善良妈妈：贪图父亲的女人

　　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.

凯伦·吉兰、玛格丽特·苏菲·斯坦、杰梅因·福勒、凯文·尼伦、塔利亚·巴尔萨姆将主演喜剧新片《大器晚成》(Late Bloomers)，丽莎·斯蒂恩首导剧情长片，已在纽约杀青。                                                                      　　斯蒂恩的多部短片搭档安娜·格林菲尔德写剧本，松散基于她20多岁时居住在布鲁克林的经历，讲述露易丝(吉兰)是一个漫无目的的千禧一代，某天她醉醺醺地摔到了臀部，为此接受了物理治疗，在那里结识了一位不会说英语的年长波兰女士，两人成为了闺蜜。而正是这种不太可能的友谊让露易丝有勇气面对她一直在逃避的事情：她母亲的早发性老年痴呆症。                                                                      　　福勒饰演露易丝的室友/房东布里克，尼伦和巴尔萨姆饰演露易丝的父母。

　　本片讲述了一位在东京落魄的美国演员的故事。他受雇于一家日本家庭租赁公司，充当门面上的“美籍演员”，由此通过扮演他人生活中的各种角色，踏上了一段意想不到的自我发现之旅。

　　没有任何人气的鬼怪小说作家严冬自命不凡，虽然专写灵异题材，但是却从不相信世上有鬼。他的经纪人兼好友包劲希望他能尽快写出真正恐怖且吸引人的作品，为此和他打赌世上到底有没有鬼。两人来到乡下，在专门为他人做法事的三姐的庵堂住了下来。三姐的徒弟们活泼三八，独有沉默的阿乐不与众人为伍。阿乐自幼拥有天眼，能够看到另一个世界的众生，为了不惹麻烦上身而小心回避他们。另一方面，严冬在包劲和女孩们的帮助下终于见到了鬼，却险些吓破胆，关键时刻多亏阿乐相救。　　自此之后他们越来越熟，而见鬼的日子也越来越多，盘桓在人间的众生希望借助他们得到超度……

清末，记者黛雪揭发妖道利用僵尸贩运少女。幕后黑手是明朝后裔七公主，她借贩卖少女筹复国经费，并将哈布参将炼为僵尸。暴露后，七公主放出吸血鬼威廉，哈布恢复意识迎战。危急时师兄石敢当赶到，众人合力铲除七公主与威廉。