顶级生活第二季

旅行者的需求

　　来自法国的旅行者伊丽丝在韩国担任法语家庭教师赚取生活费。语言的隔阂让她和学生之问的交流充满错位感，东亚文化中不善于思考和表达内心情感的“痼疾"又与渴望交流与开放的心态交织在一起，触发了只有异国旅行者才能感受到的特殊孤独与惆怅。被誉为韩国作者电影第一人的导演洪常秀继《在异 国》《克莱尔的相机》之后与法国国宝级女演员伊莎贝尔·于佩尔再度合作，用极简主义的拍摄手法呈现细致入微的人际关系精妙互动，斩获2024年第74届柏林国际电影节评审团银熊奖。

咸鱼翻生

　　侠盗“一枝花”专劫富济贫故为人钦佩，却因正义感得罪了一名蛇蝎美人，该女子名叫“仇女”虽嫁与一土豪“孤寒财主”为妾但始终不忘被“一枝花”所辱，誓必要将“一枝花”置于死地。“一枝花”浪迹江湖，但“仇女”并未因而放过他，反而更诬造许多盗窃案令官方大举追缉之。其时江湖上出现两个小人物，一肥一瘦，肥名“胀爆”为人憨直，因仰慕“一枝花”而喜扮大侠，瘦名“扭纹柴”常自作聪明经常撞板，喜占小便宜，为了官方之花红到处找寻“一枝花”，而偶遇上“胀爆”后来反成莫逆之交，两人更结伴一同寻找“一枝花”……

爷孙大学路

Madea的哥哥Joe陪同他的孙子B.J.进行了一次大学公路旅行。

隐藏杀手

　　一个异形在美国流窜，为了得到它想要的，它杀掉所有挡它路的人，并且用他们的身体作为新的藏身之所，它不断追寻的是生命的能量，然而另一个借用了一个死去的FBI探员身体的异形对它紧追不舍，无数无辜的人们在这场追击中丧生

毛骨悚然撞鬼经25周年特别篇

太平洋战场

　　That day is seared into the memory of every human being on the planet: the day the world changed. First came the attack on the Philippines. Within days they spread, as though appearing out of nowhere, striking out at more islands, forging a foothold in the South Pacific. Then came the first attack on U.S. soil - Los Angeles - and the reality became clear: our world was at war once again, but this time with an enemy from beyond our galaxy. Now, months later, the fate of the world hangs in the balance as a mission to strike at a key enemy installation deep in enemy territory goes terribly wrong, and the Marines of the 15th Expeditionary Unit are scattered across the island of New Britain, leaderless, and facing impossible odds. Pacific Theater is the story of those Marines: fresh recruits who journey from their homes across the Pacific to the front lines. It is the story of John Blake, a charming Californian surfer who must find the strength to become a leader, Tracey Gleeson, a physics...

等待方舟

　　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.