精牌特務(wù)：少女突擊隊(duì)

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.

毛骨悚然撞鬼經(jīng) 25周年特別篇

寫寫畫畫

　　立志成為漫畫家的高中生林明子，經(jīng)同學(xué)介紹來到一個(gè)奇怪的美術(shù)教室。這個(gè)教室沒有招牌也沒有宣傳，甚至在電話本上都查不到，只是一處坐落在海邊的小木屋。木屋主人是個(gè)手拿竹刀、身穿運(yùn)動(dòng)服的美術(shù)老師，名叫日高健三。他嚴(yán)厲無比，每次學(xué)生們畫畫懈怠的時(shí)候，他只有一句話：“去畫吧！”

總統(tǒng)班底

 根據(jù)水門事件揭發(fā)人Carl Bernstein和Bob Woodward所寫自傳改編的電影。二人是《華盛頓郵報(bào)》的記者，在水門事件里，他們歷盡艱辛揭開政治黑幕，人物和事件一同成為美國一段家喻戶曉的歷史。故事由五名盜賊開始，他們潛入水門大度行竊。本來是一樁不甚重大的刑事案件，卻在Bernstein（達(dá)斯汀·霍夫曼Dustin Hoffman 飾）和Woodward（羅伯特·雷德福Robert Redford  飾）的追查下，最終撕開了一條大裂縫，矛頭直指總統(tǒng)尼克松。從1972年到1974年，從尼克松競(jìng)選總統(tǒng)到尼克松連任上臺(tái)，華盛頓郵報(bào)受到的壓力越來越大，甚至被威脅。主編本·布萊德利站在了新聞自由和相信自己記者的這邊，Bernstein和Woodward得以繼續(xù)追尋事件真相，得到了重要線人“深喉”的幫助，經(jīng)歷了難以想象的曲折艱辛后，水門事件最終導(dǎo)致尼克松總統(tǒng)下臺(tái)。

月球叛軍：火之女

　　科幻史詩《REBEL MOON》由《斯巴達(dá) 300 勇士》《超人：鋼鐵之軀》和《亡者之師》的導(dǎo)演扎克·施奈德耗時(shí)數(shù)十年打造。當(dāng)宇宙最遙遠(yuǎn)的月球上的一個(gè)和平村落受到殘暴的 Regent Balisarius 的軍隊(duì)威脅時(shí)，住在村中的神秘陌生人 Kora（索菲亞·波多拉飾）成為了他們生存的最大希望。Kora 的任務(wù)是尋找訓(xùn)練有素的戰(zhàn)士，與她攜手一起對(duì)抗 Motherworld。Kora 召集了一小群戰(zhàn)士 — 來自不同世界的外來者、叛亂分子、農(nóng)民和戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)孤兒，他們有著共同的救贖和復(fù)仇需求。當(dāng)最讓人意想不到的衛(wèi)星被陰影籠罩時(shí)，一場(chǎng)關(guān)于星系命運(yùn)的戰(zhàn)斗開始了。在這個(gè)過程中，一支新的英雄軍隊(duì)組建成立。