前辈的女朋友

　　在父亲的生日宴会上，一面镜子的突然碎裂让吉娜（琳娜·海蒂 Lena Headey 饰）和众人感到了深深的不安。第二天，吉娜来到工作的医院，却被告知就在不久之前自己刚刚离开了医院。对于这一异象，吉娜只以为是同事眼花，但之后发生的事情却让她再也无法保持平静——无论是大街上正在行驶的红色越野车，还是车中所坐的女子，皆和吉娜完全相同。　　无法控制自己好奇心的吉娜尾随女子来到了一幢公寓，过后，吉娜遭遇了惨烈的车祸。为了疗伤，吉娜开始和男友斯蒂芬（梅尔维尔·珀波 Melvil Poupaud 饰）同居，她将她的所见所闻告知了男友，后者却认为她不过是脑部受到了创伤，吉娜陷入了无尽的恐惧和怀疑之中。

　　背景设定在马萨诸塞州塞勒姆镇，当一个破坏分子开始在网上发布小镇里每个人的私人生活细节，将小镇生活搅得天翻地覆后，一个精通社交媒体的高中学生和她的朋友们等待着观察最终结果。 浏览器历史记录、私信、非法下载、秘密文本链甚至更加糟糕的因素，造成了数字时代能够发生的最糟糕的情况。

 电影改编自1957年的百老汇音乐剧，讲述了20世纪50年代纽约街头的“喷气机帮(Jet)”和 “鲨鱼帮(Sharks)”之间的争斗，以及分属不同帮派的“苦命鸳鸯”托尼（安塞尔·埃尔格特 饰）和玛丽亚（瑞秋·齐格勒 饰）的爱情。

 以《返家十万里》扬名的导演卡罗尔·巴拉德一鸣惊人之作。以戏剧化的抒情风格描述一名男孩在船难中跟黑神驹同时漂流到荒岛上，人与马建立了两位一体的非凡感情。后来他们获救重回人类社会，巧遇老牌马术教练，乃被训练成出色的赛马和小小年纪的骑师，在一次比赛中获得冠军。全片的摄影极为优美动人，尤其当时的童星凯利·里诺在沙滩上跟黑神驹玩耍的场面，在视听效果上呈现出大自然之美的极至。米基·鲁尼饰演的驯马师在片中也占有重要地位，一老一少和马之间的三角互动关系爆发出感人的火花，堪称同类影片中的一流代表作。

　　保护地球、维护和平，奥特曼对于地球人来说曾经是神一样的存在，但是近几十年，他却消失不见行踪成谜……随之取替他的是钢铁飞龙精锐小分队——隶属于GSB地球安全保卫组织。而GSB近期不断收到地球能源异常报告，全球各地纷纷出现巨大灾难。GSB组织派出钢铁飞龙，查明能源异常原因，却意外发现事件与奥特曼有关系……新旧两代地球守护者的意外相见，却成为你死我活的敌对双方。到底，这是一场意外还是一场阴谋，是谁看到了最后的事实真相？

　　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.