冰淇淋与雨声

　　美国哥伦比亚大学迎来了新一届学生。黑人青年马里克（Omar Epps 饰）拥有极高的运动天赋，为了得到全额奖学金，他必须拼命训练取得优异成绩。超级大四学生富吉（Ice Cube 饰）的愤世思想深深影响了马里克，他对自己的前途倍感迷茫；白人女孩克莉丝蒂（Kristy Swanson 饰）对大学校园的一切都感到新鲜，在一次狂欢醉酒后，她遭到强暴，从此投身于女权运动中；来自爱达荷的白人男孩雷米（Michael Rapaport 饰）木讷保守，与周遭格格不入，偶然机会他结识了几个光头党的朋友，在偏执的路上越走越远……
　　本片荣获1996年美国有色人种大奖NAACP Image Awards最佳男配角奖（Laurence Fishburne）。

　　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.

　　六个死党，Candy(卢巧音 饰)、Karena(林嘉欣 饰)、梁Wing(周俊伟 饰)、Jean(邓健泓 饰)、Leo(周永恒 饰)、美颜宝(森美 饰)，偶然遇到了一间租约为一年的单位，租金十分便宜，六人租了这六楼后座。
　　在这里面，他们最常玩的是“True or Dare”，游戏开始，他们便要卸下面具，勇敢面对问题，青春的荷尔蒙使然，让他们敢于面对这一切。新的一年即将来临，6个人立志要实现自己的理想，一年后无法达成的就要面临吃屎的惩罚。但订下了这个约定以后，每人都忙着发生在自己身上的事：Wing面临回美国读书；Jean被骗了所有积蓄；美颜宝与最爱重逢;Candy面对多角恋爱；Karena与素未谋面的老总谈情，更要面对Leo的暗恋。期限也即将来临，到底谁要接受惩罚呢？

　　「波兰六重奏」系列第五部，芝加哥太阳报影评人Roger Ebert四颗星最高评价，纽约时报盛讚本片是「影史上最好的流亡电影」。奥斯卡影帝杰瑞米艾朗以令人着迷的波兰腔英文及一贯压抑、内敛的高竿演技，传神诠释非法前往伦敦担任监工的谨慎男子，如何决意不让同乡工人知道波兰政治丕变的焦虑心境。
　　本片故事灵感来自史考利莫斯基装修伦敦住所的真实经历，于波兰戒严后一个月开拍，并在时代氛围中掺入些许他对于性执迷的个人关注。

　　DEA agent and partner pursue thieves: their own rebellious teens, who began robbing cartel using parent tactics and classified intel.

　　故事发生在1938年5月6日，这个日子无论是对罗马人民或是对平凡的家庭主妇安东尼泰（索菲娅·罗兰 Sophia Loren 饰）来说，都是不平凡的一天。当日，独裁者希特勒和墨索里尼来到罗马参加高峰会议，无限吹捧他们奉行的法西斯主义，在慷慨激昂的讲话的蛊惑人心的词语之中，整个城市陷入了一片疯狂的躁动。
　　然而，这狂热的一切似乎都和在家中洒扫整理的安东尼泰无关，此刻的她正陷于深深的忧郁之中，被困在枯燥的婚姻和苍白的生活内无法自拔。这时，她邂逅了新搬来的邻居加布瑞乐（马塞洛·马斯楚安尼 Marcello Mastroianni 饰），在极短的时间内，两人相知相恋，迸发出了巨大的激情，可黑夜过后，一切重归平静，仿佛什么都没有发生过。

　　大爸爸种的杂草是北美最好的…这就是为什么联邦探员迪克会不顾一切地让大爸爸和他的养家劳拉、洛拉和莱诺破产的原因。有了这三位可爱的女士，他信任的哑巴农夫吉米，还有他称之为家的小镇上的好人，大爸爸将奋战到底——保护土地和他所爱的人。