赤裸的謊言

界障

康納·馬什與他的狗桑迪過著隱居生活，直到有一天他開始玩一款新的、尖端的電腦游戲——OBEX。當桑迪失蹤后，現實與游戲之間的界限開始模糊，康納不得不踏入OBEX這個奇異的世界，去把她帶回家。

毛骨悚然撞鬼經25周年特別篇

我的珍寶

　　帕特里克（讓·雷諾 Jean Reno 飾）是一名藝術品大盜，在偷竊珍貴的小提琴斯特拉迪瓦里的時候，帕特里克遭到了同伴羅曼（）的陷害，不僅顆粒無收還險些喪命。帕特里開隱居了起來，發誓要從羅曼的身上奪回屬于自己的東西?！　∨撂乩锟嗽O計將自己的兩個女兒卡羅爾（法米克·詹森 Famke Janssen 飾）和卡洛琳（麗姆·柯里奇 Reem Kherici 飾）召回到了自己的身邊，身為一名父親，他缺失了兩個女孩的童年，如今，帕特里克希望能有補救他們父女關系的機會。剛開始，兩個姑娘對帕特里克特殊的職業和訴求嗤之以鼻，但隨著時間的推移，婦女三人之間的感情漸漸回溫。

霹靂大喇叭

　　陳文俊（洪金寶 飾）和張定其（張學友 飾）只是警隊中的無名小卒，卻在機緣巧合之下被指派到神探（姜大衛 飾）手下助其偵破“千面人”之案。沒想到，一場意外中神探不幸喪生，可是，心愿未了的他顯然不愿就此歸去，而是化為冤魂，纏上了陳文俊和張定其兩人，要他們破案為自己報仇?！　∩裉酵{陳文俊，若不幫他報仇，就要破壞他和女友喬娜（王祖賢 飾）之間的姻緣。經不住神探的死纏爛打和卑鄙威脅，個性膽小怕事的陳文俊只能答應下來。就這樣，陳文俊和張定其開始了對案件的追查，在神探的暗中幫助下，他們最終將罪犯捉拿歸案，陳文俊和喬娜亦有情人終成眷屬。

等待方舟

　　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.