团鬼六：修道女绳地狱

 法国青年克里斯（Fabian Wolfrom 饰），在他11岁时某个夜晚，哈雷彗星接近地球。似乎冥冥中有所感应，他的父母在当晚死于非命。此去经年，哈雷彗星再度接近地球，全世界人民寄予极大关注，各种或科学或玄学的猜测层出不穷，热议纷纷。对克里斯来说这颗星体的造访似乎没有什么特别的，但是他却发现周围人们的举止愈加怪异，人们越来越无法控制自己的情绪，各种暴力和暴动此起彼伏，在所谓的末日为降临前，众生已经陷入绝望的疯狂之中。彗星莅临当晚，克里斯受邀参加一个狂欢派对。谁知未过多久场面便完全失控，各种嗜血恶徒出笼，展开末日杀戮……

　　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.

杰弗里（凯尔·麦克拉克伦 Kyle MacLachlan 饰）为了照料父亲而回到了久违的家乡小镇，哪知道在误打误撞之中令一场凶杀案件浮出水面，杰弗里就此结识了负责调查此案的警察威廉斯（乔治·迪克森 George Dickerson 饰），以及他的女儿桑迪（劳拉·邓恩 Laura Dern 饰）。桑迪告诉杰弗里，时间的真相或许和一个名叫多萝西（伊莎贝拉·罗西里尼 Isabella Rossellini 饰）的歌女有关。　　美丽神秘的多萝西很快就令杰弗里失去了理智，他偷偷的潜入了多萝西家中，恰巧发现了多萝西正在被一个名为弗兰克（丹尼斯·霍珀 Dennis Hopper 饰）的黑帮大佬虐待的事实。此时的杰弗里才开始意识到，在自己的视线范围之外，发生着很多黑暗而又罪恶的可怕之事。

　　不信爱情的编剧家阿刁，不得不在他母亲于医院接受治疗期间，迅速完成五段爱情故事。他在加护病房外面邂逅了小莲，小莲对他要写的爱情故事产生好奇，就在你来我往的爱情激辩当中，阿刁的灵感油然而生，让他重新体会到被爱的感觉。文思泉涌的他，在跟小莲充满暧昧的互动下，成就出五段风格迥异、让人心跳加速的爱情故事…

 该作品改编自2000年同名纪录片，讲述塔米·菲（杰西卡·查斯坦 饰）和吉姆·贝克（安德鲁·加菲尔德 饰）这对夫妇作为电视福音布道家的大起大落。在上世纪70-80年代，塔米·菲和吉姆·贝克从贫寒中奋起，创建了当时世界上最庞大的宗教广播电视网和一个主题公园，他们传递的爱、接纳和繁荣的主题受到人们的尊敬。塔米 · 菲以她夸张的睫毛，独特的歌声、以及她热情拥抱各行各业的人们而成为传奇。不过好景不长，经济上的不当行为、诡计多端的竞争对手以及性丑闻的爆发使得这对夫妇的婚姻破裂，导致他们精心构建起来的帝国开始崩塌。