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Next Goal Wins - Movie Review

TL;DR – A fun time that gets held back by some wooden acting and forced storytelling. ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. Disclosure – I paid to watch this film.Warning – Contains scenes that may cause distress. Next Goal Wins Review – I have been enjoying my time at the Brisbane International Film Festival, but as always, things must come to an end. But if you are going to pick a film to end it on,…

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Does 'Next Goal Wins' Score Enough Goals of Its Own to Win the Game of Biopics?

Does 'Next Goal Wins' Score Enough Goals of Its Own to Win the Game of Biopics?

#GOALS (CREDIT: Hilary Bronwyn Gayle/Searchlight Pictures) Starring: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana, Uli Latukefu, Elisabeth Moss, Will Arnett, David Fane, Rachel House, Beulah Koale, Rhys Darby, Chris Alosio, Lehi Makisi Falepapalangi, Semu Filipo, Ioane Goodhue Director: Taika Waititi Running Time: November 17, 2023 Rating: PG-13 for A Few Mean Comments and Some Boobs Drawn on…

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'Gol Gana', Taika Waititi no puede escapar de una historia de salvador blanco

En 'Gol Gana', Taika Waititi confunde hacer chistes con hacer una crítica de una historia de salvador blanco.

Cuenta la historia del equipo de fútbol de Samoa Americana, que sufrió la peor derrota en la historia de los Mundiales al perder por 31-0 ante Australia en 2001. Con la Copa del Mundo de 2014 aproximándose, el equipo contrata a un entrenador inconformista para que los ayude a cambiar su suerte. ¿Se puede traer a la pantalla grande una historia real sin que caiga en el cliché del salvador blanco?…

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"Next Goal Wins"

A cheeky and charming inspirational sports movie that features an abundance of diversity presented in a universally accessible way.

The heavily embellished true story of a bunch of losers on the worst football team in the world is given the cheeky big screen treatment by director Taika Waititi in “Next Goal Wins,” an sports movie that understands the true meaning of the term “underdogs.” This enjoyable, inspirational, and wholly accessible movie is one that will appeal to the masses, even though (or perhaps because) it is…

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NEXT GOAL WINS (2023)

Starring Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana, David Fane, Rachel House, Beulah Koale, Will Arnett, Elisabeth Moss, Uli Latukefu, Chris Alosio, Lehi Makisi Falepapalangi, Semu Filipo, Ioane Goodhue, Rhys Darby, Angus Sampson, Luke Hemsworth, Kaitlyn Dever, Hio Pelesasa, David Tu'itupou, Levy Tuiala, Loretta Ables Sayre, Frankie Adams and Taika Waititi.

Screenplay by Taika Waititi & Iain Morris.

Directed by Taika Waititi.

Distributed by Searchlight Pictures. 103 minutes. Rated PG-13.

It’s always amusing when people from offbeat different places attach on to sports, no matter how good or bad (usually bad) they may be, just for pure love of the game.

True stories like these have become fodder for Hollywood in the past. For example, there was the Jamaican Bobsled team, an oddball group who became something of an international sensation when they competed in the Winter Olympics starting in 1988. It was such an odd idea – where could they learn the bobsled in the tropics of Jamaica? – that it caught the attention of the world and was eventually turned into the popular 1993 feel-good comedy Cool Runnings with John Candy. Of course, they weren’t great at the sport, but they got better over the years, eventually even getting a gold medal in 2000.

Then there was Eddie the Eagle – the first British ski jumper to compete in the Olympics. (Oddly, he also started in the 1988 Winter Olympics – what was going on in Calgary that year?) He also had little actual talent for the sport – he finished last in both competitions he competed in – but his regular guy enthusiasm made him a bit of a pop culture icon briefly. His story was also turned into a film, the 2016 film Eddie the Eagle starring Taron Egerton.

And now, we have the American Samoan national football (soccer) squad. They were long considered one of the weakest teams on the circuit, including losing a game to Australia by an all-time record score of futility, 31-0.

It seems like a natural fit for Taika Waititi to downshift a bit. It feels like a return to his roots after several years in the Hollywood grind – low-key early New Zealand oddball comic charmers like Eagle vs. Shark and Hunt For the Wilderpeople.

Based upon a 2014 documentary about the team, Next Goal Wins makes a nice palate cleanser for the filmmaker after helming two bombastic Thor films (only one really successfully) and making the surreal comic art film Jo Jo Rabbit.

Not that there is all that much to the story of Next Goal Wins – but it is a simple (and yet eccentric, because Waititi couldn’t be anything else) bit of formula filmmaking. This film is not looking to rule the box office (like, say Thor: Ragnarök) or to make a run at Oscar gold (like Jo Jo Rabbit). It’s just trying to be a fun diversion.

The film sort of plays up the football team’s ineptitude and small-time roots. The film often says that the team had never scored a goal and their only real wish was to score at least once – but they scored a goal in their first game in 1983, which was about 38 years before this film takes place in 2011. (And undoubtedly, they scored at least some in the decades between. In fact, apparently, they even won at least one game in the years before this film takes place.) Perhaps they meant in that season…. But they were historically bad. Of that, no one will argue.

Their savior – or sort of – might be Thomas Rongen (Fassbender). Rongen is an American coach and scout who himself needs some salvation – his daughter died recently in an accident, he was separated from his wife (Moss), he was drinking way too much and had become completely jaded. His problems multiplied to the point where he was given an ultimatum – go down to American Samoa and coach their team, or never work in the sport again.

Thus starts a typical fish out of water comedy, in which the hard-headed and driven new coach has to learn to deal with the more laid-back players and customs of American Samoa. If you have any question what will eventually happen then you haven’t seen a sports film in recent decades. However, the culture clash and eccentric characters keep everything interesting and funny.

Sometimes a team – or a movie – doesn’t have to go to a championship to become big winners. Sometimes they just need to score some goals. Next Goal Wins will never become a beloved classic sports tale, but damned if they don’t score some goals.

Jay S. Jacobs

Copyright ©2023 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: November 17, 2023.

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Taika Waititi’s next movie Next Goal Wins for Fox Searchlight has added to its cast Oscar Kightley (Aroha Bridge, The Breaker Upperers), David Fane (The Barefoot Bandits, Westside), Beulah Koale (Hawaii Five-0), Lehi Falepapalangi (Future Man, Hawaii Five-0), Semu Filipo (Harry), Uli Latukefu (Alien: Covenant), Rachel House (Thor: Ragnarok) are joining the cast with Kaimana in her debut role.

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Semu Filipo (Benedick), Theo David (Claudio), Simon Prast (Leonatio), and Mark Dickinson in Act 2, Scene 3 of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing at the Pop Up Globe

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Rockstars of the Auckland Stage - review of the Pop up Globe season 2

I'm not familiar with the original version of Shakespeare's play "As you Like it" but I'm guessing it didn't include gay shepherds or female masturbation. But maybe that what's it been missing this whole time because it's definitely a fan favourite at the Pop up Globe part deux. To be fair, there are only 4 plays and each one has its loyal fans and very few detractors.

Personally, I don't like Othello. Not because of the acting; that is top notch, the cruel and tragic storyline handled beautifully especially by Jasmine Blackborow as Desdemona and Roimata Fox as her maid and friend Emilia. I don't like it because I don't like the storyline, full stop. It was a brave choice and it is performed exceptionally well but I always feel like it should have one of those "have you been affected by domestic violence?" helpline voiceovers at the end of the performance instead of a dance.

The Queens company are also responsible for high energy, high fun "Much Ado about Nothing" (a title I've always disliked as it's not about nothing, it's another story of a man believing someone he knows to be a villain over the woman he claims to love and the shitstorm that follows). It has a beautiful Polynesian vibe, helped by Semu Filipo as a laid back bro of a Benedick and the rockabilly Jacque Drew as Beatrice. Kieran Mortell as Dogberry gets the biggest laughs and rightly so. After all he is an ass.

However my heart belongs to the Kings company. "As you like it" is bawdy, funny and sexy with its serenading, dancing and sheer ballsiness. Jonathan Tynan-Moss as Rosalind / Ganymede is adorable yet sassy; I never thought my confused ladylove for Olivia in last year's "Twelfth Night" (played by the very talented Daniel Watterson) could be matched but there you go. The decision to have Stanley Andrew Jackson III play her cousin Celia was inspired. He plays the part of the precious teenage princess very well, but more than that their friendship is genuine and it's a joy to watch them on stage together.

I won't mention Le Beau because if you've seen AYLI you already love him and it probably made you go and watch Henry V as well. If you did, you were rewarded with Chris Huntly-Turner's Henry as the hottest king that ever did live. He's strong but he knows man's limitations and is torn between what is right and what is God's will. He's funny and witty but don't take him for a fool or he'll fuck you right up. He inspires loyalty and bravery in his men, and in the audience too. It is a brilliant act of direction to make the audience part of his army; it creates a sense of solidarity and it makes for the best piece of interactive theatre I've ever seen.

And that's what's so great about the Pop up Globe; the interaction. Usually going to a play is like going to the cinema. You watch quietly and passively. Going to the Pop up Globe is like going to a gig. You laugh hard, cheer and boo and it feeds the actors and makes them push themselves to be louder, funnier, meaner. These guys and gals are rockstars of the Auckland stage. Most of the audience each night have already seen the plays before, this is likely to be their 2nd, 3rd or 6th viewing. Like band groupies, they just need to be see it again. I have been volunteering as an usher for these 2 seasons and it has been one of the best decisions of my life. I feel a part of it in the same way those loyal fans do. Fuck it, I am a working loyal fan! So thank you Pop up Globe crew for trusting your fans to be good ushers too.

As the season draws sadly to an end I'm keeping my fingers crossed for part 3 next year and I don't think I'm alone in this. I want to see Stephen Butterworth camp it up again, I want Jonny Tynon-Moss to win over the hearts of teenagers again, I want to see Adrian Hooke sing modern songs in a Shakespeare stylee again...I want to see all that and more so please Miles Gregory, please do another season?!

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New Show of Hands Movie

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Chelsie Preston-Crayford Matt Whelan Semu Filipo Melanie Lynskey Nick Dunbar Craig Hall Stephen Lovatt

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#Repost @nzfilm ・・・ 'The Justice of Bunny King', Gaysorn Thavat’s debut feature, will have its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in the Viewpoints section competing for the Nora Ephron Award for Best Female Filmmaker, and Best New Narrative Director Award for first-time filmmakers! ✨ Starring Essie Davis and Thomasin McKenzie, the film tells the story of Bunny King, a mother of two, a rough-cut diamond with a sketchy past. While battling the system to reunite with her children, a confrontation leads her to take her niece Tonyah under her wing. With the world against her and Tonyah, Bunny’s battle has just begun. Written by Sophie Henderson, directed by Gaysorn Thavat and produced by Emma Slade, 'The Justice of Bunny King' is one of three films funded through Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga NZ Film Commission's 125 Fund which offered $1.25M to films led by women. 🖤 Can you say, ‘hell yeah!’ . . Starring our incredible Semu Filipo @semu_filipo and Shane Murphy!! . . . #tmhtribe⚔️ #tmh #featurefilms #nzfeature #films @tribecafilmins @tribeca (at Auckland, New Zealand) https://www.instagram.com/p/CN9ll16skdG/?utm_medium=tumblr

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