星际旅行9：起义

　　时间是1979年，美国俄亥俄州一个平凡小镇。少年乔·兰布（乔尔·科特尼 Joel Courtney 饰）痛失母亲，生死悲痛让他久久地沉默。数月后，他应好朋友查尔斯（雷利·格里芬斯 Riley Griffiths 饰）的邀请，决定约上几个朋友一起用超8摄像机（8 mm）拍摄一部恐怖电影。当然令他下定决心的，是那个令她心仪的美丽女孩爱丽丝（艾丽·范宁 Elle Fanning 饰）也参与其中。在某个夜晚，爱丽丝驾驶父亲的汽车载着伙伴们来到火车站拍戏，谁知却目睹了一场极其惨烈的火车事故。
　　这起事故还只是一系列不寻常事件的开始，小镇上的人们相继离奇失踪，各种奇怪的事件也接连发生。少年们的摄像机记录关于这一切的秘密……

　　朱利叶斯·凯尔教授是一个懦弱的人，经常被别人作弄。当一个足球教练在他的全班学生和他喜欢的漂亮学生斯特拉面前侮辱他之后，他决定配制一剂药。当他喝下这剂药后，他变成了一个人人都喜爱的广为人知的充满野性的动物，而且他不再害怕和斯特拉说话。但有一个问题就是，这副药的能量会很快用光。

　　小狄（徐娇 饰）是一个在贵族学校念书的穷孩子。他诚实善良，却总是遭到富家子的欺负和嘲笑。小狄和爸爸（周星驰 饰）住在一所废弃的旧房子里，爸爸每天拼命的工作，就是为了让他念好书，将来出人头地。
　　平日，小狄总是很乖，就算体育课因为没有运动鞋而被老师罚站，他也从不埋怨爸爸。可是这一次，为了一个大家都有的玩具，小狄跟爸爸发起脾气来。爸爸买不起，就在垃圾堆里捡了一个“球”给儿子玩。谁知，这个透明的小球却变成一只活泼可爱，拥有超能力的太空狗。小狄欣喜极若狂，给他取名叫“长江七号”。小狄梦想着用七仔的超能力考100分，却没想到七仔非但没有帮到他，却让他得了个零蛋。他偷偷修改了成绩单，跟爸爸说了一次谎。爸爸大怒，小狄离家出走，赌气要凭真本事考好成绩给爸爸看。谁知，正当小狄笑着，拿着成绩单的时候，工地发生事故，爸爸从楼上摔了下来……

　　U.F.O. Blue Christmas

　　故事紧承上一部展开。在丈夫为保护家人牺牲后，伊芙琳（艾米莉·布朗特 饰）不得不独自带着孩子们（米莉森·西蒙斯、诺亚·尤佩 饰）面对全新的生存挑战。他们将被迫离开家园，踏上一段未知的旅途。在无声的世界里，除了要躲避“猎声怪物”的捕杀，铺满细沙的道路尽头还暗藏着新的危机。

　　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.

　　In the futuristic city of Vanille, with properly tuned ImmerSyst Eyes Ears the world can look and sound like a paradise. But the life of a father and his young son threatens to disintegrate when the father's device begins to fail. Desperate to avoid facing his own traumatic reality, the man must venture outside to find a replacement, into a city where violence and danger lurk beneath a skim of beautiful illusion.

　　一个年轻人有一种罕见的礼物，可以识别他听到的每一个声音。在一艘法国核潜艇上，一切都依赖于他，金耳朵。
　　看上去绝对可靠，他犯了一个错误，让船员处于死亡的危险之中。他希望重新获得同志的信任，但他的追求会让他们陷入更加戏剧化的境地。
　　在核威慑和错误信息的世界中，他们发现自己被困在一个无法控制的装备中。

　　一个运气不佳的自行车手迈尔斯某天偶然发现一只先进、机器、军用的机器狗A.X.L.，其心脏是真狗的心脏，其他部位装备新一代人工智能。迈尔斯和AXL在日常交往中逐渐增进感情，而无赖军事科学家要不顾一切将AXL捉回，迈尔斯与他的梦中情人、足智多谋莎拉组队，为保护他的新朋友，踏上了一段史诗般的冒险旅程。

　　意图征服一切的霸天虎全员出击，塞伯坦即将陨落，B-127（迪伦·奥布莱恩 Dylan O'Brien 配音）临危受命前往地球。在1987年的加州，B-127不仅遭到特工伯恩斯（约翰·塞纳 John Cena 饰演）的追捕，更被闪电（大卫·索博洛夫 David Sobolov 配音）殴至重伤，语言模块和记忆模块严重受损。B-127变形为大众甲壳虫，被失去了父亲（蒂姆·马丁·格利森 Tim Martin Gleason 饰演）的查莉·沃森（海莉·斯坦菲尔德 Hailee Steinfeld 饰演）发现并开回家。查莉为B-127取名大黄蜂，双方成为亲密无间的好朋友。然而好景不长，反射弹（贾斯汀·塞洛克斯 Justin Theroux 配音）与粉碎（安吉拉·贝塞特 Angela Bassett 配音）追至地球，利用美国军方的卫星网络追踪到大黄蜂，并企图将霸天虎大部队召唤到这里。为了阻止反弹射和粉碎，大黄蜂和他的新朋友一起踏上了保卫这个蓝色星球的征途……

　　十年前，人类为自己的愚蠢付出惨痛代价，凶险致命的猿流感病毒蔓延全球，世界毁灭殆尽。而在毗邻旧金山的原始丛林，凯撒（安迪·瑟金斯 Andy Serkis 饰）带领猩猩伙伴们建立起无忧无虑的王国，直到某一天，猩猩的家园的宁静再度被人类打破。在旧城苟延残喘的人类面临能源危机，他们试图利用森林腹地大坝的发电站提供能源。青年科学家马尔科姆（杰森·克拉科 Jason Clarke 饰）试图说服聚集地负责人德里弗斯（加里·奥德曼 Gary Oldman 饰），希望通过和平手段取得猩猩部落的信任和同意。然而凯撒的好盟友科巴（托比·凯贝尔 Toby Kebbell 饰）却无法摒除对人类的憎恨，他尝试着挑战者凯撒的权威。
　　人类和猩猩，双方小心翼翼试探，而战争在所难免……