嫂子与小叔子的禁忌姻缘

 A new comedy special from Adam Sandler directed by Josh Safdie (making his comedy special directorial debut), Adam Sandler: Love You premieres globally on Netflix on August 27, 2024.

　　镇上的每个人都知道老阿姨埃塞尔的故事。据说她在孩子们的家里制作万圣节糖果和南瓜派。埃塞尔姨妈真的是一个有孩子味道的精神病例吗？这个万圣节，邻居青少年将找出真相。他们为埃塞尔姨妈准备了一些特别的东西。这可能只是某人的最后一个万圣节。

来自河北廊坊的说唱少年，王笑，因一次意外打架事件背负巨额欠款。王笑母亲在不明真相的情况下替王笑支付了该笔欠款，王笑知道后和母亲大吵一架并且决定前往北京打工还债。来到北京之后王笑接连租房受骗，感情受挫，说唱事业也无法继续发展，而且再次欠下巨额欠款。王笑该如何面对这一切？

杰弗里和莎拉是一对通奸的夫妇，他们谋杀的合法妻子索菲亚的尸体从太平间神秘消失后，他们拼命地寻找不在场证明。警探阿里亚·普拉达纳竭尽全力，试图揭开真相。尸体复活是为了向凶手复仇吗？

 台湾中国菜硕果仅存的大师老朱（郎雄）退休后，渐尝老年生活的诸多尴尬：每周日费心做出的一桌丰盛菜肴，并无将三个女儿（杨贵媚、吴倩莲、王渝文）齐齐拉到饭桌的吸引力，已经长大成人的她们，心里藏了许多比陪父亲吃饭更重要的事；多年老友的突然离世，令他在友情这块也有了缺口；而对厨师来讲最重要的味觉的丧失，则将其彻底推到人生的低谷。三个女儿虽各忙各事，却也操心着老朱的晚年生活，计划着为其找个老伴，但她们没料到老朱早已悄无声息地谈起了“黄昏恋”。吃惊过后，老朱最看重的继承了他做菜天赋的二女儿家倩因为自身的生活经历，对父亲、她与父亲的关系有了新的认识，而对老朱来讲更大的惊喜，还在后面。

　　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.