香港奇案之二：兇殺

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　　朱莉在巴黎一家豪華酒店打工，工作非常辛苦，還要努力照顧在鄉下的兩個孩子。后來，她得到了一個期待已久的工作面試機會，但一場全國性的罷工爆發了，導致公共交通系統陷入癱瘓。一直以來，朱莉努力在生活中維系著一種平衡，而這種脆弱的平衡被突發事件所打破。為了得償所愿，她冒著隨時都會碰壁乃至失去一切的風險，開始了一場與時間的瘋狂賽跑。

1863起義者

時間里的愛人

　　前途無量的女主廚Almut（弗洛倫絲·皮尤 Florence Pugh 飾），遇上失婚男子Tobias（安德魯·加菲爾德 Andrew Garfield 飾），一次邂逅，改變了余生。就在兩人相愛成家之后，一個突如其來的真相，也將撼動他們幸福的生活……

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.

邊境戰爭2

1971年印巴戰爭期間，年輕的印度戰士準備保護自己的家園免受更大的威脅。

魔法奇緣2：解除魔法

　　吉賽爾公主和羅伯特、摩根搬到了郊區的一棟新房子，被反派瑪爾維娜·夢露監視著。隨著問題的出現，吉賽爾許愿把他們的生活變成完美的童話，然而咒語產生了戲劇性的反作用，使吉賽爾不得不在午夜來臨之前爭分奪秒，以拯救她的家人和安大拉西亞王國。