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　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.

 改编自赛珍珠的普立兹奖小说，是好莱坞在三十年代开始注意东方题材的代表性作品。影片虽是描写中国农村夫妇的悲剧故事，但主角均由美国人扮演，导演悉尼．弗兰克林也采取西方古典电影的风格来处理，在制作上相当严谨认真。剧情描写保罗．茂尼与路易丝．莱娜本来是贫困的农民，面对饥荒的威胁甚至以烤土充饥。后来茂尼得到了一笔财富，竟整天花天酒地迷恋情妇，莱娜只有发挥贤妻的耐性期待丈夫浪子回头。今天看来类似故事已显得老套，但本片的拍摄与特技表现杰出，路易丝．莱娜亦获得奥斯卡最佳女主角奖。

　　Korea’s most intimidating actor, Heo Sung-tae (Squid Game), stars as Detective Oh Nam-hyuk—a well-meaning but spectacularly inept cop clinging to his badge by a thread. When a botched sting operation lands him in over his head, he’s forced into an unlikely partnership with Tae-bong (Jo Bok-rae), a razor-sharp informant whose cover (and savings) are blown by Nam-hyuk’s bumbling. With a smuggling ring to bust, a fortune to recover, and zero trust between them, the mismatched duo must navigate double-crosses, blown covers, spectacularly stupid raids, and bruised egos.

内布拉斯加州，1991年，两个最好的朋友有机会经营游泳池小吃店，后来成为越轨、娱乐、个人发现和浪漫的完美场景。

　　在新奥尔良的街道上，关于神秘新药丸的消息开始传播开来，这种药丸可以解锁每位使用者独特的超能力。但问题是：在服用之前，没人知道用药后会发生什么。一些人会进化出防弹皮肤、隐形能力和超强力量，也有很多人会表现出更致命的反应。但是，当药丸使城市内的犯罪升级到危险水平时，当地警察（约瑟夫·高登-莱维特饰）与一名少女小贩（多米尼克·菲什巴克饰）和誓报私仇的退伍士兵（杰米·福克斯饰）联手以硬碰硬，他们冒着服用药丸的风险，以追踪并制止制造出该药丸的团队。

 性格孤僻、不近人情的小说家欧姆·鲍曼（亚当·斯科特 饰）带着父母骨灰，来到偏远阴郁的爱尔兰乡间，重返父母曾经最幸福的地方。他入住父母当年度蜜月的古老旅馆，却被旅馆员工告知，这间旅馆流传着一则禁忌传说，有一位古老女巫，长期徘徊在“蜜月套房”，而那间套房早就被封锁并列为禁区，所有人都被警告绝对不能靠近。起初，欧姆对此不以为意，但当旅馆出现离奇失踪事件，他也逐渐产生诡异幻觉，仿佛那个传说正渗入他的思绪，将他一步步拖入潜伏着超自然能量的噩梦深渊……