Filmmaker Celine Song is earning high praise from critics for PAST LIVES, her very first feature film. PAST LIVES is a melancholy love story about how the choices we make shape our lives and how, over time, we can feel sad when we think about what might have been. The main character is a woman who came to North America from Korea when she was just12 years old. Now, 24 years later she’s a married playwright in New York City when her unmarried childhood sweetheart comes to visit. PAST LIVES is restrained, well acted, heartfelt drama, a slow paced, touching movie about the kind of sadness we all experience over the roads we didn’t go down. (WARD and KAHALA Theaters) I also want to let you know about IT AIN’T OVER, a superb documentary on Yogi Berra, the great Yankee baseball catcher who won ten Worlds Series rings. It’s showing only at the Koko Marina Theaters through next Wednesday, June 28.
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Our Billy V caught up with the Na Hoku Hanohano award-winning singer before she hits the road for her first international concert with Josh Tatofi.
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Billy V has the latest entertainment news from Nicole Scherzinger, Thunderstorm Artis, Karlee Tanaka and the Hawaii International Film Festival.
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99% of the members in Writer's Guild of America voted to ratify the contract, which will be in place until May 2026.
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It's officially spooky season. Plus, Billy V catches up with Ewa Beach native Kaylee Shimizu on her life-changing experience on 'The Voice.'
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A war between humans and Artificial Intelligence is at the center of a new science fiction movie called THE CREATOR. John David Washington co-stars with a child actor in a powerful science fiction thriller based on a great concept, namely that in the year 2065 AI simulated humans are morally and intellectually superior to real people. Director Gareth Edwards stirs up strong feelings in spite of his convoluted plot that left me jangled and somewhat confused. Like most sci fi movies about wars of the future, there’s too much fighting and too many explosions, but this filmmaker’s cinematography is is a cut above. And his ideas are provocative. Could it be that someday AI will create replicants who are committed to achieving world peace? (In theaters)
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Kaylee Shimizu, from Ewa Beach, got a standing ovation after singing the Beatles hit “Golden Slumbers” — in honor of her late great-grandfather, who was her biggest fan.