步步杀机

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.

我最特别的朋友

真正的友情从无关身份，而是两个迷茫的灵魂恰好相互照亮。生活失意的老郑与无处可去的亮亮相遇，老郑意外成为网红，而亮亮成了他身边最坚定的搭档。                                                                      　　两人一路同行，也在彼此的生命中照进光芒。一段身份悬殊的特殊友谊，在笑泪交织中悄然生长。                                                                      　　然而，当老郑在流量中逐渐迷失走向失控，这段关系也迎来了前所未有的考验……他们，能否成为彼此最特别的那束光？

不伦之恋

 对于音乐家雷米（帕特里克·迪瓦尔 Patrick Dewaere 饰）来说，日子变得越来越不好过，不仅仅是职业上的停滞不前，妻子一成不变的容颜和乏味的婚姻生活也让他几近抓狂。就在这个节骨眼上，妻子车祸身亡的消息让雷米感到震惊却又有一丝解脱，而妻子留下的14岁的继女玛丽安（阿里尔·贝西 Ariel Besse 饰）也成为了一个包袱。玛丽安的生父想夺回玛丽安的抚养权，没想到，小小的玛丽安却更愿意和继父生活在一起。同一屋檐下，这对没有血缘关系的“父女”之间的情感变得朦胧而又暧昧。对于玛丽安的火热表白，雷米从最初的果断拒绝到之后的欲拒还迎，他能否守住伦理道德的最后一条底线呢？

千亿之吻

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浴血黑帮电影版

 1940年的伯明翰，在第二次世界大战的混乱中，汤米·谢尔比（基里安·墨菲 饰）从自我放逐中回归，直面着迄今为止最具破坏性的清算。家族和国家的未来岌岌可危，汤米必须面对自己心中的恶魔，并选择是直面它还是将其毁灭。

老兄救命

超能计划

　　在新奥尔良的街道上，关于神秘新药丸的消息开始传播开来，这种药丸可以解锁每位使用者独特的超能力。但问题是：在服用之前，没人知道用药后会发生什么。一些人会进化出防弹皮肤、隐形能力和超强力量，也有很多人会表现出更致命的反应。但是，当药丸使城市内的犯罪升级到危险水平时，当地警察（约瑟夫·高登-莱维特饰）与一名少女小贩（多米尼克·菲什巴克饰）和誓报私仇的退伍士兵（杰米·福克斯饰）联手以硬碰硬，他们冒着服用药丸的风险，以追踪并制止制造出该药丸的团队。