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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
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
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
Bill and Ted Face the Music
Bill S. Preston, Esquire (played by Alex Winter) and Ted Theodore Logan (played by Keanu Reeves) are back. Twenty-five years later, two of the dumbest high school students from San Dimas, California, who became time travelers and saviors of mankind, are now middle aged. They have yet to create the song that was going to… Continue reading Bill and Ted Face the Music
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
As with every “Star Wars” review I write, this will be mostly spoiler-free, though I’ve rarely composed a critique of an installment from this franchise that is also so enthusiasm-free. Speaking of spoiler, the opening crawl (the BIG WORDS that slowly inch up the screen, filling us in on the story, while John Williams’ glorious… Continue reading Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Cats
When I was 7-years old, my father took me to see my first Broadway musical, which was “Cats.” It was 1985, I was living in Riverdale, New Jersey at the time and, like many kids my age, was aware that the Andrew Lloyd Webber-penned production (based on the poetry of T.S. Eliot) was the top… Continue reading Cats