movie review

The special effects include an escalator, running and a lasso of truth.

The Avengers this is not.

There has been a lot of discussion recently on Stuff.co.nz about the 25 year history of Once Were Warriors, that quintessential New Zealand film that went beyond the shaggy dog antics of Goodbye Pork Pie and Came a Hot Friday  or the dystopia of the Quiet Earth or Sleeping Dogs or the pure creepiness of Vigil and The Navigator to enshrine itself as a chapter of our cultural history that to this day still resonates with all the fury of its opening night.

Jordan Peele’s latest horror offering of ‘Us’ suggests his skills as a movie maker and social critic have merged to a new high that manages to eclipse  his previous horror romp ‘Get out’, which is no easy feat because ‘Get out’ was brilliant.  

I’ve given it 4 stars because the 5 minute scene where Sarah Silverman’s character meets all the Disney Princesses is perhaps the funniest 5 minutes of animation every created.

Michael Moore is one of our generations great American documentary makers. Academy Award winning Fahrenheit 9/11 remains one of the top grossing docos of all time so when one of the first pundits to predict Trump would win makes a new documentary on why Trump won, it becomes necessary viewing for anyone who cares about American politics.

Aborigines, Rebel Wilson and now kangaroos?

Is there anything white Australian’s can’t ruin?

It’s Easter, that means taking my 8 year old daughter to her Easter Movie.

For me the scene which most perfectly summed up the confusion of the manufactured reality of this hollowing out of the human experience is when an artificial intelligence program synchs over the image of a real life biological woman to have sex with a synthetic life form.

If there is a better metaphor for modern humanity, I’ve yet to see it.

Now with any review of Moana, we need to acknowledge upfront that the cultural appropriation by a multi billion dollar monstrosity like Disney is an abomination. Rich white buggers ripping off another peoples culture to make a buck is sickening and we all wish for plague to infect them and their families for their heteropatriachy white cis male interpretations of Pacifica People etc etc etc.