丑人儿

　　年轻女子米歇尔（玛丽·伊丽莎白·温斯特德 Mary Elizabeth Winstead 饰）不久前刚和男友发生争吵，她夜晚驾车奔驰在黑暗的公路上，突然遭遇严重车祸昏迷过去。当她再度醒来时，发现自己被绑住手脚，关在一个密闭的空间里。少顷，一个健硕冷峻的男子霍华德（约翰·古德曼 John Goodman 饰）走了进来。军人出身的霍华德声称地球刚刚遭遇可怕的生化危机，地球人几乎灭亡殆尽。他在数年前未雨绸缪修建了这个设备、资源齐全的避难所，只为生存下去。避难所内，除了霍华德、米歇尔外，还有另外一个年轻男子埃米特。米歇尔对霍华德的说辞半信半疑，她坚信自己遭到了变态狂的拘禁。
　　真相究竟为何？威胁无处不在……

　　双腿受伤的尼克（布伦顿·思韦茨 Brenton Thwaites 饰）和女友海莉（奥莉维娅·库克 Olivia Cooke 饰）以及好哥们约拿（伯乌·内普 Beau Knapp 饰）正在进行一段喜乐参半的漫长旅行。在此之前，就读于麻省理工的他一直和约拿在追踪一个黑进学校网站的天才骇客，经过一段时间的努力，他们终于抓住骇客的踪迹。二人扬言揭发对方，谁知对方竟仿佛在他们身边监视着一样。旅途继续，夜幕降临，三人准备在一个废弃的小屋落脚。就在此时屋外传来海莉的呼救声，而尼克也被人重重击倒。
　　当他再度醒来，只见到穿着防辐射衣服的陌生男子（劳伦斯·菲什伯恩 Laurence Fishburne 饰）在和他说话。此时此刻，他仿佛置身一个关于外星生物的巨大阴谋之中，噩梦永远没有尽头……

　　莫妮卡·贝鲁奇加盟科幻恐怖片[尼可曼斯](Nekromancer，暂译)。影片由澳大利亚导演凯·瑞奇-特纳及凯兄弟两人执导。影片卡司还包括本·奥图尔([底特律])、泰丝·哈乌布里奇([机器之血])。该片由eOne联合Screen Australia、 Create NSW投资制作。影片今年于悉尼开拍，剧情未知。

　　That day is seared into the memory of every human being on the planet: the day the world changed. First came the attack on the Philippines. Within days they spread, as though appearing out of nowhere, striking out at more islands, forging a foothold in the South Pacific. Then came the first attack on U.S. soil - Los Angeles - and the reality became clear: our world was at war once again, but this time with an enemy from beyond our galaxy. Now, months later, the fate of the world hangs in the balance as a mission to strike at a key enemy installation deep in enemy territory goes terribly wrong, and the Marines of the 15th Expeditionary Unit are scattered across the island of New Britain, leaderless, and facing impossible odds. Pacific Theater is the story of those Marines: fresh recruits who journey from their homes across the Pacific to the front lines. It is the story of John Blake, a charming Californian surfer who must find the strength to become a leader, Tracey Gleeson, a physics...

　　A tectonic shift deep below the Mariana Trench causes a series of ever escalating earthquakes. If a team of leading seismologists fails to stop the disaster, the events will break apart the Earth, resulting in billions of casualties.

　　Eric Braeden stars as Dr. Charles Forbin, who has created a supercomputer named Colossus, built solely for the purpose of controlling the nuclear defenses of the Western alliance. It isn't too long after, however, that the Russians announce that they too have built a similar computer for those same purposes on their side--Guardian. And when the two machines begin sharing information at a speed nobody can believe, an attempt is made to disable them.
　　This unfortunately just raises the machines' ire; and in retaliation, they launch their weapons at each other's home nations. The result is a chilling scenario that is potentially becoming all too real these days.
　　COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT was not a big hit at the box office for various reasons. One is that its cast wasn't exactly well known. Another reason is that its ending isn't exactly a happy one. Still a third reason is that Universal had trouble trying to promote it in the wake of the huge success of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. The latter reason is obvious: Colossus and Guardian, like HAL in the Kubrick movie, become central characters here. The difference here is that while HAL malfunctions due to a programming conflict, Colossus and Guardian remain all too stable, convinced beyond a doubt that they know how to protect Mankind better than Man himself. As the computers point out: "One inevitable rule is that Mankind is his own worst enemy."
　　Joseph Sargent's direction is efficient, and the special effects work of Albert Whitlock still manages to work despite its obvious age. An overlooked gem in the sci-fi genre, this should be given a revival.

　　Long after humanity's extinction, a buoy and a satellite meet online and fall in love.

　　在一個遙遠的星球上，有一群時空穿越者正和外星人對戰，必須在限定時間內啟動時光機器，將地球回復到毀滅之前的樣子。

　　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.