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Of dogs and men
January 8, 2009 Who let the dogs in? They’re everywhere these days. It’s not their year on the Chinese calendar, but they seem to seizing every piece of American culture they can get their teeth into. more »» 
Hana hou, 2008!
January 1, 2009 As a new year begins on a hopeful note, here’s a fond look back at some of the places we went in this space in the year just ended. more »»
Whaddya mean, best?
December 25, 2008 Every year about this time, I begin to wonder if I'm losing my mind. It’s about those 10 Best Movies lists. more »»
Still standing still
December 18, 2008 Why are so many actors who play super-powered visitors to our planet named Reeve —or something that sounds similar? Pure coincidence? Or is that the word for alien in their language?... more »» 
Tempest in the tropics
December 11, 2008 Vacationing on Lanai several years ago, award-winning stage and screen director Julie Taymor had a vision: Call it a tempest in the tropics. more »»
G’day and too many Christmases
December 4, 2008 You’d have to go farther than Down Under to find two more photogenic faces than Nicole Kidman’s and Hugh Jackman’s in “Australia. more »» 
Dog love, vampire love
November 27, 2008 There’s a scene in “Bolt,” Disney Studio’s new animated comedy, where Penny, the little girl who has lost her beloved doggie, has him returned to her. more »»
Dream sequence
November 13, 2008 Barack Obama isn’t the first black president of the United States. He’s just the first real one. Black presidents have been appearing on movie screens since at least 1933, according to www.slate.com. more »»
Changelings
November 6, 2008 When he received the Silversword Award from the Maui Film Festival at Wailea in 2002, I had the privilege of doing a quick interview with Clint Eastwood. more »» 
The power of Te Vaka
October 30, 2008 Funny thing about Te Vaka: The group’s songs come from Tokelau, Tuvalu, Samoa and the Cook Islands by way of New Zealand, but listening to the musical exuberance, catching the pulsing beat, you star... more »»
W through the looking glass
October 23, 2008 Maybe it works as the name of a hip hotel, but “W.” isn’t a great title for a movie. Especially when it’s misspelled. Oliver Stone’s new political biopic is called “W. more »»
Dancing with the legends
October 16, 2008 ‘Kahekili” made love … and war … on the Castle Theater stage last Saturday night. more »»
Voting the Hollywood ticket
October 9, 2008 A larger-than-life cardboard cutout of “W” sits in the lobby of the Maui Mall Megaplex these days. more »»
The opposite of acting
October 2, 2008 Last Saturday, the day Paul Newman died, I went to the movies. more »» 
Learning his lines
September 25, 2008 It’s a voice that can inspire terror, just talking about what’s for dinner. But at the other end of the phone line, it sounds cheery, downright friendly. “Rick? Tony Hopkin. more »»
Bad intelligence
September 18, 2008 When no one could find any weapons of mass destruction, it raised the possibility that we might have gone to war in Iraq by mistake. more »»
Run over by a trailer
September 11, 2008 A curious fact of modern life is the way it keeps getting harder to find the line between what we call entertainment and what we call realit. more »» 
Hippie history
September 4, 2008 Not long after Hawaii became a state, the hippies started arriving. more »»
MAKING THE SCENE
August 28, 2008 The irony of it all isn’t lost on Woody Allen. Now that he’s finally beginning to get the drift of what really goes on between men and women, he’s personally too old to do much about i. more »» |
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