REVIEW: Boy

Taika Waititi’s Boy opens with an illuminating quote from E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) – “You could be happy here…we could grow up together”. Situating the film within the mid-1980s, the reference to Steven Spielberg’s seminal work also provides an insight into the emotional longing of Boy’s central character, an imaginative eleven year-old living in the […]