IT ALL STARTS TODAY The inspirational-teacher-trapped-in-an-unforgiving-system trope may have been wrung dry by now, but this 1999 French film manages..
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If you haven’t seen Sean Connelly’s Land Division at Honolulu Museum of Art yet, you’re in luck — the display’s..
20,000 DAYS ON EARTH Don’t call it a documentary, because it’s scripted. Don’t call it fiction, because it’s based on..
ANTIQUE BAKERY As a young boy, Kim Jin-hyuk was abducted from his home — and every day, his captor fed..
ART AND CRAFT There’s something a little discomfiting about this documentary, which follows noted art forger Mark Landis as he..
If things had been different, Kalani Ware — portrait painter, grip-tape artist and graphic designer extraordinaire — might’ve gone into..
CITIZENFOUR Compared to some of the other government whistleblowers out there — the egotistical Julian Assange or the beleaguered Chelsea..
FORT BLISS Military movies in America fall into one of two categories: portraits of trumpet-blaring heroism, or laments of institutional..
THE HAUMANA The centerpiece of local boy Keo Woolford’s directorial debut is hula. Lovingly filmed and set to a lush..
BIRD PEOPLE Two ordinary people struggle to find meaning in the technology-driven, impersonal world of today — a familiar enough..
