The Super Bowl of comic book movies for the DC Comics universe has finally arrived and it’s a major bust. Years of laying down the narrative groundwork, establishing the classic comic book characters in their film forms and finding a way to wrap them all together in one big cinematic tamale has led to an […]
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Your MauiTime 2017 Summer Movie Wrap-Up
A baffling summer at the movies started strong, until the good choices were too widely dispersed over the course of four months. The bad movies were in such abundance, audiences managed to wisely put their foot down and voted with their pocketbook. Instead of saying, “Oh, why not, I saw the other four….,” filmgoers actually […]
Special Bonus Wonder Woman Review
[Editor’s note: Because of the importance the new movie Wonder Woman holds for women, we decided to publish a second review of the movie, this time written from the female perspective (you can read MauiTime movie critic Barry Wurst II’s original review here).] During the Oscars earlier this year, GE ran an ad that imagined […]
WONDER WOMAN New Movie Review
Early into Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, a tell-all photograph surfaces, introducing us to Wonder Woman. More specifically, it’s a picture found by Bruce Wayne, proving the mystery woman he encountered, Diana Prince (played by Gal Gadot) is not only ageless but an Amazonian warrior who once had an adventure during World War I. […]
Talking story with Steve Leialoha, Trina Robbins and James Silvani about the first ever Maui Comic Con
The first ever comic book convention (or “comic con”) of note took place in California. The year was 1970 and those present said it was like a church bake sale, with burly dudes sitting around card tables, selling stacks of comic books, while a few notable artists were present. It took a few decades but […]