OpeningContinuingDoris Duke TheatreMovie MuseumMovie Cafe A selection of films currently playing in island theaters. Unattributed film synopses indicate movies not yet reviewed by HW staff.
Film Review / The makers of the ensemble cast romantic comedy Valentine’s Day, which revolves around Feb. 14, now bring us New Year’s Eve, an ensemble cast romantic comedy, which revolves around Dec.
Film Review / Based on a duo of memoirs by Colin Clark, My Week with Marilyn is a breezy 99-minute look behind the behind-the-scenes making of 1957 picture The Prince and the Showgirl, in which a young Clark lands a tiny assistant job on the highly anticipated Sir Laurence Olivier comedy and an unexpected glimpse into a Hollywood icon’s psyche. But before seeing, don’t forget that just three seconds ago at the box office you asked for a ticket to My Week with Marilyn, not My Entire Life Spent From Beginning to End Forever and Ever Until Eternity with Marilyn.
OpeningContinuingDoris Duke TheatreMovie MuseumMovie Cafe A selection of films currently playing in island theaters. Unattributed film synopses indicate movies not yet reviewed by HW staff.
Film Review / If you know the name Lars von Trier, and his often determinedly baffling work, then you know what you might be in for, both good (brilliant insights) and bad (deep cynicism) in Melancholia, a pan-Nordic feature in English. If you don’t know von Trier, proceed with caution: This director doesn’t let anyone, audience included, off the hook.
OpeningContinuingDoris Duke TheatreMovie Museum A selection of films currently playing in island theaters. Unattributed film synopses indicate movies not yet reviewed by HW staff.
Adapted, but deviating from, the cult novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the newest film–a well-done debut venture into 3-D by movie-lover Martin Scorsese–has given us the most handsome, technically adept “holiday” production of the year. It is both an emotionally satisfying story and a colorful discourse on the invention of movies.
After what seems like eons, The Muppets finally return to the big screen in the aptly titled The Muppets. Even though the feature is our reintroduction to our favorite bunch of furries, the tale actually revolves around a muppet named Walter.
OpeningContinuingDoris Duke TheatreMovie MuseumMovie Cafe A selection of films currently playing in island theaters. Unattributed film synopses indicate movies not yet reviewed by HW staff.
The Descendants is a very funny film that embraces the big themes–love, death–without getting all sentimental on us. It opens at sea in a speedboat, with a close-up of a woman’s laughing face, wind in her short blond hair, sounds of the engine and the hull striking the waves cut off by a black screen.
Film buffs, the internationalist division, always look forward to the newest offering from Spain’s bad-boy writer-director Pedro Almodóvar, whose early career–splashy, pan-sexual, comic and melodramatic–heralded the true end of the Franco era. Almodóvar proved not a flash-in-the-pan but an original filmmaker, mixing genres, celebrating divas, adding violence to slapstick and making sex fun and naughty.
Film Review / If you have a more than passing interest in the career and tortured life of FBI devisor and 48-year vet J. Edgar Hoover, then Clint Eastwood’s meticulous (and sometimes shocking) J.
Film Review / Director Tarsem Singh is visually nuts. Check out The Cell and The Fall.
OpeningContinuingDoris Duke TheatreMovie MuseumMovie Cafe A selection of films currently playing in island theaters. Unattributed film synopses indicate movies not yet reviewed by HW staff.
Film Review / Forget the hothouse histrionics of the overheated Oliver Stone Wall Street movies, and even the recent, ambitious documentarys about the billion-dollar shenanigans of our new self-appointed aristocrats–the masters of giant investment firms (Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, et al.) and their brainy analysts. It’s 2008, a pregnant 24 hours in the life (and near-death) of one such firm, given to gambling by way of packaging, re-packaging, and then selling billions of dollars of bonds backed by toxic subprime mortgages, whose additional extralegal leveraging could (and did) create losses greater than the house capitalization.
Film Review / In the future, once you reach the ripe old age of 25, your body starts a countdown clock, with a convenient digital read-out on your forearm. You are given one year.
OpeningDoris Duke TheatreMovie MuseumMovie Cafe A selection of films currently playing in island theaters. Unattributed film synopses indicate movies not yet reviewed by HW staff.
It begins, this movie, the way storm clouds begin to gather: Slowly, perhaps harmless, ordinary, almost forgettable. Our eminently likable main characters, a working class married couple (Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain) with a deaf daughter, go about their quotidian chores.
Johnny Depp returns to Hunter S. Thompson territory with The Rum Diary, but the results aren’t as satisfyingly unhinged as Thompson’s previous foray into gonzo territory–Terry Gilliam’s delightfully manic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
OpeningContinuingDoris Duke TheatreMovie MuseumMovie Cafe A selection of films currently playing in island theaters. Unattributed film synopses indicate movies not yet reviewed by HW staff.
Like most of its studio-financed brethren, the horror remake of The Thing is shocking but not scary, formulaic but not surprising, and predictable, but not suspenseful. The Thing, a bad-tempered alien whose spaceship (looking like a waffle-iron) has crashed into the vast (well, half-vast) Antarctic wastes, began life as a Saturday Evening Post magazine story and became a hit low-budget movie in 1951, a well-told scary creature feature.
One of the scariest ideas for Halloween at the movies is a remake of the 1984 classic Footloose. Surprisingly, this new version is a fitting tribute to the original.
A car full of pretty college kids head up into the mountains for a weekend of pot smoking and skinny dipping. Two rednecks in trucker caps driving a rusted pick-up are heading to the same area and, of course, the spoiled teens instantly assume the Texas Chainsaw Massacre worst about the pair.
OpeningContinuingDoris Duke TheatreMovie MuseumMovie Cafe A selection of films currently playing in island theaters. Unattributed film synopses indicate movies not yet reviewed by HW staff.
After retiring from public service in 2002, Ben Cayetano seemed to be taking it easy on the political scene–until 2005, that is, when then-Mayor Mufi Hannemann revived the long-lapsed idea of a Honolulu heavy rail project. Needless to say, Cayetano did not concur.
Last Thursday, the House Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection had a busy session hearing several controversial bills relating to geothermal energy. Chairman Denny Coffman introduced HB2689, which seeks to exempt slim-hole, or exploratory, geothermal test wells from any sort of environmental review as is currently required under Chapter 343 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.
On Feb. 1, the Hawaii State House Agriculture Committee heard testimony on HB2703, dubbed the Food Self-Sufficiency Bill.
Mega-developer Castle & Cooke has re-filed an application with the Land Use Commission (LUC) seeking to convert approximately 768 acres of Ag land–currently in cultivation–into a “master-planned community” entitled Koa Ridge. If successful, the project will consist of two parcels–Koa Ridge Makai and Castle & Cooke Waiawa.
Office of Hawaiian Affairs holds a second round of community meetings to discuss the latest updates on the Kakaako land settlement. Stevenson Middle School, 1202 Prospect St., Wed., 2/8, 6:30pm; Waimanalo Community Center, 41-253 Ilauhole St., Thu., 2/9, 6:30pm City Council committees on Zoning and Planningand Transportation will take public testimony on agenda items.
[Feb. 1: “Kinda Kona”] The trade secret argument would fall to the wayside if it would read “10 percent Kona Coffee 90 percent Foreign Coffee,” or something to that effect.
If they are choosing the cheapest coffee from anywhere, then the “trade secret” is that they are adding crap and not a sp
[Feb. 1: “Rail Boss Wanted”] $300,000?
[Jan. 4: “Boss GMO] Dean Okimoto is a sell out and a criminal.
Monsanto is a major component of the NWO drive to reduce the world’s population in a global genocide program that includes the poisoning of the water, air and food. This criminal activity must be stopped.
Lets be real here, Dean Okimoto is not interested in anything other then keeping the status quo of industrial Ag. He is merely a puppet, playing it safe, a small game of following the money and corrupt political trail.
[Jan. 25: “Weaving the Future on Molokai”] Good luck to all those who possess the ability to balance long-term vision with short term opportunity.
[Dec. 21: “Underground Railroad”] This is, indeed, a “lunatic project,” as pointed out by a professor at the University of Hawaii.
This is such a bad idea for the overall architecture of Oahu. I visit here because my family is here and part of the charm is taking the bus or driving.
I cannot imagine how anyone can think this is a smart idea. I’ve lived in places with rail, but this Honolulu Rail Transit is stupid, plain stupid.
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