Film Reviews

Film Blurbs 2-24-2010

OpeningContinuingDoris Duke TheatreMovie MuseumUniversity Of HawaiiBaby AWEARness Unattributed film synopses indicate movies not yet reviewed by HW staff. Indicates films of particular interest Opening Cop Out Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan play the latest interracial… [»Read]


Movie Clock 2-24-2010

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Shudder Isle

Shutter Island
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Shutter Island / After finally winning the Best Picture Academy Award for The Departed, if anyone deserves to cut loose and have some fun, it’s director extraordinaire Martin Scorsese. If you gave the world Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas, and still[»Read]


Film Blurbs 2-17-2010

OpeningContinuingDoris Duke TheatreMovie MuseumUniversity Of Hawaii Unattributed film synopses indicate movies not yet reviewed by HW staff. Indicates films of particular interest Opening Celine: Through the Eyes of the World Five continents, 25 countries and 93 cities…. [»Read]


Movie Clock 2-17-2010

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Animaniacs

Kāhala 8
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Kahala 8 / Even if the Academy Awards hadn’t bumped its Best Picture nominees up to 10 this year, many critics agree that Pixar’s Up would have made the list. It’s only the second time that an Oscar nod went to an animated film (the first being Disney’s Beauty and… [»Read]


Hair today, gone tomorrow

The Wolfman
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The Wolfman / Ruled by the dictates of a pluperfect moon, poor Lawrence Talbot–played by Lon Chaney Jr, in 1941, Benicio del Toro in this year’s The Wolfman–transforms into a slavering werewolf, ravages and kills savagely, then wakes up human again. There is no greater monster-as-victim… [»Read]


Film

Half-Blood Prince

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief / The quest for an heir to the Harry Potter franchise continues and amid the corpses of The Golden Compass and The Seeker: The Dark is Rising comes Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, based on the young adult series written by Rick Riordan…. [»Read]


Film Blurbs 2-10-2010

OpeningContinuingDoris Duke TheatreMovie MuseumUniversity Of HawaiiThe ARTS At Marks Garage Unattributed film synopses indicate movies not yet reviewed by HW staff. Indicates films of particular interest Opening Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief A fantasy-adventure… [»Read]


Movie Clock 2-10-2010

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Luv conquers all

Dear John
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Dear John / We are in the movie doldrums. During this period, roughly three weeks before the Oscar ceremonies are held on March 7, the industry dumps all its iffy movies practically at once. Not lousy movies, mind you–just ones that didn’t work out so well in terms of marketing and… [»Read]


Roman tragedy

When in Rome
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When in Rome / Guggenheim museum curator Beth (Kristen Bell from Veronica Mars) finds herself in Rome for her sister’s wedding. After a flirtation with Nick (Josh Duhamel) doesn’t work out, she drunkenly splashes around the Trevi Fountain, bitterly stealing coins from the water…. [»Read]


Movie Clock 2-3-2010

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Mad Mel

Edge of Darkness
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Edge of Darkness / Edge of Darkness is Mel Gibson’s first lead role since Signs and also since–for lack of a better euphemism–losing his damned fool mind. Heck, the actor’s behavior was beginning to make one think he was a Shyamalan extra-terrestrial. On the surface,… [»Read]


Being bad

Crazy Heart
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Crazy Heart / “That’s when you know you’ve written a good one, when you’re positive you’ve heard it before.” That’s what country singer Bad Blake tells his new girlfriend Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal) as he creates a new song for the first time in three years. And, like a country… [»Read]