New Quick Flicks for the week of 7/01/08

Bhoothnath By Vivek Sharma "This is a story about a seven year old naughty yet innocent boy, who unknowingly turns a foe into a friend"

Drillbit Taylor By Brill, Steven Three high school freshmen devise a novel plan for dealing with the treacherous school bully: They hire a bodyguard. Salvation comes in the form of Drillbit Taylor, a beach bum ex-soldier who teaches the boys some handy life lessons. ...More

The Jungle Book 2 By Trenbirth, Steve Osment, Haley Joel Goodman, John The jungle is jumping again as Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera, and the rest of your favorite characters return in this fun-filled musical adventure. Mowgli (Haley Joel Osment) has been living in the village among the humans. His new life includes his little stepbrother, Ranjan, and his best friend, Shanti, but the man-cub still has that jungle rhythm in his heart, and he misses his old buddy Baloo (John Goodman). When Mowgli wanders back into the wild for some swingin' fun, he soon finds Baloo isn't the only one waiting for him '- the man-eating tiger Shere Khan is lurking in the shadows and planning his revenge. If he is to defeat his nemesis, Mowgli will need the help of both his old friends and his new family. ...More

Vantage Point By Travis, Pete Quaid, Dennis Eight strangers with eight different points of view try to unlock the one truth behind an assassination attempt on the president of the United States. Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) are two Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Ashton (William Hurt) at a landmark summit on the global war on terror. When President Ashton is shot moments after his arrival in Spain, chaos ensues and disparate lives collide in the hunt for the assassin. In the crowd is Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker), an American tourist who thinks he's captured the shooter on his camcorder while videotaping the event for his kids back home. Also there, relaying the historic event to millions of TV viewers across the globe, is American TV news producer Rex Brooks (Sigourney Weaver). As they and others reveal their stories, the pieces o ...More

New Quick Flicks for the week of 6/24/08

Charlie Bartlett By Poll, Jon 2008/06 - Tcfhe/MGM 5557425578 Check Our Catalog The kids at Western Summit High have issues, and newcomer Charlie Bartlett is coming to their rescue. With a briefcase full of prescription pills and a head full of pop psychology, this rebel with a cause brings hilarious help to the student body and unending grief to their neurotic principal, Mr. Gardner (Robert Downey, Jr.). Suddenly, Charlie is the hottest man on campus and he's even caught the eye of Gardner's sultry daughter. An outrageous send-up of today's Prozac generation, Charlie Bartlett has your prescription for laugh-out-loud insanity! ...More

Control By Corbijn, Anton 2008/04 - Weinstein Company BL11882DVD Check Our Catalog In a blistering breakthrough performance, Sam Riley stars as Ian Curtis, the troubled Joy Division singer whose personal, professional and romantic battles ended in suicide at age 23. ...More

Definitely Maybe By Brooks, Adam 2008/07 - Universal BL07084DVD Check Our Catalog Will Hayes is getting a divorce, prompting his precocious 11-year-old daughter, Maya, to ask how her parents met. As Will relates his romantic history (changing the names of his past girlfriends), Maya tries to guess which of the three women in his story would someday become her mother. ...More

Funny Games By Haneke, Michael Watts, Naomi Roth, Tim 2008/06 - Warner Home Video 5557412867 Check Our Catalog In this provocative and brutal thriller from director Michael Haneke, a vacationing family gets an unexpected visit from two deeply disturbed young men. Their idyllic holiday turns nightmarish as they are subjected to unimaginable terrors and struggle to stay alive. ...More

In Bruges By McDonagh, Martin Farrell, Colin Fiennes, Ralph 2008/06 - Universal Home Video 5557413723 Check Our Catalog In Bruges (pronounced broozh) is a darkly comic suspense thriller from Academy Award-winning writer/director Martin McDonagh tells the story of hit men Ray and Ken (Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson). After a botched job in London, the team is ordered by their boss Harry (Ralph Fiennes) to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges, Belgium. Very much out of their comfort zones, the men find themselves drawn into increasingly dangerous entanglements with locals, tourists, and a film shoot. As their stay in Bruges gets weirder, they realize Harry may have other plans for them than a simple vacation. ...More

Lost in Beijing By 2008/05 - New Yorker Films Video 1567304761 Check Our Catalog ...More

Persepolis By Paronnaud, Vincent Satrapi, Marjane 2008/06 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 1424883148 Check Our Catalog Marjane (voiced by Chiara Mastroianni) just wants to be an ordinary kid, but that isn't easy in 1978 Iran. This profound animated film follows Marjane's childhood in a repressive society, her adolescence in France and return to Tehran as an adult. Based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel. ...More

Diary of the Dead By Romero, George A. Morgan, Michele 2008/05 - Genius Products 5557425470 Check Our Catalog A group of film students are making an independent horror film when they become trapped in a world being consumed by flesh-eating zombies. In an obsessive, unflinching eye, one filmmaker documents each death on camera. As the lucky survivors take final refuge, the film continues to roll, recording every detail for future generations¢¬! if any survive. ...More

The Signal By 2008/06 - Magnolia Pict Hm Ent 5557432752 Check Our Catalog ...More

The Spiderwick Chronicles By Waters, Mark 2008/07 - Paramount BL07083DVD Check Our Catalog When city-raised twins Jared and Simon move to an old country mansion with their mother and sister, it's quite an adjustment—especially when they uncover a magical and sometimes dangerous fantasy world. Based on the best-selling children's books. ...More

New Quick Flicks for the week of 6/17/08

Be Kind Rewind By Gondry, Michael When Jerry accidentally magnetizes his brain, he inadvertently erases all the videos in the rental store his buddy Mike runs. To please the store's loyal customers, Jerry and Mike set out to produce their own low-rent remakes of the erased films. ...More

Fool's Gold By Tennant, Andrew Charming but luckless treasure hunter Ben Finnegan has sacrificed his relationship with wife Tess in search of the Queen's Dowry, a legendary treasure lost at sea. When he discovers a fresh clue, hope for riches—and his marriage—is rekindled. Will they locate the loot before their rivals and rediscover love? ...More

Rails & Ties By Eastwood, Alison Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden give soaring performances in Rails & Ties, director Alison Eastwood¢¬¢s moving tale of people in crisis and emotions at the brink. Bacon plays Tom Stark, a train engineer unable to face his wife¢¬¢s (Harden) illness. Then a terrifying railway collision leaves a little boy orphaned. Tom takes the boy into his home and ¢¬ step by step, strength by strength ¢¬ learns how to bond with the wife he adores by opening his heart to a boy who needs the security of a devoted family. ...More

Shattered By Barker, Mike A happy couple with a seemingly perfect life has their daughter abducted. Over the course of a day, the kidnapper dismantles the family's lives with brutal efficiency. ...More

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins By Lee, Malcolm D. Lawrence, Martin Parker, Nicole Ari Leading an all-star comedy cast, Martin Lawrence is talk-show sensation RJ Stevens, who left behind his modest Southern upbringing and family name to transform into a self-help guru dispensing his - Team of Me - philosophy to millions of adoring fans. With a reality-TV-star fiance and money to burn, there's no piece of the Hollywood dream RJ hasn't achieved. After his parents request that he come home for their 50th wedding anniversary, the TV host packs up his 10-year-old son and diva bride-to-be and heads back to Georgia. It's a chance to prove to his family that he' no longer the awkward kid they relentlessly picked on. At least, that's the plan! But when his crazy, lovable family calls him on his big-city attitude and challenges him at every turn, RJ is forced to take a hard look at the man he's become. He may be a superstar in L.A., ...More

New Quick Flicks for the week of 6/10/08

The Bucket List By Reiner, Rob 2008/06 - Warner Home Video 1419861050 Check Our Catalog Carter and Edward found themselves sharing a hospital room with plenty of time to think about what might happen next--and about how much of that was in their hands. For all their apparent differences, they soon discovered they had two very important things in common: an unrealized need to come to terms with who they were and the choices they'd made, and a pressing desire to spend the time they had left doing everything they ever wanted to do. ...More

Jumper By Liman, Doug The science fiction thriller leaps into a new realm with JUMPER, which begins the epic adventures of a man who discovers that he possesses the exhilarating ability to instantly teleport anywhere in the world he can imagine. From New York to Tokyo, from the ruins of Rome to the heart of the Saharan Desert, anywhere is possible for David Rice (HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN), until he begins to see that his freedom is not total, that he's not alone... but part of an ongoing, global war that threatens the very survival of his rare and extraordinary kind. ...More

The Other Boleyn Girl By Chadwick, Justin Portman, Natalie View Windows Media-formatted Preview When rumors begin to circulate that King Henry VIII (Bana) is no longer intimate with his wife who has been unable to give him a male heir, Sir Thomas Boleyn concocts a plan to bring his family back to prominence: his daughter Anne (Portman) shall seduce the King and provide him with a son. However, the scheme goes off course when the King takes to the other Boleyn girl, Anne's younger sister and best friend Mary (Johansson). Although married already, Mary gives in to family pressure and reluctantly provides the King with a boy, but along the way, she finds herself falling in love with ...More

2007 Academy Award Nominated Short Films A collection of short films nominated for the 80th annual Academy Awards. Included are the winning live action short and the winning animated short.

New Quick Flicks for the week of 6/3/08

The Eye By Moreau, David Sydney Wells (Alba) is an accomplished, independent, Los Angeles-based concert violinist. She is also blind, and has been so since a childhood tragedy. As our story opens, Sydney undergoes a double corneal transplant, a surgery she has waited her whole life to have, and her sight is restored. After the surgery, neural ophthalmologist Dr. Paul Faulkner (Nivola) helps Sydney with the difficult adjustment, and with the support of her older sister Helen (Posey), Sydney learns to see again. But Sydney's happiness is short-lived as unexplainable shadowy and frightening images start to haunt her. Are they a passing aftermath of her surgery, Sydney's mind adjusting to sight, a product of her imagination, or something horrifyingly real? As Sydney's family and friends begin to doubt her sanity, Sydney is soon convinced that her anonymous eye donor ...More

Meet the Spartans The heroic Leonidas, armed with nothing by leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag group of 13 - count 'em, 13! - Spartans to defend their homeland against the invading Persians (whose ranks include Ghost Rider, Rocky Balboa, the Transformers, and a hunchbacked Paris Hilton...no one is safe when the Spartans take on the biggest icons in pop culture). ...More

My Best Friend By Leconte, Patrice So single-minded is antique dealer François Coste in his pursuit of the deal that he's failed to make a single personal friend over the years -- a point his business partner is willing to bet on. Forced to cough up a best pal in 10 days -- or pay up -- François turns to a gregarious taxi driver to teach him how to make friends in this buddy movie from Patrice Leconte. ...More

Semi-Pro By Alterman, Kent Will Ferrell stars in Semi-Pro, an outrageous comedy set in 1976 against the backdrop of the maverick ABA -- a fast-paced, wild and crazy basketball league that rivaled the NBA and made a name for itself with innovations like the three-point shot and slam dunk contest. Ferrell plays Jackie Moon, a one-hit wonder who used the profits from the success of his chart-topping song -- Love Me Sexy -- to achieve his dream of owning a basketball team. But Moon's franchise, the Flint Michigan Tropics, is the worst team in the league and in danger of folding when the ABA announces its plans to merge with the NBA. If they want to survive, Jackie and the Tropics must now do the seemingly impossible -- win. ...More