New Quick Flicks for the Week of 3/9/10

Capitalism: A Love Story By Moore, Michael 2010-03 - Starz/Sphe 0013132136592 Check Our Catalog Filmmaker Michael Moore (Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11) takes on capitalism's roots, the floundering U.S. economy, and 2008's global financial meltdown and subsequent bank bailout in this rousing documentary. Combining stories about those who suffer most from Corporate America's greed and insatiable thirst for profits and the people most responsible for myriad crises, Moore embarks on another shocking fact-finding rampage. …More

Old Dogs By Becker, Walt 2010-03 - Disney BL05102DVD Check Our Catalog On the verge of a game-changing business deal, a divorced dad and his womanizing best friend and partner are thrown for a loop when they're tasked with caring for a rambunctious pair of 6-year-old twins. …More

Planet 51 By Blanco, Jorge 2010-03 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 1435980859 Check Our Catalog Planet 51 is a galactic sized animated alien adventure comedy revolving around American astronaut Captain Charles Chuck Baker, who lands on Planet 51 thinking he's the first person to step foot on it. To his surprise, he finds that this planet is inhabited by little green people who are happily living in a white picket fence world reminiscent of a cheerfully innocent 1950s America, and whose only fear is that it will be overrun by alien invaders...like Chuck! With the help of his robot companion Rover and his new friend Lem, Chuck must navigate his way through the dazzling, but bewildering, landscape of Planet 51 in order to escape becoming a permanent part of the Planet 51 Alien Invaders Space Museum. …More

Precious By Daniels, Lee 2010-03 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398119777 Check Our Catalog Precious Jones, an inner-city high school girl, is illiterate, overweight, and pregnant]again. Nave and abused, Precious responds to a glimmer of hope when a door is opened by an alternative-school teacher. She is faced with the choice to follow opportunity and test her own boundaries. Prepare for shock, revelation and celebration. …More

Return to Kandahar By 2010-03 - Channel Sources Dist 159458026X Check Our Catalog …More

Up in the Air By Reitman, Jason 2010-03 - Paramount Home Entertainment 6313485416 Check Our Catalog Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert who flies all over the world on business. Just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and meeting the frequent traveler woman of his dreams, his company grounds him. When Bingham goes on his last cross-country firing expedition, he will learn that life isn't about the journey, but about the connections made along the way. …More

The boondock saints II
For the past eight years, the MacManus brothers have been living with their father on a remote sheep farm in Ireland, far removed from their past vigilante lifestyle. When their uncle informs them that their beloved priest has been killed by the mob, and they are being framed for the murder, the duo return back to Boston to, not only, bring justice to those who are responsible, but clear their names.

...And the Winner Is

The Academy Awards were last night, check out all the award winning films that are at the library. For the complete list of Oscar winners go to the Oscars website.

Best Picture: The Hurt Locker

Directing: Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker

Film Editing: Bob Murawski and Chris Innis for The Hurt Locker

Sound Editing: Paul N.J. Ottosson for The Hurt Locker

Sound Mixing: Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett for The Hurt Locker

Writing (Oringinal Screenplay): Mark Boal for The Hurt Locker



Actor in a Supporting Role: Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds











Actress in a Leading Role: Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side











Actress in a Supporting Role: Mo'Nique for Precious

Writing (Adapted Screenplay): Geoffrey Fletcher for Precious







Animated Feature Film: Up

Academy Awards

The Oscars are coming up on March 7th while you are waiting to see who wins big on Sunday check out some of the past award winning movies we have at the library.

Do you know who's going to win this year? Let us know.

45th anniversary of the Sound of Music

Today is the 45th anniversary for the premiere of the Sound of Music. Celebrate by watching the movie or listening to the incredible soundtrack.

If you haven't seen this film, if that's possible, Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria, the spirited young woman who leaves the convent to become a governess to the seven young children of Captain von Trapp, an autocratic widower whose strict household rules leave no room for music or merriment.

New Quick Flicks for the Week of 3/2/10

2012 By Emmerich, Roland 2010-03 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 1435932609 Check Our Catalog When typhoons, earthquakes and other disasters suddenly threaten to destroy the world, Jackson, his estranged wife, Kate, and others surmise that the secret may lie in ancient Mayan prophecies that describe global calamity in the year 2012. …More

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee By Miller, Rebecca 2010-03 - Gaiam Americas 0852459002537 Check Our Catalog When her husband, who's 30 years her senior, relocates the family to a retirement community, flawless wife and mother Pippa Lee slides toward a nervous breakdown as she reflects on her tumultuous past and befriends her neighbor's enigmatic son. …More

The September Issue By Cutler, R. J. 2010-02 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398117537 Check Our Catalog …More

Where the Wild Things Are By Jonze, Spike 2010-03 - Warner Home Video 1419864068 Check Our Catalog Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts -- Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander -- crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways. …More

Import export
Olga, a nurse from the Ukraine who only knows poverty, searches for a better life in the West as Paul, an unemployed security guard from Austria, travels to the East in search of the same.

Naruto Shippuden: the movie
A powerful spirit that once threatened to destroy the world is back. Naruto's mission is to protect a priestess name Shion, who is the only one with the power to seal away the monster. She also has the uncanny ability to predict someone's fate. Her latest prediction: Naruto will soon die. Naruto's only hope is to abandon Shion, but that's not Naruto's style. He decides to face her fatal prediction head-on, and die.