Quick Flicks for Tuesday, July 30. 2013

42 The Jackie Robinson Story By Helgeland, Brian 2013-07 - Warner Home Video 0883929316564 Check Our Catalog Hero is a word we hear often in sports, but heroism is not always about achievements on the field of play. "42" tells the story of two men--the great Jackie Robinson and trailblazing Brooklyn Dodgers GM Branch Rickey--whose brave stand against prejudice forever changed the world by changing the game of baseball. …More

Bullet to the Head By Hill, Walter 2013-07 - Warner Home Video 0883929240395 Check Our Catalog GER Sylvester Stallone gives a powerful performance in this "lean and mean" (The Hollywood Reporter) white-knuckle thrill-ride. When the partner of aging New Orleans hit man Jimmy Bonomo (Stallone) is murdered, Bonomo vows to take down those responsible. …More

Evil Dead By Alvarez, Fede 2013-07 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396417328 Check Our Catalog A secluded cabin. An ancient curse. An unrelenting evil. The original producers reunite to present a genuinely terrifying re-imagining of their original horror masterpiece. Five young friends have found the mysterious and fiercely powerful Book of the Dead. Unable to resist its temptation, they release a violent demon on a bloodthirsty quest to possess them all. Who will be left to fight for their survival and defeat this unearthly force of murderous carnage? …More

Love and Honor By Mooney, Danny 2013-07 - MPI Home Video 0030306986791 Check Our Catalog In this romantic drama set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and the moon landing, two charming and passionate young soldiers (Liam Hemsworth and Austin Stowell) will go to any length for love -- even sneaking away from a war to fly halfway around the world. When Dalton Joiner (Stowell) finds out that his girlfriend Jane (Aimee Teegarden) has dumped him, he vows to go home during his one-week leave to win her back. His best friend Mickey Wright (Hemsworth) will do anything to help his buddy out -- as long as there might be a few girls along the way. In just seven days they must get to the States, change Jane's mind and make it back to the war without getting caught. But when they arrive stateside they find Jane and her beautiful, committed activist friend Candace (Teresa Palmer) at the heart of the anti-war movement. Joiner and Wright must make some life changing decisions as they spend a week in July 1969 learning the truth about love, honor and commitment. …More

Trance By Boyle, Danny 2013-07 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543792154 Check Our Catalog A fine art auctioneer mixed up with an underworld gang joins forces with a charismatic hypnotherapist to recover a lost painting. As boundaries between desire, reality and hypnotic suggestion begin to blur the stakes rise faster and more dangerously than any of the players could have anticipated. …More

Vehicle 19 By Dewil, Mukunda Michael 2013-07 - Anderson Merchandisers, L 0796019826563 Check Our Catalog Recently paroled Michael Woods (Paul Walker) just wants to get his life in order. But when he discovers a gun, a cell phone, and an unconscious woman in the trunk of a rental car, he fears he's in for the ride of his life. Michael has some serious decisions to make--either keep his head down and hope to escape with his life, or risk it all to do the right thing. …More

Filly Brown By Delara, Youssef Director Olmos, Michael D. 2013-07 - Gaiam Americas 0883476093475 Check Our Catalog FILLY BROWN is an inspiring and gritty portrait of a young artist striving to find her voice and seize her dreams without compromise. Majo Tonorio, aka, "Filly Brown" is a young, raw hip-hop artist from Los Angeles who spits rhymes from the heart. With a mother in prison and a father struggling to provide for his daughters, Majo knows that a record contract could be her family's ticket out. But when a record producer offers her a shot at stardom, she is suddenly faced with the prospect of losing who she is as an artist, as well as the friends who helped her reach the cusp of success. …More

Between Us By Mirvish, Dan 2013-07 - Monterey Home Video 0012233043921 Check Our Catalog …More

Black Rock By Aselton, Katie 2013-07 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398171126 Check Our Catalog …More

Welcome to the Punch By Creevy, Eran 2013-07 - MPI Home Video 0030306986593 Check Our Catalog WELCOME TO THE PUNCH is the story of two arch-nemeses: detective Max Lewinsky and master criminal Jacob Sternwood. When Sternwood escaped three years ago after a daring robbery, Max was left emotionally and physically scarred. But after Sternwood's son turns up in a hospital due to a failed heist, he's forced to return to London - giving Max his second chance to get the one criminal who got away. Yet as Max delves deeper into the case he uncovers a vast conspiracy. Featuring rising star Andrea Riseborough and Peter Mullan, the film was shot in the gleaming streets of London's rejuvenated East End and the banking center of Canary Wharf. …More

Assault on Wall Street By Boll, Uwe 2013-07 - Phase 4 Films 0625828620003 Check Our Catalog …More

Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox By Oliva, Jay Voice by Fillion, Nathan Voice by Perlman, Ron 2013-07 - Warner Home Video 0883929255245 Check Our Catalog …More

G.I. Joe: Retaliation By Chu, Jon M 2013-07 - Paramount Home Video 0097363564140 Check Our Catalog In this sequel, the G.I. JOE team is not only fighting their mortal enemy COBRA; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence. …More

Quick Flicks for Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Crazy Kind of Love By Siegel-Magness, Sarah 2013-07 - Phase 4 Films 0625828619441 Check Our Catalog While re-evaluating her life, a mother relies on her stoner son and his awkward brother to keep life interesting. When an unlikely romance blossoms between the youngest son and the girl next door, she realizes the key to her happiness can be found where she least expects it. …More

Dead Man Down By Oplev, Niels Arden 2013-07 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396424265 Check Our Catalog Niels Arden Oplev, the acclaimed director of the original The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, makes his American theatrical debut with the new action thriller, DEAD MAN DOWN. Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace star as two strangers who are irresistibly drawn to one another by their mutual desire for revenge. …More

The Gatekeepers By Moreh, Dror 2013-07 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396423213 Check Our Catalog Charged with overseeing Israel's war on terror-both Palestinian and Jewish- the head of the Shin Bet, Israel's secret service is present at the crossroad of every decision made. For the first time ever six former heads of the agency agreed to share their insights and reflect publicly on their actions and decisions. The Gatekeepers offers an exclusive account of the sum of their success and failures. It validates the reasons that each man individually and the six as a group came to reconsider their hard-line positions and advocate a conciliatory approach toward their enemies based on a two-state solution. …More

Spring Breakers By Korine, Harmony 2013-07 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398170914 Check Our Catalog SPRING BREAKERS tells the story of four sexy college girls as they plan to fund their spring break getaway by robbing a fast food joint. But that's only the beginning... At a motel room rager, fun reaches its legal limit and the girls are arrested and taken to jail. Hungover and clad only in bikinis, the girls appear before a judge but are bailed out unexpectedly by Alien (James Franco), an infamous local thug and amateur rapper who takes them under his wing and leads them on the wildest Spring Break trip in history. 'Rough on the outside but with a soft soul on the inside, Alien wins over the hearts and dreams of the young Spring Breakers, and leads them on a Spring Break they never could have imagined. …More

Tyler Perry's Temptation By Perry, Tyler 2013-07 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398171249 Check Our Catalog An explosive romance about forbidden desires, TYLER PERRY'S TEMPTATION tells the provocative story of Judith, an ambitious married woman whose temptation by a handsome billionaire leads to betrayal, recklessness and forever alters the course of her life. …More

Quick Flicks for Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Identity Thief By Gordon, Seth 2013-07 - Universal Home Video 0025192161445 Check Our Catalog Horrible Bosses' Jason Bateman and Bridesmaids' Melissa McCarthy lead the cast of Identity Thief, an all-star comedy in which a regular guy is forced to extreme measures to clear his name. With everything to lose after his identity is stolen, he'll find out how crazed you can get trying to settle a bad credit score. Unlimited funds have allowed Diana (McCarthy) to live it up on the outskirts of Miami, where the queen of retail buys whatever strikes her fancy. There's only one glitch: The ID she's using to finance these sprees reads "Sandy Bigelow Patterson,".. and it belongs to an accounts rep (Bateman) who lives halfway across the U.S. With only one week to hunt down the con artist before his world implodes, the real Sandy Bigelow Patterson heads south to confront the woman with an all-access pass to his life. And as he attempts to bribe, coax and wrangle her the 2,000 miles to Denver, one easy target will discover just how tough it is to get your name back. …More

Inescapable By Nadda, Ruba 2013-07 - MPI Home Video 0030306986494 Check Our Catalog It is late January, 2011. The Tunisian government has just fallen and protests are building in Cairo. Adib Abdel Kareem, a Syrian expatriate (Alexander Siddig), has made a successful, new life for himself in Canada. When his daughter, Muna, goes missing in Damascus, he must return to his homeland for the first time in two decades to find her, and calls on Fatima, a former love he had to leave behind (Marisa Tomei), to help him. A Canadian embassy official (Joshua Jackson) is at first helpful, but may have an agenda of his own. …More

Mental By Hogan, P. J. 2013-06 - Universal Home Video 0025192181009 Check Our Catalog From the director of Muriel's Wedding, PJ Hogan and star Toni Collette, reunite in an original comedy with heart. The Moochmore girls are certain they all suffer from some kind of undiagnosed mental illness because if they're not crazy then they're just unpopular. Their mother Shirley (Rebecca Gibney) unable to cope with her demanding daughters and unsupported by her philandering politician husband, Barry (Anthony LaPaglia) suffers a nervous breakdown. After Barry commits his wife to a mental hospital (telling his constituents that "she's on holiday") he finds himself alone with 5 teenage girls he barely knows. Desperate, he impulsively picks up a hitchhiker named Shaz (Collette) and installs her in his home as nanny to his daughters. …More

Wiener Dog Nationals By Peterson, Kevan 2013-07 - Inception Media Group 0815300011720 Check Our Catalog …More

Quick Flicks for Tuesday, June 25, 2013

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone By Scardino, Don 2013-06 - New Line Cinema Corporation 0794043164811 Check Our Catalog Superstar magicians Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) and Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi) have ruled the Las Vegas Strip for years, raking in millions with illusions as big as Burt's growing ego. But lately the duo's greatest deception is their public friendship, while secretly they've grown to loathe each other. Facing cutthroat competition from guerilla street magician Steve Gray (Jim Carrey), whose cult following surges with each outrageous stunt, even their show is starting to look stale. But there's still a chance Burt and Anton can save the act--both onstage and off--if only Burt can get back in touch with what made him love magic in the first place. …More

Quick Flicks for Tuesday 18, 2013

 

21 & Over By Lucas, Jon 2013-06 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543834250 Check Our Catalog From the writers of The Hangover, comes a comedy 21 years in the making. Straight-A college student Jeff Chang has always done what he was supposed to do. But when his two best friends take him out for his 21st birthday on the night before an important medical school interview, Jeff Chang snaps and decides to do everything he wants to do. What was supposed to be a quick beer becomes a night of humiliation, over indulgence and utter debauchery in this outrageous comedy about a rite of passage gone so very wrong. …More

Jack The Giant Slayer By Singer, Bryan 2013-06 - New Line Cinema Corporation 0794043157714 Check Our Catalog An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend...and gets the chance to become a legend himself. …More

The Last Exorcism Part II By Gass-Donnelly, Ed 2013-06 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396424500 Check Our Catalog Continuing where the first film left off, Nell Sweetzer (Ashley Bell) is found terrified and alone in rural Louisiana. Back in the relative safety of New Orleans, Nell realizes that she can't remember entire portions of the previous months only that she is the last surviving member of her family. Just as Nell begins the difficult process of starting a new life, the evil force that once possessed her is back with other, unimaginably horrific plans that mean her last exorcism was just the beginning. …More

Quartet By Hoffman, Dustin 2013-06 - Anchor Bay 0013132603551 Check Our Catalog A trio of retired opera singers' annual celebration of Verdi's birthday sours when their estranged fourth member shows up but refuses to sing. Tensions rise and diva drama erupts -- will personal problems prevent the show from going on? …More

Side Effects By Soderbergh, Steven 2013-06 - Universal Home Video 0025192158230 Check Our Catalog SIDE EFFECTS is a provocative thriller about Emily and Martin (Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum), a successful New York couple whose world unravels when a new drug prescribed by Emily's psychiatrist (Jude Law) - intended to treat anxiety - has unexpected side effects. …More

Stoker By Chan-Wook, Park 2013-06 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543791690 Check Our Catalog After India's (Mia Wasikowska's) father dies in an auto accident, her Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode), who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her emotionally unstable mother Evelyn (Nicole Kidman). Soon after his arrival, she comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives, but instead of feeling outrage or horror, this friendless girl becomes increasingly infatuated with him. …More