Tuesday, July 3, 2012

New Quick Flicks for the weeks of June 27 & July 3, 2012

21 Jump Street
21 Jump Street
By Miller, Phil Lord and Chris
2012-06 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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In the action-comedy 21 Jump Street, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. But they find that high school is nothing like they left it just a few years earlier a and neither expects that they will have to confront the terror and anxiety of being a teenager again and all the issues they thought they had left behind. …More


The Artist
The Artist
By Hazanavicius, Michel
2012-06 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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This modern-day silent film artfully recounts the poignant end of the silent-movie era in the late 1920s. The story contrasts the declining fortunes of a silent-screen superstar with his lover's rise to popularity as a darling of the "talkies." …More


Hatfields & McCoys: Bad Blood
Hatfields & McCoys: Bad Blood
By Ray, Fred Olen
2012-06 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment
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Mirror Mirror
Mirror Mirror
By Roberts, Julia
Director Singh, Tarsem
2012-06 - Twentieth Century-Fox
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After a beloved King vanishes, his ruthless wife seizes control of the kingdom and keeps her beautiful 18-year-old stepdaughter, Snow White, hidden away in the palace. But when the princess attracts the attention of a charming and wealthy visiting prince, the jealous Queen banishes the girl to a nearby forest. Taken in by a band of rebellious but kindhearted dwarfs, Snow White blossoms into a brave young woman determined to save her country from the Queen. With the support of her new friends, she roars into action to reclaim her birthright and win back her Prince in this magical adventure comedy that will capture the hearts and imaginations of audiences the world over. …More


Thousand Words
Thousand Words
By Robbins, Brian
2012-06 - Paramount Home Video
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Eddie Murphy is Jack McCall, a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja (Cliff Curtis) for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack's life comes unglued after a magical Bodhi tree mysteriously appears in his backyard. With every word Jack speaks, a leaf falls from the tree and he realizes that when the last leaf falls, both he and the tree are toast. Words have never failed Jack McCall, but now he's got to stop talking and conjure up some outrageous ways to communicate or he's a goner. …More


We Were Here
We Were Here
By Weissman, David
Director Weber, Bill
2012-05 - New Video Group
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We Were Here documents the coming of what was called the "Gay Plague" in the early 1980s. It illuminates the profound personal and community issues raised by the AIDS epidemic as well as the broad political and social upheavals it unleashed. It offers a cathartic validation for the generation that suffered through, and responded to, the onset of AIDS. It opens a window of understanding to those who have only the vaguest notions of what transpired in those years. It provides insight into what society could, and should, offer its citizens in the way of medical care, social services, and community support. …More


Wrath of the Titans
Wrath of the Titans
By Liebesman, Jonathan
2012-07 - Warner Home Video
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A decade after his heroic defeat of the monstrous Kraken, Perseus the demigod son of Zeus is attempting to live a quieter life as a village fisherman and the sole parent to his 10-year old son, Helius. Meanwhile, a struggle for supremacy rages between the gods and the Titans. Dangerously weakened by humanity's lack of devotion, the gods are losing control of the imprisoned Titans and their ferocious leader, Kronos, father of the long-ruling brothers Zeus, Hades and Poseidon. The triumvirate had overthrown their powerful father long ago, leaving him to rot in the gloomy abyss of Tartarus, a dungeon that lies deep within the cavernous underworld. Perseus cannot ignore his true calling when Hades, along with Zeus' godly son, Ares, switch loyalty and make a deal with Kronos to capture Zeus. …More


Bullhead
A young cattle farmer is approached by a veterinarian to make a deal with a notorious beef trader.

Delta
Mihail returns to his mother's village after years of absence to discover he has a grown half sister, Fauna. Mihail has ambitions to rebuild his father's house and support himself through fishing. When he moves to an island that once belonged to his family, Fauna tags along, eager to escape her brutish father. What should be an idyllic existence is disrupted by the small minds of petty villagers.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

New Quick Flicks for the Week of June 12, 2012

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
By Neveldine, Mark
Director Taylor, Brian
2012-06 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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Nicolas Cage reprises his role as Johnny Blaze in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. In this gritty new vision for the character, directed by Neveldine/Taylor (Crank), Johnny is still struggling with his curse as the devil's bounty hunter a but he may risk everything as he teams up with the leader of a group of rebel monks (Idris Elba) to save a young boy from the devil... and possibly rid himself of his curse forever. …More


Honey 2
Honey 2
By Woodruff, Bille
2012-02 - Universal Home Video
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In Darkness
In Darkness
By Holland, Agnieszka
2012-06 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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From acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland, In Darkness is based on a true story. Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland, one day encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise seeps deeper into Socha's conscience. The film is also an extraordinary story of survival as these men, women and children all try to outwit certain death during 14 months of ever increasing and intense danger. …More


Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
By Ritchie, Guy
2012-06 - Warner Home Video
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Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) has always been the smartest man in the room...until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large: Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris), and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective. When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evidence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), points to suicide. But Sherlock Holmes deduces that the prince has been the victim of murder, but murder that is only one piece of a larger and much more portentous puzzle, designed by Professor Moriarty. The cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead of Holmes as he spins a web of death and destruction, all part of a greater plan that, if he succeeds, will change the course of history. …More


Tomboy
Tomboy
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2012-06 - Wolfe Video
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Too Big to Fail
Too Big to Fail
By Hanson, Curtis
2012-06 - HBO Home Video
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A searing account of the 2008 Financial Crisis, Too Big to Fail, based on Andrew Ross Sorkin's bestselling book, provides an in-depth look at the intersection of Wall Street and Washington and how their decisions impact Main Street. Oscar-winning director Curtis Hanson creates an explosive drama capturing how the U.S. economy was brought back from the brink of collapse. …More


Tyler Perry's Good Deeds
Tyler Perry's Good Deeds
By Perry, Tyler
2012-06 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment
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A successful, wealthy businessman, Wesley Deeds (Tyler Perry) has always done what's expected of him, whether it's assuming the helm of his father's company, tolerating his brother's misbehavior at the office or planning to marry his beautiful but restless fiance, Natalie (Gabrielle Union). But Wesley is jolted out of his predictable routine when he meets Lindsey (Thandie Newton), a down-on-her-luck single mother who works on the cleaning crew in his office building. When he offers to help her get back on her feet, the chance encounter with someone so far outside his usual circle ignites something in Wesley. This one good deed may finally spark his courage to exchange the life that's expected of him for the life he's always really wanted. …More


Demoted
Rodney and Mike are a pair of irresponsible corporate tire salesmen. But, when their beloved boss dies after a wild night, the dweeb colleague they've been tormenting for years gets promoted to the top job. His first order of business is to demote Rodney and Mike to the secretarial pool. Can these two fit in as well as learn to be sensitive guys, all while plotting the ultimate revenge?

Urumi
Chirakkal Kelu Nayanar sets on a mission to kill Vasco da Gama. But he faces lots of odds on his way to reach his target. He had to encounter many conflicts within the kinsmen, kings, ministers, peasants and Muslim warrior princess Ayesha of the famed Arackal Sultanat. He has a forte, a legendary golden Urumi, which is made from the ornaments of women and children, who were burnt alive by Vasco da Gama.

Saturday, June 9, 2012

New Quick Flicks for the Week of June 5, 2012

Act of Valor
Act of Valor
By McCoy, Mike
Director Waugh, Scott
Director Waugh, Mike McCoy and Scot
2012-06 - Twentieth Century-Fox
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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
Coriolanus
By Fiennes, Ralph
Director Butler, Gerard Fiennes
2012-05 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz
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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
Dragonslayer
By Patterson, Tristan
2012-05 - First Run Features
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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
Garbo the Spy
By Roch, Edmon
2012-04 - First Run Features
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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
Gone
By Dhalia, Heitor
2012-05 - Uni Dist Corp (Music)
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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
In the Land of Blood and Honey
By Jolie, Angelina
2012-04 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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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
Into the Abyss
By Herzog, Werner
2012-04 - MPI Home Video
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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
John Carter
By Stanton, Andrew
2012-06 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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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
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
By Peyton, Brad
2012-07 - New Line Cinema Corporation
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Koch Brothers Exposed
Koch Brothers Exposed
By Greenwald, Robert
2012-06 - E1
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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
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies
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2012-05 - Universal Home Video
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Man on a Ledge
Man on a Ledge
By Leth, Asger
2012-05 - Uni Dist Corp (Music)
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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
Memorial Day
By Fischer, Sam
2012-05 - Image/Sphe
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My Piece of the Pie
My Piece of the Pie
By Klapisch, Cedric
2012-05 - MPI Home Video
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The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
By Freidrichs, Chad
2012-05 - First Run Features
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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
Safe House
By Espinosa, Daniel
2012-06 - Universal Home Video
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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
We Need to Talk about Kevin
By Ramsay, Lynne
2012-05 - Oscilloscope Pictures
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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
Windfall
By Israel, Laura
2012-05 - First Run Features
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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
Worried about the Boy
By Jarrold, Julian
2012-05 - E1
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

New Quick Flicks for the Week of May 22, 2012

7 Below
7 Below
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Dark Tide
Dark Tide
By Stockwell, John
2012-04 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment
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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
The Front Line
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The Innkeepers
The Innkeepers
By West, Ti
2012-04 - MPI Home Video
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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
Perfect Sense
By MacKenzie, David
2012-05 - MPI Home Video
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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
Red Tails
By Hemingway, Anthony
2012-05 - Twentieth Century-Fox
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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
This Means War
By Cg, M.
2012-05 - Twentieth Century-Fox
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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.