Kubrick’s Successor?

The latest Hollywood release by Kapiti-grown, LA-resident writer-director Andrew Niccol (The Truman Show, Gattaca) is Lord of War. Described by the Guardian as “a moral fable treated with a surface realism,” Lord of War tells the dual stories of a Ukrainian-American gunrunner (Nicholas Cage) and the Interpol agent (Ethan Hawke) determined to bring him down. Hawke had this to say of Niccol in an Australian Vogue interview: “I really believe in him. Andrew thinks differently from anybody else making movies. I feel he could really wind up being the Kubrick of our generation.”


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Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Cancelled after two season, Taika Waititi’s “silly comedy” Our Flag Means Death “deserves one more voyage”, according to Radio Times critic George White. “ was meant to be sacred…