FILM ::
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7.23.08 The Dark Knight
By Matthew Ishitani
'The prosthetic scarification enhances every emotion, even when Joker stops smiling and says: “I’m not crazy.”'
+Read more about the newest Batman movie>>
6.25.08 Martial Arts Triple Feature!
By Matthew Ishitani
Settle down with some popcorn this summer and enjoy these three high-action films, featuring fierce fighting ladies and epic kung fu stars.
+The Forbidden Kingdom featuring Jet Li and Jackie Chan.
+Chocolate, a Thai film with a female lead.
+Redbelt follows an American MMA instructor through competition.
5.15.08 Street Kings Review
By Matthew Ishitani
Released in early April, Street Kings stars Keanu Reeves and Forest Whitaker, in another gum shoe action film from James Ellroy and Kurt Wimmer.
4.30.08 A Videoconference with David Lynch
By Tracy Chan
America's creepiest film director talks to UH students at the Center for Korean Studies-- Kalamakua gets the scoop.
3.06.08 Persepolis Review
By Matthew Ishitani
Matthew Ishitani reviews Persepolis, the animated movie about an Iranian girl's struggles with culture, politics, and growing up.
11.29.07: Manda Bala ("Send a Bullet")
By Tracy Chan
In the slums of Sao Paulo, Brazil, a professional kidnapper coldly cuts off a woman’s ear and sends it to her family in exchange for ransom money, which he distributes to the neighborhood children so they can buy food.
11.25.07: Itty Bitty Titty Committee
By Loraine Ho
Many recognize director Jaime Babbit from her 1999 claim-to-fame, But I’m a Cheerleader, which follows teenage misadventures in an ex-gay training camp. Babbit retires the coming-out theme with her newest film, Itty Bitty Titty Committee, which centers on an extreme feminist organization and the struggle to incite political change.
10.30.06: Marie Antoinette
By Justin Hahn
For a few golden seconds, the naked ass of a 14-year-old piqued my attention, but for the next hour and twenty minutes, my sense of ennui didn’t change much...
10.3.06: Four Eyed Monsters
By Blaine Tolentino
It seems like the sort of film that is complete carnage. The film is the story of Arin Crumley and Susan Buice. It is meant to be some sort of performance art piece -- they begin to date but decide not to speak through the entire courtship. They have sex before they even speak to each other.
9.29.06: The Covenant
By Will Connor
Everyone in the film was a little too pretty for me, with all the boys in the film having puffy, pouty lips except Toby Hemingway, who looks just the rest of family - practically lipless, but that prettiness extended to the rest of the film...
9.26.06: The Black Dahlia
By Amit Kalra
The person I went to see the movie with commented, "I hope that guy is never in a movie again"...
9.7.06: The Illusionist
By Julia Wieting
Look no further than The Illusionist for that tantalizing combination of mysticism and period glamour that would make Tolstoy drool...
8.26.06: Snakes on a Plane!!
By Will Connor
Several of his lines in the movie got a brief laugh and a few of the soon-to-be classics got a full cheer and even a round of applause. You not only leave the theatre with the quote “Enough is ENOUGH! I have had it with these mother f%&*ing snakes on this mother f#$@ing plane!” stuck in your head, but you can hear the roar of the movie-goers that followed it to boot!