美麗的圖畫

　　對于女孩斯蒂芬妮（凱瑟琳·海格爾 Katherine Heigl 飾）來說，最近的日子可不好過。失業(yè)的生活讓她囊中羞澀，與此同時，她唯一一輛之前的敞篷跑車也被討債公司在不久之前收走抵債了。面對嚴峻的現(xiàn)實，斯蒂芬妮不得不走上街頭找起了工作。　　在表兄維尼（派特里克·費斯克勒 Patrick Fischler 飾）的介紹下，斯蒂芬妮成為了一名保釋官，保釋官這個職業(yè)可不好做，為了能夠勝任，斯蒂芬妮接受了嚴格艱苦的訓練。不久，斯蒂芬妮的第一個任務出爐了，她的客戶是一個叫做喬（杰森·奧瑪拉 Jason O'Mara 飾）的警察，后者被卷入了一起謀殺案中。要命的是，這個喬不是別人，正是斯蒂芬妮的前男友。舊愛近在眼前，除了要應付層出不窮的狀況外，如何處理他們之間的感情成為了斯蒂芬妮最首先要解決的問題。

　　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.

　　澤德期待著獲得體育獎學金，而艾迪生正在為西布魯克的國際助威比賽做準備。然后，突然，外星生物出現(xiàn)在西布魯克周圍，這不僅僅是友好的競爭。

　　三國志の天才軍師?諸葛孔明が、なぜか現(xiàn)代の渋谷に転生。　　アマチュアシンガー月見英子の歌聲に心奪われた孔明は、英子とともに音楽の力で＜天下泰平＞を目指す。そんな中、日本を代表する3大音楽レーベル、KEY TIME、SSSミュージック、V-EXが頂點を競う、史上最大の音楽バトルフェスの開幕が決定。　　各レーベルから多彩な強者アーティストが集結する中、孔明と英子も參戦することに。　　だが、そんな二人の前に三國時代の孔明の最大のライバル司馬懿の末裔?司馬潤、shin兄妹が立ちはだかる。　　果たして、孔明と英子の運命は──？