慧星来的那一年

　　这是一部典型的美国英雄主义电影。香港回归前夕，国际恐怖组织和香港的造假巨头准备抢在回归前完成一项走私活动――将一批香港生产的内藏微型炸弹的假冒名牌V6牛仔裤偷运到美国。幸好美国中情局及早察觉了恐怖分子的计划，于是先后派出了特工哈利（保罗•索尔维诺 Paul Sorvino 饰）、汤米（罗伯•施奈德 Rob Schneider 饰）和凯伦（莱拉•罗尚 Lela Rochon 饰）前往香港调查。
　　不料道高一尺魔高一丈，中情局的特工来到香港后先后和局里失去联系身陷囫囵。中情局无奈之下，只好请香港警方出面帮忙调查。香港警方在v6牛仔裤香港供货商马库斯（尚格•云顿 Jean-Claude Van Damme 饰）的帮助下，展开了一场惊心动魄的反恐行动。

　　这是一个发生在1969年、关于一个16岁男孩詹米·萨瓦特的成长的感人故事。他在他所就读的全男子寄读学校不是最受欢迎的孩子，与同学和老师隔阂的他坚信自己注定要自己要饰演《麦田里的守望者》中的主角霍尔顿·考尔菲德，并把这本书改编成了一部话剧。一系列的不断加剧的和男孩们恶意的口角之后，詹米逃离学校去寻找作家J.D.塞林格。旅途中他遇到了古怪的都市人迪迪·高林，两人一同寻找塞林格，并发现爱与生命的意义。

　　天下第一铸剑师蒙冶子因铸造名剑含光招来朝廷奸臣赵邯的灭门之祸，拼命保全蒙阳并留下未铸成的承影剑。二十年后蒙阳长大成人，试图为父报仇，但可以克制含光剑的承影剑却始终无法铸成。皇帝病危，机缘巧合下，蒙阳接到了护送太子公子都回宫继位的任务。为了调查蒙府灭门真相并报仇，蒙阳接下任务，路上再次引来杀身之祸。蒙阳护送公子都一路坎坷，同伴几人牺牲，却在危急时刻让蒙阳理解了父亲留下承影剑的含义，终于将承影剑铸成，并查明灭门真相，报了家仇，并辅佐公子都继位，保天下太平。

　　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.

 从未失手的珠宝大盗，本想干完最后一票便金盆洗手，却与中年失意的精英高管意外结盟，联手布下棋局。另一边，深陷职场困局的王牌警探，正凭借蛛丝马迹一步步将矛头对准他们，更有黑帮劫匪暗中蛰伏，伺机搅局。螳螂捕蝉、黄雀在后，当规则与道德的边界被打破，这场颠覆命运的惊天罪案，究竟谁能安全脱身？

　　《比佛利拜金狗2》虽然不像首集一般安排上戏院放映，但製作规格各方面也都比照当初的电影，同样是运用电脑科技让狗狗们开口说话演戏。本片的故事内容则是接续原本的第一集最后，叙述终成眷属的吉娃娃伴侣 Papi 和 Chloe 如今共组家庭，但是他们的冒险可没有因此结束喔！没多久五隻小狗狗们 就报到了，Papi 和 Chloe 成天开始忙著应付这些小鬼头，防止他们闯祸，给人类主人以及邻居带来不必要的麻烦。而且他们的挑战还不仅於此，这次虽然没有翻山越岭，但即使在比佛利本地也会面临许多冒险，面对一隻娇娇狗的挑衅，吉娃娃们还必须登上狗狗名模伸展台，让比佛利狗狗时尚界大开眼界！