年輕太太家教

赤腳大仙

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.

十三

　　為給身患重病的父親交付醫藥費，電工文斯（薩姆·賴利 Sam Riley飾）不得已賣掉了房子。一次偶然的機會，文斯在他修理的房間里得到房主的一封神秘信件和一張不知道終點的火車票。一面是房主的離奇意外死亡和完全未知的危險旅程，一面是一筆足夠改寫人生的巨額財富，文斯最終還是決 定踏上這次神秘旅程。然而當他抵達隱蔽的目的地之后，等待他的卻是一場無法全身而退的瘋狂殺人游戲。　　本片翻拍自2005年法國犯罪驚悚影片《百萬殺人游戲》（13 Tzameti），依舊由原作導演兼編劇的格拉·巴布魯阿尼執導與編劇。薩姆·賴利、米基·洛克、杰森·斯坦森、雷·溫斯頓等多位硬漢同臺演繹這場生死博弈。

驚天魔盜團3

　　因神秘塔羅牌的指引，那群用魔術“替天行盜”的騎士們殺回來了！“初代四騎士”與三位新生代魔術師攜手，目標直指一位鉆石大亨——其家族憑借龐大資本與隱秘勢力，構建了全球性犯罪網絡，也為騎士團布下層層陷阱！面對史上最難的“盜竊任務”，騎士們再現奇跡，上演橫跨全球的魔術大秀，與“血色鉆石家族”展開騙中騙、局中局、計中計的巔峰博弈……