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Film review: ‘THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Taika Waititi’s previous instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor: Ragnarök was, at least for a while, a strikingly odd experience and refreshingly different flavour in what had become the bland cinematic equivalent of a fast-food franchise. Suddenly, droll, pisstaking Kiwi humour had entered the overblown Wagnerian Marvel superhero fantasy universe. At first, it felt quite subversive but the film

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Film review: ‘JOJO RABBIT’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

New Zealand director Taika Waititi has been one of the more surprising Hollywood success stories. His idiosyncratically Kiwi comedies have leapt over cultural barriers to gain the attention of major Hollywood players and earn him A-list status. Some, like myself, may not have entirely warmed to his droll, piss-taking style of humour although the fact that it infiltrated the vast

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