庫梅爾·南賈尼：夜間思緒

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.

警察與外星人

　　圣·特魯佩斯城來了一些外星人。他們進而化裝成平民。時而冒充警察了解人類的生活。當地警察負責搜捕。但外星人變化無窮，神秘莫測，層出不窮的誤會和笑話把警察們搞得狼狽不堪。在一次交鋒中，警察意外發現外星人怕水，于是，巧使計謀，使用水攻……

暗杠

民國中后期，官僚腐敗，道德滑坡，民生環境日益惡化。亞細亞建筑公司老板王大偉等人為了謀取私利，在工人勞保和保險上違規節省成本，導致工人意外身亡，該工人妻子在王大偉等人打麻將的茶館進行秘密復仇……

輕聲告訴我

　　改編自爆款《我的錯誤》三部曲作者Mercedes Ron的另一部Wattpad熱作《Dímelo bajito (Say It to Me Softly)》。　　Fall in love with the Di Bianco brothers.Your best friends. Your biggest downfall.　　Kamila Hamilton had everything under control ... or so she thought: it was not at all in her plans for the Di Bianco brothers to return once again and turn her world upside down.　　Thiago was her first kiss. Taylor, the one who always protected her. The brothers’ return causes Kami's seemingly perfect life to tumble. She is no longer the innocent child they once knew: since they left, it seems that no one has been able to get close to her ... no one but them.　　Will Kami be able to resist Thiago’s mere presence?　　What will happen when Taylor starts looking at her differently?　　Will everything explode into a thousand pieces just like last time?

瘋癲和尚之再續前緣

　　影片講述了阜縣妖孽橫行，縣上的孩子不斷離奇失蹤，瘋癲和尚受命下界驅魔降妖，正巧碰上地府判官鐘馗來人間收魂。二人嬉笑怒罵斗嘴斗法，在爆笑不斷的接連烏龍中引出了神秘銀面人，還結識了美艷絕倫的客棧老板娘和憑借一張嘴就能把人“說死”的怪異書生，牽扯出一段前緣未盡癡纏幾世的人狐戀。千年妖狐日日行善卻為何屢屢煉鬼？神秘銀面人到底是誰？佛、道、妖、魔聚首阜縣，一場殺機四起的混戰即將開啟，瘋癲和尚又將如何應對……