Quick Flicks for the week of Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Adventureland By Mottola, Greg 2009-08 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment 0786936795226 Check Our Catalog From the director of Superbad comes Adventureland, a smart, witty comedy we can all relate to. When James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) has to cancel his dream summer vacation and make some money for grad school, the only job he can get is at Adventureland, a tacky amusement park where the games are rigged and the rides make you hurl. But its where he meets Em (Kristen Stewart, Twilight), and his rollercoaster ride to nowhere turns into the best summer ever. …More

Duplicity By Gilroy, Tony 2009-08 - Universal Home Video 0025195046176 Check Our Catalog Academy Award winner Julia Roberts and Clive Owen star as two sexy spies-turned-corporate operatives who attempt to pull off one of the biggest heists ever. As the stakes rise in the ultimate game of cat-and-mouse, they'll put everything on the line to remain one double-cross ahead of the rest. …More

Fighting By Montiel, Dito 2009-09 - Universal Home Video BL09093DVD Check Our Catalog When Sean Arthur, an unmotivated young man who hustles counterfeit merchandise in New York City, meets seasoned street-fighting coach Harvey Boarden by chance, his whole life changes. Sean's fights are dangerous, but he sets out to win the prize money at stake and the respect of those around him. …More

Informers By Jordan, Gregor 2009-08 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 1435964926 Check Our Catalog Bret Easton Ellis adapts his own acclaimed novel for the screen, returning to the Los Angeles of the early 1980s with a multi-strand narrative that deftly balances a vast array of characters who represent both the top of the heap (a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster) and the bottom (a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con). Connecting all his intertwining strands are the quintessential Ellis protagonists a group of beautiful, blonde young men and women who sleep all day and party all night, doing drugs and one another with abandon, never realizing that they are dancing on the edge of a volcano. Filmed with uncommon glamour and grit by acclaimed Australian director Gregor Jordan, THE INFORMERS is an alternately blistering and chilling portrait of hedonism run amuck. …More

Sunshine Cleaning By Jeffs, Christine 2009-08 - Starz/Sphe 0013138003393 0013138003393 Check Our Catalog Financially on shaky ground yet determined to send her son to a top private school, Rose Lorkowski teams up with her unreliable sister, Norah, to start a new company that specializes in biohazard removal and crime scene cleanup. …More

Trouble the Water By Lessin, Tia Director Deal, Carl 2009-08 - Zeitgeist Films 0795975111836 Check Our Catalog Filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal recount a surprising tale of heroism in New Orleans, where a wannabe rapper and her husband brave the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina to rescue their neighbors. Featuring live video diary footage from the couple, the Oscar-nominated documentary is both a poignant portrait of a family's will to survive and a startling portrayal of Katrina's devastating power. …More

New Quick Flicks for the Week of 8/18/09

Do you want to know the newest DVD titles available at your library? Check here to find the newest Quick Flicks released at the Gail Borden Library. This fast turnover, no reserves collection is where you will find multiple copies of the most popular DVDs.

Goal 2: Living the Dream By Collet-Serra, Juame 2009-03 - Genius Products BL01874DVD Check Our Catalog Kuno Becker reprises his role as rising soccer star Santiago Munez in the second installment of the Goal! trilogy, which features footballer David Beckham and most of the cast from the original film. …More

Messengers 2: the scarecrow
Desperate to save his crops, a farmer places a mysterious scarecrow in his field, only to discover that with pure evil-- you reap what you sow. As the body count rises around him and his family questions his sanity, he'll have to fight back against a deadly force that knows no bounds.

Naa girlfriend baga rich
When Sanjay joins Sravya on a trip to Bangkok, his bag is switched with one which contains the heads of seven people.

Paying Guests
While four fun-loving guys search for a house to share, they convince their landlord to keep them as paying guests. But the landlord has one condition: He wants only couples. Since they are all bachelors, who will play their wives?

Now Showing at the Gail Borden Library: Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels
Wednesday August 19, 2009 at 6:30pm

This highly acclaimed movie is based on a true story about two defiant women who broke from the mainstream women's rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries of political protest to secure women's voting rights in 1920 and putting their lives at risk. Starring Hilary Swank, Julia Ormond and Patrick Dempsey.

Quick Flicks for the Week of 8/11/09

Do you want to know the newest DVD titles available at your library? Check here to find the newest Quick Flicks released at the Gail Borden Library. This fast turnover, no reserves collection is where you will find multiple copies of the most popular DVDs.

17 Again By Steers, Burr 2009-08 - New Line Cinema Corporation 1419873849 Check Our Catalog What would you do if you got a second shot at life? Class of 1989, Mike O'Donnell (Zac Efron) is a star on the high school basketball court with a college scout in the stands and a bright future in his grasp. But instead, he decides to throw it all away to share his life with his girlfriend Scarlet and the baby he just learned they are expecting. Almost 20 years later, Mike's (Matthew Perry) glory days are decidedly behind him. His marriage to Scarlet (Leslie Mann) has fallen apart, he has been passed over for a promotion at work, his teenage kids think he is a loser, and he has been reduced to crashing with his high school nerd-turned-techno-billionaire best friend Ned (Thomas Lennon). But Mike is given another chance when he is miraculously transformed back to the age of 17. Unfortunately, Mike may look 17 again, but his thirtysomething outlook is totally uncool among the class of 2009. And in trying to recapture his best years, Mike could lose the best things that ever happened to him. …More

The Class By Cantet, Laurent 2009-08 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 1435946251 Check Our Catalog In an imaginative adaptation of his own novel about his experiences working in one of Paris's roughest neighborhoods, François Bégaudeau stars as himself -- a passionate French teacher who presides over a classroom of diverse young minds. Not your standard drama or documentary but something in between, this film (nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar) employed three cameras during a largely improvisational shoot and features real students rather than actors. …More

I Love You, Man By Hamburg, John 2009-08 - Paramount Home Video 0097363519249 Check Our Catalog In this bromance, the cinematic equivalent of a rom-com buddy flick, Paul Rudd plays a recently engaged guy who's got the bride-to-be of his dreams but lacks an all-important significant other when it comes to their pending nuptials: a best man. On a determined hunt for a stranger who will stand up for him, he eventually meets a candidate with wedding-party potential. …More

Jesse Stone. Thin ice
Jesse Stone is shot while moonlighting on a Boston stakeout, leaving his friend fighting for his life and Stone out for justice. His rogue investigation to find the shooter leads him into Boston's shady underworld. This leads him right into the bed of a Boston PD investigator, who wants his head on a platter if he continues to pursue the case. Meanwhile, Stone is approached by a broken-hearted mother who is convnced her kidnapped son is still alive.

Spring breakdown
Three thirty-something women attempt to break the monotony in their lives by vacationing on South Padre Island during collegiate spring break..

Now Showing at the Gail Borden Library: Coraline

Coraline
Thursday August 13, 2009 at 2:00pm

Based on the book by Neil Gaiman, Coraline Jones is bored in her new home until she finds a secret door that leads her into a world that's just like her own…but better! But when this fantastical adventure turns dangerous and her 'other' Mother tries to keep her forever, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness and bravery to get home. Voiced by Dakota Fanning and Teri Hatcher. (Rated PG, 101 minutes)