Synopsis

A Danish ship is stuck in the ice trying to reach the North Pole when the crew finds a wounded man. Pursued by a being with super human strength they take him back to the ship. While recovering the man, revealed to be Victor Frankenstein, tells his tale.

Frankenstein grew up in France as the son of surgeon and his wife in an unhappy marriage. Closer to his mother than his father, he becomes obsessed with surpassing his father as a surgeon when his mother dies while giving birth to his brother William swearing to conquer death.

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A village woman, Juliette marries a barge skipper Jean and joins him and his crew as they travel the rivers of France on the barge L'Atalante.

While initially idyllic, tension with the rest of the crew starts, especially with Père Jules, an older eccentric sailor who have travlled the world and loves cats. Juliette softens up to Père when she discovers his softer and funnier side, but despite there being no question of romance, Jean loses his temperament when he finds her in Père’s cabin and wrecks it.

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A former prostitute moves to Rome with her teenage son after her pimp marries. In Rome she fights to make a man out of her son, but when he learns of her past he reverts to become a thieving thug.

When he is caught stealing in a hospital he is send to prison where he dies from a fever causing his mother indescribable grief.

Impression

Anna Magnani is extremely powerful and almost steals the film, however the son, played by an amateur, is also great. The film is a strong portrayal of love and devotion of a mother and the folly and fickleness of youth.

Synopsis

A famous actress have trouble finding love until she meets a dashing man who is perfect apart from being married and unable to get a divorce. After an intence romance, Anna, the actress finds out the he is actually not married, he just says he is to avoid the question coming up so he can continue to enjoy the bachelor life. In a rage she sets up an elaborate ruse where she will pretend that she has another lover, however the whole things falls apart, but in the end all is revealed and they live happily ever after.

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Ingrid Bergman plays a woman who in postwar Italy marries an Italian soldier to escape an internment camp.

Together they travel to his native vulcanic island of Stromboli. On Stromboli, life is harsh and the local conservative population does not accept a sophisticated modern foreign woman amongst them.

As she becomes increasingly unhappy, she tries to find solace in the priest and light house keeper. The priest seeks only to save her soul, but the light house keeper returns her flirtations, to the humiliation of her husband who reacts violently.

Synopsis

The film is framed as a story told by a grandfather to his sick grandson.

A young man, Westley, leaves his sweetheart Buttercup, to seek his fortune so he can marry her. When he is presumed killed by the Dread Pirate Roberts, Buttercup is devastated. Five years later she is to marry the prince of the land Humperdink, though she does not love him.

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Past her initial bloom Anne Elliot lives with her vain and selfabsorbed father and older sister Elizabeth and Lady Russel, a distant friend of the family who Anne sees as second mother after the death of her own.

7 years earlier persuaded by her family she broke off the engagement with the handsome and clever, but poor Captain Wentworth.

When her father falls on bad times and is forced to rent out his family home to the brother in law of Captain Wentworth, Admiral Croft, Anne is forced into his social circles by association with her younger sister who has married into the respect Musgrove family.

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Paul Fennyfeather is sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour (undeserved) and gets a job as a school master at a sub standard private school Llanabba Castle.

While at the school he meets several characters, such as Grimes who is always in the soup, Prendergast, a former clergyman who started having doubts, Philbrick who seems to have a different alter ego for everybody he meets and the headmaster Fagan.

Synopsis

Dr Kimble (Harrison Ford) is framed for the murder of his wife and sentenced to death. While being transported to prison, he escapes and goes on the search for his wife’s killers while being hunted by Tommy Lee Jones.

Impression

This is Harrison Ford when he’s best - a rugged intellectual hero against the world.
The movie have some extremely memoriable scenes such as when he jumps from the dam, the one armed killer and St Patrick Day’s parade. Outside of Ford’s most famous roles such as Han Solo, Deckard and Indiana Jones, I think this must be one of my favourite films of his.

Synopsis

Dillinger Systems (very evil) lead by Julian Dillinger and rival fun guys ENCOM (very good) headed by Eve Kim are looking to bring digital entities into the real world, however for reasons never fully explained the lifespan of these entities are only 29 minutes before they suffer an agonising death and are returned to their digital existence.
Kim searches Flynn’s old systems for the permenance code, snippets of software that will allow digital entities to exist beyond the 29 minute limit, while ENCOM’s ambitions seems driven by altuistic motives such as solving food shortages, Dillinger Systems desires the permenance code for a different reason: Digital super soldiers.
The Master Control of the super soldiers is is Ares (played by Jared Leto) who is sent to get the code from Kim. However Ares have a fatal flaw: Emotions, and when Julian orders him to kill Kim to get the code, he switches sides. His second in command Athena gets promoted to Master Control and lacking the scruples of her predecessor goes at it with a gusto that suprises even her creator.