性与爱的斗牛

　　澳大利亚男演员杰森·克拉科将出演影片《查帕奎迪克岛》(Chappaquiddick，暂译)，他在片中饰演肯尼迪家族成员之一参议员爱德华·肯尼迪，即肯尼迪总统的弟弟。《面纱》导演约翰·卡兰执导筒。影片将聚焦1969年以爱德华·肯尼迪为核心的“查帕奎迪克丑闻事件”，“肯尼迪诅咒”再次现身大银幕。

　　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.

　　这是系列节目迎来第9年！2025年的跨年夜直播，将时隔5年再次恢复部分现场直播！　　倒计时迫近，今年五郎依旧面临“黄灯警报”！在跨年活动中要分发的某种食材，今年又落在五郎头上（严格来说是被强行要求）。他将带着自己那位小小的伙伴，奔走整个东日本。年末已经成为传统的这场奇妙旅程，今年又会在怎样的土地上，遇见怎样至高无上的美食呢？而五郎能否赶上2025年压轴的大型活动？请拭目以待！

　　Success in business, having a happy family, and being a rich one are what most people wish for. This is also the wish of the young man A-Hwa. Those who are hardworking, responsible and know how to be grateful will surely be rich and become wealthy.

　　一位计算机科学家/小说家与他儿时的朋友团聚，并闯入政府数据库，同时面对他小时候所获得的神秘行为的可怕后果。

　　In New York City, potent strands of bath salts have surfaced and have attracted the most devoted bath salt junkies. A young aspiring chemist has developed an even stronger batch... but something has gone horribly wrong.