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　　晴朗的一天，三年前痛失男友的珍娜（絲柯·泰勒-考普頓 Scout Taylor-Compton 飾）與好友瑞妮（克里斯蒂娜·尤羅爾 Christina Ulloa 飾）、邁克（邁克爾·科彭 Michael Copon 飾）以及新結識的帥氣青年伊安（特拉維斯·范·文克 Travis Van Winkle 飾）前往某個鄉村，參加當地舉行的五月節。湖畔小屋，笑語歡歌，青年男女們縱情歡樂，只有珍娜強顏歡笑，似乎久久無法從三年前的慘劇中走出。隨著夜幕降臨，四人走入桑拿室，體會無上的蒸汽享受，而危機也正一步步向他們迫近。在此期間，邁克和瑞妮突然爆發爭吵，前者奪門而出，大發雷霆，而瑞妮和珍娜、伊安稍后卻發現，他們三人卻被意外鎖在桑拿室中。　　溫度逐漸升高，而死神的腳步越來越近……

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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.

諾查丹瑪斯滅亡錄?基因的新世紀

死星

Claudio Nervi, an eclectic director, and Lucia Neve, a disillusioned producer, are looking for a new actress who could help them with their latest feature film, a project that is undoubtedly adrift. During a meeting with one of the most promising candidates, Stella, the girl will reveal them that the script of the movie is pretty similar to a story she knows well: the story of how she died.

副總統

 曾拍《大空頭》（The Big Short）聚焦美國次貸危機的導演亞當·邁凱（Adam McKay）日前與派拉蒙簽約，將導演一部講述美國前副總統迪克·切尼（Dick Cheney）故事的傳記片。而布拉德·皮特的“B計劃”制片公司也將繼《點球成金》、《大空頭》后再次與邁凱合作，制作這部電影。迪克·切尼號稱是美國歷史上最有權勢的副總統，他也是現任美國副總統彭斯（Mike Pence）的效仿對象。布什當政八年時間里，表面上切尼是美國的二號人物，但實際上小布什總統（George W. Bush）的很多決定，包括阿富汗戰爭、入侵伊拉克等都是由他定奪的。切尼本人是一個充滿爭議的矛盾體。他一直都是保守黨派，曾為尼克松、福特、老布什政府做過幕僚，后進入哈利伯頓公司當了幾年CEO，然后和小布什一起入主白宮；但他對于同性戀婚姻卻持支持態度，因為他的女兒是一名女同性戀。此外，切尼五次拖延不愿去越戰戰場，卻是個不折不扣的主戰鷹派。亞當·邁凱說：“我一直覺得切尼是個有意思的人物，很想搞清楚究竟是什么在驅動他、他到底信仰什么。所以我們就做了深挖調查，結果令人震驚，切尼堪稱是美國現代史上最有權力的政治人物，他在很大程度上塑造了美國現在的國際地位，而他為了攫取權力所采取的方式也令人瞠目結舌。”亞當·邁凱希望能在2017年春拍攝本片，并在年底上映。目前他正在物色合適的演員人選。亞當·邁凱拍攝《切尼傳》，意味著他之前接手的《壞血》（Bad Blood）項目要往后推遲了。