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Second Opinion – Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

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Thor: Ragnarok, 2017. Directed by Taika Waititi. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hiddleston, Mark Ruffalo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tessa Thompson, Jeff Goldblum, Taika Waititi, Idris Elba, Karl Urban, Anthony Hopkins, Clancy Brown, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi, Rachel House, Tadanobu Asano, Luke Hemsworth, Taylor Hemsworth, Sam Neill, Charlotte Nicdao, and Matt Damon. SYNOPSIS: Imprisoned, the mighty […]

Movie Review – Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

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Thor: Ragnarok, 2017. Directed by Taika Waititi. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hiddleston, Mark Ruffalo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tessa Thompson, Jeff Goldblum, Taika Waititi, Idris Elba, Karl Urban, Anthony Hopkins, Clancy Brown, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi, Rachel House, Tadanobu Asano, Luke Hemsworth, Taylor Hemsworth, Sam Neill, Charlotte Nicdao, and Matt Damon. SYNOPSIS: Imprisoned, the mighty […]

Sam Neill reuniting with Taika Waititi (and Jeff Goldblum) on Thor: Ragnarok

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople star Sam Neill has revealed in an interview with Shortlist that he’s reuniting with director Taika Waititi on next year’s Marvel threequel Thor: Ragnarok. “Oddly enough, I’m not really allowed to say this, and I can’t tell you what it is [but] I did a couple of days on Thor, just […]

Second Opinion – Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople, 2016. Directed by Taika Waititi. Starring Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Oscar Knightley and Rhys Darby. SYNOPSIS: A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush. Hunt for the Wilderpeople occupies a strange place, that purgatory […]

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Review – Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople, 2016. Written and Directed by Taika Waititi. Starring Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House and Rhys Darby. SYNOPSIS: A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush. There is a definite temptation to begin this […]

Fantasia International Film Festival Review – Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople, 2016. Directed by Taika Waititi. Starring Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Oscar Knightley and Rhys Darby. SYNOPSIS:  A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush. Taika Waititi’s The Hunt for the Wilderpeople is the kind […]

Movie Review – Backtrack (2015)

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Backtrack, 2015. Directed by Michael Petroni. Starring Adrien Brody, Sam Neill, Robin McLeavy, Bruce Spence and Jenni Baird. SYNOPSIS: Psychologist Peter Bower’s life is thrown into turmoil when he discovers that the patients he has been seeing are ghosts. Risking his own sanity, Peter delves into his past to uncover a terrifying secret which only […]

FIFA film United Passions grosses just $900 in U.S. opening weekend

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As if the story couldn’t get any worse for FIFA after all of the recent allegations and arrests, their venture into the film world hasn’t faired much better with the self-funded football story United Passions flopping dramatically at the US box office. United Passions is FIFA’s own film and tells the story of their 111-year […]

Movie Review – Sweet Country (2017)

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Sweet Country, 2017. Directed by Warwick Thornton Starring Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Hamilton Morris, Matt Day, Tremayne Doolan, Trevon Doolan, and Ewen Leslie. SYNOPSIS: In the Northern Territory frontier of Australia in 1920, an Aboriginal farmhand is left in charge of a property while his boss is away.  But he shoots a white man in […]