艾曼纽环游地球

婚礼上我们讨厌的人

　　艾莉森·珍妮、安妮·墨菲(《富家穷路》)、本·普拉特将主演婚礼喜剧[婚礼上我们讨厌的人](The People We Hate at the Wedding，暂译)。该片由克莱尔·斯坎伦(《初来乍到》)执导，《开心汉堡店》第二季编剧Lizzie molyneux-logelin、温迪·莫里纽克斯共同操刀剧本。该片根据格兰特·金德撰写的同名小说改编，有望成为另一个[四个婚礼和一个葬礼]。故事讲述一个不太和睦的家庭，因为一场婚礼被迫相聚，他们过去的隔阂一点点被放大，这些也正是这个家庭在重归于好的路上需要解决的问题。

二十五世纪宇宙战争

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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.

死产儿

　　影片讲述的是一位新妈妈 Mary （克里斯蒂·柏克 饰）保护新生儿 Adam（Grace Christensen 饰）的故事。Mary 生了一对双胞胎，但其中只有 Adam 存活了下来。在照顾 Adam 的过程中她疯狂地认为有某种超自然的实体在不惜任何代价地把 Adam 从她身边带走。