红楼残梦之董小宛

　　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.

宋真宗晚年，青春年少的包拯和好友公孙策，一同破获一起尘封多年冤案。女主角月亮十多年前，全家被奸人所害，为了翻案，打听到传闻中阴阳镜能断是非真假，于是去墓地盗取，结果触碰机关导致展昭被困，为了将其解救，必须破解地穴里的各种机关算术。一筹莫展的月亮刚好遇到聪慧过人的包拯，巧设伎俩利用鬼怪传说，想引包拯去地穴救展昭。但包拯心中秉持正义、公平，从不相信鬼怪传说，救出展昭后，月亮拿到阴阳镜后，坦白自己一家遭奸人所害的事实，凶手还在逍遥法外。为了翻案包拯，利用阴阳镜的传说，使得案件重演，凶手心绪恐惧坦白从宽，认罪伏法。从此，年少的包拯一举成名，所代表的公平、公正和正义的形象，慢慢被民众熟知，被民众所拥戴。

　　闯荡好莱坞失败的演员里根·皮尔斯为工作在去往路易斯安那州的一个小镇什里夫波特路上，被歹徒绑架至一个沼泽地附近的小屋，歹徒折磨并威胁他用推特账户发布并上传妥协博文，他改如何逃脱困境？

 罗生门，日本京都的正南门。云游和尚、砍柴人和乞丐在城门底下避雨，三人闲聊，话题开始，故事的序幕拉开：一个武士和他妻子路过荒山，遭遇了不测。妻子被侮辱，而武士惨遭杀害。惨案如何酿成？凶手、妻子、借武士亡魂来做证的女巫，都各有说法。真相只得一个，但是各人提供证词的目的却各有不同。为了美化自己的道德，减轻自己的罪恶，掩饰自己的过失，人人都开始叙述一个美化自己的故事版本。荒山上的惨案，成了一团拨不开看不清的迷雾。谈论完毕，雨过天晴。砍柴人在罗生门旁发现一个哭泣的弃婴。他决定收养下来，抱着婴孩往夕阳深处走去。