Flick Picks 10/8

New This Week!

ENTERTAINMENT: This week's new releases will blow your mind and your speakers. Prometheus was one of the most talked about and controversial movies of the summer. A prequel to the Alien franchise, Prometheus follows a group of space explorers as they attempt to find the origins of humanity. Director Ridley Scott has created a visually stunning film that is available on DVD and Blu-ray. If sci-fi is not your cup of tea you might enjoy Rock of Ages, based on the rock and roll stage show. Tom Cruise leads and all-star cast in a film that works in a bit of plot in-between extravagant recreations of hair metal classics.

Also available this week is The Raven, starring John Cusack in a fictionalized account of Edgar Allan Poe as a murder investigator. The Giant Mechanical Man is a charming indie love story starring The Office's Jenna Fischer as a a woman who falls in love with a street performer and struggles to make the relationship work and overcome her meddling sister. Finally, if you're an animation fan or francophile you'll want to see A Cat in Paris, a beautiful hand-drawn film that earned an Oscar nomination for best animated feature.

SERIES: Our sole tv release this week is the seventh season of the long-running forensic investigator show Bones.

You can find all of our new releases in our Bibliocommons catalog.

It's Opera Season!

We've been anxiously tapping our toes, playing our cds and waiting for the new season of Lyric Opera. And now it's finally here! But if you can't make a show, need a refresher or want an encore then we offer DVD performances of most of the shows. Here's the list:

Elektra
Simon Boccanegra
Werther
Don Pasquale
Hansel and Gretel
La Boheme
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Rigoletto
A Streetcar Named Desire
Oklahoma!

Monday at the Movies
The Kid With a Bike is the story of a troubled 11-year old boy, abandoned by his father, whose search for his stolen bike brings him into the life of a kind hairdresser. It was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. We'll be showing The Kid With a Bike on October 15th at 1:00 and 7:00 at the Women's Library Club at 325 Tudor Court.