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復仇之溪

　　20世紀30年代，戰(zhàn)爭的幽靈盤桓世界上空。納粹相信妖術可以幫助他們邁向勝利，于是派出手下四處尋找便捷的“治世良方”。1936年，在美國西弗吉尼亞的一個偏僻鄉(xiāng)村復仇溪，誠實善良的沃爾納一家迎來一名不速之客。隸屬于北美地區(qū)德國遺產(chǎn)學術委員會的理查德·沃斯博士（Michael Fassbender 飾）來到這里，借住在沃爾納家。一家人雖然心有惴惴，不過看在錢的份上欣然接納沃斯博士，并對其表現(xiàn)出誠摯的熱情，卻不曾想對方帶來了難以置信的災難?！　?007年，警察伊萬·馬歇爾（Henry Cavill 飾）生活正陷入困境。他的哥哥維克多（Dominic Purcell 飾）一度消失。當他以為兄長已死時，維克多卻突然出現(xiàn)，帶著弟弟來到復仇溪。維克多究竟經(jīng)歷了怎樣的磨難？這與30年代沃爾納一家的遭遇又有什么關聯(lián)？

歌舞大王齊格飛

 羅伯特．Z．倫納德導演的這部影片以百老匯最大的歌舞團——齊格菲歌舞團的創(chuàng)辦人佛羅倫斯．齊格菲的生平為題材，是三十年代好萊塢歌舞片黃金時代的重要代表作之一。當時獲得了第九屆奧斯卡最佳影片等三項大獎，女星路易絲．萊娜演出齊格菲的首任妻子，獲最佳女主角獎。齊格菲年輕時是雜耍節(jié)目中表演的藝人。1893年到百老匯發(fā)展，建立了歌舞團的知名度，1907年創(chuàng)辦了以美女盛裝演出大型歌舞著稱的齊格菲歌舞團，贏得歌舞大王的稱號。齊格菲一角由威廉．鮑威爾擔綱演出，男女主角都表演得很好。

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.

逆向誘拐

　　跨國投資銀行香港高層約翰收到勒索電郵，如不按指示三日內(nèi)交出約十九萬港幣，有關臺灣科網(wǎng)龍頭公司之機密融資分析就會被公開。為了公司聲譽，也為免客戶股價大幅波動，約翰暗中找來昔日大學舍堂堂友兼刑警唐輔協(xié)助調(diào)查?！　C密融資分析由約翰四位下屬負責，其中牧野一度失蹤，嫌疑極大。發(fā)現(xiàn)檔案在內(nèi)聯(lián)網(wǎng)被偷之小儒，因曾向電腦部職員阿植求救，結(jié)果整個團隊連阿植六人，都被約翰安排到附近一間貴賓公寓套房，接受唐輔以至其手下全天候監(jiān)視，直至完成贖金交易?！　∮捎谮H金奇少，綁匪顯然志不在錢，其多個古怪指示更令人困惑。當阿植協(xié)助追蹤綁匪電郵源頭時，竟發(fā)現(xiàn)電郵是由公司伺服器發(fā)出，換言之綁匪必有內(nèi)應。其后電郵證實來自阿植手機，縱然他在早上已遺失手機，而最后是小儒接觸他手機，阿植依然百詞莫辨?！　√戚o發(fā)現(xiàn)阿植家庭背景殊不簡單，疑似內(nèi)應之神秘人又頻頻現(xiàn)身，加上科網(wǎng)公司原來曾有高層因新一代網(wǎng)上平臺開發(fā)延誤而被迫離職，甚至行蹤成疑，這一切都有關連嗎？　　由開發(fā)延誤導致融資失敗，由此可能觸發(fā)新一輪全球股災，到最后綁匪竟要求用約翰用網(wǎng)上拍賣繳交贖款，究竟唐輔這一代會明白新一代的上網(wǎng)心態(tài)嗎？不了解又能否替約翰低調(diào)破案？阿植又可會知道誰是真兇？以至真兇為何要陷害他嗎？　　綁匪背后真正動機又是什麼？