香港奇案3：老爺車縱火謀殺案

　　羅素·克勞將主演驚悚新片[撲克臉](Poker Face，暫譯)。加里·弗萊德([家園防線])執導，斯蒂芬·M·科茨操刀劇本。該片講述杰克(克勞飾)是一個科技界的億萬富翁，他把他的童年朋友們召集到他的邁阿密豪宅，進行一場高賭注的撲克游戲。這些朋友與這位主人有一種愛恨交織的關系。杰克也是個游戲高手&策劃者，他精心策劃了一個計劃，旨在給他們所有人帶來某種正義。然而，當杰克的邁阿密豪宅被一個危險的入室搶劫者占領時，他發現自己需要重新思考他的策略。

 菜埔（莊益增 飾）是一家雕塑廠的夜間保安，家中有一位重病的老母親需要照顧。肚財（陳竹昇 飾）是菜埔唯一的朋友，菜埔經常在值夜班的時候把肚財叫過來和他作伴。一天，兩人突發奇想決定看一看菜埔的老板黃啟文（戴立忍 飾）的行車記錄儀里記錄了哪些影像，希望向來風流的老板能夠貢獻出一些精彩的片段以解兩個獨身男人內心里的寂寞之苦。行車記錄儀所記錄的影像果然沒有讓菜埔和肚財失望，但與此同時，兩人也發現了黃啟文的許多不可告人的秘密。實際上，菜埔和肚財的一舉一動皆沒有逃過黃啟文的眼睛，為了保住自己的地位和名聲，他決定采取一些必要的行動。

　　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.

　　Voltage Pictures拿下艾瑪·羅伯茨、海登·克里斯滕森主演的浪漫愛情片[小意大利](Little Italy，暫譯)的國際銷售權。該片由唐納德·佩特瑞([倒霉愛神])執導，故事類似現代版羅密歐與朱麗葉，講述一名見習廚師同一位餐廳老板墜入愛河。他們父親是商業死對頭，母親卻是秘密的閨中好友。