2018 Japanese film

西非撒哈拉沙漠边境，统治族群长达三年之久的黑猩猩戴维面临其他雄性的挑战，为了守住王权，他开始选择结盟。而当遭到围攻后，这位不死的王者又毅然决然踏上夺回王位的复仇之路。南极大陆，数千只帝企鹅爸爸团聚一起，与极其寒冷的永夜作抗争。他们等待新生命的出生，等待 爱人的归来。肯尼亚草原，雌狮查姆竭尽全力守护族群，在巨大的灾难面前，他必须面临生死存亡的考验。津巴布韦国家公园，垂老的三色狼泰特渐感力不从心，她对家族的控制力逐渐减弱，而她的女儿正在崛起，觊觎着母亲的皇位。印度，雌虎拉杰贝拉靠一己之力捕捉猎物，养育四个孩子，但是大自然从不因此对她慈悲半分。

《风骚律师》宣布续订第4季，长时间谈判后终于等来这消息了。根据该剧状况是不愁续订的，毕竟是AMC收视第三(次于《行尸走肉》《行尸之惧》)，但此前主创Vince Gilligan和Peter Gould与AMC就很多问题在谈判，有不确定因素。

剧情延续上季时间线，吉米的哥哥查克（迈克尔·麦基恩饰）悄悄录下吉米（鲍勃·奥登科克饰）承认在法律文件上做手脚的不当行为，想毁掉弟弟的律师前程 ，两兄弟的对峙促使本性善良的吉米更进一步转变为游走在法律边缘的无良律师“索尔·古德曼”

故事紧接上季结尾，阿布奎基（Albuquerque）律师Jimmy McGill遭到哥哥Chuck的背叛，于是回到伊利诺伊州的家乡西塞罗（Cicero）与童年死党Marco（Mel Rodriguez）一起策划一系列诈骗诡计。他们成功了，但Marco在他们最后一次干脏活时突发心脏病。Marco死后，Jimmy回到了新墨西哥州，他的人生似乎有了新的意义。他拒绝了圣达菲（Santa Fe）一家大型律师事务所的工作邀请，朝着刑事辩护律师「Saul Goodman」的方向迈出了一大步，他「清白正直」的日子一去不返。他的转型……已然开始。但是制片人反复强调，你不会在本季看到一个完整的Saul Goodman，「Jimmy McGill才是该剧的灵魂人物」，「我们要描述的是他的故事」，「我们不会这么快和他道别」。
Jimmy本季有许多事情要做，包括修复与哥哥Chuck（Michael McKean）的关系。Chuck始终不相信Jimmy是一个合法的律师，并且阻止自己的Hamlin Hamlin & McGill律师事务所雇用Jimmy协助调查一起大案。Chuck是个荣誉感很强的人，他爱弟弟，但他不容许他破坏自己的事业和生活——即便有时他不得不承认自己的做法对Jimmy来说有点太过分。
观众将进一步了解Mike Ehrmantraut（Jonathan Banks）的个人生活。当费城侦探跑来向他质询一起双重谋杀案时，他被迫雇用Jimmy做自己的法律顾问。这起谋杀案是真实的，Mike当年为了复仇在费城杀死了两名警察，但他绝不是恶意杀人。Mike将发生一些显著的变化，但那些变化起源于小事情。
Jimmy和Mike都在朝着《Breaking Bad》中的标志性角色发展，这期间少不了许多「彩蛋」。本季还会有不少闪进情节，观众将看到「Saul在《Breaking Bad》结束后的生活」（准确地说，Cinnabon的Gene），还有「到目前为止最年轻的Jimmy」。一些观众在《Breaking Bad》首季中见过（但是之后再也未见到）的角色将在本季亮相。当然，还有观众熟悉的一些人。此外，Jimmy是个天生的「问题解决者」，他将帮助许多新角色摆脱困境。他还将遇到一个大人物Clifford（六届艾美奖提名获得者Ed Begley Jr.），他手中掌握的权力能让Jimmy诸多梦想变为现实……只要Jimmy付得起他的价钱。Clifford表面上看起来慈祥和蔼，让人很乐意和他待在一起。可一旦任何人触犯了他的利益，必将遭遇灭顶之灾。除了继续与Chuck关系紧张之外，Jimmy与Kim的矛盾也日渐升级（但是Jimmy与Kim的私人关系也变得更加纠缠不清）。你还应该特别留意Jimmy与Davis和Main的关系、Jimmy与Mike的关系。
转自天涯小筑

2017 film directed by Stephen Chbosky

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times • Newsday • Esquire • NPR • Booklist
Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.
Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.
The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.
Praise for Born a Crime
“[A] compelling new memoir . . . By turns alarming, sad and funny, [Trevor Noah’s] book provides a harrowing look, through the prism of Mr. Noah’s family, at life in South Africa under apartheid. . . . Born a Crime is not just an unnerving account of growing up in South Africa under apartheid, but a love letter to the author’s remarkable mother.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“[An] unforgettable memoir.”—Parade
“What makes Born a Crime such a soul-nourishing pleasure, even with all its darker edges and perilous turns, is reading Noah recount in brisk, warmly conversational prose how he learned to negotiate his way through the bullying and ostracism. . . . What also helped was having a mother like Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah. . . . Consider Born a Crime another such gift to her—and an enormous gift to the rest of us.”—USA Today
“[Noah] thrives with the help of his astonishingly fearless mother. . . . Their fierce bond makes this story soar.”—People
“[Noah’s] electrifying memoir sparkles with funny stories . . . and his candid and compassionate essays deepen our perception of the complexities of race, gender, and class.”—Booklist (starred review)
“A gritty memoir . . . studded with insight and provocative social criticism . . . with flashes of brilliant storytelling and acute observations.”—Kirkus Reviews
Review
“[A] compelling new memoir . . . By turns alarming, sad and funny, [Trevor Noah’s] book provides a harrowing look, through the prism of Mr. Noah’s family, at life in South Africa under apartheid. . . . In the end, Born a Crime is not just an unnerving account of growing up in South Africa under apartheid, but a love letter to the author’s remarkable mother.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“[An] unforgettable memoir.”—Parade
“You’d be hard-pressed to find a comic’s origin story better than the one Trevor Noah serves up in Born a Crime. . . . [He] developed his aptitude for witty truth telling [and]…every hardscrabble memory of helping his mother scrape together money for food, gas, school fees, and rent, or barely surviving the temper of his stepfather, Abel, reveals the anxious wellsprings of the comedian’s ambition and success. If there is harvest in spite of blight, the saying goes, one does not credit the blight-but Noah does manage to wring brilliant comedy from it.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
“What makes Born a Crime such a soul-nourishing pleasure, even with all its darker edges and perilous turns, is reading Noah recount in brisk, warmly conversational prose how he learned to negotiate his way through the bullying and ostracism. . . . What also helped was having a mother like Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah. . . . Consider Born a Crime another such gift to her—and an enormous gift to the rest of us.”—USA Today
“[Noah] thrives with the help of his astonishingly fearless mother. . . . Their fierce bond makes this story soar.”—People
“This isn't your average comic-writes-a-memoir: It’s a unique look at a man who is a product of his culture—and a nuanced look at a part of the world whose people have known dark times easily pushed aside.”—Refinery29
“Noah’s memoir is extraordinary . . . essential reading on every level. It’s hard to imagine anyone else doing a finer job of it.”—The Seattle Times
“Powerful prose . . . told through stories and vignettes that are sharply observed, deftly conveyed and consistently candid. Growing organically from them is an affecting investigation of identity, ethnicity, language, masculinity, nationality and, most of all, humanity—all issues that the election of Donald Trump in the United States shows are foremost in minds and hearts everywhere. . . . What the reader gleans are the insights that made Noah the thoughtful, observant, empathic man who wrote Born a Crime. . . . Here is a level-headed man, forged by remarkable and shocking life incidents, who is quietly determined and who knows where home and the heart lie. Would this unique story have been published had it been about someone not a celebrity of the planet? Possibly not, and to the detriment of potential readers, because this is a warm and very human story of the type that we will need to survive the Trump presidency’s imminent freezing of humane values.”—Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
“[Noah’s] story of surviving—and thriving—is mind-blowing.”—Cosmopolitan
“A gifted storyteller, able to deftly lace his poignant tales with amusing irony.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Noah has a real tale to tell, and he tells it well. . . . Among the many virtues of Born a Crime is a frank and telling portrait of life in South Africa during the 1980s and ’90s. . . . Born a Crime offers Americans a second introduction to Trevor Noah, and he makes a real impression.”—Newsday
“An affecting memoir, Born a Crime [is] a love letter to his mother.”—The Washington Post
“Witty and revealing . . . Noah’s story is the story of modern South Africa; though he enjoyed some privileges of the region’s slow Westernization, his formative years were shaped by poverty, injustice, and violence. Noah is quick with a disarming joke, and he skillfully integrates the parallel narratives via interstitial asides between chapters. . . . Perhaps the most harrowing tales are those of his abusive stepfather, which form the book’s final act (and which Noah cleverly foreshadows throughout earlier chapters), but equally prominent are the laugh-out-loud yarns about going to the prom, and the differences between ‘White Church’ and ‘Black Church.’”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“[A] substantial collection of staggering personal essays . . . Incisive, funny, and vivid, these true tales are anchored to his portrait of his courageous, rebellious, and religious mother who defied racially restrictive laws to secure an education and a career for herself—and to have a child with a white Swiss/German even though sex between whites and blacks was illegal. . . . [Trevor Noah’s] electrifying memoir sparkles with funny stories . . . and his candid and compassionate essays deepen our perception of the complexities of race, gender, and class.”—Booklist (starred review)
“A gritty memoir . . . studded with insight and provocative social criticism . . . with flashes of brilliant storytelling and acute observations.”—Kirkus Reviews

2015 film by Zhang Yang

1994 film by Ang Lee

1991 film by Ang Lee

A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.

18年前舞台上的一次失误彻底打碎了天才踢踏舞者渡真二郎的舞蹈梦，他从舞台上消失，梦碎的他日日与酒相伴，浑浑噩噩地生活着。但是某日他的旧相识剧场老板毛利找上门来，请他再次出山，为他即将倒闭的剧场演出最后一场踢踏舞秀。虽然旧日的噩梦仍然笼罩着真二郎，但受好友相托的他只能不情不愿地开始为这场表演选角，在这些来参加甄选的年轻舞者中，他被其中一个生活窘迫却始终不愿放弃舞蹈梦想的青年所吸引，他的舞姿点燃了真二郎心中曾经的梦……

2017 film directed by Craig Gillespie

Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.

改革开发以来，数十万山乡农民手持一根竹杆涌进山城，帮助市民负重，肩挑背抗，爬坡上坎，给这个城市带来了活力和喧嚣。这支“棒棒军”无序的劳动构成了特殊的打工阶层，方便了市民，也给城市带来了麻烦，没有豪华的场景和深刻的经济改革活动，但却又实实在在的反映了普通老百姓的涌动和变化。“棒棒军”随着改革的速度进终要消失，但却无法回避地给山城的改革留下重重的一笔。
重庆主城区依山而建且穿街走巷还需爬坡上坎，但看看现在的重庆人依然活得潇洒自在、轻轻松松。这不能不提到重庆的一绝，在重庆的大街小巷都会看到三五成群的农村人，人人手中持一根棒棒.他们被称为棒棒军。棒棒的业务范围大到货主的大件商品如家具家电。小到市民买的一两把小菜，价钱也是随口喊，三言两句便将价钱敲定。货主在前面打甩手，棒棒扛起货物紧相随，重庆人不怕棒棒把东西拐走，他们大多诚实可信，有自己的职业道德。他们从农村到城市乾活，靠的是自己的双手。他们的辛勤劳动为千家万户提供了方便。
在新时期的今天，棒棒已逐渐发生了质的变化，从散兵游勇集有向集体过渡的趋向，有的集体参加了用人单位规范培训，从事用人单位的体力劳动活动，统一服装、统一管理。并涌现出了帮助妇幼病弱、见义勇为的感人事迹，为山城人民津津乐道。

In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as a housemaid and nanny for the Hirai family in a little house in Tokyo with a red gabled roof.

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.