黑色午夜

　　一晃十年过去，地球人和虫族的战争如火如荼，愈演愈烈。某日，空军元帅奥玛•阿诺克（斯蒂芬•霍根 Stephen Hogan 饰）来地球人的远方农场罗库山视察，时任上校的强尼•瑞克（加斯帕•范•迪恩 Casper Van Dien 饰）也一同前来。在此期间，阿诺克的心智被虫王操控，他切断了隔离区的电力，使基地完全失去保护。是夜，虫族对隔离区发动总攻，地球军虽顽强抵抗，终因寡不敌众而告败，基地陷落。阿诺克则和一干心腹逃离，飞船迫降在OM-1行星。　　瑞克因失职被军事法庭判处绞刑，行刑之际被政府秘密部门救下。阿诺克知晓联邦舰队基地所在地的秘密，一旦被虫族得知将不堪设想。因此政府高层要求瑞克带上一队人马，前去营救受困的阿诺克……

麦哲伦是一位航海家，他秉持人道主义精神和对正义的信仰，反抗国王的权力。然而，当他最终掌管香料舰队，完成首次环球航行后，他的旅程又将如何揭开他自身的谜团呢？

当社区的毒品问题开始影响居民并引发动乱时，人们将求助的目光投向了警方。然而，这些本应保护和服务民众的警官们，却对此问题视而不见。一群热心居民组成民防队，誓言将肃清不法扫荡三害！

　　曾经叱咤小镇的“大哥”黄荣发（黄渤 饰）如今嘴硬腿软，开启人生困难模式，但他和家人都没有被命运的风浪裹挟。儿子黑狗达（范丞丞 饰）看似是黄家唯一“淡人”，暗地却密谋如何发家又“治父”；妻子陈梨珍（殷桃 饰）样样全能横扫困难，是小镇人尽皆知不太好惹的“妈系超人”；胆大手“黑”的女儿黄娇娇（李嘉琦 饰）和“神”通广大的阿太（刘雪华 饰）也各出奇招笑料百出。逆境当前，一家唯有兴“疯”作浪跟生活贴脸硬刚，没准真能让他们绝地翻盘？

　　炎炎夏日，一辆辆黄色的校车载着热爱歌唱和舞蹈的青年男女来到了一处郊外的夏令营。孩子们兴致勃勃，渴望在这里尽情释放对音乐的热爱。今年年轻导演阿特·盖茨雄心勃勃，决定将十年没有排演过的经典名作《歌剧魅影》搬上舞台。这一消息，令在厨房帮厨的卡梅拉（艾莉·麦克唐纳 Allie MacDonald 饰）和巴迪（道格拉斯·史密斯 Douglas Smith 饰）深受触动。原来十年前，姐弟俩那身为著名歌剧演员的妈妈在《歌剧魅影》的演出后被人杀害。该事件让他们封闭了自己，可是卡梅拉无法抑制心底对歌唱的渴望，终于她鼓起勇气报名参加了女主角索菲娅的遴选。然而伴随着她走向阳光，十年前那个恐怖恶魔似乎也从沉寂中醒来……　　本片根据真实事件改编。

　　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.