盲山

夜間巡邏

　　An L.A. cop discovers a local task force is hiding a secret that puts the residents of his childhood neighborhood in danger.

致命錄像帶2

 為了尋找在派對中失蹤的大學生，兩名攜帶錄像設備的私家偵探闖入了一幢空房子，并在其中發(fā)現(xiàn)數(shù)卷神秘錄影帶：1）男人米德爾頓植入了能記錄影像和聲音的義眼，他在家中卻看到恐怖的影像；2）在國家公園叢林里騎車的麥克碰到一個滿身傷痕、嘔吐黑水的女人，接下來一群恐怖喪尸慢慢向他靠近。被喪尸咬了后，男子的身體漸漸發(fā)生變化；3）某劇組造訪一個神秘教派，天堂般美好的表象下，恐怖氣息蔓延，他們偏偏趕上魔王降臨人間；4）父母不在的湖邊住宅，孩子們放肆玩耍。夜深人靜之際，強烈的光芒突然閃過，神秘生物進入屋內，意外頻現(xiàn)。詭異的錄影帶，將觀看者引向黑暗深處……

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。

庫梅爾·南賈尼：夜間思緒

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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.