Michael's Movies: Movies

2024-04-14 The Host (2006) imdb.com

Director: Bong Joon-ho
Synopsis: A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.
Cast: Song Kang-ho as Park Gang-du, Byun Hee-bong as Park Hie-bong, Park Hae-il as Park Nam-il, Bae Doona as Park Nam-joo, Go A-sung as Park Hyun-seo
Links
Film
themoviedb.org
meanstate.com
rogerebert.com

The Monster

Park Hyun-seo, Park Hie-bong	Park Hie-bong, Park Nam-il, Park Gang-du	Park Gang-du	Park Nam-joo

	Park Hyun-seo	Ko Ah-sung	Park Nam-il	Park Hie-bong

2022-05-11 Fireworks Wednesday (2006) imdb.com

Director: Asghar Farhadi
Synopsis: Rouhi, a young bride-to-be, is hired as a maid for an affluent family in Tehran. Upon arriving, she is suddenly thrust into an explosive domestic conflict. The wife is convinced her husband is having an affair and enlists Rouhi as a spy, to follow her husband, and confirm her suspicions. What Rouhi discovers, however, threatens not only their marriage but her own future.
Cast: Tarane Alidousti as Roohi, Houman Seyyedi as Abdolreza (Roohi's fiance), Hamid Farrokhnejad as Morteza, Hedie Tehrani as Mozhde Samiei, Pantea Bahram as Simin, Matin Heydarnia as Amir ali, Sahar Dolatshahi as Mozhde's sister
Links
Film
Chaharshanbe Suri
themoviedb.org
rogerebert.com
slantmagazine.com
variety.com

Roohi, Abdolreza (Roohi's fiance)	Roohi		Roohi, Mozhde	Roohi

Mozhde			Mozhde, Morteza

Simin	Roohi	Roohi, Mozhde, her sister	Roohi, Mozhde, Morteza, their son	Roohi, Morteza, his son

2016-05-03 Idiocracy (2006) imdb.com

Director: Mike Judge
Synopsis: Mike Judge wrote and directed this offbeat sci-fi comedy which gives a new meaning to the expression "people are getting dumber all the time." In 2005, Pvt. Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson) is a soldier chosen to take part in a secret military scientific experiment in which he will be put into induced hibernation for one year, along with a woman named Rita (Maya Rudolph). Bowers is chosen for the assignment because he is statistically the most average man in the Army, while Rita is a hooker ordered to do some community service; however, Bowers and Rita are forgotten when the military base where the experiment took place is closed down, and when they wake up in the year 2505, Bowers finds himself living in a society where intelligence has taken such a landslide he's now the smartest man in the world. Can Bowers save America from its own remarkable stupidity, and he can he get the dunderheads around him to believe what he says? Produced under the title 3001, Idiocracy also stars Dax Shepard as Bowers's numb-skull lawyer, Stephen Root as a judge, and Terry Crews as Camacho, a former porn star and professional wrestler who is now president of the United States. - By Mark Deming
Cast: Luke Wilson as Pvt. Joe Bauers, Maya Rudolph as Rita, Dax Shepard as Frito, Terry Crews as President Camacho
Links
wiki
rottentomatoes.com
dvd.netflix.com
Reihan Salam
Josh Tyler
Ann Hornaday
Robert Koehler
sergioleoneifr.blogspot.com
The Creators of Idiocracy Want to Make Camacho Ads to Parody Trump
Youtube. Pres.Camacho's speech

2014-05-03 London to Brighton (2006) imdb.com

Director: Paul Andrew Williams
Synopsis: London to Brighton marks writer/director Paul Andrew Williams' debut feature. Made in the tradition of such contemporary British crime dramas as Get Carter and Snatch, and adapted from Williams' celebrated short film Royalty, the picture opens with two women on the lam: middle-aged hooker Kelly (Lorraine Stanley), whose battered face discloses a recent thrashing, and the preteen Joanne (Georgia Groome). While the two board a train bound from London to Brighton in the middle of the night, the vile thug Stuart Allen (Sam Spruell) orders Kelly's pimp, Derek, to deliver the two women within 24 hours. Kelly, it seems, originally supplied Derek (Johnny Harris) with runaway Joanne to satisfy the request of a client, Duncan (Alexander Morton), for underage girls. Duncan later turned up dead, and now Kelly is a prime suspect. Nathan Constance and David Keeling co-star. - By Nathan Southern
Cast: Lorraine Stanley as Kelly, Johnny Harris as Derek, Sam Spruell as Stuart, Georgia Groome as Joanne, Alexander Morton as Duncan, Nathan Constance as Chum
Links
en.wikipedia.org
rottentomatoes.com
David Fear
Philip Marchand
Kyle Smith
David Fear
Derek Elley

Joanne in the toilet	Kelly in the train London-Brighton	Joanne, Kelly in the train	Stuart orders Derek to find the girls	Joanne at the beach	Derek orders Kelly to find a girl

Kelly approaches the begging Joanne	Kelly, Joanne at the beach	Kelly, Joanne at gangster Duncan's house	Duncan stabbed	Stuart shooting the pimps	Stuart with Joanne shooting Derek

Pimps shot	Pimps buried	Stuart with his stabbed father	Joanne, Kelly crying	Kelly brings Joanne to her grandmother	Kelly leaving

2012-04-13 The Departed (2006) imdb.com

Martin Scorsese
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R.Ebert
J.Berardinelli
brandonfibbs.com
Leonardo DiCaprio as Billy, Matt Damon as Colin Sullivan, Jack Nicholson as Frank Costello, Vera Farmiga as Madolyn

Colin		Colin, Madolyn	Madolyn

Billy, Frank		Colin, Billy

2010-10-31 Peter & the Wolf (2006) imdb.com

Suzie Templeton
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suzietempleton.com

2010-03-27 Lady Chatterley (2006) imdb.com

Pascale Ferran
R.Ebert
Peter Bradshaw
salon.com
Marina Hands as Constance, Jean-Louis Coullo'ch as Parkin, Hippolyte Girardot as Sir Clifford Chatterley