Jojo Rabbit Makes …Nazis …Fun?
Nazi-centric films don’t tend to be particularly fun. Enter Taika Waititi.
Joker Is a New Type of Superhero Film – For Better and For Worse
Joker is the first film to deliver on the promise of a different kind of superhero film.
The Best Films of 2017
A shitty year with some excellent movies.
Thor Ragnarok Finds the Balance Between Waititi Silliness and MCU Formula
Thor Ragnarok is half Taika Waititi film – funny, digressive, unpredictable – and half Thor film – mired in tiresome Norse mythology and following the MCU formula note-for-note.
Love & Friendship is a Delightfully Droll Austen Adaptation
Love & Friendship – Whit Stillman’s spin on Jane Austen’s novella Lady Susan – is a deftly-executed delight, a lilting melody of acerbic one liners and charming repartee.
Accessibility and Culture in Hunt for the Wilderpeople
New Zealand writer-director-actor Taika Waititi has always had a quirky comedic streak. With his latest, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, he’s closest to a defining style that can easily translate across a variety of audiences. That might be why he’s been selected to helm the next instalment of Marvel’s Thor franchise. His first feature film Eagle…
Giveaway: Win What We Do In The Shadows Fang-Bloody-Tastic Collector’s Edition [COMPLETED]
Thanks to Madman Entertainment, ccpopculture has 3 copies of What We Do in the Shadows’ Fang-Bloody-Tastic Collector’s Edition (Blu-Ray/DVD) to give away. Here’s what I said to say about the vampire mockumentary in my review last year: “Despite building a 90-something minute film from over 100 hours of surplus footage, Waititi and Clement pull their…
Interview with ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Director Taika Waititi and Star Rhys Darby
While interviewing Taika Waititi, director, writer and star of What We Do in the Shadows, and Rhys Darby, who appears as the “alpha male” werewolf, it quickly became clear how these guys could make a film so hilarious without any need for careful scripting. Despite meeting the pair towards the tail end of a busy media…
What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Who wouldn’t want to be a vampire? Save the minor inconvenience of hyper-photosensitivity and a rarely quenchable thirst for human blood, you gain the ability to fly, to transform into a bat, and to carry an aura of lascivious sexuality to go with your extended incisors. Not to mention the whole immortality deal, which turns…
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