It’s easy to get caught in the spectacle of The Floating Castle. This comedy-drama retelling of the 1590 Siege of Oshi—in which a small force of some 3,000 soldiers, mostly peasants, held off repeated attacks by an army numbering more than 20,000—has no shortage of action, excitement, and comical banter. …
We need more Māori stories in the mainstream. We need more Māori films, Māori video games, Māori books, Māori comics, Māori TV shows. There’s so much untapped potential in Māori history, culture, and folklore for stories across all media and spanning all sorts of genres, and The Dead Lands is …
Drop what you’re doing and go see Magic Mike XXL right now. There it is. That’s my review. Okay, that’s not the whole review, but it’s the most important part, because it’s kind of hard to do the film justice with words alone. Before seeing it I heard so many good …
