冰冷熱帶魚 冷たい熱帯魚 (2010)

婚禮上我們討厭的人

　　艾莉森·珍妮、安妮·墨菲(《富家窮路》)、本·普拉特將主演婚禮喜劇[婚禮上我們討厭的人](The People We Hate at the Wedding，暫譯)。該片由克萊爾·斯坎倫(《初來乍到》)執(zhí)導，《開心漢堡店》第二季編劇Lizzie molyneux-logelin、溫迪·莫里紐克斯共同操刀劇本。該片根據(jù)格蘭特·金德撰寫的同名小說改編，有望成為另一個[四個婚禮和一個葬禮]。故事講述一個不太和睦的家庭，因為一場婚禮被迫相聚，他們過去的隔閡一點點被放大，這些也正是這個家庭在重歸于好的路上需要解決的問題。

忘我星途

　　A narcissistic performer's world crumbles when he mysteriously loses his talent right before the biggest opportunity of his career.

肖菲勒

美食總動員

　　小老鼠雷米在嗅覺方面有著無與倫比的天賦，不想過與垃圾堆為伴的生活，心懷成為五星大廚的夢想?！　∫粋€偶然的機會，他認識了古斯特餐廳的學徒林奎尼，這個倒霉的學徒生性害羞，在廚藝上更是沒有什么天賦，并且遭到餐廳大廚的排擠，即將被解雇。這一人一鼠結(jié)成了奇特的聯(lián)盟：雷米奉獻自己極富創(chuàng)造力的大腦。操作林奎尼前臺“表演”?！　≡诶酌椎膸椭拢挚岵坏蔀樾碌摹疤觳艔N師”，獲得了美女同事的愛情，還挫敗了大廚的陰謀，成為古斯特餐廳的合法繼承人。突如起來的成功讓林奎尼有些不知所措，想擺脫自己的傀儡身份，把雷米趕出了廚房。　　古斯特餐廳的成功，引起了苛刻的美食評論家科隆的注意，準備一嘗林奎尼的手藝，重新為餐廳評定星級；而不甘失敗的前大廚，蠢蠢欲動，想要找到林奎尼一夜成名的秘密。失去了雷米，林奎尼該如何面對這些問題……

俘虜國度

　　影片講述在地球已被外星人占領(lǐng)了10年之后的芝加哥市區(qū)，一股反抗勢力異軍突起，與服從派的政府勢力產(chǎn)生了不可調(diào)和的矛盾，一場戰(zhàn)斗由此而生?！斗攪取酚山裹c影業(yè)出品，將于3月29日在北美上映。

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.