妹之恋

　　张清远死后兰心终日郁郁寡欢，太子误以为她还深爱张清远，嫉妒不已，故意亲近其她妃子来刺激和报复兰心。兰心本已对太子暗生情愫，见状却只能伤怀。 姚芊芊明白了四面楚歌的危险，为保腹中孩子，她四处笼络人心，颇见成效。 王恭妃查出了兰心和张清远的私情，盛怒之下将兰心打入冷宫。太子偷偷潜入冷宫和兰心相见，两人终于明白了对方的深情，情动之下有了一夜温存…… 后来，兰心被诊出怀有身孕，王恭妃却根本不相信这个孩子是太子的……

　　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.

　　As its title suggests THE FABULOUS WORLD OF JULES VERNE is an awe -inspiring, meticulous cinematic rendering of the aesthetic and conceptual inventions of proto-science fiction genius Jules Verne, based on one of the famed author's lesser known short stories. However, the real star of the film is the intricate art direction, successfully rendering the visual style of nineteenth century woodcuts and engravings into motion pictures, creating a stylized and surreal graphic world within which Verne’s fanciful tale unfolds. A brilliant scientist, Dr. Roche, perches high above a stormy sea, inventing a powerful explosive, when he and his assistant are kidnapped by an evil businessman, Artigas. Taken by submarine to Artigas' volcano headquarters, Roche is tricked into developing his experiment for evil intentions. The scientist’s assistant, Simon, struggles all the while to free himself and warn Roche. A magical world of baroque submarines and sailing ships, killer octopus, undersea bicycles dazzles audiences as human actors, puppetry, animation and fanciful scenic design interact to create a cinematic experience that is unique by any standards. Mixing slapstick comedy, action adventure pacing and Mélies style film magic, this little known Czechoslovakian gem transcends the juvenile literature at its source to create cinematic art of the highest order....

　　两个正在“成名路上”摸爬滚打的工薪阶层YouTuber，为了取回不小心丢进一座废弃豪宅的篮球，决定进入这个诡秘的地方。他们在屋里互相恶作剧，打闹嬉戏，还用手机记录下这次“短暂冒险”。为了吸引更多粉丝，他们在视频里特意添加了一个假鬼影效果。没想到，视频一经上传就迅速走红。　　于是，他们发起一个大胆挑战：如果视频播放量达到预定目标，他们将会在深夜再次进入这栋老宅，这次毫无防护，完全“裸探”。随着粉丝们热烈响应，他们真的兑现了承诺。然而，这一次，他们不仅将揭开豪宅背后的秘密和那些神秘“住客”的真相，也逐渐意识到一个令人毛骨悚然的事实——或许他们自己已经不再属于这个世界了。　　面对这一切，一个问题浮现：为了成名，你究竟愿意付出多大代价？

　　林美嘉（李昕芸 饰）、安晓晨（李媛 饰）和陈宇林（范逸臣 饰）大学时代便认识的好友，晓晨与宇林更是亲密的情侣。毕业后这对闺蜜共同进入一家服装设计公司，在残酷的职场中果敢自信的晓晨扶摇直上，很快成为一支团队的负责人，这让美嘉心中难免有所芥蒂。某次二人受公司指派去泰国寻找素材，希望转运的美嘉坚持要去某个偏僻所在向法师求佛牌。此后，两人在泰国遭遇离奇火灾，晓晨命丧异国他乡，美嘉则侥幸逃生，但失去了泰国之行的所有记忆。身为心理医生的宇林固然伤心，同时希望通过自己的专业技能帮助美嘉走出阴影。　　可是这番治疗丝毫没有效果，美嘉被恐怖的幻觉所困扰，情况愈演愈烈……

　　知名电视财经专家李·盖茨（乔治·克鲁尼 George Clooney 饰）在电视财经节目《金钱怪兽》中担任主持人而声名大噪，在节目中经常出现疯狂举动，会大声说出投资建议，不时在节目中用搞笑的道具和音效介绍股市。然而，事实上他是透过内线消息让他在华尔街成为赚钱高手。一名不速之客（杰克·奥康奈尔 Jack O'Connell 饰），因为听信投资分析而赔光积蓄，因此在节目直播中绑架了盖茨与节目制作人帕蒂·芬恩（朱莉娅·罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰）。同时全国民众也透过电视在看着这场玩命直播，而这场挟持行动也揭发了背后更巨大的金融操弄丑闻。