榴蓮飄飄

銀河護衛隊3

　　歷經磨難與考驗，銀河護衛隊總算在虛無之地暫時安頓下來?？删驮谀骋惶?，不速之客亞當術士（威爾·保爾特 Will Poulter 飾）的闖入不僅打破了這里的安寧與祥和，更將一場生死危機帶到這群好朋友中間。戰斗中，火箭浣熊（布萊德利·庫珀 Bradley Cooper 配音） 身負重傷，奄奄一息。為了拯救好友的生命，星爵（克里斯·帕拉特 Chris Pratt 飾）和星云（凱倫·吉蘭 Karen Gillan飾）、毀滅者（戴夫·巴蒂斯塔 Dave Bautista 飾）、螳螂女（龐·克萊門捷夫 Pom Klementieff 飾）、格魯特（范·迪塞爾 Vin Diesel 飾）卡魔拉（佐伊·索爾達娜 Zoe Saldana 飾）前往創造了火箭的奧果公司尋找起死回生的辦法?！　∪欢谀莻€詭異的世界，他們意外發現了火箭浣熊不為人知的悲慘過往……

木乃伊2023

這個雪男不太冷

　　影片講述了凱茜在丈夫去世兩年后，神奇地讓一個英俊的雪人復活的故事。雪人天真無邪，讓凱茜重新歡笑、重新感受和愛，兩人在節日來臨之際墜入愛河……而雪人還沒有融化。

微笑的山谷

　　帶著過往傷痛，塞吉歐只身一人前往「微笑之村」擔任代理教師。這座對負能量零容忍的小鎮，明明曾遭逢巨變，居民們卻笑口常開。原來，讓這座微笑之村風光明媚的秘方，是一位能吸取人間苦痛的男孩，他的身體如祭壇，透過擁抱承擔全村的悲傷。他為人搭建快樂天堂，自己卻陷入無盡黑暗。塞吉歐與男孩的相遇，攪亂了鎮上的平衡；那座煉獄之門，也終將反向人間敞開。

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.