小姨子的秘密

犯罪读者俱乐部

一群年轻人在一个服装笑话中串谋，以致命的事故和沉默的协议告终，一群年轻人将受到一位匿名作家的威胁，他想揭露他的黑暗秘密。他们的跟踪者威胁要在社交媒体上发布一本以他们为原型的血腥恐怖小说。每一章都会有一个人死去。由于彼此不信任，这群人将在大学校园中央开始一场生存之战。他们中的任何一个人都有可能成为下一个受害者，或者凶手。

诅咒：纳扎尔

四重唱

　　故事发生在一间专门面向歌剧退休演员开放的养老院里，维尔福（比利·康诺利 Billy Connolly 饰）、雷吉（汤姆·康特奈 Tom Courtenay 饰）和茜茜（宝林·科林斯 Pauline Collins 饰）是那里的明星居民。每一年，这三个出色的演唱者都会通过他们的三重唱向社会募集资金，用以维持养老院的运作。虽然养老院的规模不大，但每一个老人都能在那里找到快乐和安宁。　　简（玛吉·史密斯 Maggie Smith 饰）的出现打破了众人宁静的生活，这个高傲又好斗的女人是歌剧界名声大噪的歌唱家，同时，她还是雷吉的前妻。受生活所迫，简不得已住进了这间养老院，前夫雷吉的存在更是让她心中愤愤不平。由于简的加入，三重唱变成了四重唱，但排练的效果并没有因为一个得力唱匠的加入而有所提高，麻烦和争执接踵而至。

疯狂丑小鸭2靠谱英雄

　　丑小鸭成功拯救鸟类王国后回到了鸭子农场，在那里他受到了英雄般的待遇，丑小鸭也开始沉迷于这种明星的光环。　　另一边鸟类王国中一场不知名的瘟疫蔓延开来，不少鸟儿都染病不起，天鹅议员们派人前去寻求卡尔骑士的帮助，正巧卡尔骑士意外受伤，只能让丑小鸭去查明原因，可没想到在看到瘟疫惨状时，丑小鸭情绪崩溃害怕的逃走了，众人对丑小鸭失望透顶。　　逃走的丑小鸭也陷入深深的自责中，他终于重新振作起来，决定和丑小八一起找出病因，却没想到被暗中潜伏的加瓦埋伏，夺走了他的力量，还将他困在了枯井之中，在井内，丑小鸭找到生机，见到了鸟类神秘的古代遗迹，也揭开加瓦的秘密。危机时刻，丑小鸭及时赶到激活琉璃鸟之光，再次拯救了鸟类王国。

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　　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.