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　　兄弟二人生活过的紧巴巴，弟弟生性懦弱，哥哥强势霸道，这天，哥哥抢劫别人得来了钱，兄弟二人正高兴之际，一名侦探找上门来，双方发生争执，追逐之中，三个人发现自己被困于无穷无尽的楼梯上，无论如何都走不到尽头 ……　　另一边，一家人被困于无边无境的马路上，相同的加油站，相同的便利店，四周一望无际的荒野，却如何都逃不出这可怕的地狱……　　两个没有界限的空间，他们要如何应对内心逐渐升起的绝望？

　　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.

　　在天眼尚未密布，监场保安仍会打瞌睡的二十世纪七十年代，名画大盗就是会光天化日，大剌剌走进美术馆，直接把猎物从墙上取下放入布袋运走。看似儿戏的一切，背后主谋还要是住在市郊、人畜无害的住家男人。凯莉·莱卡特完全弃用好莱坞盗宝片叙事公式，改以其擅长的左翼简约主义镜头，捕捉触犯艺术罪行者的日常生活、双面人的言行处境，以及事件周遭人情冷暖。阿瑟多夫的抽象画作未必是一个借口，但到头来凸显存在荒谬的公路逃亡，俨然为观众添加了不少欣赏和思考的层次。

 由于两年前揭发同僚贪污，台北警官黄火土（梁家辉）被上级报复调入冷门的外事组工作，利益也曾连带受损的新同事对他怒言相向，加上妻子清芳（刘若英）受不了他长期不回家要求离婚，黄火土感觉他的世界正在逐渐四分五裂。就在此时，三宗受害者的身份并无关联的震惊了台湾社会的离奇命案发生，法医（杨贵媚）验尸发现他们都是因中一种神秘的黑霉菌产生幻觉而死，因为缺乏此方面的人才，当局从美国请来此种案例的侦办专家凯文莱特（David Morse）协助破案，黄火土重被任用。随着一桩令所有人都目瞪口呆的事实的被发现，一场围绕政治利益与民众利益的斗争也在黄火土和办案伙伴李丰博（戴立忍）及整个警察队伍之间展开。

 Exploring the friendship between renowned preacher George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin, and Whitefield's impact during the pivotal Great Awakening religious movement.

　　改编自同名热门恐怖小说的电影《阴目侦信》发布先导预告，阴目征信社接到新Case了？　　原著讲述从小拥有阴阳眼的石头成长过程十多年来与鬼为邻，见尽生死相隔、人鬼殊途。身为香港首富伍氏豪门的子嗣，伍伯良身负家族世代相传、不可告人的惊天秘密。大学猛鬼宿舍，时辰一到，石头与新结识的伍伯良和怪人PATRICK，能否合力阻止鬼门大开？