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　　俊美性感的安東是位「家庭主夫」，沒想到卻遭老公拋棄，失去情感與經濟上的支柱，他只好寄居好友的房子、在麵包店打工，同時上糕點學校，身邊更不乏性愛與追求者。正當他一步步邁向獨立之際，帥氣迷人的攝影師闖進他的生活，前任情人也想挽回他，安東該怎麼解決這愛情難題？義大利性感新星賈恩卡洛科馬雷首部電影演出，即獲得羅馬世界電影工廠影帝榮耀。

　　Out of the fifties &♯39;B&♯39; Science-Fiction monster movies, this easily ranks as the best. It&♯39;s most notable as the film that ALIEN is an unaccredited remake of, thus giving it a certain historical significance.
　　The intriguing plot is about the rescue of the only marooned survivor (Col. Carruthers) of an ill-fated expedition to Mars. The authorities, pig-headed as usual, falsely assume that he murdered his fellow crew members, so that he&♯39;d have more provisions to survive; hence he is being brought back to Earth to face court-martial for murder. (There is also a somewhat interesting plot reversal here: Most movies of this nature usually begin with the ship leaving Earth, enroute to its otherworld destination, while, in this case, the "story" is believed finished, and begins as the characters take-off from the other planet, returning to Earth). As the rescue ship is leaving Mars, a lurking, ominous shadow is seen in the lower compartment. (A frightening, atmospheric moment, accomplished through sheer economy and simplicity).
　　Carruthers insists of his innocence to his fellow captors, claiming that his original crew mates were slaughtered by a hostile, unseen presence on the desolute red planet, but three-guesses as to their reaction to his unusual plea. Naturally, he can&♯39;t prove it, and 50&♯39;s space authorities were not very alien conscience at the time. (As a side-thought, "unseen menace" may remind you of that highly "original" BLAIR WITCH).
　　As everyone sacks out, a hapless supporting charactor whose name is at the bottom of the casting list (guess what will happen to him?) hears something in the lower compartment. Despite your futile "don&♯39;t go down there, you jerk!" pleas, he does just that, and is appropriately killed (more like thoroughly obliterated) by the shadowy figure with insatiable blood lust on its mind. In the victim&♯39;s case, dereliction of duty and sheer cowardliness would have been the wise decision. The scene is actually well-directed (for a change) and develops much suspense, as the entire film surprisingly does.
　　The crew finally catches on that they have an unwanted ship crasher on board, and try every possible means at their disposal to eliminate it, but the unknown creature seems to copping an anti-death attitude. Proving to be an even more clever, worthy adversary, &♯39;IT!&♯39; also hides out in the ventilation shafts of the ship (now that should ring a bell). Cahn&♯39;s forceful direction generates considerable tension as the malevolent stowaway works its way up from one level of the confined ship to the next, eventually leaving the remaining characters trapped at the top. The movie&♯39;s suspense is blunt and right to the point: "IT!&♯39; has to kill them or starve, hence they have to kill "IT!" or die. Nothing like those "no two ways about it" choices. Rent it, or check for it on cable if you wish to know the outcome.
　　For a low-budget quickie, IT! is quite impressive and memorable. The dreaded sense of claustrophobic tension, rendering the characters&♯39; helpless entrapment, is highly effective. This is a production in which the limited budget and small sets actually work in favor of the plot&♯39;s scary ambience. The black & white photography (Yes, it&♯39;s one of those!) helps to enhance its dark, creepy mood, and the sense of apprehension is quite high. (Modern day color freaks never seem to take that into consideration). The plot is also somewhat cynically ironic: If the creature hadn&♯39;t stowed away on the ship, Carruthers would have most likely been found guilty of the charges against him.
　　The intelligent script (see what I mean about "rareity") was penned by noted Science-Fiction author Jerome Bixby (remember Twilight Zone&♯39;s "It&♯39;s a Good Life")? The picture&♯39;s taut editing eliminates any extraneous dross. (ALIEN tended to drag in its first hour with its sophomoric dialogue, and why did it have to include that stupid and ultimately counter-productive sub-plot of Ash being a robot, and further dragging the story down to another big bad conspiracy cliche? UNNECESSARY!!!)
　　Director Cahn astutely keeps the rubber-suited monster off-screen and in the shadows through-out most of the proceedings, keeping your paranoid imagination on constant alert. Unfortunately, perhaps at the studio&♯39;s commercial insistance, it is a little over-revealed at the climax, but I haven&♯39;t claimed this to be the perfect masterpiece. The performances, though nothing award-winning, are nevertheless cool enough so that one becomes sincerely concerned as to their fates. Not many movies in recent times ever come close to achieving that. They can be over-produced from here to eternity, and usually only succeed in being gloriously annoying.
　　This film&♯39;s story is not really totally original (what is?), for it is based on A.E. Van Vogt&♯39;s "VOYAGE OF THE SPACE BEAGLE." All ALIEN fanatics should track down an old used copy to see where the initial influence came from.
　　As long as you&♯39;re not craving another CGI wind-ding, you may find it worthwhile. Just don&♯39;t expect the women to be Ripley precursors. This was still the sock-knitting fifties, sad to say.

　　The geologist Lance Hackett is employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a desert area covered with ant hills prior to a possible uranium extraction. His work is impeded by some aborigines who explain that this is the place where the green ants dream. Disturbing their dreaming will destroy humanity they claim...
　　电影讲述某矿业公司在澳大利亚内陆沙地采矿，在一次堪探过程中被当地土著用静坐方式阻止。土著说，脚下是绿蚂蚁做梦的地方，如果吵醒了它们，它们就会出来毁灭人类。采矿公司当然如听天书，然而土著视死如归的信仰力量不可小视，于是公司高层邀请土著代表进城谈判，许诺给土著利益，结果土著代表喜欢上了一架绿色的小型运输机。于是公司买下飞机，并替土著修建了一条飞机跑道。飞机飞来了，为防止被土著点火引燃，汽油被抽走，只留了一点。飞机只是公司示好的礼物，官司还是诉至联邦法院。在法庭上虽然法官能够尊重土著的文化，听取他们讲述的传说，然而裁判依据是英联邦法律，土著被判败诉。沉默的土著坐在跑道边，其中两个土著人坐上飞机，竟然起动飞机，飞翔而后消失在地平线。警察来寻找，难以找到，有两个异邦土著来访，以歌为话，说一只绿蚂蚁飞到他们那里，结果翅膀断了。公司地质学家Lance Hackett在整个事件过程中心态发生变化，最后决定离开公司，在沙漠里成为一个环保主义者。电影至此结束。

　　本片上演了一出雇凶杀人的黑色喜剧，改编自著名舞台剧，荣获圣地亚哥电影节最佳剧本奖。

　　一名男子不滿一樁冤獄案件的發生，私自綁架審判該案的法官，將其囚禁於地下室，並錄影開直播，公開質疑其判決有誤，要求社會大眾對其進行公審並投票，然而最終的結果，會因此撼動程序正義嗎？

　　南北战争时期，马萨诸塞州的康科德城。
　　马其家是镇上一个普通家庭，父亲在外打仗，留下坚强的妻子和四个女儿。Meg十六岁，俨然一个窈窕淑女。Jo（薇瑞娜•赖德）十五岁，喜爱写作，发表的文章为家里付清了各种费用。Beth温柔乖巧，羞怯地爱好着钢琴。Amy最小也最漂亮，也有点 爱出风头。马其太太的坚强给了四个女儿力量，她们时常接济贫穷的居民，圣诞节也不例外。当她们的邻居劳伦斯先生听说此事后便准备了丰富的晚餐给这群可爱的小妇人们。
　　而劳伦斯的孙子劳里也跟Jo成为了好朋友，成为了马其家的一员。他的家庭教师约翰爱上了Meg，Beth在照顾生病的邻居孩子时感染上了猩红热，在最危险的时候，去华盛顿照顾受伤父亲的妈妈回来了，把父亲也带回来，他们一家团聚。
　　四年后，Meg和约翰终于喜结连理，大学毕业的劳里也向Jo求婚，却惨遭拒绝，打击太大的他愤而离家，辗转欧洲，偶遇在欧洲旅游的Amy，此时的Amy早已改掉了虚荣的毛病，她对劳里的关切打动了劳里的心，他们决定结婚。然而此时却传来了Beth病危的消息，还没赶到家Beth已经离开了大家。
　　心灰意冷的Jo去了纽约，认识了她生命中的真命天子。

　　刚服完兵役的莫东（韩石圭 饰）坐火车回家的路上认识了美爱（沈惠珍 饰）。不知为何，莫东感觉自己以后的生活都会跟美爱有牵连。回家后的莫东正找工作，他再次遇到了美爱，美爱是在夜总会唱歌的，更是黑帮老大（文成根 饰）的女友。莫东也因为美爱的关系加入了黑社会。
　　忠心耿耿的莫东对美爱却有一丝丝的好感，而美爱冷酷的外表后面是一颗炽热的心。没想到，他们的组织面临解散，莫东打算付出自己的所有以及心爱的女人，他却得不到应有的回报……

　　虽然特雷弗（布兰登·费舍 Brendan Fraser 饰）是大学的地质教授，但是却经常做出挑战传统的事情。他认为，凡尔纳的小说并不是科幻，而是真是存在的。就是因为这样的对立理论，使其被传为学院里的笑话，使得他的学术名声毁于一旦。不过特雷弗却毫不在意这些，他坚信自己的理 论是正确的。为了验证自己的理论，特雷弗带着侄子肖恩（乔什·哈切森 Josh Hutcherson 饰）和当地的向导汉娜（安妮塔·布瑞姆 Anita Briem 饰）开始了在冰岛的旅行。在旅行时，三人意外发现一个奇特的洞穴，并在探询时踏破薄冰跌入了无底深渊。不过，当他们醒来时，却发现了一个神秘的地心世界，里面有着各种稀奇古怪的生物，与凡尔纳小说里面描述的场景一模一样。证据终于找到了，但是如何将证据带回地上？特雷弗三人开始了寻找出路之旅……

　　保罗（史蒂夫·库根 Steve Coogan 饰）从小就爱好一切和美相关的东西，尤其是美女，他也深知没有男人可以经得起美女的诱惑这一道理，因此早早涉足情色业，从经营专门面向绅士提供服务的俱乐部开始，一步一步打造自己的品牌，没过多久，保罗的店便占据了整个街区，他亦凭此成为了全英国最富有的人之一。
　　让（安娜·弗莱尔 Anna Friel 饰）是保罗的妻子，同时亦是一名脱衣舞演员，两人即是伴侣又是合作伙伴，彼此之间合作无间。之后，保罗遇到了自己的缪斯女神菲奥娜（塔姆欣·伊格顿 Tamsin Egerton 饰），沉迷在她的美貌和性感之中。让给保罗生了一个女儿取名为黛比（伊莫珍·波茨 Imogen Poots 饰），保罗将黛比视为掌上明珠，准备将自己的全部财产交给她来继承。

　　艾莉克西亚（阿加莎·罗塞勒 Agathe Rousselle 饰）是一名汽车模特，拥有曼妙身材的她靠着跳艳舞维持生计。早年间，一场车祸让艾莉克西亚的大脑中被医生植入了钛金属，这块金属随着时间的推移，渐渐影响了她的性格，让她变得暴戾而又狂躁，在钛金属的影响下，她甚至杀死了自己的双亲。不仅如此，艾莉克西亚还发现自己对汽车产生了性趣，在和汽车发生了性关系后，艾莉克西亚发现自己的身体逐渐出现了妊娠的征兆。
　　文森特（文森特·林顿 Vincent Lindon 饰）是消防队的队长，早年间，他的儿子失踪了，这些年来，他一直都没有放弃过寻找儿子的下落。命运让艾莉克西亚和文森特相遇了，艾莉克西亚女扮男装，假装成为文森特的儿子，和文森特开始了住在同一屋檐下的生活。她一边要努力维系自己的谎言不被戳穿，一遍还要隐藏渐渐变形的身体。当然，纸是包不住火的，在长久的压抑之后，艾莉克西亚和文森特之间的关系也发生了微妙的变化。

　　朝鲜高宗时代著名潘索里作曲家申在孝为了弟子陈彩仙而创作的短歌，电影也预计讲述这对师徒的故事。潘索里（Pansori）是朝鲜传统的叙事性说唱艺术。
　　裴秀智将在片中饰演弟子彩仙，而彩仙的师傅一角则有一线男演员柳承龙扮演。陈彩仙是出生于贫苦家庭不幸沦落到妓院，打破原来只有男人可以唱板索里的时代偏见，成长为朝鲜最初的女性名唱。宋清晨将在片中饰演潘索里学堂里的声乐老师和鼓手金世宗，会帮助处于困境的主人公。
　　下半年开拍，并于明年上映

　　故事发生在墨西哥城的一个中产阶级社区“罗马”，讲述年轻女佣克里奥（雅利扎·阿巴里西奥饰）在雇主索菲亚（玛丽娜·德·塔维拉饰）家中工作，该家中索菲亚的丈夫长期在外，由女佣克里奥照顾索菲的四个孩子。突如其来的两个意外，同时砸中了女佣克里奥和雇主索菲亚，两人究竟该如何面对苦涩茫然的生活？四位孩子似乎是希望所在。 这是以导演阿方索·卡隆的儿时记忆铸成的影片，而卡隆其实就是片中某一位小孩。