Many of the most critically acclaimed movies in 2022 were box office failures and didn’t last more than a week or two in theaters. But most of these overlooked films are streaming now. One of those excellent films is EMILY THE CRIMINAL, starring Aubrey Plaza. Plaza is best known for her six years playing a comic character the TV series, PARKS AND RECREATION. But for the past seven years she’s shown she has serious acting chops. In EMILY THE CRIMINAL, she plays a tough but vulnerable young woman whose conviction on an assault charge keeps her from getting a decent paying job. Emily is saddled with 60,000 dollars of student and she’s desperate. She works at such a low paying food delivery job that she can barely cover the interest payments on her loans. But a friend shows her how she can get involved in a credit card buying scam and she enters the criminal world. The dark story develops in surprising ways and eventually comes to a shocking climax. EMILY THE CRIMINAL does not excuse criminality, but it does explain how society can inadvertently turn desperate people into criminals. (Netflix)
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Lauren Teruya says it's been a whirlwind of a year and one of the things she focused on was getting arts on the curriculum in local schools.
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Stephen Pokipala, 31, is a kickboxer from Waianae who everyone is dubbing as the "Hawaiian Ryu" Street Fighter.
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Paul Schrader is a 76 year old filmmaker who has been making movies since 1978. I have avoided many of his films because they are often full of suffering and violence. But MASTER GARDENER is much less so; it even has a happy ending. It’s a slow burn of a film in which I could feel the strong emotions of Joel Edgerton as the main character even though he keeps those emotions in check. In short, MASTER GARDNER is the fine work of a masterful writer-director. (Kahala Mall Theaters only)
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Top stories from across Hawaii and around the world, as seen on the 4:30 a.m. news broadcast from Hawaii News Now.
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Congrats Carly Miyamoto on winning University of Hawaii's "Take Me To Manoa" contest!