飞凤春宵

　　圣诞前夜，虽然家人热切地期盼，但美丽干练的女律师安吉拉（瑞秋·尼科尔斯Rachel Nichols 饰）仍在办公室努力工作，进行最后的冲刺。繁冗的工作终至尾声，安吉拉独自下到地下车库，准备驱车回家。不过她的车无论如何也发动不了，车库电梯门也被锁住，于是她只好向保安托马斯（韦斯·本特利 Wes Bentley 饰）求助。托马斯友善恭敬，热情施以援手，却不知其心中藏着怎样的黑暗念头。　　写字楼大门紧锁，致使准备乘计程车回家的安吉拉在此返回保安室求助托马斯。时机业已成熟，托马斯露出狰狞面目，他绑架了安吉拉，强迫她参加自己的圣诞晚宴。这个爱慕安吉拉的小男人，给安吉拉带来一个宛如噩梦般的圣诞节……

　　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.

　　一个神秘爬行动物的到来，把温馨的动物城搅动得天翻地覆。面对全新的城市危机，警官兔朱迪（金妮弗·古德温 Ginnifer Goodwin 配音）与狐尼克（杰森·贝特曼 Jason Bateman 配音）将继续携手为保卫动物城而奔波。在追捕行动中，这对老搭档不仅要揭开新角色的神秘面纱，还要前往被迷雾笼罩的新领域，探索未知的地下黑市，一场疯狂动物城的全新冒险即将展开……

制片徐蝦（李璨琛飾）及副導演張炳文（姜文傑飾）帶領拍攝團隊正在泰國進行《雌雄大盜》電影拍摄。誰料發生一連串意外及失誤令拍攝進度雪上加霜⋯⋯劇中當紅的男女主角在沒有完成戲份下便要收工，監製（田啟文飾）竟然毫不動氣，原來第二天已經挾款逃亡，只剩下一大筆債務。 就只有拍攝好的七成戲份，到底剩下配角詹記（詹昊宸飾）與劉連飄飄（曾美慧孜飾）及幾名劇組人員在沒有男女主角的情況下能否順利完成餘下的戲份嗎⋯⋯？