On Demand Weekly

New Films on VOD for the Week of May 17

Valentine’s Day

An All-Star cast of hot young Hollywood come together as storylines weave together forming a perfect heart for Cupid’s arrow to land.  Same Day as DVD.

Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Patrick Dempsey, Bradley Cooper, Ashton Kutcher. PG-13 / 125 minutes / Available 5/18

Invitctus

The Movies On Demand (MOD) July preview has arrived. Highlights of the new release schedule of Independent films for July, 2011 include two infamous “road trip” documentaries: MAGIC TRIP about the famed author Ken Kesey’s legendary psychedelic bus trip and CONAN O’BRIEN CAN’T STOP, O’Brien’s 32-city comedy tour after he was fired from "The Tonight Show." Cable viewers can catch many of these before or same day they hit theaters or DVD.

On Demand Weekly provides new movie reviews of movies on demand from the POV of watching from the comfort of your home. Today’s review: FLYPAPER (IFC Films).

FLYPAPER - On Demand
By Amy Slotnick

FLYPAPER is a hybrid that combines the heist film genre with comedy, in which two teams of bank robbers descend on the same bank at the same time, while the bank’s security system is down for several hours of upgrade.

The bank robbing teams are opposites - one is a group of sleek, seasoned criminals with the equipment and experience to do the job, and the other is a pair of hillbillies who lack any clue as to what they are doing. The two groups resolve to work together and share the hostages, who include Patrick Dempsey as a charismatic savant, and Ashley Judd, as a practical and beautiful bank teller.

As people begin to be mysteriously killed, Dempsey’s character pieces together that another burglar with his/her own agenda exists among them. Like in an Agatha Christie story, he is able to solve the whodunit by process of elimination. However the plot has some holes and lacks suspense and believability.