诅咒1987

　　一个红衣屠夫赫然出现在泰国国内，他全身上下被血红色的雨衣所包裹，手里拖着巨大的红色行李箱。红衣屠夫行踪诡异，手段残忍，专以成年男性为猎杀对象，死者生前无不遭到痛苦折磨，而且全部遭到阉割。在此期间，连政府官员的纨绔公子哥也被杀害。红衣屠夫在全国上下引起轰动，警方更是压力巨大，焦头烂额。
　　阿泰是一名因杀人罪而入狱10年的重刑犯，他童年时的一个玩伴与红衣屠夫有着类似的手段。警方据此线索，开始将突破口锁定在阿泰身上。为了尽快离开监狱，阿泰许诺将抓住凶手，警方也承诺还其自由。阿泰根据屠夫留下的种种线索试图还原真相，不过这却是一场费解而危险的猫鼠游戏……

　　年过花甲的中国退休公民高达、吴立伟、金石结伴在东南亚某国旅游，意外得知当年亲密无间的小伙伴花容的女儿花出尘被当地黑社会非法拘禁，并勒索高额赎金。原来，花出尘和闺蜜假日出游，被骗入地下赌场，不小心喝下含有迷幻剂的饮料，使自己陷入危机。
　　高达、吴立伟、金石三人中断旅游，跟花容一起去当地警局报案。可当地警局和当地黑社会沆瀣一气，狼狈为奸。失望透顶的高达四人被逼无奈，只能组建一支老年敢死队，赶往边境山区舍命营救。四人经过细心部署，在重重包围之下顺利救出花出尘，谁料在乘坐大巴车途径山区之时，竟遭遇不明武装劫持，一车人的生命陷入危机。四位老炮分头行动，一面高达、吴立伟、金石三人与匪徒们展开殊死搏斗，一面逃出去的花容母女向中国大使馆求救，在里应外合的配合下，四人终将所有人质成功拯救。

　　Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.
　　Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)
　　As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.
　　The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).
　　Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.

　　琳娜·海蒂、萨姆·沃辛顿、迪恩·斯科特·瓦兹奎兹(Dean Scott Vasquez)、芭芭拉·赫希([黑天鹅])将出演独立制片新片[玫瑰舞后之月](Gypsy Moon，暂译)。该片由吉吉·加斯顿(Gigi Gaston)自编自导，拉拉·安东尼(La La Anthony)、凯姆·吉甘戴([暮光之城])、马丁·山米尔(Martin Sensmeier)、艾玛·霍泽尔一同出演。海蒂饰演的女主角，是一个被前男友(沃辛顿饰)威胁性命的滑稽舞表演者。在最后一场舞蹈表演的前夜，她必须跑去救一个邻居家的男孩(瓦兹奎兹饰)。而对这个男孩的感情，给了她在生命中第二次感受到爱的机会。

　　为了找寻失踪的叔叔，年轻人自己设计了地心探险船,却被人剽窃,结果只能接受事实,因为商人答应让他带队去寻找失落的文明。 然而商人手里有一块神秘碎片，如果他找到其余碎片就可以拥有强大的力量。另一部分传说在地心，在那里也有一个世界，于是他赞助一些科学家去地心做科学研究，其实是为了实现他的野心，科学家们乘坐年轻人发明的有大钻头的飞船到了地心，在那里他们发现有原始人，通过他们的壁画知道他们的祖先是从地上顺着火山口进到地心的,他们还结交了白色的人形怪物并成为朋友。然而在这里还有一个身上插了很多导管，管子里流淌着绿色液体的邪恶统治者，整个地心世界由他控制....