Quick Flicks for the Week of August 14, 2012

The Raid: Redemption By Evans, Gareth 2012-08 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396400931 Check Our Catalog As a rookie member of an elite special-forces team, Rama (Iko Uwais) is instructed to hang back during a covert mission involving the extraction of a brutal crime lord from a rundown fifteen-story apartment block. But when a spotter blows their cover, boss Tama (Ray Sahetaphy) offers lifelong sanctuary to every killer, rapist and thief in the building in exchange for their heads. Now Rama must stand in for the teamas fallen leader Jaka (Joe Taslim) and use every bit of his fighting strength a winding through every floor and room to complete the mission and escape with his life. …More

El Bulli
"Located in Catalonia, Spain, Adrià's restaurant, El Bulli, closes for six months each year while Adrià and his team of culinary experts design a fresh, innovative menu for the next season. Not content with anything ordinary, Adrià's scientific approach involves intense research and experimentation to create a variety of dishes that have never been experienced before. Filmmaker Gereon Wetzel goes "behind the scenes" of the kitchen for a glimpse into the creative process of the culinary arts, exploring the methods and approaches that go in to creating the perfect menu. Over the course of the six months, Adrià pushes himself and his team to develop new recipes, always innovating and never repeating themselves to deliver a 30-course menu that his guests will never forget."--Container.

The Snowtown Murders
Based on horrifying and true crimes discovered in Snowtown, Australia, in 1999. The film follows a mother raising her three boys in a poor suburb. She takes up with a new man, hoping for security but instead welcoming a vicious predator into her home.     

Quick Flicks for the Week of August 7, 2012

Get the Gringo By Grunberg, Adrian 2012-07 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543812111 Check Our Catalog GET THE GRINGO stars Mel Gibson as Driver, an American criminal who violently crashes his car into the border wall as he tries to outrun the U.S. Border Patrol. Driver survives the crash only to land inside a hard-core Mexican prison where he enters the strange and dangerous world of "El Pueblito." Driver finds unlikely guidance from a 10-year-old kid who shows him the ropes. …More

Here By 2012-07 - Strand Releasing Home Video 0712267310425 Check Our Catalog …More

Hijacked By 2012-07 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz 0013132391397 Check Our Catalog …More

The Lorax By Renaud, Chris 2012-08 - Universal Home Video 0025192104459 Check Our Catalog From the creators of Despicable Me and the imagination of Dr. Seuss comes the feature Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, an adaptation of the classic tale of a forest creature who shares the enduring power of hope. The animated adventure follows the journey of a 12-year-old as he searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world. Danny DeVito will lend his vocal talents to the iconic title character of the Lorax, while Ed Helms will voice the enigmatic Once-ler. Also bringing their talents to the film are global superstars Zac Efron as Ted, the idealistic youth who searches for the Lorax, and Taylor Swift as Audrey, the girl of Ted's dreams. Rob Riggle will play financial king O'Hare, and beloved actress Betty White will portray Ted's wise Grammy Norma. …More

Note 3 By 2012-09 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396402065 Check Our Catalog …More

4.3.2.1
This exciting crime thriller tracks 4 best friends over 3 days they'll never forget. For hardworking Jo, adventurous Cassandra, defiant Kerrys and troubled Shannon, life changes forever when a chance encounter with some deadly thieves sends their worlds on a collision course with the players in a major diamond heist. With just one shot at the big time, what could possibly go wrong?

Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt
Jesse finds himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues and hidden meaning as he attempts to solve a shocking and horrifying mob related double homicide.

The Love Guide
Millie and Al's egg business is struggling and so is their marriage. Fortunately, they may have a savior, reality television! Following a chance encounter with a producer named Ira, Millie agrees to be featured on Cut the Crap, hosted by everyone's favorite hippie-yogi, personal growth guru Angela Lovecraft. Just when divorce seems inevitable, Angela uses her new age powers to remind the couple why they love each other and, in return, learns that it's fun to have your feet on the ground.  

Marley
Bob Marley's universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. MARLEY is the definitive life story of the musician, revolutionary, and legend, from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. Made with the support of the Marley family, the film features rare footage, incredible performances and revelatory interviews with the people that knew him best.

Quick Flicks for the Week of July 31, 2012

The Beat Hotel By Govenar, Alan 2012-07 - First Run Features BL03121DVD000 Check Our Catalog 1957. The Latin Quarter, Paris. A cheap no-name hotel became a haven for a new breed of artists fleeing the conformity and censorship of America. The hotel soon turned into an epicenter of Beat writing that produced some of the most important works of the Beat generation. It came to be known as the Beat Hotel. Alan Govenar's feature documentary The Beat Hotel explores this amazing place and time. …More

Better This World By 2012-07 - Passion River Films 0761326819829 Check Our Catalog …More

Brake By 2012-07 - MPI Home Video 0030306981895 Check Our Catalog …More

The Flowers of War By Yimou, Zhang 2012-07 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398153566 Check Our Catalog The film, set during the Japanese invasion of China, is told from a young girl's point of view, not as a history lesson, but as an intimate, elemental and paradoxically universal celebration of the human spirit. Bale stars as a dissolute Westerner who seeks refuge in a Catholic Church. There he meets a beautiful Chinese courtesan who helps him rescue a group of schoolgirls from a terrible fate at the hands of the Japanese. The film represents one of China's most ambitious productions, involving the recreation of 1937 Nanking built from scratch over a one-year period and the collaboration of one of Hollywood's most sought after leading men (Christian Bale). …More

Wind Blast By 2012-07 - Well Go USA, Inc 0812491013021 Check Our Catalog …More

4:44 Last Day on Earth
Tomorrow at 4:44 AM the world is going to come to an end. As panic hits the Earth's population, two lovers seclude themselves in a Manhattan high-rise and decide to spend their last moments in existence together. Accepting their doomed fate, the pair discovers more about themselves and each other in a few short hours than most do in an entire lifetime.

Nature: Cracking the Koala Code
From birth to weaning, from territorial disputes to courtship and mating, from brush fires to drought, gum trees are what determine a koala's success or failure, survival or mortality. This film will explore the remarkable bond between the koala and the eucalypt trees it so depends upon. By following individual koalas from a small social group on an Australian island, NATURE will reveal just how a koala manages to survive and thrive on a diet poisonous to almost all other herbivorous mammals.

American Masters: Johnny Carson, King of Late Night
Quite possibly the biggest star that television has ever produced, Johnny Carson was seen by more people on more occasions than anyone else in American history. Over the course of his 30-year run on The Tonight Show, Carson interviewed 23,000 guests in 4,531 episodes. Watch as the life and career of one of the most beloved yet enigmatic icons in American entertainment history is explored.

Kassim the Dream
An acclaimed documentary that charts the incredibly journey of Uganda-born world champion boxer, Kassim 'The Dream' Ouma. At age six, he was kidnapped by the rebel army and forced to be a child soldier. But Ouma found his ticket to freedom after discovering the army's boxing team, and defected to the U.S. in 1998, after more than a decade of warfare. Overcoming homelessness and severe culture shock, Ouma gradually rose through the ranks of the sport to become Junior Middleweight Champion of the World.

Last Days Here
A look at the life of Bobby Liebling, lead singer of seminal hard rock/heavy metal band Pentagram, as he battles decades of hard drug addiction and personal demons, to try and get his life back.

On the Inside
After a revenge killing goes tragically wrong, a troubled college professor is sentenced to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane. But through an experimental socialization program, he meets a beautiful fellow inmate with a shocking secret as well as a volatile psychopath with a deadly history. In a place of sudden violence and buried emotions, can two damaged souls make one last stab at redemption?

Pink Skies
Pink Skies is an inspirational documentary about the empowerment of women. It's about overcoming obstacles as athletes and as human beings. The film covers an extraordinary event 'Jump for the Cause'. Last year, JFTC brought together 181 women from 31 countries to create a World Record All-Women's Skydiving Formation. They also raised almost $1 million dollars for breast cancer research!

Voices of the Andes
Over the course of several months in 2007, photographer Aurélia Frey, journalist Sébastien Jallade and film director Stéphane Pachot immersed themselves in the Andean communities who populate the Qhapaq Ñan, the primary ancient Incan royal road. They traveled over 1,200 miles in southern Ecuador and Peru and captured the contemporary Andean reality of this recently designated Unesco World Heritage Site.

Quick Flicks for the Week of July 24, 2012

Black Heaven By Marchand, Gilles 2011-04 - MPI Home Video 0030306932392 Check Our Catalog FRE …More

The Deep Blue Sea By Davies, Terence 2012-07 - Southport Music Box Corpo 0736211215154 Check Our Catalog Master chronicler of post-War England, Terence Davies (The Long Day Closes, The House of Mirth) directs Rachel Weisz as a woman whose overpowering love threatens her well-being and alienates the men in her life. In a deeply vulnerable performance, Rachel Weisz plays Hester Collyer, the wife of an upper-class judge (Simon Russell Beale) and a free spirit trapped in a passionless marriage. Her encounter with Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), a troubled former Royal Air Force pilot, throws her life in turmoil, as their erotic relationship leaves her emotionally stranded and physically isolated. The film is an adaptation of British playwright Terence Rattigan's 1952 play, featuring one of the greatest roles for an actress in modern theatre. …More

Footnote By Cedar, Joseph 2012-07 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396399815 Check Our Catalog FOOTNOTE is the tale of a great rivalry between a father and son. Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are both eccentric professors, who have dedicated their lives to their work in Talmudic Studies. The father, Eliezer, is a stubborn purist who fears the establishment and has never been recognized for his work. While his son, Uriel, is an up-and-coming star in the field, who appears to feed on accolades, endlessly seeking recognition. Then one day, the tables turn. When Eliezer learns that he is to be awarded the Israel Prize, the most valuable honor for scholarship in the country, his vanity and desperate need for validation are exposed. His son Uriel, meanwhile, is thrilled to see his father's achievements finally recognized but, in a darkly funny twist, is forced to choose between the advancement of his own career and his father's. Will he sabotage his father's glory? FOOTNOTE is the story of insane academic competition, the dichotomy between admiration and envy for a role model, and the very complicated relationship between a father and son. …More

The Holy Girl By Martel, Lucrecia 2012-04 - Warner Bros. Digital Dist 0883316453520 Check Our Catalog …More

Jiro Dreams of Sushi By Gelb, David 2012-07 - Magnolia Pict Hm Ent 0876964004732 Check Our Catalog Ro dreams of sushi is the story of 85 year-old jiro ono; considered by many to be the world's greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of sukiyabashi jiro; a 10-seat; sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a tokyo subway station. Despite its humble appearances; it is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious 3 star michelin review; and sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimage; calling months in advance and shelling out top dollar for a coveted seat at jiro's sushi bar. For most of his life; jiro has been mastering the art of making sushi; but even at his age he sees himself still striving for perfection; working from sunrise to well beyond sunset to taste every piece of fish; meticulously train his employees; and carefully mold and finesse the impeccable presentation of each sushi creation. At the heart of this story is jiro's relationship with his eldest son yoshikazu; the worthy heir to jiro's legacy; who is unable to live up to his full potential in his father's shadow. The feature film debut of director david gelb; jiro dreams of sushi is a thoughtful and elegant meditation on work; family; and the art of perfection; chronicling jiro's life as both an unparalleled success in the culinary world; and a loving yet complicated father. …More

Machine Gun Preacher By Forster, Marc 2012-06 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543776505 Check Our Catalog Machine Gun Preacher is the inspirational true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing transformation and finds an unexpected calling as the savior of hundreds of kidnapped and orphaned children. …More

Silent House By Olsen, Elizabeth 2012-07 - Universal Home Video 0025192132490 Check Our Catalog SILENT HOUSE is a uniquely unsettling horror thriller starring Elizabeth Olsen as Sarah, a young woman who finds herself sealed inside her family's secluded lake house. With no contact to the outside world, and no way out, panic turns to terror as events become increasingly ominous in and around the house. Directed by filmmaking duo Chris Kentis and Laura Lau, SILENT HOUSE uses meticulous camera choreography to take the audience on a tension-filled, real time journey, experienced in a single uninterrupted shot. …More

The Swell Season By August-Perna, Nick Director Dapkins, Chris Director And, Nick August-Perna a. 2012-03 - New Video Group 0767685262771 Check Our Catalog …More

Beyond the Steppes
Beyond the steppes-tells the story of a woman's forced journey to the steppes of Central Asia. Nina, a young Polish woman, is deported with her baby by the Soviet Army in 1940, to the deep hostile lands of the USSR. She has to work in a sovkhoz under the control of the Russian political police. When her child becomes ill, she leaves on a search to find medications with a group of Kazakh nomads. The film draws the intimate and personal experience of this woman, as she's forced into exile, struggling against the extreme conditions of this inhuman land.

A Good Day to Die
Chronicles the life story of Dennis Banks, the Native American who co-founded the American Indian Movement (AIM) in 1968 to advocate and protect the rights of American Indians, providing an in-depth look at the history and issues surrounding AIM's formation. From the forced assimilation of Native Americans within boarding schools, to discrimination by law enforcement authorities, to neglect by government officials responsible for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, AIM sought redress for the many grievances that its people harbored. Banks' personal struggle culminated in major armed confrontations at Custer, South Dakota and Wounded Knee -- climactic flash points which saw him standing steadfast as a leader for his cause.

Money, Power and Wall Street
In a special 4-hour investigation, Frontline tells the inside story of the struggles to rescue and repair a shattered economy, exploring key decisions, missed opportunities, and the unprecedented and uneasy partnership between government leaders and titans of finance that affects the fortunes of millions of people around the world.

Tyler Perry's Aunt Bam's Place
When family's falling out, it's time to call in Aunt Bam to set a few things straight! Bam's nephew-in-law is granted weekend visitation with his children, but his drunken ex shows up with trouble in mind. Now it's up to Bam to calm things down.

Quick Flicks for the week of July 17, 2012

Casa de Mi Padre By Piedmont, Matt 2012-07 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398154341 Check Our Catalog Armando Alvarez (Will Ferrell) has lived and worked on his father's ranch in Mexico his entire life. As the ranch encounters financial difficulties, Armando's younger brother Raul (Diego Luna) shows up with his new fiancee, Sonia (Genesis Rodriguez). It seems that Raul's success as an international businessman means the ranch's troubles are over as he pledges to settle all debts his father has incurred. But when Armando falls for Sonia, and Raul's business dealings turn out to be less than legit, all hell breaks loose as they find themselves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord, the mighty Onza (Gael Garcia Bernal). …More

The Divide By Gens, Xavier 2012-09 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz 0013132381299 Check Our Catalog …More

Friends with Kids By Westfeldt, Jennifer 2012-07 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398154174 Check Our Catalog FRIENDS WITH KIDS, written and directed by Jennifer Westfeldt (KISSING JESSICA STEIN, IRA & ABBY), is a daring and poignant ensemble comedy about a close-knit circle of friends at that moment in life when children arrive and everything changes. The last two singles in the group - Westfeldt and Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation, STEPBROTHERS), observe the effect that kids have had on their friends' relationships and wonder if there's a better way. They decide to have a kid together - and date other people. There are big laughs and unexpected emotional truths as this unconventional 'experiment' leads everyone in the group to question the nature of friendship, family and, finally, true love. …More

Lockout By Mather, James 2012-07 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396403765 Check Our Catalog Starring Guy Pearce (Memento, Prometheus) and Maggie Grace (Taken, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn) and set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent (Pearce), whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter (Grace) from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum-security prison. …More

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen By Hallstrom, Lasse 2012-07 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396401716 Check Our Catalog From the beloved director of Chocolat and the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Slumdog Millionaire comes the inspirational comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. A visionary sheik (Amr Waked) has a big dream a to bring salmon fishing to the desert. Willing to spare no expense, he instructs his representative (Emily Blunt) to turn his dream into reality, an extraordinary feat that will require the involvement of Britainas leading fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) who happens to think the project both absurd and unachievable. That is, until the Prime Ministeras overzealous press secretary (Kristin Scott Thomas) latches on for its potential as a agood willa story. Now, this unlikely team will put it all on the line and embark on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible, possible. …More

The Three Stooges By Farrelly, Peter 2012-07 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543783053 Check Our Catalog Left on a nun's doorstep, Larry, Curly and Moe grow up finger-poking, nyuk-nyuking and woo-woo-wooing their way to uncharted levels of knuckleheaded misadventure. Out to save their childhood home, only The Three Stooges could become embroiled in an oddball murder plot...while also stumbling into starring in a phenomenally successful TV reality show. …More