简介:This fine mixture of romance, humor, tears, and exciting action sequences stars Kevin Costner and David Grant as brothers struggling to win the Hell of the West — a world-class cycling competition — while trying to regain the respect and affection they once shared. ?Training and racing together they each fear the congenital ailment that struck down their father could suddenly strike one of them. ?American Flyers is a spirit-soaring spectacle.
简介: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 memoryn 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.
简介:未来,英国进入一个资讯管控的时代,每个人的一举一动都遭到监视。因为被认定为恐怖分子,巴托在家中被捕,而且逮捕过程严格按照流程。这个案件引起了档案局职员山姆•劳伊(乔纳森•普雷斯 Jonathan Pryce 饰)的兴趣。随后,他遵从母命,进入资讯管理局工作,得以进一步调查此事。山姆家的空调坏了,在他求助无望之际,电气修理工达脱(罗伯特•德尼罗 Robert De Niro 饰)不请自来。他那一身武器装备,让山姆感到如临大敌。原来,达脱是资讯管理局通缉的要犯,他被指控的理由便是不遵守作业程序。随后,山姆发现资讯管理局对巴托案件存在不可告人的疑点,同事杰克(迈克尔•帕林 Michael Palin 饰)对此闪烁其词。于是,山姆决定一探究竟,其间他邂逅了梦中情人——吉尔•莱顿(金•格雷斯特 Kim Greist 饰),两个人并肩作战,发现了一个巨大的阴谋……
简介:Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. The woman stays by the remains of the the satellite but is soon caught by evil punks who have taken power.
简介:故事发生在旧金山的郊区,这边厢,杰克(杰夫·布里吉斯 Jeff Bridges 饰)尚且沉浸在妻子佩吉(Maria Mayenzet 饰)去世的悲痛之中,那边厢,他就已经成为了警方重点怀疑的对象,因为佩吉出身于富有的家庭,而她的死亡意味着她那令人垂涎的巨额遗产将落入杰克的手中。为了洗清身上的罪名,杰克雇佣了名叫泰迪(格伦·克洛斯 Glenn Close 饰)的女律师,在相处的过程中,杰克和泰迪之间的关系渐渐开始变得暧昧不明起来,在理智与情感之间,泰迪能否拨开迷雾看清事实?她身边的这个男人,又是否真的如同看上去的那样清白无辜呢?在接近真相的同时,危险也渐渐来到了她的身后。
简介:独角兽掌管着世界的光明,为了让黑暗重新笼罩,魔王(蒂姆·克里 Tim Curry 饰)一直都在进行着独角兽的猎杀行动。莉莉(米娅·萨拉 Mia Sara 饰)是懵懂而又天真的公主,一次偶然中,她闯入了一片森林里,在那里,莉莉邂逅了身份神秘的杰克(汤姆·克鲁斯 Tom Cruise 饰),很快,两颗孤独的心渐渐贴在了一起。在杰克的带领之下,莉莉见到了世界上最后两只独角兽,杰克告诫莉莉只可以用眼睛看,千万不可以触碰独角兽,可是,莉莉没能经受的起独角兽魅力的诱惑,最终还是伸手触碰。这让魔王得到了机会,他杀死了其中的一头独角兽,并且掠走了莉莉和剩下的另一头独角兽,为了拯救世界,杰克向森林里的精灵寻求帮助。