Muss  vs. Hollywood

“It is not just Lord of the Rings that is ushering in a golden age of Kiwi cinema. Everywhere you look, NZers are taking over Tinseltown.” From Peter Jackson, Lee Tamahori and Vincent Ward, to Anna Paquin and Laurence Makaore, the list just keeps getting longer. The writer has the perfect analogy in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, with Temuera Morrison’s Maori multitudes: “If that’s not taking over Hollywood, I don’t know what is.”


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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…