Thursday, January 17, 2013

Quick Flicks for the week of 1/15/13



Farewell, My Queen Farewell, My Queen
By Jacquot, Benoit
2013-01 - E1
0741952738091 Check Our Catalog Farewell, My Queen marks the return of acclaimed director Benoit Jacquot and brilliantly captures the passions, debauchery, occasional glimpses of nobility and ultimately the chaos that engulfed the court of Marie Antoinette in the final days before the full-scale outbreak of the Revolution. Based on the best-selling novel by Chantal Thomas, the film stars Lea Seydoux as one of Marie's ladies-in-waiting, seemingly innocent but quietly working her way into her mistress's special favors, until history tosses her fate onto a decidedly different path. With the action moving effortlessly from the gilded drawing rooms of the nobles to the back quarters of those who serve them, this is a period film at once accurate and sumptuous in its visual details and modern in its emotions. Diane Kruger gives her best performance to date as the ill-fated Queen and Virginie Ledoyen is the Queen's special friend Gabrielle de Polignac. …More

Found Memories Found Memories
By Murat, Julia
2013-01 - Film Movement
0616892184065 Check Our Catalog Like every morning, Madalena makes bread for Antonio's old coffee shop. Like every day, she crosses the railways where no trains have passed for years; she cleans up the gate of the locked cemetery, and listens to the priest's sermon before sharing lunch with the other old villagers. Clinging to the image of her dead husband and living in her memories, Madalena is awakened by the arrival of Rita, a young photographer who is arriving in the ghost village of Jotuomba, where time seems to have stopped. A deep relationship is forged between the two women, which gradually builds to have a profound effect on both of their lives, as well as the rest of the villagers. …More

The Possession The Possession
By Bornedal, OLE
2013-01 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment
0031398163794 Check Our Catalog Based on a true story, THE POSSESSION is the terrifying story of how one family must unite in order to survive the wrath of an unspeakable evil. Clyde (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Stephanie Brenek (Kyra Sedgwick) see little cause for alarm when their youngest daughter Em becomes oddly obsessed with an antique wooden box she purchased at a yard sale. But as Em's behavior becomes increasingly erratic, the couple fears the presence of a malevolent force in their midst, only to discover that the box was built to contain a dibbuk, a dislocated spirit that inhabits and ultimately devours its human host. …More

Taken 2 Taken 2
By Megaton, Olivier
2013-01 - Twentieth Century-Fox
0024543832898 Check Our Catalog Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, the retired CIA agent with a particular set of skills who stopped at nothing to save his daughter Kim from Albanian kidnappers. When the father of one of the kidnappers swears revenge, and takes Bryan and his wife hostage during their family vacation in Istanbul, Bryan enlists Kim to help them escape, and uses the same advanced level of special forces tactics to get his family to safety and systematically take out the kidnappers one by one. …More

To Rome with Love To Rome with Love
By Allen, Woody
2013-01 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
0043396413603 Check Our Catalog TO ROME WITH LOVE is a kaleidoscopic comedy movie set in one of the world's most enchanting cities. The film brings us into contact with a well-known American architect reliving his youth; an average middle-class Roman who suddenly finds himself Rome's biggest celebrity; a young provincial couple drawn into separate romantic encounters; and an American opera director endeavoring to put a singing mortician on stage. …More

Won't Back Down Won't Back Down
By Barnz, Daniel
2013-01 - Twentieth Century-Fox
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Friday, January 11, 2013

Quick Flicks for the week of January 8th, 2013

Cosmopolis Cosmopolis
By Cronenberg, David
2013-01 - E1
0741952730095 Check Our Catalog Unfolding in a single cataclysmic day, the story follows Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson) - a 28-year old financial whiz kid and billionaire asset manager - as he heads out in his tricked-out stretch limo to get a haircut from his father's old barber, while remotely wagering his company's massive fortune on a bet against the Chinese Yuan. Packer's trip across the city quickly becomes dizzyingly hellish as he encounters explosive city riots, a parade of provocative visitors, and is thrust into a myriad of intimate encounters. Having started the day with everything, believing he is the future, Packer's perfectly ordered, doubt-free world is about to implode. …More


Dredd Dredd
By Travis, Pete
Director Thirlby, Olivia
2013-01 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment
0031398163732 Check Our Catalog In the future, catastrophic wars have transformed Earth into a barren wasteland with the remaining population crowded into megacities, where all-powerful cops -- including the ultraviolent Judge Dredd -- are on the hunt for drug-dealing terrorists. …More


Even the Rain Even the Rain
By Bernal, Gael Garcia
Director Bollain, Iciar
2012-11 - Image/Sphe
0014381815825 Check Our Catalog SPA Idealistic filmmaker Sebastian (Gael Garcia Bernal, The Motorcycle Diaries) and his cynical producer Costa (Luis Tosar, The Limits of Control) arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about Christopher Columbus' conquest of the Americas. But as filming commences, the local citizens begin to riot in protest against a multi-national corporation that is taking control of their water supply. With the film shoot in jeopardy, both men find their convictions shaken. Inspired by the real-life Water Wars in Bolivia in the year 2000, EVEN THE RAIN explores the lasting effects of Spanish imperialism, still resonating some 500 years later in the continued struggle of indigenous people against oppression and exploitation. …More



Frankenweenie Frankenweenie
By Burton, Tim
Voice by Ryder, Winona
Voice by Capron, Robert
2013-01 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment
0786936814149 Check Our Catalog Frankenweenie is a heartwarming tale about a boy and his dog. After unexpectedly losing his beloved dog Sparky, young Victor harnesses the power of science to bring his best friend back to life--with just a few minor adjustments. He tries to hide his home-sewn creation, but when Sparky gets out, Victor's fellow students, teachers and the entire town all learn that getting a new "leash on life" can be monstrous. …More



House at the End of the Street House at the End of the Street
By Tonderai, Mark
2013-01 - Twentieth Century-Fox
0024543816829 Check Our Catalog Seeking a fresh start, newly divorced Sarah (Elisabeth Shue) and her daughter Elissa (Jennifer Lawrence) find the house of their dreams in a small, upscale, rural town. But when startling and unexplainable events begin to happen, Sarah and Elissa learn the town is in the shadows of a chilling secret. Years earlier, in the house next door, a daughter killed her parents in their beds, and disappeared - leaving only a brother, Ryan (Max Thieriot), as the sole survivor. Against Sarah's wishes, Elissa begins a relationship with the reclusive Ryan - and the closer they get, the deeper they're all pulled into a mystery more dangerous than they ever imagined. …More



Looper Looper
By Johnson, Rian
2012-12 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
0043396413511 Check Our Catalog In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented – but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a "looper" – a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good... until the day the mob decides to "close the loop," sending back Joe's future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination. …More



Samsara Samsara
By Fricke, Ron
2013-01 - MPI Home Video
0030306733999 Check Our Catalog Prepare yourself for an unparalleled sensory experience. SAMSARA reunites filmmakers Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson, whose award-winning films BARAKA and CHRONOS brought a new visual and musical artistry to theaters. …More

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Quick Flicks for the week of December, 24th 2012

Arbitrage
Arbitrage
By Jarecki, Nicholas
2012-12 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment
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ARBITRAGE, the feature-directing debut of writer Nicholas Jarecki, is a taut and alluring suspense thriller about love, loyalty, and high finance. When we first meet New York hedge-fund magnate Robert Miller (Richard Gere) on the eve of his 60th birthday, he appears the very portrait of success in American business and family life. But behind the gilded walls of his mansion, Miller is in over his head, desperately trying to complete the sale of his trading empire to a major bank before the depths of his fraud are revealed. Struggling to conceal his duplicity from loyal wife Ellen (Susan Sarandon) and brilliant daughter and heir-apparent Brooke (Brit Marling), Miller's also balancing an affair with French art-dealer Julie Cote (Laetetia Casta). Just as he's about to unload his troubled empire, an unexpected bloody error forces him to juggle family, business, and crime with the aid of Jimmy Grant (Nate Parker), a face from Miller's past. One wrong turn ignites the suspicions of NYPD Detective Michael Bryer (Tim Roth), who will stop at nothing in his pursuits. Running on borrowed time, Miller is forced to confront the limits of even his own moral duplicity. Will he make it out before the bubble bursts? …More




Killer Joe
Killer Joe
By Friedkin, William
2012-12 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment
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Killer Joe Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is a Dallas detective who doubles as a hit-man, with the charm of a Southern gentleman. Chris (Emile Hirsch) hires Joe to kill his mother, in order to collect her life insurance and pay off his debts. When Chris is unable to pay for the service up front, Joe takes Chris's sister Dottie (Juno Temple) as a retainer until he can be paid. …More




Looper
Looper
By Johnson, Rian
2012-12 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented – but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a "looper" – a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good... until the day the mob decides to "close the loop," sending back Joe's future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination. …More




Liberal Arts
Liberal Arts
By Radnor, Josh
2012-12 - MPI Home Video
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Premium Rush
Premium Rush
By Koepp, David
Director Ramirez, Dania
2012-12 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day's work for Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the best of New York's agile and aggressive bicycle messengers. It takes a special breed to ride the fixie -- super lightweight, single-gear bikes with no brakes and riders who are equal part skilled cyclists and suicidal nutcases who risk becoming a smear on the pavement every time they head into traffic. But a guy who's used to putting his life on the line is about to get more than even he is used to when a routine delivery turns into a life or death chase through the streets of Manhattan. When Wilee picks up his last envelope of the day on a premium rush run, he discovers this package is different. This time, someone is actually trying to kill him. …More




Resident Evil: Retribution
Resident Evil: Retribution
By Anderson, Paul W. S.
Director Rodriguez, Michelle W. S.
2012-12 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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The Umbrella Corporation's deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race's last and only hope, ALICE (Milla Jovovich), awakens in the heart of Umbrella's most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by newfound allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun. …More




The Words
The Words
By Klugman, Brian
Director Sternthal, Lee
2012-12 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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The layered romantic drama The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man's work, and for placing ambition and success above life's most fundamental three words. …More

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Quick Flicks for the week of December 19, 2012

The Dog Who Saved the Holidays The Dog Who Saved the Holidays
By Feifer, Michael
2012-12 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz
0013132592602 Check Our Catalog It's a sun-soaked holiday season for the Bannister family as they travel to Southern California to stay with Aunt Barbara (Shelley Long), who surprises them with a new puppy named Eve (voiced by Peyton List). Everyone is smitten with Eve - except for the Bannister's dog, Zeus (voiced by Joey Lawrence), who sees what a mischievous animal she is when no one else is around. After deciding to run away, Zeus sees Ted and Stewey, two thrifty thieves, trying to break into the family home while the Bannisters are at church. It's up to Zeus and his newest sister Eve to join together to save the holidays for their family! …More
The Good Doctor The Good Doctor
By Daly, Lance
Director Keough, Riley
2012-12 - Magnolia Pict Hm Ent
0876964005029 Check Our Catalog Martin Blake (Orlando Bloom) is an ambitious but anxious young doctor, eager to impress his superiors and colleagues: Chief Resident Waylans (Rob Morrow), self-assured fellow intern Dan (Troy Garity) and no-nonsense nurse Theresa (Taraji P. Henson). But things are not going Martin's way and he can't seem to shake off his insecurities. When 18-year-old patient Diane (Riley Keough) is admitted for a kidney infection, Martin steps in, getting the much-needed boost of self-esteem he craves. But things take a dark turn as his enthusiasm begins to become an obsession. …More

Pitch Perfect Pitch Perfect
By Moore, Jason
2012-12 - Universal Home Video
0025192134319 Check Our Catalog This music-steeped comedy draws on the world of acappella groups to tell the story of an intense competition between three ensembles. Anna Kendrick stars in this airy look at an age-old art form that's steadily gaining modern popularity. …More


Total Recall Total Recall
By Wiseman, Len
2012-12 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
0043396409606 Check Our Catalog Total Recall is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired anew by the famous short story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick. Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), even though he's got a beautiful wife (Kate Beckinsale) who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life - real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police - controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston), the leader of the free world - Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) to find the head of the underground resistance (Bill Nighy) and stop Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate. …More

Bro' Bro'
By Parada, Nick
2012-12 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
By Bowers, David
Director Capron, Robert
2012-12 - Twentieth Century-Fox
0024543800040 Check Our Catalog During his summer vacation, "Wimpy Kid" Greg Heffley, the hero of the phenomenally successful book series, hatches a plan to pretend he has a job at a ritzy country club -- which fails to keep him away from the season's dog days, including embarrassing mishaps at a public pool and a camping trip that goes horribly wrong. …More


Sleepwalk with Me Sleepwalk with Me
By Birbiglia, Mike
Director Barrish, Mike Birbiglia Seth
Director Ambrose, Lauren
2012-12 - MPI Home Video
0030306983998 Check Our Catalog Grown out of his critically acclaimed one-man show, "Sleepwalk with Me" is the hilarious story of the perils and pitfalls of being Birbiglia. …More

Doomsday Book Doomsday Book
By Kim, Jee-Woon
2012-12 - Well Go USA, Inc
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Trouble with the Curve Trouble with the Curve
By Lorenz, Robert
2012-12 - Warner Home Video
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Love's Christmas Journey Love's Christmas Journey
By Sr, David S. Cass
Illustrator Various
2012-10 - Twentieth Century-Fox
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Hermano Hermano
By Rasquin, Marcel
2012-12 - Southport Music Box Corpo
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The Greatest Miracle The Greatest Miracle
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10 Years 10 Years
By Linden, Jamie
2012-12 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz
0013132558493 Check Our Catalog In this ensemble comedy, 10 Years follows a group of friends on the night of their high school reunion that, a decade later, they still haven't quite grown up. …More

 

Butter Butter
By Smith, Jim Field
Director Burrell, Ty Field
2012-12 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz
0013132322896 Check Our Catalog A tale of competition at its most cut-throat, BUTTER surveys the raw ambition of Laura Pickler (Jennifer Garner), the wife of Bob Pickler (Ty Burrell), Iowa's long-reigning champion butter carver. For 15 years, Laura has relished her high-profile role as the beautiful, loyal helpmate to her affable, artistically gifted husband. But when Bob is pressured to retire and allow someone else a chance at glory, an indignant Laura decides to enter the competition herself. …More

Elf-Man Elf-Man
By Acuna, Jason Wee-Man
2012-12 - Tcfhe/Anchor Bay/Starz
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Quick Flicks for the week of December 10, 2012

Ted
Ted
By MacFarlane, Seth
2012-12 - Universal Home Video
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In this live action/CG-animated comedy, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane tells the story of John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg), a grown man who must deal with the cherished teddy bear who came to life as the result of a childhood wish... and has refused to leave his side ever since. …More




Ice Age: Continental Drift
Ice Age: Continental Drift
By Martino, Steve
Director Thurmeier, Mike
Director Romano, Ray
2012-12 - Twentieth Century-Fox
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Scrat's nutty pursuit of the cursed acorn, which he's been after since the dawn of time, has world-changing consequences -- a continental cataclysm that triggers the greatest adventure of all for Manny, Diego and Sid. In the wake of these upheavals, Sid reunites with his cantankerous Granny, and the herd encounters a ragtag menagerie of seafaring pirates determined to stop them from returning home. …More




Kill 'em All
Kill 'em All
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2012-12 - Well Go USA, Inc
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Why Stop Now
Why Stop Now
By Nyswaner, Phil Dorling Ron
Director Dorling, Phil
Director Nyswaner, Ron
2012-12 - MPI Home Video
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WHY STOP NOW brings together the comic talents of Academy Award-nominee Jesse Eisenberg, Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo and Tracy Morgan in the summer's wildest comedy. Eli (Eisenberg) is a piano prodigy. Today is the audition that will determine his future-- will he launch a career and take off into the world? Or will he stay stuck, caring for his sister and mother (Leo) who, despite her cheerful, loving disposition, is a drug addict. The only obstacle to a seamless transition into his future is dropping off Mom off at the center where she will enter rehab, but a glitch in the system forces sends them off to enlist the help of an unlikely ally, her drug dealer Sprinkles (Morgan). The day spirals downhill quickly, and the hapless team must collaborate every step of the way to battle their own demons and get Eli out of the rabbit hole. …More




The Bourne Legacy
The Bourne Legacy
By Gilroy, Tony
2012-12 - Universal Home Video
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The Bourne Legacy pulls back the curtain on a government secret even darker than Jason Bourne. When Bourne exposes Operation Treadstone at the end of The Bourne Ultimatum, he sparks a bonfire that threatens to burn down decades of research and development into the building of better spies and warriors. In The Bourne Legacy, audiences discover that there are actually a variety of covert intelligence programs - all of which now feel the threat of exposure. On the verge of having their conspiracy revealed, members of the government's intelligence community will stop at nothing to erase all evidence of their top secret programs. With his life in jeopardy, agent Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) must use his genetically-engineered skills to survive the ultimate game of cat-and-mouse and finish what Jason Bourne started. …More