醬園弄·懸案 (2024)

等待方舟

　　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.

解放3：主攻方向

　　為紀念蘇聯衛國戰爭30周年，前蘇聯莫斯科電影制片廠于1970—1972年，拍攝了一部堪稱前蘇聯電影史上耗資最巨、規模最大、場面最為壯觀的戰爭題材影片———《解放》。影片從1943年蘇聯紅軍反攻（庫爾斯克戰役）開始，到強渡涅伯河，解放基輔，最后攻克柏林。分為五集，片長將近8個小時。導演尤里·奧澤洛夫為強調“紀實性”、“史詩性”，在影片中穿插了大量的真實歷史文獻鏡頭。影片還出現了不少歷史人物，如斯大林、朱可夫、羅斯福、丘吉爾、希特勒、墨索里尼等。此外，影片還蘊涵豐富感人的故事情節，從蘇、德兩軍統帥到普通士兵，從蘇軍反攻到德軍覆沒，成功地表現了一種攻無不克、戰無不勝的革命樂觀主義精神。

惡魔在上

　　Two estranged brothers come together and discover old family secrets after inheriting their grandfather's property. As their friends start to go missing, they fear they are being stalked by a creature lurking in the shadows.

AUNTY當網紅

吉星拱照

　　林寶生（周潤發 飾）是香港富豪，與表妹玉仙（利智 飾）早已訂婚。但寶生并不喜歡未婚妻的庸俗，決定逃婚，并要證明自己能獨立生活。出走的第一天，他陰差陽錯來到了一個慈善晚會，認識了晚會贊助商東東快餐店的老板（夏雨 飾）與其妹妹（張艾嘉 飾），還成為了快餐店的員工之一。寶生與一群善良的同事度過了一段難忘的時光，他也看到了自己價值的存在，與老板的妹妹也產生了感情，但他與表妹的婚期將至，他的真實身份也將浮出水面，而他與老板妹妹的感情又會如何呢？

恐怖列車

　　五名美國業余摔跤選手艾歷克斯（Thora Birch 飾）、托德、克萊爾、威利、謝爾頓，在教練帶領下遠赴東歐參加摔跤比賽，雖然他們輸掉了比賽，但當晚仍興致勃勃參加了派對，以致耽誤了第二天開往敖德薩的火車，由于語言不通，他們一時買不到車票，一位說英語的金發女郎出現，帶領他們登上了車站內的一列紅色火車。　　甫一上車，隊員們的護照便被形容猥瑣的男乘務員收去，這列經過改裝的列車上賭場、餐車、休息室一應俱全，隊員們很快遠離其他語言不通的乘客，躲在休息室玩起了真心話大冒險，然而在游戲進行的過程中，托德消失在列車尾部，其他隊員也一一失蹤，艾歷克斯很快發現，她要獨自面對車上的幾個活體器官摘除者……

年獸

　　胡家莊年味漸淡，寒暑異常，舞獅少年羅川跳脫飛揚，異想天開，夢想把舞獅技藝發揚光大，卻常常弄巧成拙，所到之處雞飛狗跳，被村民視為“掃把星”，是村長胡長禮眼中的“危險分子”。年獸小五意外降臨人間，大鬧村莊，勾走了傳家寶——獅頭。羅川為找回獅頭，和下凡捉年獸的鼠仙阿細相識，兩人逐漸發現年獸并不可怕，可以和人類做朋友，但胡長禮愛村心切，被噬靈妖蠱惑，遁入瘋魔，制造了一場針對年獸的陰謀，最終羅川和阿細聯合村民，打敗了噬靈妖，喚醒了胡長禮，胡家莊重歸熱鬧，眾人歡歡喜喜迎接春節到來。