笑傲江湖 (2025)

 明朝年间，锦衣卫陆钦因罪被发配充军，途中因缘际会，与樊英押送贪官张嵩回京指认通敌太监王公公。经过生死追逃，最终陆钦牺牲，张嵩抵京，却被王公公处死于监牢。多年后，王公公被樊英击杀，善恶终得报。

　　Five Spec Ops, Alpha Squad, head a simple Recon Mission that turns into an all out war for survival against a wave of undead experiments. Alpha Squad must fight, not just for the sake of their own survival, but the fate of the world.

 风流不羁的房地产销冠江来（吴翊歌 饰），为利益化身“深情画家”，步步为营接近倔强女医生李梦（李萌萌 饰）。他算计利益得失，她却赌上了余生信任，他们之间，连错过都像一场预谋。一场以利益为起点的相遇，却让他在这段关系中动了真心，在情感与利益中疯狂撕扯。当真相被揭开时，这场以欺骗开场的相遇，能否在真心面前低头？是选择放手，还是为爱再赌一次？

　　本片在2025年圣丹斯电影节一举拿下世界剧情片竞赛单元评审团特别奖（创作视野）和观众奖两项大奖。马其顿偏远村庄的15岁的牧羊少年沉醉于音乐世界，但在传统社会规则下，他必须面对来自周遭环境与父亲的质疑。某日放羊途中，他偶遇了一场大型的电子舞会，邂逅令他心动的女孩……导演乔治·M·温科夫斯基的长片首作试图探索集体期望与自我表达之间的微妙平衡。片中鲜活的色彩、诙谐的桥段、惹人怜爱的角色和韵律十足的音乐，为这个成长故事注入勃勃生命力。影片温柔且有力地回答了艺术如何成为精神避难所，又如何变为成长催化剂。

　　田七（张达明 饰）是个精人，常喝醉打妻子当归（蔡少芬 饰），当归痛定思痛发誓要对夫报复，刚巧城中富商罗汉果欲寻名医，当归于是谎称丈夫会医术，并且要用精棍子揍田七，他才会应允他人治医，罗汉果信以为真，不但将田七痛打一顿，并将其接入家中，于是一场啼笑皆非的闹剧开始了……

　　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.