Movie Reviews and Previews Thor’s spiritual spring break The first teaser for Thor Love and Thunder is finally here, featuring “Sweet Child O’ Mine” by Guns N’ Roses and one wonders if clearing this song is what held up the trailer release. It was a pain in the ass to clear the Led Zeppelin song for the trailer By Sarah • Apr 18, 2022 01:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Whither Thor Love and Thunder Three months from this Friday, Thor Love and Thunder—which is a great title but I’m still sad this isn’t called Th4r—is slated to open in theaters. Marvel used to run on a six-month publicity clock, which meant we’d have a trailer by now, but I’ By Sarah • Apr 05, 2022 11:49 am
Equality Issues Our Flag Means Death is a shot across the bow of queerbaiting Spoilers Our Flag Means Death is a Kiwi-quirky romp through pirate history, full of deliberate anachronisms and a mellower, more melancholic tone than one might expect of a “silly pirate show”. But it is also a wolf in sheep’s clothing, a show that starts as one thing, and becomes By Sarah • Apr 01, 2022 01:29 pm
TV Updates Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi in Our Flag Means Death Our Flag Means Death, loosely based on the life of Stede Bonnet, the unlikeliest pirate in history, is not quite what you think it is. Created by David Jenkins and produced by Jenkins Taika Waititi—who also directs the pilot episode—Flag is one part workplace comedy, one part fish-out-of-water By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 03:46 pm
Top Reads Rita and Taika’s Fashion Tour Will and Kate are going on tour next month and right now Taika Waititi and Rita Ora are in Milan on a fashion tour. They’ve been front row at Fendi and Prada so far, performing front row attitude and pouts. It’s been almost a year now that Rita By Lainey • Feb 24, 2022 02:58 pm
TV Updates Hot Taika and Leading Man Rhys Darby (at last) Last month, we saw a teaser for Our Flag Means Death, the pirate comedy coming from David Jenkins and Taika Waititi. Now, we have a full trailer, and yes, I have been mainlining this for DAYS. The combination of pirate history and New Zealand humor, it feels like this was By Sarah • Feb 22, 2022 02:03 pm
TV Updates Flight of the Conchords, but pirates There is a new comedy series coming to HBO featuring Taika Waititi and Rhys Darby about PIRATES and I missed the trailer last week and NO ONE TOLD ME. I am not speaking to any of you. But I will watch the trailer for Our Flag Means Death over and By Sarah • Jan 24, 2022 01:12 pm
Nicole Kidman Nicole & Keith in Sydney for the Holidays Last week, after the Hollywood premiere of Being the Ricardos, I wrote about Nicole Kidman and how Keith Urban hadn’t joined her on any of the red carpets for the film up to that point. As I said in that post though, it wasn’t about their relationship but By Lainey • Dec 15, 2021 11:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Taika tackles Jodorowsky In the annals of cult cinema, few filmmakers stand taller than Alejandro Jodorowsky, the Chilean-French filmmaker behind films like Topo and The Holy Mountain. He’s also known for his failed Dune adaptation, which was documented in Jodorowsky’s Dune. Jodorowsky is an artist of unquenchable curiosity, and while he’ By Sarah • Nov 05, 2021 10:48 am
Met Gala 2021 Met Gala Couples: Shawmila, Jailey, and… Rititi? Am I the only one who thought Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello’s MET Gala looks were a complete miss? They were both dressed by Michael Kors, with Camila channeling a Studio 54 vibe. I like the colour and disco falls under the theme, but I don’t think the By Cody • Sep 14, 2021 10:56 am
TV Updates Reservation Dogs: An Indigenous Hang-out Sitcom I have dithered over this review for a while, partly because I am just plain enjoying Reservation Dogs, and sometimes when you enjoy something you don’t want to commodify it. But also partly because with each new episode I fall further down the rabbit hole of struggling to express By Sarah • Aug 31, 2021 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Free Guy: The Best of Ryan Reynolds In Free Guy, Ryan Reynolds stars as Guy, a non-player character in an open-world shooter game called “Free City”. Within the world of the game, Guy and all the other NPCs are unaware of their artificial reality, they just think it’s normal for the bank to be robbed every By Sarah • Aug 13, 2021 12:56 pm
Relationship Assumption Taika & Rita’s First Red Carpet The Suicide Squad is this summer’s next summer blockbuster so the premiere in LA last night was a major red carpet, considering this is an ensemble movie, about superheroes, or villains rather, and it’s been a year of lockdown, and given the surge in new infections with the By Lainey • Aug 03, 2021 11:51 am
TV Updates Meet the Reservation Dogs As far as Indigenous filmmakers go, everyone knows Taika Waititi’s name, but another name to know is Sterlin Harjo, a Native writer/director from Oklahoma who worked in the indie scene throughout the 2010s with films like Four Sheets to the Wind, Barking Water, and Mekko. Harjo is debuting By Sarah • Jul 20, 2021 01:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris and Taika Wrap on Love and Thunder Taika Waititi and Chris Hemsworth have been working on Thor: Love and Thunder for months now in Australia. There’s been gossip during filming but none of it is coming from set – it’s Taika’s offset activity that people have been talking about. Like the fact that he’s By Lainey • Jun 02, 2021 11:35 am
Top Reads Taika, Tessa, and Rita Taika Waititi and Rita Ora are dating. Which has elevated Rita to the celebrity status that she may have been thirsting for for a while now. When I was texting about this with Sarah last week, though, she made an observation that isn’t getting quite as much play – it’ By Lainey • May 25, 2021 02:30 pm
