The zombie genre has been so overcooked it’s hard to find any freshness, but horror fans wanting something different should check out the Indigenous horror Blood Quantum from writer-director Jeff Barnaby (Mi’kmaq). The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi’kmaq reserve of Red Crow and while non-Natives suffer in the usual way zombie lore has told us, the Native inhabitants seem strangely immune to the zombie plague.
There’s a treasure trove of Native talent here both behind…
Little old lady and an octopus = global tissue shortage, 10 hanky weepie! Sally Field!
Completely not what I expected. Visceral and brutal. Year’s biggest surprise.
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…
