Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Movie Review
The Movie: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The Director: Martin McDonagh
The Cast: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Caleb Landry Jones, Abbie Cornish, Lucas Hedges, Zeljko Ivanek, Peter Dinklage, John Hawkes, Samara Weaving
The Story: A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.
Sunday, November 26, 2017
Coco - Movie Review
The Movie: Coco
The Directors: Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina
The Cast: Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, Renée Victor, Edward James Olmos, John Ratzenberger
The Story: Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to work out the mystery.
Wonder - Movie Review
The Movie: Wonder
The Director: Stephen Chbosky
The Cast: Jacob Tremblay, Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Izabela Vidovic, Mandy Patinkin, Noah Jupe, Bryce Gheisar, Elle McKinnon, Daveed Diggs, Millie Davis, Ali Liebert, Danielle Rose Russell
The Story: Based on the New York Times bestseller, WONDER tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
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Thursday, November 23, 2017
Justice League - Movie Review
The Movie: Justice League
The Director: Zack Snyder
The Cast: Gal Gadot, Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher, Jeremy Irons, Diane Lane, Connie Nielsen, J.K. Simmons, Ciarán Hinds, Amber Heard, Joe Morton
The Story: DC Comics super heroes band together to save the planet from certain destruction.
Sunday, November 19, 2017
2017 Hawaii International Film Festival Recap
While I wasn't able to attend the 2017 Hawaii International Film Festival, I was able to check out a few of the films and what I saw was pretty darn good. The festival took place at several different venues and featured a very diverse schedule filled with feature films, short films, documentaries, and special events all of which were in some way connected to regions around the Pacific Rim.
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Zan (HIFF 2017) - Documenatry Review
The Documentary: Zan
The Director: Rick Grehan
The Story: This film follows imageMILL’s Yu Kisami as he brings us on a journey of discovery, aided by NGO NACJS. We meet the people who are working tirelessly to protect this beautiful part of the world, a natural heritage for Japan.
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Mon Mon Mon Monsters (報告老師! 怪怪怪怪物!) (HIFF 2017) - Movie Review
The Movie: Mon Mon Mon Monsters (報告老師! 怪怪怪怪物!)
The Director: Giddens Ko
The Cast: James Lai, Meng Tao, Yu-Kai Deng, Kent Tsai, Eugenie Liu
The Story: A man-eating monster hunts down a group of high school bullies who have captured and are torturing her little sister.
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Saturday, November 18, 2017
Lady Bird (HIFF 2017) - Movie Review
The Movie: Lady Bird
The Director: Greta Gerwig
The Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Lois Smith, Odeya Rush
The Story: The adventures of a young woman living in Northern California for a year.
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Lois Smith
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Lucas Hedges
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Odeya Rush
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Saoirse Ronan
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Stephen Henderson
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Timothée Chalamet
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Tracy Letts
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Bad Genius (ฉลาดเกมส์โกง) (HIFF 2017) - Movie Review
The Movie: Bad Genius (ฉลาดเกมส์โกง)
The Director: Nattawut Poonpiriya
The Cast: Thaneth Warakulnukroh, Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying, Chanon Santinatornkul, Teeradon Supapunpinyo, Eisaya Hosuwan
The Story: Inspired by actual events, a group of high school students hatch a plan to profit off of their brains by selling the answers to standardized exams.
Saturday, November 11, 2017
2017 Portland Film Festival Recap
The 2017 Portland Film Festival has come and gone and, from everything I've seen, heard, and read, it was yet another smashing success! I am very happy to have once again had the opportunity to see a few of the films that were presented during the festival and have collected my reviews here for easy access. You will also find a list of films that took home awards from this year's festival as well as my own "Festival Favorite" pick for this year.
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Fake Blood (PDXFF 2017) - Movie Review
Movie Review: Fake Blood
Director: Rob Grant
The Story: Rob Grant and Mike Kovac receive a disturbing fan video inspired by their previous horror movie Mon Ami, motivating them to investigate the responsibility of filmmakers in portraying violence in movies. In their pursuit of the truth they are unwittingly introduced to the real world of violent criminals and their victims.
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Break the Chain (PDXFF 2017) - Documentary Review
The Movie: Break the Chain
The Directors: Laura E. Swanson and Kirk Mason
The Story: The film chronicles two survivors of Human Trafficking - providing a detailed look at how trafficking goes unnoticed within our backyards. Kwami, a child survivor of Labor Trafficking, was enslaved for nearly five years with three other children in Ypsilanti, Michigan before anyone noticed. Debbie, a survivor of Sex Trafficking, takes us through her experience of being sold for sex around the Detroit-Area between the ages of 13 and 18. - BreakTheChainFilm.com
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Thursday, November 9, 2017
Secret Santa (PDXFF 2017) - Movie Review
The Movie: Secret Santa
The Director: Adam Marcus
The Cast: A Leslie Kies, Michael Rady, Michelle Renee Allaire, Pat Destro, Drew Lynch, Curtis Fortier, John Gilbert, Nathan Hedrick, Megan Helbing, Petra Areskoug, Ryan Leigh Seaton, Debra Sullivan, Michelle Allair, Freddy John James, Eddie Jordan III
The Story: A dysfunctional Christmas party turns deadly when an unexpected gift brings out the evil in everyone and turns the yuletide festivities into a fight for survival.
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Tuesday, November 7, 2017
The Hollow Child (PDXFF 2017) - Movie Review
The Movie: The Hollow Child
The Director: Jeremy Lutter
The Cast: Jessica McLeod, Hannah Cheramy, John Emmet Tracy, Jana Mitsoula, Genevieve Buechner, Connor Stanhope, Johannah Newmarch
The Story: A troubled foster teen, Samantha, works to expose a dangerous supernatural impostor in her new family and rescue her foster sister.
Sunday, November 5, 2017
Thor: Ragnarok - Movie Review
The Movie: Thor: Ragnarok
The Director: Taika Waititi
The Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Tessa Thompson, Mark Ruffalo, Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Karl Urban, Anthony Hopkins, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tadanobu Asano, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi
The Story: This is what Thor and Hulk were doing during Civil War.
Saturday, November 4, 2017
Blue (HIFF 2017) - Documentary Review
The Documentary: Blue
The Director: Karina Holden
The Story: Blue is a provocative journey into the ocean realm, witnessing this critical moment in time when the marine world is on a precipice.
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Brown's Canyon (PDXFF 2017) - Movie Review
The Movie: Brown's Canyon
The Director: John Helde
The Cast: Lisa Every, Eric Jordan, Carter Rodriquez, Jenn Ruzumna, Sara Rucker Thiessen
The Story: Two self-help gurus plan to resuscitate their careers by co-hosting a women’s mindfulness retreat in the Utah wilderness. When surprise guests, a mudslide and a bowl of spoiled chili thwart their plans, their own lives unravel over one awkward weekend.
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Thursday, November 2, 2017
The VelociPastor (PDXFF 2017) - Movie Review
The Movie: The VelociPastor
The Director: Brendan Steere
The Cast: Gregory James Cohan, Alyssa Kempinski, Fernando Pacheco De Castro, Jesse Turits, Daniel Steere,
The Story: After losing his parents, a priest travels to China, where he inherits a mysterious ability that allows him to turn into a dinosaur. At first horrified by this new power, a hooker convinces him to use it to fight crime. And ninjas.
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Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Wol-ha: Very Bad Moon Rising (PDXFF 2017) - Movie Review
The Movie: Wol-ha: Very Bad Moon Rising
The Director: Oh In-chun
The Story: Commissioned by a mysterious international collector with a large sum of money, a party makes an expedition to find “the tomb of Kisaeng Wolhyang”.
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Hirota Masami
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