Film Reviews

Movie Clock 6-24-2009

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Film Blurbs 6-24-2009

OpeningContinuingDoris Duke TheatreMovie MuseumUniversity Of Hawaii Unattributed film synopses indicate movies not yet reviewed by HW staff. Indicates films of unusual interest Opening Away We GoThe journey of a couple expecting their first child, searching… [»Read]


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Fuel for thought

Fuel
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Fuel / In a time when there are waiting lists for Priuses and birthday gifts in the form of carbon offsets, any discussion of fuel has dark–even ominous–overtones. So, when Fuel is the title of a documentary, one expects a bleak, disturbing (remember the frog in An… [»Read]


Amazing grace

Departures

Departures / It would take a field-team of social anthropologists to discern the semiotic links between ancient and modern Japan in the shadows and light of Departures, which is as close to brilliant as movies seem to get these days. Armed with an arsenal of awards, including… [»Read]


If it looks like a duck…

Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus

Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus / The two prehistoric creatures were frozen together in combat With a title like Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, a connoisseur of the cheesy movie genre may find this straight-to-DVD flick completely irresistible on a humid summer night. The fact that it stars the ’80s… [»Read]


No control

The Limits of Control
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The Limits of Control / Director Jim Jarmusch has never been one to pander to an audience. The writer-director behind such enigmas such as Dead Man, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai and Coffee and Cigarettes even refuses to record commentary tracks for DVDs, and has gone… [»Read]


Movie Clock 6-17-2009

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The train kept rolling

The Taking of Pelham 123
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The Taking of Pelham 123 / As the year has progressed, director Tony Scott seems to have developed ADD. It’s easy to overlook how many decent or important milestones in contemporary pop culture he has been a part of, from Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop 2 to True Romance and… [»Read]


Art house robbery

Skills Like This
Comes with video

Skills Like This / Skills Like This, the new indie darling (winner of the 2007 SXSW Audience Award) playing at Kahala Mall, begins with the world’s worst play not written by Mitch Albom, with numerous cutaways to show how bored the audience is. One gentleman, the grandfather of… [»Read]


Film Blurbs 6-17-2009

OpeningContinuingDoris Duke TheatreUniversity Of Hawaii Unattributed film synopses indicate movies not yet reviewed by HW staff. Indicates films of unusual interest Opening Departures Academy Award winner for the best foreign-language film of the year,… [»Read]


A Lost summer blockbuster

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Judging by its opening box office weekend take, nobody expected much from Land of the Lost and so audiences ignored it. Who can blame them really? It’s yet another celebrity-vehicle based on a semi-cult, children’s TV program, plus it stars one of our most dependable… [»Read]