Actor · Voice actor

Rachel House

4: briefs
13:00: average
52 min: in total

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Taika Waititi · 2016

Taika Waititi’s 2016 film follows Ricky Baker, a defiant foster child, and Hector, the taciturn man reluctantly tasked with caring for him. After Bella — Hector’s wife and Ricky’s first real anchor — dies, Ricky flees into the bush, and Hector follows. What begins as a simple search becomes a nationwide manhunt, reframing their bond as both tender and subversive. Shot across New Zealand’s Central Plateau and Waitākere Ranges, the film balances deadpan comedy, adolescent anxiety, and quiet grief without recourse to sentiment or spectacle.

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Boy

Taika Waititi · 2010

Set in rural New Zealand in 1984, Boy follows eleven-year-old Alamein — known as Boy — as he navigates childhood with imagination as his primary tool. When his absent father Alamein returns, Boy’s carefully constructed myths about him begin to fray. Taika Waititi’s film balances gentle comedy and quiet pathos, anchored by James Rolleston’s understated performance and Adam Clark’s sun-bleached cinematography. It is a story about inheritance, storytelling as survival, and the slow, unceremonious work of growing up without models.

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Thor: Ragnarok

Taika Waititi · 2017

Thor: Ragnarok (2017), directed by Taika Waititi, is the third Thor film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It follows Thor’s exile to the alien planet Sakaar, his gladiatorial duel with the Hulk, and his return to Asgard to stop Hela’s conquest. With vibrant cinematography by Javier Aguirresarobe, a synth-driven score by Mark Mothersbaugh, and performances led by Chris Hemsworth, Cate Blanchett, and Tessa Thompson, the film prioritises wit, pace, and visual invention over mythic solemnity. It grossed $854 million worldwide and received praise for its direction and energy, though some critics found its themes underdeveloped and its finale visually overwhelming.

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Soul

Pete Docter · 2020

Joe Gardner, a middle-school band teacher on the verge of his first real break as a jazz pianist, falls into a coma and finds his soul on the way to the Great Beyond, prompting a scramble to get back to his body paired with an unwilling mentee soul named 22 who has never wanted to be born. Pete Docter's Pixar feature, co-written and co-directed by Kemp Powers, spends four years of production building an afterlife bureaucracy in order to undercut the very idea, common to Docter's own earlier films, that a person needs a defining passion to justify their existence.