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　　影片改编自风靡全球的同名绘本系列，肖恩·蒙德兹献声演唱鳄鱼莱莱。　　故事讲述了小男孩乔什·普利姆跟随父母举家搬进大城市的新居，和一只住在阁楼上、能舞会唱的鳄鱼成为好朋友的奇遇故事。自带欢乐属性的鳄鱼莱莱治愈了难以适应新环境的乔什，乔什也努力消除父母对莱莱的偏见。两小只开启前所未有的都市历险，历经重重欢乐闹剧，莱莱与普利姆一家最终成为了彼此的家人与伙伴。

明朝中叶，西北边城，青楼女子接连被残杀，隐匿线索直指边关军营，神捕白展飞奉命调查，却屡屡受阻，无奈下只得暗中探查。然而当他拨开层层迷雾，竟发现此案潜藏着一场不可告人的惊天阴谋。喋血孤城，命悬一线。（影剧备字〔2023〕第1669号）

　　奥克塔维亚·斯宾瑟将携约翰·浩克斯出演独立惊悚片《小城犯罪》。电影讲述由浩克斯扮演的酗酒前警察偶然发现一具女尸，并不慎将他的家庭至于危险之中，他不得不一边寻找凶手，一边与恶势力作斗争。该片由内尔姆斯兄弟执导，目前正在拍摄中。

失去妻子后，没有灵魂地生活的童话作家赵容熙。他只要去妻子画画的房间，就会出现过度呼吸的症状，很久没进过那个房间了。但是从某一天开始，那个房间里开始传来奇怪的声音。鼓起勇气打开房门的龙熙。妻子房间的天花板漏水，住着在仁偷偷藏起来的小猫。在仁拜托我养猫，雪上加霜的是，来修理天花板的木匠哈罗恩提议把闲置的房间变成猫的房间…龙熙究竟会做出什么选择？

　　故事发生在某个毗邻原始森林的小镇，一家伐木公司正在林中作业，这时白雪飘然落下，作业暂时停止，然而随即便发生了残酷血腥的事件。与此同时，警长保罗·希尔德（凯文·杜兰德 Kevin Durand 饰）和新来的搭档唐尼刚刚敷衍完几个报警事件，随后驱车来到前妻苏珊（Bianca Kajlich 饰）的家中，接走儿子亚当（Ethan Khusidman 饰）回自家居住。一夜无事，次日一早，保罗在门口发现硕大的脚印，而且脚印遍布小镇主干道，一直延伸到森林深处。巨大的脚印在小镇闹得人心惶惶，保罗起初绝不相信妖精怪物一类的传说，但是恐怖血腥的事件接二连三发生，让小镇陷入前所未有的恐慌之中。　　危机渐次逼近……

　　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.