OpeningContinuingDoris Duke Theatre Movie Museum University Of Hawaii Unattributed film synopses indicate movies not yet reviewed by HW staff. Indicates films of unusual interest Opening The Baader Meinhof Complex Based on the formation of the Red Army Faction, a group… [»Read]
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To tell the truth, only the first third of the overrated, overstretched The Invention of Lying is above average. Once, a few years ago, in a San Francisco bookstore, I stepped back to get a better view of a floor-to-ceiling shelf, and stepped, hard, on the foot of… [»Read]
Unattributed film synopses indicate movies not yet reviewed by HW staff. ❦ Indicates films of unusual interest Opening The Boys Are Back Let’s see…plot centered on the true meaning of fatherhood: Check. Glib, sentimental movie title: Check. Picturesque montages… [»Read]
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There’s an old saying about what the road to Hell is paved with, and in writer/director Atom Egoyan’s hands, it all starts with what seem like good intentions. A high school French instructor (Arsinée Khanjian) instructs her class to translate a news story about a Palestinian… [»Read]
In the future, we will never leave the house. Instead, we’ll be sitting safe at home in our “stim chair” stations, controlling robots custom-made in our likenesses. They will go out in the world doing everything we normally do in our day to day existences; work, party,… [»Read]
It is minorly legendary that when Stanley Kubrick was prepping 2001: A Space Odyssey, the best sci-fi film ever made, he watched over 40 movies of that genre. Yet his masterwork does not look in the least like any one of them. Or if, in making your sci-fi debut, you… [»Read]
Unattributed film synopses indicate movies not yet reviewed by HW staff. ❦ Indicates films of unusual interest Opening ❦Adoration A teenage orphan is convinced that a news story about a terrorist who planted a bomb in his girlfriend’s luggage is about his… [»Read]
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Cold Souls posits that the soul can be removed from the human body, thus, alleviating any psychic burdens the person is suffering. The talented actor Paul Giamatti (playing himself in this meta-comedy), star of such films like Sideways and American Splendor,… [»Read]
Hawaii filmmakers Julianne and Don King will talk about their Hawaii International Film Festival prizewinning film about their son’s autism when Beautiful Son returns briefly, this time to the Academy of Arts. Nearly as heartbreaking as it is beautiful, the… [»Read]
As an actor, Kevin Costner followed Dances with Wolves with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and the next film he directed was the critically maligned The Postman. Halle Berry’s next appearance after winning an Oscar for Monster’s Ball was the low-rent… [»Read]
The chariot race in Ben-Hur. The Robert Duvall-led helicopter attack in Apocalypse Now. Harrison Ford escaping a boulder in Raiders of the Lost Ark. The dinosaur stampede in Jurassic Park. Every generation has its own special moment with cinema,… [»Read]
Jack of all genres, Steven Soderbergh, returns with The Informant!, the closest he has ever come to making a straight-forward comedy. But of course, nothing is ever straightforward with the auteur–his Ocean’s trilogy notwithstanding. The opening titles of… [»Read]
