Quick Flicks for the week 2/5/13

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2  By Oliva, Jay Voice by Weller, Peter Voice by Winter, Ariel 2013-01 - Warner Home Video 0883929252213 Check Our Catalog …More

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1  By Oliva, Jay Director Winter, Ariel Oliva Voice by Weller, Peter 2012-09 - Warner Home Video 0883929206131 Check Our Catalog …More

The Chicago 8  By Perry, Pinchas 2013-01 - Passion River Films 0091037407863 Check Our Catalog …More

The Cold Light of Day  By El Mechri, Mabrouk 2013-01 - Uni Dist Corp (Music) 0025192143564 Check Our Catalog Will Shaw (Henry Cavill) goes to Spain for a week long sailing vacation with his family but his whole world turns upside down when the family is kidnapped by intelligence agents hell-bent on recovering a mysterious briefcase and Will suddenly finds himself on the run. …More

Hotel Transylvania  By Tartakovsky, Genndy Director Gomez, Selena Voice by Sandler, Adam 2013-01 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396413733 Check Our Catalog Welcome to the Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's (Adam Sandler) lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula has invited some of the world's most famous monsters - Frankenstein and his bride, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, a family of werewolves, and more - to celebrate his daughter Mavis's 118th birthday. For Drac, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem - but his world could come crashing down when one ordinary guy stumbles on the hotel and takes a shine to Mavis. …More

George Lopez: It's Not Me It's You  By  2013-01 - HBO Home Video 0883929280537 Check Our Catalog …More

The Liability  By Viveiros, Craig 2013-01 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398162674 Check Our Catalog …More

Paranormal Activity 4  By Joost, Henry Director Schulman, Ariel 2013-01 - Paramount Home Video 0097363581345 Check Our Catalog When Katie disappeared with her nephew Hunter, there were no survivors. Five years later she's returned with a mysterious boy, ready to target new victims with her demonic rage. Now, a family's young daughter will capture every one of the terrifying occurrences, beginning with her new neighbors' arrival. …More

Seven Psychopaths  By McDonagh, Martin 2013-01 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396413160 Check Our Catalog A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.A screenwriter is drawn into a dog kidnapping scheme by his oddball friends. …More

Alex Cross  By Cohen, Rob 2013-02 - Universal 0025192177156 Check Our Catalog ALEX CROSS follows the young homicide detective/psychologist (Tyler Perry), from the worldwide best-selling novels by James Patterson, as he meets his match in a serial killer (Matthew Fox). The two face off in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, but when the mission gets personal, Cross is pushed to the edge of his moral and psychological limits in this taut and exciting action thriller. …More

Bangkok Assassins  By  2013-01 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398162872 Check Our Catalog …More

Celeste and Jesse Forever  By Krieger, Lee Toland 2013-02 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396414297 Check Our Catalog Celeste (Rashida Jones) and Jesse (Andy Samberg) met in high school, married young and are growing apart. Now thirty, Celeste is the driven owner of her own media consulting firm, Jesse is once again unemployed and in no particular rush to do anything with his life. Celeste is convinced that divorcing Jesse is the right thing to do -- she is on her way up, he is on his way nowhere, and if they do it now instead of later, they can remain supportive friends. Jesse passively accepts this transition into friendship, even though he is still in love with her. As the reality of their separation sets in, Celeste slowly and painfully realizes she has been cavalier about their relationship, and her decision, which once seemed mature and progressive, now seems impulsive and selfish. But her timing with Jesse is less than fortuitous. While navigating the turbulent changes in their lives and in their hearts, these two learn that in order to truly love someone, you may have to let them go. …More

Flight  By Zemeckis, Robert 2013-02 - Paramount Home Video 0097361700045 Check Our Catalog FLIGHT tells the redemption story of "Whip" (Washington), a commercial airline pilot who pulls off a heroic feat of flying in a damaged plane, saving 98 lives on a flight carrying 106 people. While the world begs to embrace him as a true American Hero, the everyman struggles with this label as he is forced to hold up to the scrutiny of an investigation that brings into question his behavior the night before the doomed flight. …More

Here Comes the Boom  By Coraci, Frank 2013-02 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396414358 Check Our Catalog In the comedy Here Comes the Boom, former collegiate wrester Scott Voss (Kevin James) is a 42-year-old apathetic biology teacher in a failing high school. When cutbacks threaten to cancel the music program and lay off its teacher (Henry Winkler, ) Scott begins to raise money by moonlighting as a mixed martial arts fighter. Everyone thinks Scott is crazy - most of all the school nurse, Bella (Salma Hayek) - but in his quest, Scott gains something he never expected as he becomes a sensation that rallies the entire school. …More

New Quick Flicks for the Week of January 22, 2013

Game Change By Roach, Jay 2013-01 - HBO Home Video 0883929251872 Check Our Catalog Game Change is a searing, behind- the-scenes look at John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, from the decision to select Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as McCain's running mate to the ticket's ultimate defeat in the general election just sixty days later. Told primarily through the eyes of senior McCain strategist Steve Schmidt, who originally championed Palin and later came to regret the choice, Game Change pulls back the curtain on the intense human drama surrounding the McCain team, the critical decisions made behind closed doors and how the choice was made to bring Palin on the ticket. The film examines how we choose our leaders by offering a unique glimpse into the inner workings of an historic campaign. …More

Betrayed at 17 By 2012-10 - Mti Home Video 0039414521740 Check Our Catalog …More

Crowsnest By Spencer, Brenton 2013-01 - MPI Home Video 0030306957890 Check Our Catalog …More

Nobody Walks By Russo-Young, Ry 2013-01 - Magnolia Pict Hm Ent 0876964005180 Check Our Catalog Peter (John Krasinski), a Hollywood sound designer, has agreed to help Martine (Olivia Thirlby) with her experimental art film as a favor to his wife (Rosemarie DeWitt). Martine, a beautiful and driven 23-year-old artist, comes to stay in the family's pool house at their posh Silver Lake home to work on her film. Her arrival ignites raw emotions and desires throughout the entire family, forcing everyone to confront the new landscape that emerges in her wake. …More

The Paperboy By Daniels, Lee 2013-01 - Millennium Media Services 0687797136992 Check Our Catalog A sexually and racially charged film noir from Oscar-nominated director Lee Daniels (Precious), The Paperboy takes audiences deep into the backwaters of steamy 1960s South Florida, as investigative reporter Ward Jansen (Matthew McConaughey) and his partner Yardley Acheman (David Oyelowo) chase a sensational, career-making story. With the help of Ward's younger brother Jack (Zac Efron) and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless (Nicole Kidman), the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter (John Cusack) was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff. Based on the provocative bestselling novel by Pete Dexter (Mulholland Falls, Rush), The Paperboy peels back a sleepy small town's decades-old facade of Southern gentility to reveal a quagmire of evil as dark as a Florida bayou …More

Stolen By West, Simon Director Akerman, Malin 2013-01 - Millennium Media Services 0687797138491 Check Our Catalog Director Simon West and Nicolas Cage team-up for the first time since the 1997 blockbuster CON AIR for STOLEN, a unique fast paced action thriller that takes place during 10 frantic hours on Mardi Gras day in New Orleans. …More

Quick Flicks for the week of 1/15/13

Farewell, My Queen By Jacquot, Benoit 2013-01 - E1 0741952738091 Check Our Catalog Farewell, My Queen marks the return of acclaimed director Benoit Jacquot and brilliantly captures the passions, debauchery, occasional glimpses of nobility and ultimately the chaos that engulfed the court of Marie Antoinette in the final days before the full-scale outbreak of the Revolution. Based on the best-selling novel by Chantal Thomas, the film stars Lea Seydoux as one of Marie's ladies-in-waiting, seemingly innocent but quietly working her way into her mistress's special favors, until history tosses her fate onto a decidedly different path. With the action moving effortlessly from the gilded drawing rooms of the nobles to the back quarters of those who serve them, this is a period film at once accurate and sumptuous in its visual details and modern in its emotions. Diane Kruger gives her best performance to date as the ill-fated Queen and Virginie Ledoyen is the Queen's special friend Gabrielle de Polignac. …More

Found Memories By Murat, Julia 2013-01 - Film Movement 0616892184065 Check Our Catalog Like every morning, Madalena makes bread for Antonio's old coffee shop. Like every day, she crosses the railways where no trains have passed for years; she cleans up the gate of the locked cemetery, and listens to the priest's sermon before sharing lunch with the other old villagers. Clinging to the image of her dead husband and living in her memories, Madalena is awakened by the arrival of Rita, a young photographer who is arriving in the ghost village of Jotuomba, where time seems to have stopped. A deep relationship is forged between the two women, which gradually builds to have a profound effect on both of their lives, as well as the rest of the villagers. …More

The Possession By Bornedal, OLE 2013-01 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398163794 Check Our Catalog Based on a true story, THE POSSESSION is the terrifying story of how one family must unite in order to survive the wrath of an unspeakable evil. Clyde (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Stephanie Brenek (Kyra Sedgwick) see little cause for alarm when their youngest daughter Em becomes oddly obsessed with an antique wooden box she purchased at a yard sale. But as Em's behavior becomes increasingly erratic, the couple fears the presence of a malevolent force in their midst, only to discover that the box was built to contain a dibbuk, a dislocated spirit that inhabits and ultimately devours its human host. …More

Taken 2 By Megaton, Olivier 2013-01 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543832898 Check Our Catalog Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, the retired CIA agent with a particular set of skills who stopped at nothing to save his daughter Kim from Albanian kidnappers. When the father of one of the kidnappers swears revenge, and takes Bryan and his wife hostage during their family vacation in Istanbul, Bryan enlists Kim to help them escape, and uses the same advanced level of special forces tactics to get his family to safety and systematically take out the kidnappers one by one. …More

To Rome with Love By Allen, Woody 2013-01 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396413603 Check Our Catalog TO ROME WITH LOVE is a kaleidoscopic comedy movie set in one of the world's most enchanting cities. The film brings us into contact with a well-known American architect reliving his youth; an average middle-class Roman who suddenly finds himself Rome's biggest celebrity; a young provincial couple drawn into separate romantic encounters; and an American opera director endeavoring to put a singing mortician on stage. …More

Won't Back Down By Barnz, Daniel 2013-01 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543828006 Check Our Catalog …More

Quick Flicks for the week of January 8th, 2013

Cosmopolis By Cronenberg, David 2013-01 - E1 0741952730095 Check Our Catalog Unfolding in a single cataclysmic day, the story follows Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson) - a 28-year old financial whiz kid and billionaire asset manager - as he heads out in his tricked-out stretch limo to get a haircut from his father's old barber, while remotely wagering his company's massive fortune on a bet against the Chinese Yuan. Packer's trip across the city quickly becomes dizzyingly hellish as he encounters explosive city riots, a parade of provocative visitors, and is thrust into a myriad of intimate encounters. Having started the day with everything, believing he is the future, Packer's perfectly ordered, doubt-free world is about to implode. …More

Dredd By Travis, Pete Director Thirlby, Olivia 2013-01 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment 0031398163732 Check Our Catalog In the future, catastrophic wars have transformed Earth into a barren wasteland with the remaining population crowded into megacities, where all-powerful cops -- including the ultraviolent Judge Dredd -- are on the hunt for drug-dealing terrorists. …More

Even the Rain By Bernal, Gael Garcia Director Bollain, Iciar 2012-11 - Image/Sphe 0014381815825 Check Our Catalog SPA Idealistic filmmaker Sebastian (Gael Garcia Bernal, The Motorcycle Diaries) and his cynical producer Costa (Luis Tosar, The Limits of Control) arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about Christopher Columbus' conquest of the Americas. But as filming commences, the local citizens begin to riot in protest against a multi-national corporation that is taking control of their water supply. With the film shoot in jeopardy, both men find their convictions shaken. Inspired by the real-life Water Wars in Bolivia in the year 2000, EVEN THE RAIN explores the lasting effects of Spanish imperialism, still resonating some 500 years later in the continued struggle of indigenous people against oppression and exploitation. …More

Frankenweenie By Burton, Tim Voice by Ryder, Winona Voice by Capron, Robert 2013-01 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment 0786936814149 Check Our Catalog Frankenweenie is a heartwarming tale about a boy and his dog. After unexpectedly losing his beloved dog Sparky, young Victor harnesses the power of science to bring his best friend back to life--with just a few minor adjustments. He tries to hide his home-sewn creation, but when Sparky gets out, Victor's fellow students, teachers and the entire town all learn that getting a new "leash on life" can be monstrous. …More

House at the End of the Street By Tonderai, Mark 2013-01 - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543816829 Check Our Catalog Seeking a fresh start, newly divorced Sarah (Elisabeth Shue) and her daughter Elissa (Jennifer Lawrence) find the house of their dreams in a small, upscale, rural town. But when startling and unexplainable events begin to happen, Sarah and Elissa learn the town is in the shadows of a chilling secret. Years earlier, in the house next door, a daughter killed her parents in their beds, and disappeared - leaving only a brother, Ryan (Max Thieriot), as the sole survivor. Against Sarah's wishes, Elissa begins a relationship with the reclusive Ryan - and the closer they get, the deeper they're all pulled into a mystery more dangerous than they ever imagined. …More

Looper By Johnson, Rian 2012-12 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396413511 Check Our Catalog In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented – but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a "looper" – a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good... until the day the mob decides to "close the loop," sending back Joe's future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination. …More

Samsara By Fricke, Ron 2013-01 - MPI Home Video 0030306733999 Check Our Catalog Prepare yourself for an unparalleled sensory experience. SAMSARA reunites filmmakers Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson, whose award-winning films BARAKA and CHRONOS brought a new visual and musical artistry to theaters. …More