艾克斯

　　一位单亲母亲带着两个女儿在乡下生活数年后重返台北，在热闹的夜市摆起小吃摊。面对新环境，三人以各自的方式努力适应，既要维持生计又要守护家庭完整。当传统观念根深蒂固的外祖父禁止左撇子小孙女使用"恶魔之手"后，这个三代同堂家庭深埋的秘密开始逐渐浮出水面。

　　迪伦（大卫·斯佩德 David Spade 饰）是一个无忧无虑的年轻人，生活在洛杉矶的一幢十分舒适的房子里，生活里没有什么事情能够让他心烦，可谓十分自在。一天，他的隔壁搬来了一位名叫莉拉（苏菲·玛索 Sophie Marceau 饰）的女邻居，莉拉美丽、温柔，充满了神秘感，她的不可捉摸深深的吸引了迪伦，让后者的脑袋里装满了有关她的浪漫想象。　　然而莉拉对爱情却并没有什么憧憬，她有一个十分善妒的前男友瑞纳（帕特里克·布鲁尔 Patrick Bruel 饰），莉拉想要的全部，就是尽快摆脱这个可怕的男人，和自己的狗狗杰克一起相依为命。为了博取莉拉的信任，迪伦偷偷藏起了杰克，哪知道事态的发展渐渐超出了他的掌控。

　　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.

　　西班牙惊悚片。根据西班牙悬疑推理小说家多洛蕾丝·雷东多的代表作巴斯坦三部曲之《隐形守护者》，这是近年来西班牙最轰动的犯罪悬疑小说，比《沉默的羔羊》《犯罪心理》更惊悚，已经高踞西班牙畅销书排行榜长达三年之久，讲述巴斯克地区的一起连环杀人案。一名曾受过联邦调查局训练的警察回到位于纳瓦拉的家乡，追捕一名专以当地青少年为目标的杀手，还得面对自己过去的心理创