繼女2024

如來神掌2020

　　龍劍北因為要籌錢救自己病重的妹妹，在一次機緣巧合之下，接觸到神秘組織黑羽會，黑羽會不斷在做人體實驗，企圖造出擁有超能力的改造人。為了錢，龍劍北接受超能力改造。由于控制不了體內的超能力，龍劍北拜了一位老者為師，學習駕馭超能力，學會了如來神掌，并結識了一位武林中的名門正派，二人一同上路，展開了各種緊張刺激的冒險……

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　　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.

巴勒斯坦36

　　尤瑟夫每天都往返于他的農耕村莊巴斯瑪和他在耶路撒冷城里的工作之間，滿懷熱情地努力在瞬息萬變的現代世界中尋找自己的位置。他年輕而躁動，更渴望擺脫鄉村生活的束縛，而不是被卷入其中的種種煩惱。尤瑟夫的故事與年輕寡婦拉巴布和她的女兒阿芙拉、粗獷的領袖哈立德、鞋匠兼當地神父卡里姆的兒子以及活力四射的都市人胡盧德和她的商人丈夫阿明的故事交織在一起。

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寵物墳場2(2023)

　　改編自斯蒂芬·金小說。是2019年那部寵物墳場的前傳。講述1969年賈德·克蘭德爾發現了一段黑暗的家族史：一個神秘墳場里被埋葬的人和動物都會復活，但事情絕沒有看起來那么簡單。