New Quick Flicks for the Week of June 8, 2010

From Paris with Love By 2010-06 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398121305 Check Our Catalog A low-ranking intelligence operative (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) working in the office of the U.S. Ambassador in France takes on more than he bargained for when he partners with a wisecracking, fast-shooting, high-ranking U.S. agent (John Travolta) whos been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack. …More

Animation Express

Take a journey beyond your wildest imagination with this amazingly inventive, hugely entertaining collection of 26 animated shorts. With everything from modern masterworks such as Madame Tutli-Putli and Sleeping Betty to groundbreaking experimental shorts and classic cartoons, emerging talents join seasoned directors from the National Film Board of Canada. Includes: DVD 1. Madame Tutli-Putli -- Forming game -- Hungu -- Rosa Rosa -- Rains -- Retouches -- Subservience -- Spare change -- The spine -- The man who slept -- How people got fire -- Robes of war -- Drux flux -- DVD 2. Sleeping Betty -- The necktie -- Come again in spring -- Ha'Aki -- Here and there -- Flutter -- Engine 371 -- Invasion of the space lobsters -- Sainte Barbe -- Paradise -- Vive la Rose -- Land of the heads -- Runaway.

Code Geass, Lelouch of the rebellion R2, Part I

"The year is now 2018. With Zero dead and the remnants of the Black Knights being swept by the Britannian forces, a forced state of peace settles over Area 11. The rights of the Elevens remain limited but with no one to lead them and the defeat during the Black Rebellion hanging over them, the Japanese people remain under the boot of Britannian oppression with hope to overcome."

Code Geass, Lelouch of the rebellion R2, Part II

Nunnally aspires to re-establish "the Specially Administrated Zone of Japan," the cursed utopian project that once wiped out thousands of innocent Japanese. Lelouch has an existential crisis with his sister now leading the enemy forces. He decides to join the SAZJ with all members of his Black Knight force. Has he given up on rebellion, or conceived a new strategy?

Code Geass, Lelouch of the rebellion R2, Part III

Lelouch began his rebellion as Zero in order to defeat his own father, the emperor of the Holy Britannia. With his Geass, the absolute power to compel anyone to follow any order, and the Black Knights, his own military force, he succeeded in taking over the vast country of the Chinese Federation. While he amasses his strength as a political leader, his high-school girlfriend, Shirley, is killed after her destiny has been tossed around by the power of Geass, and he madly launches a ruthless assault into the secret religious organization called "Order of Geass."

Code Geass, Lelouch of the rebellion R2, Part IV

Lelouch has lost everything. Nunnally, his beloved sister and his reason to fight, disappeared within a nuclear blast of the new weapon, F.L.E.I. J.A., and Black Knights, his loyal armed force, has turned against him after they found out about the secrets of his Geass power. At the depth of his desperation, Lelouch renews his determination to defeat his own father, who is about to achieve his ultimate goal by activating a super-dimensional apparatus, the Sword of Akasha.

Hum Tum Aur Ghost

"Armaan's life is picture perfect; a loving girlfriend, a fabulous job as a fashion photographer, and yet, things aren't as perfect as they seem to be. A chronic patient of insomnia, his sleeplessness is not a function of any sleeping disorder. The truth is that he hears voices; voices that torture him, voices that don't let him have his peace, voices that nobody else can listen to ... Suddenly aware of his special ability to connect with the souls that haven't crossed over and equipped with a will to fulfill the wishes of the spirits that hound him, Armaan now sets out on a mission to help three souls..."

Paa

Auro is an intelligent, witty 13-year-old boy with an extremely rare genetic defect that causes accelerated aging. He suffers from a progeria like syndrome. Mentally he is 13, very normal, but physically he looks five times older. In spite of his condition, Auro is a very happy boy. He lives with his mother Vidya, who is a gynecologist, and his father Amol Arte, a young, progressive, and full of ideals politician.

Shutter Island

When U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn. As the investigation unfolds and Daniels uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he also learns there are some places that never let you go. Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Max Von Sydow. Based on the novel by Dennis Lehane. Directed by Martin Scorsese.

Strike Witches, complete first season

The year is 1944 and the world lives in fear of unidentified flying objects called Neuroi. With the old-boy old guard unable to thwart this deadly menace, humanity turns its desperate eyes to an aerial attack force with much nicer legs. Meet the girls of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, better known as the Strike Witches.

New Quick Flicks for the Week of 6/1/10

Alice in Wonderland By Carter, Helena Bonham 2010-06 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment 0786936797985 Check Our Catalog A 19-year-old Alice journeys through Underland, where she experiences strange ordeals and encounters peculiar characters, including the vaporous Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and the sadistic Red Queen. …More

The Buddha: The Story of Siddhartha By 2010-04 - PBS 0841887011983 Check Our Catalog …More

Dolan's Cadillac By 2010-04 - E1 9781417212668 Check Our Catalog Dolans Cadillac tells the action-packed story of retribution involving a middle-school teacher and the crime boss responsible for the murder of his wife. …More

The Lost and Found Family By Provident-Integrity Distribution 2010-02 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 1435979222 Check Our Catalog In this inspirational family drama, the luxurious lifestyle Ester Hobbes leads is shattered by the death of her husband. Left with nothing but a house rented to a foster family, Ester soon finds a deeper purpose in life. Forced to move in, she plans to sell the home, but her growing faith and attachment to troubled teen Justin and the others lead her on a divine journey as all their lives are transformed. …More

Naruto Shippuden: Volume 7 By 2010-03 - Warner Home Video 1421529807 Check Our Catalog …More

Naruto Shippuden: Volume 10 By 2010-06 - Warner Home Video 1421529874 Check Our Catalog …More

The Prince & Me: The Elephant Adventure By Cyran, Catherine 2010-06 - Millenium Media Services 0687797130594 Check Our Catalog One year after their royal wedding, King Edvard and Queen Paige of Denmark receive an invitation to attend the wedding of Princess Myra of Sangyoon. Upon their arrival, Paige finds Myra is unhappy with her arranged marriage to the brooding and sinister Kah and is secretly in love with a young elephant handler named Alu. When the secret romance between Myra and Alu is revealed, Alu is thrown into jail, and the sacred wedding elephant goes missing in the jungle! In order to save Princess Myra, Paige and Eddie must find the elephant and free Alu before convincing the king of Sangyoon that true love reigns supreme over all. The perfect adventure to celebrate their first anniversary! …More

The Red Baron By 2010-06 - Monterey Home Video 0012233366525 Check Our Catalog …More

Small Town Saturday Night By Craig, Ryan 2010-06 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398123033 Check Our Catalog Just days before Rhett (Chris Pine) is leaving for Nashville to pursue a lifelong dream of being a singer/songwriter, his girlfriend Samantha (Bre Blair) realizes that his future may not be their future. This news comes as a shock to Rhett, and he is faced with having to choose between following his dream and staying in his hometown in order to be with the woman he loves. …More

The Wolfman By 2010-06 - Universal Home Video 0025195038430 Check Our Catalog Academy Award winners Anthony Hopkins and Benicio Del Toro tear up the screen in this action-packed thriller. Lawrence Talbot (Del Toro) is lured back to his family estate to investigate the savage murder of his brother by a bloodthirsty beast. There, Talbot must confront his childhood demons, his estranged father (Hopkins), his brothers grieving fiance (Emily Blunt) and a suspicious Scotland Yard Inspector (Hugo Weaving). When Talbot is bitten by the creature, he becomes eternally cursed and soon discovers a fate far worse than death. Inspired by the classic Universal film that launched a legacy of horror, The Wolfman brings the myth of a cursed man back to its iconic origins. …More

Apollo 11, a night to remember
A new compilation of original footage, this program has an in-depth montage of the moon landing story. It contains rare and previously unseen footage from the BBC live coverage in 1969, footage of the landing, and also the buildup to the launch. Includes an episode of The sky at night.

Art & copy
A powerful film about advertising and inspiration. It reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time, people who've profoundly impacted our culture. Their work grabbed the attention of millions and truly moved them. The social and cultural impact of their ads are brought to light in this dynamic exploration of art, commerce, and human emotion.

Dark legacy: George Bush and the murder of John Kennedy
Relying exclusively on government documents, statements from the best witnesses available, and the words from the mouths of the killers themselves, Dark legacy produces a thoroughly substantiated criminal indictment of George Herbert Walker Bush, establishing beyond a reasonable doubt his guilt as a supervisor in the conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy.

Defamation: anti-Semitism, the movie
Israeli director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative and at times irreverent quest to answer the question: What is anti-Semitism today? Does it remain a dangerous and immediate threat? Or is it a scare tactic used by right-wing Zionists to discredit their critics? Speaking with an array of people from across the political spectrum and traveling to places like Auschwitz and Brooklyn, Shamir discovers the realities of anti-Semitism today.

The end of poverty?
Explains how global poverty began with military conquest, slavery, and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals, and forced labor. Today's financial crisis is a direct consequence of these unchallenged policies that have lasted centuries. Features expert insights from Nobel Prize winners, acclaimed authors, university professors, government ministers, and the leaders of social movements. Narrated by Martin Sheen. Includes interviews, photo galleries, and more.

No impact man
Colin Beavan is a New York City writer and self-proclaimed liberal. He has big plans for his new book. He decides on a grand experiment: to live one year with as little impact on the environment as possible. The problem is, the project requires his wife Michelle, an espresso-guzzling, Prada-worshipping business writer, and their young daughter to be fully on board. The family embarks on a year of no electricity, television, cars, toilet paper, elevators, or newspapers.

Petropolis
The Athabasca tar sands in Alberta are an oil reserve the size of England. Extracting crude oil that lies beneath the unspoiled wilderness requires a massive industrialized effort, effecting catastrophic damages on land, air, water, and climate.

Preacher's kid
Angie is the daughter of a stern but loving bishop. She becomes attracted to the hunky star of a traveling gospel show. They decide to hit the road, and head straight into romance. But life on the road isn't what it seems and the actor's ongoing lies and abuse eventually trigger an epiphany for her, sending the prodigal daughter home to the father and the keyboardist that love her.

Roads to Memphis
Documents the story of assassin, James Earl Ray, his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the seething, turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis in April of 1968. Explores the wildly disparate, yet fatefully entwined stories of Ray and King to create a complex, engaging, and thought-provoking portrait of America in that crisis-laden year.

Soul eater. Part three, episodes 27-39
After 800 years, the witch Arachne has returned to spin a web of wickedness, leading an army of ghoulish minions in a war against Death Weapon Meister Academy. As demons from the past rise amid betrayal and madness, Maka and Soul are definitely in for the fight of their lives. But, hey -- luckily for the fate of the world, they're a freakin' lethal team!

New Quick Flicks for the Week of 5/25/10

Dear John By Hallstrom, Lasse 2010-05 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396343443 Check Our Catalog It was two weeks that would change their lives forever. Soon after John (Channing Tatum) and Savannah (Amanda Seyfried) fall madly in love, their relationship is put on hold. With one leaving to complete his service, and the other to complete her college education, they pass the time by exchanging a continuous stream of love letters, until they can be reunited permanently a year later. But when war breaks out, their separation is extended indefinitely. Will their relationship survive the greatest test of all: the test of time? Based on the bestselling novel from the author of The Notebook, DEAR JOHN is a timeless romance that will warm your heart. …More

The Road By Hillcoat, John 2010-05 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396347632 Check Our Catalog From Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country For Old Men, comes the highly anticipated big screen adaptation of the beloved, best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, THE ROAD. An all-star cast are featured in this epic post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of a father and his young son as they journey across a barren America that was destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm. A masterpiece adventure, THE ROAD boldly imagines a future in which men are pushed to the worst and the best that they are capable of - a future in which a father and his son are sustained by love. …More

1981
When his family moves into their new home, young Ricardo Trogi feels different from his classmates. He creates a new reality to avoid being discovered for what he really is. How long can the truth be denied?

Naruto, shippuden. 9
Everything about Team Kakashi's newest member Sai rubs Naruto the wrong way, and Sakura and their new leader Yamato have their hands full trying to keep them apart. A night at a hot springs inn doesn't do much to promote team unity, but Naruto decides that he will do anything, even pair up with Sai, to help their mission succeed: to find Sasuke and bring him back. Sai has a hard time understanding Naruto's feelings, but that may be because he himself has no feelings at all!

Owl and the sparrow
On the bustling streets of Saigon, three very different people all seeking connection are about to collide. A beautiful flight attendant looking for love, a zookeeper hiding within his animal kingdom to nurse a broken heart, and the young flower-selling runaway who brings them together.

Waiting for Armageddon
America's 50-million-strong Evangelical community is convinced that the world's future is foretold in Biblical prophecy, from the Rapture to the Battle of Armageddon. Explore this apocalyptic worldview, from the homefront in America to the future battlefield of Israel. By weaving Christian, Zionist, and Jewish perspectives along with telling archival materials, this eye-opening film also proves the potentially explosive alliance between Evangelical Christians and Israel.

Reel Women - Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire

Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 6pm

Staring Gabourey Sidibe, nominated for the Academy Awards' Best Actress, and Mo'Nique, who won for Best Supporting Actress, this is the story of a 16-year-old African American girl who is pregnant for the second time by her father. Yet as bleak as her life may seem, this film is not a downer, for Precious' life is changed when she joins a special school.

Reel Women for Real Women is co-sponsored by the American Association of University Women Elgin Area Branch. Enjoy a film and discussion focused on women’s issues at 6 p.m. in Programming Room. No registration.

New Quick Flicks for the Week of May 18, 2010

Blade of the Immortal Volume 1 By 2009-09 - Media Blasters 0631595093575 Check Our Catalog A dark, gritty and violent samurai martial arts action series, based on the Eisner Award-winning, best-selling Blade Of The Immortal manga published by Dark Horse Comics. Blade Of The Immortal tells the tale of Manji, a lone wandering samurai who has been blessed with immortality. No wound, no matter how brutal, can kill him. But Manji soon comes to see that this blessing may be more of a curse. …More

Blade of the Immortal Volume 2 By 2009-11 - Media Blasters 0631595096378 Check Our Catalog …More

Dead Space: Downfall By 2010-06 - Starz/Sphe 0013138220189 Check Our Catalog An ancient religious artifact has been recovered by a deep-space mining ship, and for the crew of the USG Ishimura, life just became a living hell. Unearthed on a far-away planet during a mining operation, the relic is worshiped by some, even seen as proof of God. But when its removed from its resting place and brought on the ship, the artifact unleashes a long-dormant alien race, one bent on ripping apart -- and taking over -- every human aboard. Their screams CAN be heard in space ] but only the slashers are listening. …More

Extraordinary Measures By Vaughan, Tom 2010-05 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 9781435997653 Check Our Catalog Inspired by a true story, this drama is centered on the efforts of John and Aileen Crowley to find a researcher who might have a cure for their two childrens rare genetic disorder. From the Academy Award winning screenwriter of Chocolat and Producers of Erin Brockovich! Based on the Wall Street Journal article and subsequent book, The Cure, by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Geeta Anand. …More

The Girl on the Train By 2010-05 - Strand Releasing Home Video 0712267291625 Check Our Catalog Jeanne (Emilie Dequenne) lives in a house in the suburbs with her mother Louise (Catherine Deneuve). The two women get on well together. Louise earns her living by looking after children. Jeanne is half-heartedly looking for a job. Louise harbors the hope of getting her daughter a job with Samuel Bleistein (Michel Blanc), a famous lawyer whom she knew in her youth. Jeanne and Bleistein's worlds are light years apart. However, they'll be set on a collision course because of an incredible lie that Jeanne invents, a lie that grows into the biggest news and political story of the day. …More

Gintama: Collection 1 By 2010-04 - Section23 Films 0814131018601 Check Our Catalog …More

Invictus By Eastwood, Clint 2010-05 - Warner Home Video 9781419879654 Check Our Catalog The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match. …More

North Face By 2010-05 - Southport Music Box Corpo 0705105742953 Check Our Catalog …More

Samurai School By 2009-07 - Media Blasters 0631595091687 Check Our Catalog At a private school that turns boys into true men, grueling training is practically the only thing that you can count on. Between hundreds of pushups, hot-oil baths, and being locked in jail cells, the new students have a lot to deal with before they can even think of kicking back and relaxing. And when a rival school is out to cause some trouble, will true friendship be able to save the day? The Samurai School's rules don't usually allow for personal grudges, but the rules don't matter anywhere outside the grounds. …More

Tetro By Coppola, Francis Ford 2010-05 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398120872 Check Our Catalog Fresh-faced and naive, 17-year-old Bennie (Alden Ehrenreich) arrives in Buenos Aires to search for his older brother who has been missing for more than a decade. The family had emigrated from Italy to Argentina, but with the great musical success of their father Carlo (Klaus Maria Brandauer), an acclaimed symphony conductor, the family moved from Argentina to New York. When Bennie finds his brother, the volatile and melancholy poet Tetro (Vincent Gallo), he is not at all what Bennie expected. In the course of staying with Tetro and his girlfriend Miranda (Maribel Verd), Bennie grapples with his brother and the haunting experiences of their shared past in this widely acclaimed film by legendary director Francis Ford Coppola. …More

Valentine's Day By Marshall, Garry 2010-05 - Warner Home Video 0794043137907 Check Our Catalog An all-star ensemble cast comes together in Valentine's Day, which follows the intertwining storylines of a diverse group of Los Angelenos as they navigate their way through romance and heartbreak over the course of one Valentine's Day. Couples and singles experience the pinnacles and pitfalls of finding, keeping or ending relationships in a day in the life of love. …More

One Week
When a young man is confronted with his mortality, he takes a cross-country road trip from Toronto to Vancouver Island on a vintage motorcycle. In search for himself, he finds out what makes this country, and his life, so beautiful.

Reflections
Europol agent Tom Brindle goes to Barcelona to track down Pygmalion, a serial killer. In Spain, Brindle discovers that DNA found near the body matches a young, volatile soldier, Marco Soler. Further investigation reveals that the real killer may be Marco's estranged twin brother. Brindle uses Marco to create a psychological profile of his deadly brother. But as Agent Brindle closes in on the killer, the killer closes in on him, and the hunter becomes the hunted.

The World According to John Coltrane
Interviews with jazz musicians commenting upon the impact which John Coltrane, an innovative jazz saxophonist, had upon American jazz music. Film traces Coltrane's musical growth from his roots in the black church and in rhythm & blues, through his forty years of life. Film culminates in a musical meeting between the saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell and dervish musicians in Morocco.

Blade of the Immortal 3: No Virtue in Forgiveness
Where is the meaning in survival if you cannot hate? The pinwheel of fate turns, as Rin rescues a boy who turns out to be the son of Kawakami. Kawakami was the man who raped her mother, as she was forced to listen from only a few feet away. A lot has happened to Kawakami, and now he is a family man. Rin will either wear the signature face-point of Kawakami's victims, or kill him and doom his son to grow up just like she did, living only for vengeance. Episodes 10-13.

Five Years on Mars
When NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity touched down on Mars in 2004, they weren't expected to last long: perhaps 90 days to six months at most. But a short-term science mission searching for evidence of water has turned into a five-year trek across miles of hostile plains, mountains, and deep craters. The rovers have survived dust storms and mechanical failures to explore vast reaches of Mars.

Legends of the Dark King: A Fist of the North Star Story
"In the wastelands following the great nuclear war, a legend grew of a man. Hokuto No Ken was a man of impossible strength and endurance. Yet before Ken claimed the title, there was another master, trained in the art of Hokuto Shinken, the King of the Fist, the Divine Fist of Heaven. Raoh, the ultimate assassin, the ultimate warrior" --Midwest Tape website.

M.D. Geist: Deathforce
The genetically engineered soldier, Geist-02, has been classified as too unstable and imprisoned aboard an orbital satellite. When his makers unleash a doomsday device that will destroy all life, Geist-02 must return to save the world that tried to destroy him.

National Geographic's Most Incredible Photos
Flip through the pages of any issue of the National Geographic magazine and see eye-opening and evocative images that are among the best published anywhere in the world. Yet even among these striking images, there are some that stand out. What really sets these photos apart are the stories behind them.

The Race
Mary, an 11-year-old girl from a poor rural community in Northern Ireland, has big dreams of becoming a racing driver. When the local rich big-wig decides to build a go-kart racetrack, Mary dares to compete in the male-dominated sport against the wishes of her parents, her school, and the community. With the help of her friend Tom, her perseverance will eventually win over the hearts of those who scorn her.

The Spy Next Door
Bob Ho is an undercover CIA superspy who decides to give up his career in espionage to settle down with his next-door neighbor and girlfriend, Gillian. But Bob has one more mission to complete before Gillian agrees to marry him; he has to win over her three opinionated kids. When Gillian suddenly has to leave town, Bob volunteers to babysit the children so he can earn their approval.