她的初恋

不露声色

　　罗素·克劳将主演惊悚新片[扑克脸](Poker Face，暂译)。加里·弗莱德([家园防线])执导，斯蒂芬·M·科茨操刀剧本。该片讲述杰克(克劳饰)是一个科技界的亿万富翁，他把他的童年朋友们召集到他的迈阿密豪宅，进行一场高赌注的扑克游戏。这些朋友与这位主人有一种爱恨交织的关系。杰克也是个游戏高手&策划者，他精心策划了一个计划，旨在给他们所有人带来某种正义。然而，当杰克的迈阿密豪宅被一个危险的入室抢劫者占领时，他发现自己需要重新思考他的策略。

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.

惑星大战争

　　西暦1988年。人類は謎のUFO群の襲来により危機に瀕していた。人類の存亡をかけ、南海の秘密基地で建造されていた国連宇宙防衛艦・轟天は発進する。侵略者の正体は、太陽系から2万2千光年離れたメシエ13と呼ばれる球状星団・恒星ヨミの第三惑星人だった。彼らは年老いた母星そっくりの地球を征服すべく、指揮官ヘルのもとに金星に侵略の前線基地を築いていた。敵ヘルファイターとの激しい戦闘をくり返し、金星に向かう轟天。しかし、その前に敵の超努級戦艦・大魔艦が立ちふさがる……。

河流如血

　　The son of an African-American Judge is killed by police officers on the day he was set to begin law enforcement academy. When the courts clear the officers of wrongdoing, the Judge must decide whether the courts are the only arbitrators of justice.

教皇行动

失踪儿童录像带

　　敬太（杉田雷麟 饰）的弟弟日向很久之前，在山中失踪。敬太一直还在寻找弟弟。一天，他突然收到母亲寄来的一盘旧录像带，里面是弟弟失踪瞬间的录像。　　敬太擅长通灵的室友（平井亚门 饰）从录像带中感受到了不祥的气氛，并劝敬太不要过多地介入其中。 随后，他俩与一直报道此事的记者 美琴（森田想 饰）共同前往了弟弟失踪的那座山。