Hunt for the Wilderpeople is an uplifting, gruff New Zealander film about family love. Ricky (Julian Dennison) comes from foster care to the home of Hec (Sam Neill) and his wife, Bella (Rima Te Wiata). Hec and Ricky stay away from each other initially, largely due to how similar they are. Both prefer nature and solitude to city life and small talk, and so they vet each other cautiously. Ricky trie...[Read More]
It’s 1984 in a beautiful but impoverished small town on New Zealand’s east coast, where an 11-year-old who everybody calls Boy gets an unexpected visit from his long-absent father. Featuring two fine performances from unknown Maori child actors, Boy, writer/director and co-star Taika Waititi’s coming-of-age story of a Michael Jackson-obsessed tween struggling to understand his slacker dad sh...[Read More]