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HFCS 2022 Nominatons List
BEST PICTURE : Everything Everywhere All at Once Top Gun: Maverick The Menu Babylon TÁR BEST DIRECTOR:The Daniels, Everything Everywhere all At Once Todd Field, TÁR Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin Damien Chazelle, Babylon Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans BEST ACTOR:Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin Austin Butler, Elvis Brendan Fraser, The Whale Ralph Fiennes, The Menu Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick BEST ACTRESS:Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere… Continue reading HFCS 2022 Nominatons List
THE HAWAII FILM CRITICS SOCIETY 2021 LIST
THE HAWAII FILM CRITICS SOCIETY 2021 LIST: BEST PICTURE: Last Night in Soho BEST DIRECTOR: Guillermo del Toro, Nightmare Alley BEST ACTOR: Nicolas Cage, Pig BEST ACTRESS: Kristen Stewart, Spencer BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Troy Kotsur, CODA BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Marlee Matlin, CODA BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Kenneth Branagh, Belfast BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Sian Heder, CODA (based on the motion picture “La Famille Belier”) BEST… Continue reading THE HAWAII FILM CRITICS SOCIETY 2021 LIST
HFCS 2021 Nominations List
BEST PICTURE: Belfast Last Night in Soho CODA Mass The Power of the Dog BEST DIRECTOR: Guillermo Del Toro, Nightmare Alley Destin Daniel Cretton, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Kenneth Branagh, Belfast Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog Sian Heder, CODA BEST ACTOR: Nicolas Cage, Pig Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of… Continue reading HFCS 2021 Nominations List
Waikiki
When we meet Kea (played by Danielle Zalopany), she’s working as a singer in a karaoke bar, living in her van and broke. Her ex shows up during her shift and is furious about her working in a place filled with sleazy patrons. Not long after, Kea drives off and makes a terrible mistake. In… Continue reading Waikiki
Cane Fire
“Cane Fire,” the new documentary by Anthony Banua- Simon (who directed, filmed and edited), starts with the search for the long out-of-print, “White Heat,” a 1934 drama, which was the first film shot on Kauai. Interviews with Banua-Simon’s elderly Uncle Henry and others within his circle become the starting point for this documentary. It becomes… Continue reading Cane Fire
Water Like Fire
When we meet Chanel (played by Taiana Tully), the lead of “Water Like Fire,” she is striving to get through each day and nurture an inner healing that needs to take place. Not only is Chanel carrying the weight of losing both her parents, her brother Caleb (played by Randall Galius Jr.) is a drug… Continue reading Water Like Fire
Let Him Go
Kevin Costner and Diane Lane star as George and Margaret Blackledge, an older couple who are coping with a sudden tragedy. When their eldest son dies, their widowed daughter-in-law remarries an abusive lout, who unexpectedly moves her and his young stepson out of state. Ma and Pa Blackledge, who have an extreme affection for their… Continue reading Let Him Go
Aloha Surf Hotel
At the start of Stefan C. Schaefer’s “Aloha Surf Hotel,” Tai Alonzo (played by stand-up comedian Augie Tulba) has hit rock bottom. Alonzo, a one-time surf legend-turned-college-student, has just lost his support from a university, is unemployed, has a daughter to support and a van with everything he owns being towed away. His one shot… Continue reading Aloha Surf Hotel
Antebellum
“Antebellum,” the racially charged horror film from writer/directors Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, opens with this quote from William Faulkner: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Then we see a traveling shot, done in one take, in which the camera covers the daily operations taking place on a vast slave plantation. We… Continue reading Antebellum