Articles Tagged Taika Waititi

PODCAST: ABC 774 – 12th September

This week on Friday Film I discuss the Taiki Waititi/Jemaine Clement comedy, What We Do In The Shadows and the latest film from director James Gray, The Immigrant starring Marion Cotillard and Joaquin Phoenix. Plus, talkback on your ‘favourite vampire films’ on Drive with Rafael Epstein on 774 ABC Melbourne.

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 […]