“Shutter Island” By: Chase Olivieri, Ka Lamakua Associate Editor Last Friday I got a glimpse of Martin Scorsese’s latest film Shutter Island. The film is set in 1954 and revolves around two U.S. Marshals investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from her high-security cell in a mental hospital on Shutter Island. Leonardo DiCaprio [...]
By Matthew Ishitani After Spiderman 3, I thought I’d hate another densely packed, content-orgy, comic-book movie. The Dark Knight has about a dozen independent plots orbiting the villainous Joker’s master plan. Each of these little plots could serve as its own episode in the series (Batman going to Hong Kong, copycat vigilantes, etc.), which may [...]
By Matthew Ishitani It’s hard to say that you’re disappointed in a really good movie. American Gangster wasn’t the classic everyone expected it to be, but it was still exceptional. David Mamet’s Redbelt falls under this category. The film’s plot is congruent with Twilight Samurai in that a humble, gifted warrior struggles through unfair adversity [...]
By Matthew Ishitani With the rise of Thai martial arts movies, there’s been a great deal of letdown as far as story lines. While Ong-Bak and Tom Yum Goong were both explosive in nature, their plots borrowed the same stencil. Chocolate, the latest from director Prachya Pinkaew and choreographer Panna Rittikrai (of the previously mentioned [...]
By Matthew Ishitani The Forbidden Kingdom is like fan-fiction written by a newbie Wuxia film-junkie who just read Neil Gaiman’s Stardust. While I found the epic pairing of less popular masters Donnie Yen and Sammo Hung (in SPL) to be more intense, Jackie Chan and Jet Li were so monumental together that they actually deserve [...]
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