新金瓶梅第四卷

白山英雄漢

 抗日戰爭時期，在林海雪原中活躍著一個《山雪》小戲班。機智英勇的侯星、二妞和大狗在抗聯和地下黨的領導下，配合抗聯勇斗敵頑，智取秘密軍事布署圖，粉碎了日本侵略者的討伐陰謀。

失控2018

　　李·佩斯出演美國傳奇汽車公司德勞瑞恩的創始人——天才汽車設計師約翰·德勞瑞恩，影片設定在1980年代，德勞瑞恩創建還沒幾年，正在崛起，聚焦約翰和蘇戴奇斯飾演的Jim Hoffman的關系。Hoffman看似有趣迷人，其實他是一名前詐騙犯，現在為FBI工作，他來約翰這里當臥底，想要控告其販毒。兩人建立的一段有趣的bromance也很快急轉直下，行差踏錯。

瑪麗·弗朗辛

　　瑪莉·法蘭辛遭到丈夫拋棄，工作也丟了。被迫在50歲這年，搬去和父母同住。他們把她當作小孩，還幫她開了一家電子煙店讓她管理。在那里，她邂逅了米格爾，是一名大廚，和她有相似遭遇卻不敢承認。邁入中年后，要保有年輕的心相當不容易，但瑪莉·法蘭辛證明了50歲也能活出新人生。

木乃伊2023

大偵探對大明星

　　還記得《阿甘正傳》一片中，阿甘與美國總統握手的電影特效嗎？其栩栩如生的效果，曾在全世界引起了一陣風潮。其實早在此片之前，導演Carl Reiner就曾經嘗試將當代喜劇演員們的演出、與過去知名演員演出的老片，剪接在一起。因此造就了這今天所說的部創意十足的爆笑喜劇片《大偵探對大明星(Dead Men Don''t Wear Plaid)》。　　此片可說是對40年代的偵探電影致敬的作品，由Steve Martin與導演Carl Reiner共同編寫，史蒂夫．馬丁飾演一名私家偵探，受命調查一名科學家的死亡真相 ，但是在調查的過程中，他遇上了一大群稀奇古怪的嫌疑犯……　　為了與那些經典老片中的影像片段剪接在一起，全片采黑白兩色拍攝，如此片中新舊兩代的演員，才能天衣無縫的連接在一起。影片利用巧妙的剪接和導演技巧，把好萊塢大明星集體搬上銀幕，加以戲謔逗笑，對影迷而言實在是一種無上的娛樂。《刺鳥》女主角雷切爾·沃德，在片中扮演一名性感的客戶。

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.