绿液惊魂

　　南西是一个成功的遗传学家，在中美洲的热带丛林里，她为了制造一个能够存活在任何气候下的生物，准备前进火星探索，于是她将成群濒临绝种的火蜥蜴和病菌结合在一起，结果火蜥蜴长出人的手足脚，南西并为它取一个新的名字叫VIPER。
　　秘密情报局获知南西培育出这种新基因，他们认为应该要将她和她的实验迅速护送回美国，正当南西和麦克眼看著VIPER就要被直升机送返美国，突然一阵枪响，VIPER被击中下来，在一阵强烈翻覆后，机上的火蜥蜴与VIPER产生化学作用。
　　这个新的生命有强烈的求生欲望，他愤怒地毁损丛林和残杀附近的居民。麦克和南西极力想要阻止这场灾难；但唯一的问题是，所有人根本不曾看过他.......

　　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.

　　为了寻找失落于地球的量天仪宝珠，太空城族长扎尔塔（彼德·奥图 Peter O'Toole 饰）派遣女超人卡拉（海伦·斯雷特 Helen Slater 饰）前往地球。此时的宝珠落到了邪恶的女巫赛琳娜（费·唐纳薇 Faye Dunaway 饰）的手中，为了炫耀这价值连城的宝 物，赛琳娜举办了一场晚会，而这就是卡拉夺回宝物的最佳时机。卡拉的举动惹恼了赛琳娜，她设计将卡拉骗至恐怖城，夺走了她的力量与自由。
　　得知卡拉遇险，扎尔塔前来营救，却不想命丧赛琳娜之手。悲愤的卡拉想方设法逃脱了赛琳娜的桎梏，为了给死去的扎尔塔报仇，为了夺回珠宝，为了维护世界的和平，卡拉做好了准备，要与赛琳娜展殊死搏斗。

　　自20世纪70年代开始，美国政府实施了名为SETI的计划，30年来不间断的用射电望远镜扫描宇宙空间，旨在寻找外星生物和相关文明。在犹他州的德威市，有一所隶属政府的实验室，这里正在进行一项秘密试验。在此之前，人类曾受到外星文明发回的信息，其中包括外星生物的DNA组成和生命重组的方法。犹他州实验室的科学家们利用外星人提供的资料培养出拥有外星人DNA的新人类“塞尔”。出于某种原因，政府决定中止这项实验，但其中一个塞尔却逃出实验室。她将给人类带来怎样的影响？
　　本片荣获1996年MTV电影奖最佳银幕之吻奖、1995年科环宇宙杂志最佳化妆奖、1995年Sitges-Catalonian国际电影节最佳特效奖。

　　哈利波特（丹尼尔•雷德克里夫 Daniel Radcliffe 饰）结束了假期，即将回到霍格沃兹继续学习魔法。一个叫多比的家养小精灵警告哈利不要回到霍格沃兹，否则会陷入极大的危险。哈利没有听从多比的劝告，回到了霍格沃兹。很快，霍格沃兹发生了一连窜怪事:接二连三出现学生被石化，一直找不出原因。而哈利总能听到一种奇怪的声音，从墙壁里传出来。
　　传说，霍格沃兹有一个密室，里面记录着伏地魔年轻时的秘密，只有斯莱特林的人才能打开密室。哈利偶然发现自己能听懂蛇说话，一时传闻是哈利打开了密室。难道多比所指的危险就隐藏在密室？