夏娃的誘惑：她的技巧

　　A quick glimpse at the cast for this film would make any horror fan giddy with glee. The actual movie doesn't live up to those high expectations, but it's far from being all bad. Desi Arnaz Jr. (!) plays an author who makes a crazy $20,000 bet with his publisher that he could write a great novel in only 24 hours. To do so, the publisher gives him the keys to an old abandoned house where he won't be disturbed. Not true. Once he gets there he is interrupted by a multitude of guests including a family which consists of John Carradine, Sheila Keith, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. They are gathered there in a twisted family reunion to release their brother from the room he's been imprisoned in for forty years. Even Christopher Lee drops by as Corrigan, the man who has just purchased the house. Soon, they realize that the caged brother is loose and out for revenge.　　What a great plotline and what a dream cast! This movie should have been a hell of a lot better. It's hard to pinpoint the exact problems with the film, but I would venture to say that the lack of lighting was a major fault. Sure the house has no electricity but I think they took the title of the movie a little too literally. Scenes after scenes are barely visible and the actors' faces are undecipherable. Only the moments in the main dinning hall are well lit. Also, the great actors are given very little to do. Cushing gets a few chuckles as the scared brother but Price, Lee and especially Carradine are somewhat wasted here. Well, at least Price gets the best line of the film: `Please don't interrupt me while I am soliloquizing.' And on the plus side, the story has enough twists and turns throughout to keep one`s interest and the ending, while a bit of a cop-out, manages to surprise.

　　在波特家的地板縫里，居住著波德一家人，波德一族天生擁有著迷你的身材，靠著寄宿在人類家中，向人類借生活必備品維生。這一天，皮特（布萊德利·皮爾斯 Bradley Pierce 飾）向往常一樣告別了父母前往學校，而他的父母也雙雙出門了，整個大房子成為了波德一家人的天下。　　這一次，波德（約翰·古德曼 John Goodman 飾）帶上了兒子皮特林（湯姆·費爾頓 Tom Felton 飾）和女兒阿列艾迪（弗洛拉·紐比金 Flora Newbigin 飾），那曉得皮特林在偷冰淇淋的時候卻被誤打誤撞的關進了冰箱里。好巧不巧，波特家的主人在這個節(jié)骨眼上回家了，面臨這前所未有的危機，波德會做出怎樣的反應呢？

　　粵劇的「舊」，為「新浪潮」提供了上佳的戲劇背景。許鞍華的第二部作品以戲班後臺作為舞臺，泡製出一個寓風格於現實的故事。長洲可說是一個大型的後臺，其古樸的離島風貌，配合了粵劇肖象性的化妝、絢麗的服飾及富於感觀性的舞臺表演，營造出一股詭秘妖異的氣氛。兩代恩怨竟牽涉商業(yè)騙局及軍政大事，陰與陽、人與鬼、新與舊、老與少、真與假，錯綜複雜。蕭芳芳的演出收放自如，演活了「十三點」的鬼馬二幫花旦。導演許鞍華充滿獵奇意味的筆觸，更為粵劇描繪出一種特殊的魅力。

　　在珍妮（阿曼達·貝尼斯 Amanda Bynes 飾）的眼中，歌星杰森（克里斯·卡馬克 Chris Carmack 飾）就是她的白馬王子，對于苦苦追求她的瑞恩（喬納森·本內特 Jonathan Bennett 飾），珍妮則選擇視而不見。一次意外中，珍妮和杰森遭遇了海難雙雙漂流到了一座小島上，不敢相信生命中竟然會有如此好事的珍妮很快就發(fā)現，這座島并非孤島，而是一處海濱度假村。　　為了制造和偶像獨處的機會，珍妮對杰森撒了謊，而維系謊言不被拆穿的任務則落到了瑞恩的頭上。阿萊克斯（杰米·林恩·迪斯卡拉 Jamie-Lynn DiScala 飾）的到來讓珍妮的心里敲響了警鐘，因為兩人一直都是情敵關系，而此時的瑞恩則因為被珍妮拒絕而陷入了沮喪的情緒中無法自拔。暴風雨來襲，小島成為了海上的一葉扁舟，誰能夠拯救身陷險境的珍妮呢？