Netflix gets very Meta with a parable on physical media (?) when the digital world comes crashing down (right down to the now-redundant Netflix logo on a remote).
My digital world came crashing down in February 2023 when Cyclone Gabrielle took down net and cell phones for a week in my remote, rural community in New Zealand so its only apt that I watched this day-and-date global streamer via my new supposedly future-proof Starlink satellite dish connecting to Mr. Musk's…
A surreal slow cinema bank heist movie. Say what you want about this movie, but the premise is pretty unique.
Taika wins! Standing ovation at TIFF well deserved. The kind of cross cultural feel good comedy we need right now. Taika wins! (Sept 2023)
December 2023 Reflections:
Next Goal Wins
Written and directed by Taika Waititi (Te-Whānau-ā-Apanui)
Seen by Leo Koziol at Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto at TIFF
This year I had a fantastic dream that I was at one of the biggest film festivals in the world and everyone was unreservedly applauding a big Polynesian-Samoan sports-comedy, cheering on…
The movie that changed Hollywood and transformed Aotearoa New Zealand forever. From 2001 to 2020, New Zealand experienced a tourism boom that in large part can be considered the result of a "Middle Earth" inspired transformation of the places and landscapes of our country from north to south. "Hobbiton" in the Waikato is considered a compulsory tourism stop; the Southern Alps are as famed for appearing in this trilogy as they are for their sheer, remarkable, sky piercing beauty; and…
