Top 10 Kiwi Movies and TV Shows on Netflix: From the Land of Sheep and Hobbits
Cat Sole is a Kiwi screenwriter and script consultant based in Sydney. In a culture that is often more interested in tearing down content in searching for every minute flaw, Cat’s goals are in line with the
Hollywood Insider’s to examine why quality content works and how both filmmakers and critics alike can learn from the best the industry has to offer. This philosophy is reflected in all of Cat’s endeavors.
Jan 7, 2021
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.’ The past decade saw Taika Waititi take the box office by storm, contributing to the Marvel Cinematic Universe with ‘Thor: Ragnorak’ and making a splash at the Oscars with ‘Jojo Rabbit’. New Zealand has had plenty to offer Hollywood and the golden age of television, but what about homegrown content from this small, sheep-filled country?
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Introduction
The Mandela Effect gets its name from the misremembering of the death of the former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela. A
Healthlinearticle describes the occurrence of people remembering Mandela dying in the 1980s when he actually died in 2013. The occurrence of this is broken down to collective false memories and confabulation. An event occurs and is misinterpreted by a number of people, then is cemented as fact in their minds.
Examples of the Mandela Effect include the peanut butter company Jif. Many people remember the company as Jiffy. Another example is
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Amy) ‘Diego Maradona’is another poignant documentary, this time about one of the greatest footballers (soccer players) of all time. It centers on Maradona’s time inNapoliduring the late ‘80s and poignantly posits that moment as a symbol for his overarching life-story.
The Beautiful Game
As a football fan,
Diego Maradona was an inherently fascinating watch – it doesn’t shy away from emphasising the genius of his football as much as his wild character. The footage on display is surprisingly cinematic (it was recorded by Maradona’s personal cameraman). As a result, the matches are more exciting than most feature film depictions of football (
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We can glean some comfort in the fact that, according to the CDC, suicides don’t actually spike around Christmastime–they’re at their yearly low. Whether or not you adhere to its Christian traditions, Christmas is a time of family, love, and goodwill that has a powerful effect on people–even soldiers in 1914 formed an impromptu truce and played football together on no man’s land. At the very least, you hopefully get the day off work to spend time with your family and friends, which is always something to be thankful for.
Many of us didn’t get to celebrate the holiday season in typical fashion without running the risk of spreading COVID-19 to our loved ones. Maybe you tried to recapture that Christmas feeling by heating up a cup of cocoa and turning on the TV, where you might have tuned in to a couple of Christmas classics, ’Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ and ‘Frosty the Snowman’, which have incredibly been airing annually for over 50 years. I
Robert Rodriguez’s ‘We Can Be Heroes’ with Priyanka Chopra Jonas & Pedro Pascal: An Endearing Kid-Friendly Superhero Adventure
MarioYuwono is from Indonesia, but was born in Italy and attended school in Jakarta, Moscow, Berlin and Los Angeles. He has been obsessed with films ever since he saw his first movie at the age of five, and would go on to spend his younger years reading film encyclopedias and movie guides. Combined with a global upbringing rooted in greater social awareness, this drives him to be more observant of values promoted in films. He believes in cinema’s potential to enable greater empathy and meaningfully expand people’s horizons, in line with