New Quick Flicks for the week of 8/5/07

Angels Fall by Ralph Hemecker

A chef moves to a small town in Wyoming to start over after her famous restaurant is closed due to a deadly shooting.

Annapolis By Lin, Justin
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A poor but ambitious young man strives to make good in one of the most competitive institutions on Earth in this military drama.

Conversations with God by Stephen Simon

Based on the true story of Neale Donald Walsch. When a tragic car accident left him paralyzed and homeless, he starts to question God. He is shocked when the questions are actually answered.

Crossover By Whitmore, Preston

View Windows Media-formatted PreviewNoah Cruise is a naturally talented basketball player, who is determined to become a doctor using his basketball scholarship to UCLA pre-med, rather than succumb to the lure of former sports agent Vaughn and go for the NBA. His best friend, Tech is also an outstanding basketball player and the buddy that took the fall for him and did the time for an assault charge. Tech has less lofty ambitions: he wants to get his GED and win an underground street ball game against his arrogant rival, Jewelz. Their lives change drastically when they both fall in love with two local girls and take fateful trip out to L.A. together.

Darwin Awards by Finn Taylor.

Based on four best-selling non-fiction books of over 700 Darwin Award cases, an insurance claims investigator teams up with a forensic detective, to team up to investigate potential Darwin Award cases. Winners are saluted for the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways.

Dead Silence By Wan, James

View Windows Media-formatted PreviewAfter receiving a strange package with the doll named Billy, Jamie's wife is murdered. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair where the ventriloquist Mary Shaw used to perform and is buried. After she went mad in the 1940s, Mary was accused of kidnapping a young boy who yelled out in one of her performances that she was a fraud. Because of this she was hunted down by townspeople, who in the ultimate act of revenge, cut out her tongue and then killed her. They buried her along with her "children," a handmade collection of vaudeville dolls, and assumed they had silenced her forever.

Disturbia By Caruso, D. J.

View Windows Media-formatted PreviewIn this modern retelling of Hitchcock's thriller Rear Window, Kale, a troubled teen sentenced to house arrest, begins watching his neighbors out of boredom -- only to discover evidence that a serial killer lives a stone's throw from his home.

Hot Fuzz By Wright, Edgar

View Windows Media-formatted PreviewA top London cop is ready to die of boredom when his superiors transfer him to a sleepy English village to work alongside a blundering but well-meaning young constable. Craving some real action, the big-city bobby may just get his wish when the town begins to stir with a series of grisly "accidents." Is foul play afoot in this seemingly idyllic hamlet?

I Think I Love My Wife By Rock, Chris

View Windows Media-formatted PreviewIn this contemporary retelling of director Eric Rohmer's cerebral 1972 film Chloe in the Afternoon, Chris Rock stars as Richard Cooper, a happily married man with a young daughter at home. Problem is, he fantasizes about other women -- and soon finds his fidelity tested when a friend's former paramour enters the picture and puts the moves on Richard.

Life Suport By George, Nelson

Ana is a recovering junkie who tries to atone for her seedy past by being a loving mom to her 9-year-old daughter. In addition, she takes care of her husband, who also has HIV. But Life Support, an AIDS awareness facility that is an integral part of her life, is where Ana feels most at home. Ana has come far from her rocky beginnings. But, she still has much to accomplish before she can repair the damage from her past. One that seems irreparable is the sticky relationship she has with her estranged teenage daughter, who lives with Ana's mother.

Nora Roberts' Montana Sky by Robe, Mike.

When multimillionaire cattleman Jack Mercy dies, he leaves his Montana ranch to his three daughters. The women are half-sisters and complete strangers to one another. But according to his will, the three women will only receive their inheritance under one condition: they must live together at the ranch for a full year. The sisters are challenged by a mysterious saboteur who is determined to see them fail and must solve some mysteries their father left behind in order to receive their inheritance.

Unaccompanied Minors By Feig, Paul
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Five disparate kids snowed in at the airport on Christmas Eve learn some lessons about friendship in this quirky teen comedy.

New Quick Flick Releases for the Week of 8/01/07

300
By Snyder, Zack

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Adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel about the storied Battle of Thermopylae, a conflict that pitted the ancient Greeks against the Persians in 480 B.C

Nacho Libre
By Hess, Jared

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After spending his childhood in a Mexican monastery, Ignacio decides to remain there and work as a cook, mostly to be close to beautiful Sister Encarnación. So it's natural that when he learns the orphanage is in financial trouble, he pitches in to help -- by disguising himself and joining the professional wrestling circuit as a luchador named Nacho.

Pathfinder
By Nispel, Marcus

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The heroic story of a young Norse man raised by Native American Indians who wages a personal war against the Vikings that barbarically raided his tribe

New Quick Flick Releases for the Week of 7/23/07

Host by Joon-ho Bong.

In Seoul, an American army doctor forces his assistant to dump bottle after bottle of formaldehyde into the drain. The drain runs into the Han River, the major river running through the middle of Seoul. Six years later, a food cart operator, Gang-du falls asleep every time his dad, Hie-bong, is away from the stand for more than a few minutes. Soon, his daughter, Hyun-Seo returns from school. Then a monster appears in the river and starts to attack the people lounging at its banks. Gang-du and Hyun-Seo are chased by the beast. Hie-bong tries valiantly to save his daughter, but the beast soon captures her and drags her away. They receive a call from the daughter's cell phone and try to rescue her from the large monster.

Longford By Tom Hooper.

Based on a true story of the devout Catholic British Lord Frank Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, and his controversial,colorful, headline-making friendship with one of Britain's most notorious criminals, child murderess Myra Hindley.

The Number 23 By Schumacher, Joel
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When Walter Sparrow begins reading the novel The Number 23, he notices strange parallels between it and his life. Now, he's worried that a murder that occurs in the book might just cross over into the world of nonfiction.

The Prisoner; Or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair By Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker.

In September 2003, freelance Iraqi cameraman Yunis Khatayer Abbas was arrested and accused of planning to kill Tony Blair. This documentary is a fascinating portrait of an ordinary man trying to make sense of an absurd and nightmarish situation.

Wide Awake by Alan Berliner.

Berliner once again uses his own life as a laboratory in his lifelong obsession with insomnia. A brilliant blend of the hilarious and the personal, this gives behind the scenes footage of a brutally honest self-portrait of a sleep-deprived man.

Zodiac By Fincher, David
View Windows Media-formatted PreviewIn the 1960s and '70s, a cryptic killer clad in an executioner's hood stalked the streets of San Francisco and left clues about his crimes in the newspaper.

New Quick Flick Releases for the week of 7/16/07

Factory Girl By Hickenlooper, George
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Director George Hickenlooper's biographical drama charts the meteoric rise and subsequent fall from grace of Edie Sedgwick, an ambitious starlet who becomes the muse of Andy Warhol.




The Last Mimzy By Shaye, Robert
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After Emma and Noah discover a mysterious box of toys that's been sent from the future, the siblings start to develop some inexplicable, unearthly abilities in this family adventure. As their mother and teacher delve deeper into the mystery, the adults as well as the children are drawn into a strange and unpredictable world, and escaping may not be an option.



Premonition By Yapo, Mennan
View Windows Media-formatted PreviewA housewife is devastated when her husband dies suddenly in a car crash. But when he reappears the next day as if nothing had ever happened, she realizes it may have just been a premonition. Can she prevent the horrible tragedy from happening all over again, or is she powerless to redirect fate?



Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Tom Tykwer.
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born under his mother's table at the fish market, onto a pile of muddy fish guts, establishing from the beginning his repulsion for putrid scents. A childhood of neglect and, later, a job at a tannery, encourage Jean-Baptiste to develop his olfactory sense rather than his verbal skills. When an opportunity to prove his worth to Parisian perfumist, Giuseppe Baldini, it results in his immediate hire into a promising new career. His successes in perfume mixing are negated by a blinding obsession for capturing the sublime beauty of human soul, which in his twisted logic requires the killing of young women to reduce their body fats to essential oils for the ultimate perfume.



Preaching to the Choir by Charles Randolph Wright.
Set in Harlem, Preaching to the Choir follows two estranged brothers - one a hip-hop star, the other a preacher - as they make their way in life. They are forced into reconciliation and attempt to work out their differences.