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爱尔兰式告别

 Set against the backdrop of a working farm in rural Northern Ireland, 'An Irish Goodbye' is a black comedy following the reunion of estranged brothers Turlough (Seamus O’Hara) and Lorcan (James Martin) following the untimely death of their mother (Michelle Fairley).Under the watchful eye of odd-ball parish priest Father O’Shea (Paddy Jenkins), the brothers’ pained reunion is worsened by the fact Turlough must now make new care arrangements for Lorcan, who has Down Syndrome. But when the brothers discover an unfulfilled bucket list belonging to their late mother, Lorcan senses an opportunity: he’ll only agree to leave the farm once he and Turlough have themselves completed every single wish on their mother’s list…all one-hundred of them.

辣手警花

　　飞扬跋扈的FBI特工莎拉（桑德拉·布洛克 Sandra Bullock 饰）总是料事如神，屡建奇功，然而她强悍孤高的工作态度却令很多同事受不了，怨声载道的状况又再次阻碍了她的升职，莎拉的上司决定将其派到波士顿，并安排了一名新搭档穆林斯（梅丽莎·麦卡西 Melissa McCarthy 饰），共同追捕一个俄罗斯毒品集团，一方面发挥莎拉的机智，一方面则是考验她是否拥有与人协作的能力。然而这位新搭档偏偏也不是省油的灯，而是波士顿一名特立独行满口脏话的女警察，两个从未合作过的彪悍女性，开始了令人捧腹的磨合期，然而她们通力合作追捕罪犯的好戏才刚刚开始……

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母亲往事

Paris, 1963. The youngest of a family of six, Roland, is a boy like no other. According to the doctors, he'll never walk, but his stubborn mother, Esther, simply refuses to accept this.

诺玛·蕾

 故事发生在一个南部小镇的棉织厂，诺玛（莎莉·菲尔德 Sally Field 饰）和她的家人都在这里工作。这个工厂的工作环境异常恶劣，工人们每天都经受着资本家的无情剥削和艰辛劳动。面对这种不公平的待遇，工人们备受压迫和困扰。为了改变这种状况，总工会派来了一名经验丰富的组织者，希望能够协助当地工人组织自己的工会，为工人们争取更好的待遇和权益。然而，工人们对组织者的到来持有怀疑态度，他们心存疑虑，担心这只是一个无望的尝试。组织者面临着许多困难和挑战。工人们对他进行冷嘲热讽，老板则用各种无理阻拦来阻碍工会的成立。看到这一切，诺玛内心充满了愤慨和不满。她是一个有着坚强意志的女性，对不合理的事物总是敢于挑战。受到组织者的激励和影响，诺玛最终选择站出来，成为了改变的先锋。

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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.