Style Taika with one week to go The Oscars are next weekend. Final voting opened yesterday and closes on Tuesday. Despite not being a frontrunner—TIFF’s Peoples’ Choice award will not align with Best Picture this year—Taika Waititi is still campaigning for Jojo Rabbit. Last night he made an appearance at the 92nd Street Y, By Sarah • Jan 31, 2020 12:53 pm
BFFs Taika and his hero, Bong Joon-ho The Oscar Nominees Luncheon took place yesterday. This is when they gather every year for the class photo, ahead of the big night, and now they can see the finish line after months of campaigning – except, of course, for Brad Pitt who hasn’t been campaigning AT ALL. We’ll By Lainey • Jan 28, 2020 10:21 am
Golden Globes 2020 Chris Evans and Taika Waititi: the Bong Joon-ho fanboys As I wrote earlier in the first post about the Golden Globes, Bong Joon-ho has been doing things that other filmmakers are just catching up to now. And he has a lot of fans in the industry, a lot of fans at these awards events, who can’t stop talking By Lainey • Jan 06, 2020 06:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews How long can Ryan Reynolds do this? One Fox movie that Disney didn’t sh-tcan after taking control of the studio earlier this year is Free Guy, a Ryan Reynolds project in which he plays Guy, a non-player character in a video game who gains sentience. The first trailer for Free Guy is here, and it looks By Sarah • Dec 09, 2019 02:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taika Waititi and Ryan Reynolds have never met New York Comic-Con has begun, starting the hype train for projects that weren’t ready in time for San Diego Comic-Con. This includes Free Guy, the mostly-under-the-radar action comedy Ryan Reynolds shot over the summer with Night at the Museum and Stranger Things director Shawn Levy. (Free Guy is written By Sarah • Oct 04, 2019 02:26 pm
Michael Fassbender Michael Fassbender joins Taika’s team Coming off the deeply unsuccessful and unpleasant finale of his X-Men run, Michael Fassbender is joining Taika Waititi’s next movie, Next Goal Wins. Based on a documentary of the same name, the movie is about a Dutch coach, Thomas Rongen (presumably to be played by Fassbender), who tries to By Sarah • Sep 16, 2019 10:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit After playing in the Marvel sandbox, Taika Waititi returns to his natural state, making films with a precise blend of comedy, drama, and pathos. His latest is Jojo Rabbit, in which he becomes the latest filmmaker to satirize Hitler since Charlie Chaplin first did it in 1940s in The Great By Sarah • Sep 10, 2019 05:01 pm
TIFF 2019 Coverage Kristen Stewart: Dance parties, Hooters, and Taika Waititi Kristen Stewart is kind of a TIFF regular. I interviewed her here last year for JT LeRoy. She was here for Certain Women in 2016 and Equals in 2015 and On the Road in 2012. There are probably more but you get the point – she knows the festival and she’ By Lainey • Sep 09, 2019 04:04 pm
TIFF 2019 Coverage Robert Pattinson: TIFF Party MVP Robert Pattinson was one of the MVPs of the TIFF party circuit this weekend. He was among the people everybody wanted to get some face time with, and then did, and appeared to be in really great spirits the whole time…although, when you're schmoozing with Taika Waititi By Joanna • Sep 09, 2019 02:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s not a good time to be a Nazi Ahead of its TIFF premiere, a new trailer for Jojo Rabbit has been released, which doubles down on the satirical tone of the teaser. There are lots of “bumbling idiots” hijinks, and Taika Waititi is in bright blue contacts as Imaginary Friend Hitler which is a GREAT touch, a subtle By Sarah • Sep 03, 2019 02:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taika Waititi stays busy Taika Waititi is a busy man. Jojo Rabbit is about to hit the fall festival circuit, he’s got acting and directing duties for The Mandalorian bearing fruit this fall, he’s returning to Marvel for more Thor, but before that, he’ll direct a movie about the American Samoan By Sarah • Aug 28, 2019 01:15 pm
TV Updates The Mandalorian got me I have not been 100% sold on Disney’s upcoming streaming service, Disney+. Mainly it’s an issue of money, with more and more streaming services coming online, the savings of cord-cutting are being wiped out. But also I don’t have kids so about two-thirds of the potential content By Sarah • Aug 27, 2019 04:23 pm
Maple Leaf Two Internet Boyfriends go out for lunch Taiki Waititi and Ryan Gosling were seen out for lunch together this weekend. You can imagine the reaction, even though they were apparently joined by other friends. They’re both internet boyfriends. They’re also both popular with nerds – Taika via his association with the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Ryan By Lainey • Aug 19, 2019 01:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Are we REALLY prepared for Taika Waititi? I feel like we’re not. Or rather, I feel like the world is not. I love Taika Waititi, he’s one of my favorite filmmakers working today. I take any and every opportunity to recommend his films, but I think a lot of the time, the recommendations go ignored. By Sarah • Jul 23, 2019 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman is Lady Thor Last week we learned that Taika Waititi is returning to write and direct Thor 4. Taika was then on hand at Comic-Con, along with Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson, to officially announce the movie, which is titled Thor: Love and Thunder. That title is AMAZING. The key art is even By Sarah • Jul 22, 2019 09:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews More Taika Thor After Taika Waititi breathed new life into the Thor franchise and Thor: Ragnarok was not only a huge hit but also one of the best-received Marvel movies, the big question was: Will Taika Waititi and Chris Hemsworth return for another Thor movie? The answer: yes. Breaking ahead of Comic-Con is By Sarah • Jul 17, 2019 09:45 am
