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謊言與偷竊

　　提奧·詹姆斯、艾米麗·拉塔科夫斯基(《消失的愛人》)主演犯罪新片《謊言與偷竊》(Lying and Stealing)首曝劇照，近日剛于洛杉磯開拍。Matt Aselton(《不可思議》)執導，講述一個年輕、圓滑的賊Ivan，他的專長是盜竊洛杉磯上層集團的高端藝術品，事業發展很順利，但他想退出。Elyse是一名很有前途的女演員，她的密室里堆有成山的建筑骨架和大量債務。兩位機靈的騙子決定合作，參與一項大膽的搶劫案。　　弗雷德·邁拉麥德(《嚴肅的男人》《炸天女郎》)、Ebon Moss-Bachrach(《懲罰者》《末日孤艦》)、Isiah Whitlock Jr.(《迷霧》《副總統》)、伊萬·漢德勒(《加州靡情》《欲望都市》)、約翰·蓋汀斯(《鐵甲鋼拳》《極品飛車》)等參演，Michael Costigan(《斷背山》《美國黑幫》)、Naomi Despres(《一級重罪》《殺死信使》)、Christopher Tricarico(《高堡奇人》《五月夏日》)、Mohamed AlRafi(《毋庸置疑》)共同制片。

火山下

 A cataclysmic event serves as the backdrop for a passionate affair between two individuals torn between desire and the constraints of their circumstances.

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.

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猩瘋血雨

　　暑期返回夏威夷的露西（約翰尼·斯奎婭飾）與父親亞當（特洛伊·科特蘇爾 飾）、妹妹艾琳及寵物黑猩猩本團聚。趁父親因工作離家，露西與好友凱特（Kate）、漢娜（杰西卡·亞歷山大 飾）及凱特的哥哥尼克策劃了一場泳池派對。派對期間，本被一只患有狂犬病的動物咬傷，溫順的黑猩猩逐漸變得兇殘。眾人被迫困在泳池內，且在無法求援的絕境中，必須協作智斗發狂的本以保全性命。