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 罗伯特.怀斯执导的该部灾难片根据真实事件改编而成。故事讲述一九三九年，一艘满载各式人等飞往纽约的德国造兴登堡飞船，在抵达纽约上空时发生爆炸，造成了历史上的大悲剧。

　　1942年，生活在斯德哥尔摩的瑞典籍美国石油商人埃里克•埃里克森突然发现自己上了美国的纳粹合作者黑名单，急于辨白。而这一切是盟军情报机关的安排，意在逼迫埃里克成为间谍，因为他可以方便地进出德国。无奈的埃里克只得就范，他开始公开表现亲近纳粹，甚至不惜伤害最亲密的犹太人朋友坎普尔。朋友和亲人们都疏远了他，但只有坎普尔暗中相信埃里克这样做必有难言的原因。　　很快，埃里克就和德国人拉上了关系，并将德国石油业巨头格哈德•奥伦道夫爵士、石油商人奥托•豪兹拉下水，组成一个间谍小组，他的代号为“莱德”。　　同时，埃里克与笃信宗教的德国地下抵抗组织成员玛丽亚娜取得联络，乔装成情人幽会，骗过监视的盖世太保，不断将她提供的情报记忆下来后带回瑞典。埃里克与玛丽亚娜为了事业均是家庭不幸，两个人倾心相恋。埃里克虽是谍海新兵，但他沉着坚毅，多次避过危险。　　在奥伦道夫的努力下，埃里克获准在瑞典为德国“建设”炼油厂，于是得到了参观德国石油工厂的机会，一次，埃里克与奥伦道夫目睹纳粹绞死罢工工人的场面，被深深触动，开始由被迫工作转向自觉行动。他们的情报使盟军得以准确轰炸，令德国损失惨重。　　一段时间后，奥托因病去世，由于密信可能泄露，盟军情报机关决定停止埃里克小组的活动。但埃里克惦念玛丽亚娜，同时也为了取回至关重要的纳粹航空燃料生产情报，他毅然再次前往德国。埃里克一到柏林就被关进盖世太保监狱，并亲眼看到因身份暴露被捕的玛丽亚娜殉难。但他强忍悲痛，咬定自己只是玛丽亚娜的情人，盖世太保没有证据只好放人。　　埃里克从格哈德处拿到情报，又前往汉堡销毁奥托的密信，不料被跟随的盖世太保察觉。埃里克机智逃脱，并与汉堡的盟国谍报网取得联系，在地下组织和丹麦百姓的帮助下，埃里克越过边境，经哥本哈根渡过海峡，安全返回瑞典。

　　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.

　　纽约，一名女童在登上一辆汽车后遇害身亡，女警梅根（艾丽莎·杜什库 Eliza Dushku 饰）调查此案，她敏锐的意识到被害女童的姓与名以及案发地三者的首字母相同，但除此之外毫无线索，梅根为查案用尽办法，然而却一无所获，反而梅根本人的精神压力日渐累积，她开始看到被害女童的幻影，终于精力不支甚至选择自杀，最后不得不接受精神治疗。两年后，再次有符合首字母规律的女童被害案件发生，此时的梅根不顾上司反对，再次介入调查，她和搭档在排查多位嫌疑人的同时，这位针对女童的“首字母杀手”作案愈发频繁。梅根究竟能否拼贴出凶手的真相？　　本片根据真实案件改编。

　　小有名气的惊悚小说作家苔丝·索恩（玛丽亚·贝罗 Maria Bello 饰）受邀去某地进行演讲，人生地不熟的她迷失方向，汽车还在某个根本没有手机信号的地方爆胎。当她手足无措的时候，孔武健壮的卡车司机（威尔·哈里斯 Will Harris 饰）出现答应帮她更换轮胎，然而这个暴徒见色起意，对苔丝进行了残酷的虐待，还把她丢在了一个浸泡着三四具女性尸体的坑道中。侥幸逃命的苔丝一路跌跌撞撞回到家中，她曾尝试报警，却最终三缄其口。在接下来的日子里，苔丝从混乱中理清头绪，她决定用自己的方式向那只禽兽展开报复……　　本片根据斯蒂芬·金的短篇小说改编。

 台湾中国菜硕果仅存的大师老朱（郎雄）退休后，渐尝老年生活的诸多尴尬：每周日费心做出的一桌丰盛菜肴，并无将三个女儿（杨贵媚、吴倩莲、王渝文）齐齐拉到饭桌的吸引力，已经长大成人的她们，心里藏了许多比陪父亲吃饭更重要的事；多年老友的突然离世，令他在友情这块也有了缺口；而对厨师来讲最重要的味觉的丧失，则将其彻底推到人生的低谷。三个女儿虽各忙各事，却也操心着老朱的晚年生活，计划着为其找个老伴，但她们没料到老朱早已悄无声息地谈起了“黄昏恋”。吃惊过后，老朱最看重的继承了他做菜天赋的二女儿家倩因为自身的生活经历，对父亲、她与父亲的关系有了新的认识，而对老朱来讲更大的惊喜，还在后面。