圣劍屠魔

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.

阿提克斯研究所

　　20世紀(jì)50、60年代，亨利·韋斯特博士（威廉·麥鮑瑟 William Mapother 飾）創(chuàng)建了靈學(xué)實(shí)驗(yàn)室阿提克斯研究所，針對(duì)超能力、透視、讀心術(shù)、隔空取物等邊緣學(xué)科展開研究。雖然遭遇了無數(shù)的挫折與嘲笑，但是韋斯特博士仍堅(jiān)持不懈朝著目標(biāo)前進(jìn)。1975年，他的實(shí)驗(yàn)室因某起騙局而被迫關(guān)閉，就在此時(shí)一個(gè)略顯神經(jīng)質(zhì)的女人朱迪思·溫斯黛德（萊亞·吉斯特德 Rya Kihlstedt 飾）被送到實(shí)驗(yàn)室。她之前因傷而擁有了超能力，而其看似貨真價(jià)實(shí)的超能力迅速令見多識(shí)廣的科學(xué)家們大為折服。在這一過程中，朱迪思的能力不斷加強(qiáng)，甚至已經(jīng)到了失控的程度。　　這已遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)超出了超能力的范疇，謎團(tuán)背后惡魔的身影時(shí)隱時(shí)現(xiàn)……

富貴再逼人

　　在報(bào)館任職的驃叔（董驃 飾）因?yàn)楣ぷ鞯年P(guān)系帶著全家到加拿大工作。一家五口都全身心投入新環(huán)境新生活中，驃叔卻因得罪上司被解雇了。由于大女兒、二女兒（李麗珍 飾）已開始了學(xué)業(yè)，他唯有帶著妻子驃嬸（沈殿霞 飾）與最小的女兒回到香港繼續(xù)生活，生活卻比以前更艱難了。驃嬸無意中發(fā)現(xiàn)了一張加拿大的頭獎(jiǎng)彩票，獎(jiǎng)金是兩千萬加幣。　　由于不夠錢到加國，驃叔硬著頭皮向舊上司借。同樣受到經(jīng)濟(jì)危機(jī)的上司設(shè)法要奪取驃叔的彩票。驃叔一家頑強(qiáng)對(duì)抗，保住了彩票，卻無法在領(lǐng)獎(jiǎng)時(shí)限截止前趕到。　　一家人傷心流淚，悲傷之中發(fā)現(xiàn)時(shí)間上出現(xiàn)了時(shí)差，領(lǐng)獎(jiǎng)的時(shí)間還沒截止。

老板和小可愛

情婦

　　Newlyweds move into their dream home where they discover a collection of 100-year-old letters from a young woman who committed suicide after being abandoned by the owner of the home.

魔法壞女巫2

　　自從艾芙芭（辛西婭·埃里沃 飾）與格琳達(dá)（愛莉安娜·格蘭德 飾）分道揚(yáng)鑣、形同陌路之后，各自承受她們做出的抉擇所帶來的后果。　　被冠上“西方壞女巫”惡名的艾芙芭遭到放逐后，隱居在奧茲國樹林深處，但是卻仍然為被噤聲的動(dòng)物爭取自由而奮斗，并且迫切地想要揭露她所知道關(guān)于奧茲國大巫師（杰夫· 高布倫 飾）的真相。　　與此同時(shí)，格琳達(dá)已經(jīng)成為奧茲國光鮮亮麗的良善象征，她住在翡翠城皇宮中， 享受她的響亮名聲和超高人氣所帶來的明星光環(huán)與特權(quán)。在莫里貝爾夫人（楊紫瓊 飾）的安排下，格琳達(dá)成為奧茲國人民眼中充滿粉紅泡泡的安撫力量，并且讓他們相信奧茲國在大巫師的統(tǒng)治之下一切都很好。　　當(dāng)格琳達(dá)的明星光環(huán)越來越閃亮，她也準(zhǔn)備和費(fèi)耶羅王子（喬納森·貝利 飾）舉行一場盛大的婚禮，但是她卻一直受到她和艾芙芭分開后的陰影所糾纏。她試圖促成艾芙芭與大巫師之間的和解，然而她所有的努力都以失敗告終，使得艾芙芭和格琳達(dá)的關(guān)系越來越疏遠(yuǎn)。她們的關(guān)系決裂所造成的影響，將徹底改變博克（伊森·斯萊特 飾）與費(fèi)耶羅的命運(yùn)，也將威脅到艾芙芭的妹妹涅莎蘿絲（瑪麗莎·博德 飾）的安危，而一名來自堪薩斯州的少女也將闖入奧茲國，徹底翻轉(zhuǎn)他們的世界。　　當(dāng)一群憤怒的民眾揭竿而起，打算對(duì)抗西方壞女巫，格琳達(dá)和艾芙芭就必須最后一次攜手合作。當(dāng)她們的友情成為改變她們未來的關(guān)鍵，她們就必須以真心誠意和無比的同理心真正了解彼此，并且改變自己，也讓整個(gè)奧茲國變得更美好。

讓她走

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