Mike’s Movie Blog

Movie Plot Summary: Elisabeth tires of her husband Rolf, so she packs her bags, takes the kids and goes to her brother Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune are people between the ages of 25 and 35, along with their children. It is there where most of the film takes place, and there where things happen that affect not only the extended family members, but a few more…

Movie Plot Summary: A man and his wife are having a holiday alone in their country house. The husband takes long rides on his bike while his wife is doing groceries and preparing meals. During a hike together, the woman is close to pushing her husband off a cliff, but eventually doesn’t do it. Then they go home and play Scrabble, and the words couple, cheating or conflict are displayed. Eventually, they go to a cemetary and mourn over a grave without a name on it. The couple seems reunited.

Movie Plot Summary: Two drag-queens (Anthony/Mitzi and Adam/Felicia) and a transexual (Bernadette) contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert. They head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla. En route, it is discovered that the woman they’ve contracted with is Anthony’s wife. Their bus breaks down, and is repaired by Bob, who travels on with them.

Movie Plot Summary: In Paris, the executive Bernard (Gérard Depardieu) and his wife, the gynecologist Catherine (Fanny Ardant), form a bored upper class middle aged bourgeois couple. They have been married for many years and their life does not have sexual desire anymore. One day, Catherine listens to the message box of his cell phone and she believes Bernard is unfaithful to her. Catherine hires the beautiful prostitute Marlene (Emmanuelle Béart) to pretend to be a young woman called Nathalie, seduce and investigate the sex life of Bernard and report to her his secrets and performance between walls. Catherine discloses a surprising revelation in the end.

Movie Plot Summary: Fortress explores a shocking concept which shows how easily a borderline between a victim and an attacker can be crossed. The children and the teacher, calm and peaceful by nature, when driven beyond their limits by the kidnappers, eventually respond with a cruelty and fury extending that of their oppressors.

Movie Plot Summary: This scene is laid in a prominent private park and opens by depicting the belated Jones returning from his club, clad in a dress suit, smoking a cigar, and armed with an inexhaustible whiskey bottle. Jones’ house is shown in the background, but Jones himself, after traveling waist deep through the snow in the opposite direction from his home, finally becomes bewildered and leans against a tree, the expression on his face alternating between happiness and disgust. A friendly policeman appears and endeavors to start Jones off in the right direction; an argument follows, which ends with Jones knocking off the policeman’s hat and pitching him head first into a neighboring snowdrift. Jones now dons the policeman’s helmet, appropriates his club, then makes an attempt to arrest the worthy officer of the law. The picture finally ends by Jones being rolled in the snow.

Movie Plot Summary: During World War 2, a small plane off the south coast of America is low on fuel and blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crashland on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The easily-spooked manservant soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies and ghosts. Exploring, the 3 find a voodoo ritual in the cellar, where the doctor is trying to acquire war intelligence by transferring personalities into his zombies. But the interruption causes the zombies to turn on their creator.

Movie Plot Summary: Lacey Cole, a beautiful young widow living in an isolated cabin in the forest of the great American Northwest, is forced to fight for her very survival when she lets a stranger into her life. Michael Bodine, a serial killer and demented genius with bizarre psychic powers takes on the personality of Lacey’s dead husband, lulling her into a state of open trust and romancs. When Michael reveals his true identity, a life and death struggle begins, pitting Lacey’s ingenuity against a consummate evil genius.

Movie Plot Summary: We all know forensics makes good TV-but does it make good science? Stricter legal standards, combined with the advent of DNA analysis, have exposed the shaky scientific foundations of a number of forensic techniques. NGC takes a hard look at some of the most venerable forensic disciplines, fire investigation and firearms analysis, and asks whether the methods that make such good TV also make good science.

Movie Plot Summary: A series of interconnecting relationships involve cynical would-be writer Mark, jaded thespian Elizabeth, introverted Nick, the object of his voyeuristic obsession Kate, and seemingly untouchable Brad, a misogynist harboring some troubling secrets.