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Favorite films

  • Drunktown's Finest
  • From Cherry English
  • Two Cars, One Night
  • Reel Injun

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  • Leave the World Behind

    ★★★★

  • The Delinquents

    ★★★

  • Single All the Way

    ★★

  • Happiest Season

    ★★★

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  • Leave the World Behind

    Leave the World Behind

    ★★★★

    Netflix gets very Meta with a parable on physical media (?) when the digital world comes crashing down (right down to the now-redundant Netflix logo on a remote).

    My digital world came crashing down in February 2023 when Cyclone Gabrielle took down net and cell phones for a week in my remote, rural community in New Zealand so its only apt that I watched this day-and-date global streamer via my new supposedly future-proof Starlink satellite dish connecting to Mr. Musk's…

  • The Delinquents

    The Delinquents

    ★★★

    A surreal slow cinema bank heist movie. Say what you want about this movie, but the premise is pretty unique.

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  • Next Goal Wins

    Next Goal Wins

    ★★★★½

    Taika wins! Standing ovation at TIFF well deserved. The kind of cross cultural feel good comedy we need right now. Taika wins! (Sept 2023)

    December 2023 Reflections:

    Next Goal Wins
    Written and directed by Taika Waititi (Te-Whānau-ā-Apanui)
    Seen by Leo Koziol at Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto at TIFF

    This year I had a fantastic dream that I was at one of the biggest film festivals in the world and everyone was unreservedly applauding a big Polynesian-Samoan sports-comedy, cheering on…

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    ★★★★

    The movie that changed Hollywood and transformed Aotearoa New Zealand forever. From 2001 to 2020, New Zealand experienced a tourism boom that in large part can be considered the result of a "Middle Earth" inspired transformation of the places and landscapes of our country from north to south. "Hobbiton" in the Waikato is considered a compulsory tourism stop; the Southern Alps are as famed for appearing in this trilogy as they are for their sheer, remarkable, sky piercing beauty; and…

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