, Eva, as she contends for 15 years with the increasing malevolence of her first-born child, Kevin (Ezra Miller). Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN explores nature vs. nurture on a whole new level as Eva's own culpability is measured against Kevin's innate evilness. Ramsay's masterful storytelling simultaneously combines a provocative moral ambiguity with a satisfying and compelling narrative, which builds to a chilling, unforgettable climax. …More

Windfall By Israel, Laura 2012-05 - First Run Features 0720229915083 Check Our Catalog Wind power is sustainable, burns no fossil fuels, produces no air pollution, and cuts down dependency on foreign oil. That's what the people of Meredith, NY, first thought when a wind developer looked to supplement the rural farm town's falling economy with 40 industrial wind turbines. But when a group of townspeople discover the impacts that a 400-foot high windmill could bring to their community, Meredith's residents become deeply divided as they fight over the future of their town. …More

Worried about the Boy By Jarrold, Julian 2012-05 - E1 0741952721895 Check Our Catalog …More

New Quick Flicks for the Week of May 22, 2012

7 Below By 2012-04 - Anderson Merchandisers, L 0796019824170 Check Our Catalog …More

Dark Tide By Stockwell, John 2012-04 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398151050 Check Our Catalog Kate (Halle Berry) is a shark expert whose business has been failing since a shark attack killed a fellow diver under her command. Once dubbed "the shark whisperer," Kate is haunted by the memory of the attack and unable to get back into the water. With bills piling up and the bank about to foreclose on Kate's boat, Kate's old flame Jeff (Olivier Martinez) presents her with a lucrative opportunity: lead a thrill-seeking millionaire businessman on a dangerous shark dive outside the cage. Battling her self-doubts and fear, Kate accepts the proposal -- and sets a course for the world's deadliest feeding ground: Shark Alley. …More

The Front Line By 2012-05 - Well Go USA, Inc 0812491012888 Check Our Catalog …More

The Innkeepers By West, Ti 2012-04 - MPI Home Video 0030306819099 Check Our Catalog After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees -Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) - are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England's most haunted hotels. As the Inn's final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage "ghost hunters" begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel's long unexplained history. …More

Perfect Sense By MacKenzie, David 2012-05 - MPI Home Video 0030306981093 Check Our Catalog A hit at Sundance '11 and winner of the Ediburgh Film Festival's prize for Best New British Feature, the amazing genre creation directed by David Mackenzie stars Eva Green and Ewan McGregor as witnesses to the end of the world-- strangers who form a desperate romantic connection in the face of an apocalyptic epidemic of sensory loss. …More

Red Tails By Hemingway, Anthony 2012-05 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543791980 Check Our Catalog 1944. As the war in Europe continues to take its toll on Allied forces, the Pentagon brass has no recourse but to consider unorthodox options -- including the untried and untested African-American pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program. Just as the young Tuskegee men are on the brink of being shut down and shipped back home, they are given the ultimate chance to show their courage. Against all the odds, with something to prove and everything to lose, these intrepid young airmen take to the skies to fight for their country -- and the fate of the free world. …More

This Means War By Cg, M. 2012-05 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543755203 Check Our Catalog The world's deadliest CIA operatives are inseparable partners and best friends until they fall for the same woman. Having once helped bring down entire enemy nations, they are now employing their incomparable skills and an endless array of high-tech gadgetry against their greatest nemesis ever -- each other. …More

Beyond
A detective teams with a tabloid psychic to track down a missing child.

Dragon Ball Z: Kai [Season 1, Part 7]
The last descendants of an evil race of warriors known as the Saiyans are on a collision course with Earth, and Goku, the strongest fighter on the planet, is all that stands between humanity and extinction. To save his friends and the world he loves, Goku must travel to a realm from which few return, but should he survive, he'll discover the power to face the villainous Saiyan warlord, Prince Vegeta.

Saving the Titanic
Dramatizes the efforts and experiences of the crew below deck on the RMS "Titanic," focusing on the men working in the engine and boiler rooms, and following events from the ship's departure from Southampton to it's sinking on April 15, 1912.

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.