#taika's movie is on youtube

[zemantler]

year taika progress :] i just doodled the first pic but it's kind of nice seeing that i'm making progress even tho it doesn't always feel like it

[fionnemrys]

Home Movie: The Princess Bride. Made during quarantine at the height of the Covid pandemic, a who's who of film and television stars recreate The Princess Bride at home, one scene at a time. Check out the IMDB page for the full cast list, including Rob and Carl Reiner, Cary Elwes, Fred Savage, Elijah Wood, Taika Waititi, Diego Luna, Neil Patrick Harris, Pedro Pascal, Jack Black, Giancarlo Esposito, Mackenzie Davis, John Malkovich, Patton Oswalt, Jenna Ortega, Charlize Theron, Hugh Jackman, and so many more.

[restlesssinner]

Everyone with a vpn or living in Australia

Go watch Aunty Donnas Coffee Cafe on ABC iview NOW

It’s the funniest shit ever it’s six 20 min “sitcom” episodes that really feel like Monty Python crossed with Taika Waititi

They have also have one similar season on Netflix and a mid-sized YouTube channel so you can check them out there but this is their most recent work so PLEASE check out this flex of a promo

They need as many people to watch it this weekend (June 10-11) to see if they make a second season so go here:

bit.ly/watchcoffeecafe

I’m not sponsored I’m just a fan I live in Poland I’ve offered before to dub over their Netflix special in Polish but they never got back to me probably didn’t see it

I don’t have a lot of followers so please reblog thanks

[ariazureyt]

I finished my Lighthouse edit of episode 8! 🥰WB blocked it on YouTube! 🙄 More edits coming soon!

WB decided to block my over 10 hours of work on YouTube. So I had to post it to the alternate site I use for my Ko-Fi uploads.

This video is part of my ongoing project of making Lighthouse cuts of Our Flag Means Death. I'm going to be releasing as many clips as I can to YouTube. But I can only post the full cuts to Ko-Fi since WB wants to block all of my videos.

Check out my Ko-Fi for updates and the full edits when I finish them.

[sleepynegress]

#TessaWriteABook !!!

This is so old...but watching this, knowing Miss Lady TT had a threesome with Taika... she has chemistry with everybody in the room. *smh*

[epersonae]

@what-eats-owls I need you to know that "one stetson away from being the avatar" has lived in my head rent-free for over a year and was also the first thing I thought of when @spirker tagged me in this post that includes the phrase "cowboy Taika"

tell me that i'm wrong

[banjolandsblog]

NEXT GOAL WINS Trailer (2023) Michael Fassbender, Taika Waititi

[ofmdrecaps]

12/11-12/2024 Daily OFMD Recap

TLDR; David Jenkins; Rhys Darby; Taika Waititi; Samson Kayo; Zayre Ferrer; Damien Gerard; Dominic Burgess; Lindsey Cantrell; Articles; Fan Spotlight: OFMD Advent Calendar: Love Notes; Daily Darby/Today's Taika;

= David Jenkins =

Our dear Pirate Nana (amladydragonfly on bsky) had a bit of a spill at Galaxy Con Columbus, and it left her with some intense bruises! She posted updates on BsKY about them and Chaos Dad, David Jenkins sent her some love--and an invitation to join the crew! You really are badass and beautiful Nana! Just FYI, Nana also wanted me to tell you all that she is doing much better, and is ok after the whole incident-- but wouldn't have been if it weren't for all the kindness of this fandom! She says she's never felt so loved-- so thank you so much crew for taking care of her and spreading so much love and joy her way! You truly are the best crew ever!

Source: David Jenkins bsky = Rhys Darby =

Anyone gotten a chance to watch This Christmas yet? I got to this weekend and it really was adorable. I love Rhys' character, and not just because it's Rhys, because he's a goofy adorable dude. Interested in some fun behind the scenes with the characters? Here's a fun vid below!

Source: Youtube

In regards to more of Rhys' animated works -- "Curse" was nominated for an emmy! Check the article out here!

Source: Instagram

- Darby Daily Doodles -

Only a few more daily doodles for this year!

Source: Darby's Free Substack / 2

- Darby Family Kittens -

Caesar has been getting into some mischief at the Darby Household. Thank you Rosie for the continued cat content!

Source: Rosie's Instagram

= Taika Waititi =

Taika got to work with some fantastic folks at Disney to help make The Boy and The Octopus happen and a lot of folks are praising the ad!

Source: Paige Bonanno

Lots of cool BTS from The Boy and the Octopus as well!

Source: PRConcierge_ Instagram

= Samson Kayo =

Samson has been very busy with the F1 movie in Abu Dhabi (and chilling with a Simone Ashley)!

Source: Samson Kayo's Instagram Stories

= Zayre Ferrer =

One of our talented writers, Zayre Ferrer has been continuing their imaginary Spin Off Series on Bsky! There are so many I'd really love to see actually-- if you'd like to follow along with all their new stuff, check out their bsky!

15: Cuna de Lobos: A New Den

16: The Wire: The Re-Up

17: Cheers: Last Call

18: The Ricardo Radio Hour

Source: Zayre Ferrer's Bsky

= Damien Gerard =

Hey! Father Teach's Black Ops 6 was nominated for a bunch of BAFTA's and he's putting up some autograph signings on his site! Interested? Check it out here!

Source: Damien's. Bsky

And as always, Damien is keeping us all up to to date on his kitties.

Source: Damien's Bsky

= Dominic Burgess =

Dominic shared another picture of his character, Beef, on the new Star Wars: Skeleton Crew show!

Source: Dominic's BlueSky

= Lindsey Cantrell =

Lindsey has been getting all those Tiny Boat certificates signed!

Source: OFMD buys Boats Instagram

== Articles ==

Thank you again to @adoptourcrew for keeping us appraised of all the articles coming out! There sure is a lot this time of year-- it makes me feel like honking!

Source: AdoptOurCrew Bsky

== Fan Spotlight ==

= OFMD Advent Calendar =

The OFMD Advent Calendar has been going strong for many days now lots of new awesome works by many of our fandom folks being released each day! It's currently going on bsky here, and hosted and Door Artwork done by TillyChMo! (You don't need a bsky login!) The first day's fic is here by kentern.bsky.social! but if you'd like to follow them on bsky they'll have new ones every day (and there are currently 17 days up!)

The 2nd Door features @tresdem.bsky.social!

The 3rd Door features @ghostalservice.bsky.social fic PLUS @kninjaknitter.bsky.social podfic!

The 4th Door features @dracothelizard.bsky.social!

Source: OFMD Advent Calendar Bsky

== Love Notes ==

Hey there lovelies! I'm trying very hard to catch up right now, hopefully it'll happen over the next couple days as home and work slows down.

Today I'd like to send out a gentle reminder to take some time for yourself this week! This is the time of year when a lot of folks are busy taking care of others, getting things ready for family or friends, and honestly, a lot of times we forget to take care of ourselves. Take a break-- take a day off work that's just for you if you have the capacity. Buy yourself a little treat, or do something on the list of chores that YOU want to get done and not that other people need you to get done.

Some of you may have TOO MUCH time for yourself and want time with others-- so be sure to reach out if you do! People get busy during the holidays and they can forget to check on folks because their minds are occupied, but I can guarantee you they think about you often, and want you to be okay. Holidays can be such a mixed bag, and not one person will have the same experiences with them, so do what you need to do for YOU. I hope you have a restful week and nothing too crazy goes on. Rest up, drink some water, and know we <3 ya. Night crew!

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== Daily Darby / Today's Taika ==

It's been a bit since I've had room for these so more gifs tonight! tonight's theme is laugh scrunches. Thank you so much to these beautiful gif creators @gottagobackintime and @ourflagmeanssara!

[ghuleh-recs]

last song: absolution - i am nothing if not predictable

favorite color: black

currently watching: just finished rewatching the haunting of hill house (my forever fave)

last movie: into the spiderverse

sweet/spicy/savory: spicyyy

relationship: complicated/casual enough that i'm just gonna say single lmao

current obsession: rewatching old episodes of UNHhhh on youtube

last thing googled: taika shrek (god i wish i hadn't)

selfie: halloween pic. i will always use any excuse to paint my face. jump scare warning ♡

thanks for the tag @leezlelatch @mac-and-thefox & @kissingghouls & @conjuring-ghouls 🥰🥰!! i feel like most of my moots have been tagged already, open invite to anyone seeing this ♡

[blindtaleteller]

It isn't just that moment either; it's the seconds after that the camera lingers on him. That film was and remains severely under-rated for what it SHOWED and didn't just tell: including that contradiction of emotions in him.

Because it wasn't just that realization that hit Hiddleston's expressions: that and a lot more was there and in his tones. There was the hope she crushed still at it after 1500 years, the disappointment and hurt, the quieter recognition of those things and resignation, and the full realization that no, she did not care enough about him to truly try past the last 1500 years of lies about him, their relationship, or the fact he wasn't even the same species with extremely differing traits outside of backing solitary confinement lasting three thousand five hundred, to four thousand years over immediate execution (which in itself is a whole other level of wtfery when you start asking questions he probably had an inkling about like: how did they know the details of the supposed deal made and not know either the goal OR under what threat:) and in the last moments there was also the very clear wish none of that was the case... he wanted to trust her, and there simply was no grounds on which to do that at this stage.

Add in the clear thought that.. he doesn't know who his mother is any more than we the viewers do: or how honest even Odin's account is either. The likelihood is for us that Loki isn't aware of though: Odin very probably killed her and many others on his way into the temple he was still bloody from fighting his way into, to find Loki at all.

And TDW pulled that scene off so damned well in literal seconds long scenes with more expression than dialogue.

^That was just one of them, but definitely one of the best.

...also tags.

God the moment in TDW when Frigga asks Loki "Then am I not your mother?" is so fucking painful and sad.

Like Loki was hopeful that he still had Frigga as a mother, that he still had some family that actually loved him, that she was still the good person he always thought she was, but then she starts to manipulate him like Odin, defending Odin's actions, and basically saying "you can either have both of us or neither of us". And he decides that he's not taking it anymore, he already took enough from Odin, he's not taking it from her. So, he responds, realizing that he has no one left, "you're not".

And oh my god just seeing the realization on his face makes me cry

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🗞️📖 Bookish News - February Edition

🦇 Extra, extra. Read all about it! 📖 Good evening, bookish bats! A lot happened in the publishing industry this month, but here are a few highlights you may have missed! Check below the cut for details.

Adaptations: 🗞️ Chloé Zhao will direct a film adaptation of Hamnet (Maggie O'Farrell) starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal 📖 HBO is adapting Dark Places (Gillian Flynn) as a limited series. Flynn will serve as co-creator, writer, and co-showrunner 🗞️ FX has ordered a limited series adaptation of Say Nothing (Patrick Radden Keefe), directed by Michael Lennox 📖 Taika Waititi will direct an adaptation of Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro), potentially starring Amy Adams and Jenna Ortega 🗞️ The Terror will base season 3 on The Devil in Silver (Victor LaValle) 📖 The Man in My Basement (Walter Mosley), directed by Nadia Latif, will star Anna Diop, Corey Hawkins, and Willem Dafoe 🗞️ Dark Matter (Blake Crouch) has a trailer 📖 America Ferrera's feature directorial debut for I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Erika Sánchez) is in development 🗞️ The adaptation of Turtles All the Way Down (John Green) will stream on MAX this year 📖 Hook’s Daughter: The Pirate Princess Chronicles (R. V. Bowman) is getting a live-action adaptation 🗞️ Interview with the Vampire (based on Anne Rice's novel) is getting a second season 📖 Percy Jackson and the Olympians is getting a second season 🗞️ Seven Days in June (Tia Williams) is being adapted for Prime Video 📖 The adaptation of A Gentleman in Moscow, (Amor Towles) will star Ewan McGregor 🗞️ The Color Purple movie musical will stream on MAX (Feb. 16) 📖 Hulu’s adaptation of A Court of Thorns and Roses was axed 🗞️ The Alex Van Helsing YA books are being adapted for a television series 📖 Ryan Reynolds and Paramount are working on an adaptation of Starter Villain (John Scalzi) 🗞️ A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson) will be adapted as an animated TV series 📖 The trailer for the film adaptation of Wicked is up 🗞️ Netflix renewed Survival of the Thickest for season 2 📖 The cast for Marvel’s Fantastic Four has been announced (July 25, 2025) 🗞️ The trailer for the new X-Men animated series is up (Mar. 20) 📖 The Oscar-nominated animated film Nimona is now available to watch for free on YouTube! 🗞️ Reese Witherspoon is producing a film adaptation of Romantic Comedy (Curtis Sittenfeld) 📖 Photos are up for the adaptation of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (Holly Jackson)

Cover Reveals: 🗞️ When Haru Was Here - Dustin Thao (Sept. 3) 📖 Trick or Treat on Scary Street - Lance Bass (July 23) 🗞️ The Bletchley Riddle - Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin (Oct. 8) 📖 The Rules of Royalty - Cale Dietrich (Dec. 10) 🗞️ Colored Television - Danzy Senna (July 30) 📖 Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me - Whoopie Goldberg (May 7) 🗞️ House of Bone and Rain - Gabino Iglesias (Aug. 6) 📖 Rani Choudhury Must Die - Adiba Jaigirdar (Nov. 12) 🗞️ Night Owls - A.R. Vishny (Sept. 17) 📖 The Dixon Rule - Elle Kennedy (May 14) 🗞️ A Bánh Mì for Two - Trinity Nguyen (Aug. 27) 📖 The Hitchcock Hotel - Stephanie Wrobel (Sept. 24) 🗞️ In Want of a Suspect - Tirzah Price (Nov. 12) 📖 Memorials - Richard Chizmar (Oct. 22) 🗞️ The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk (Sept. 24) 📖 Unsinkable Cayenne - Jessica Vitalis (Oct. 29) 🗞️ Cue the Sun! - Emily Nussbaum (June 25) 📖 We're Alone - Edwidge Danticat (Sept. 3) 🗞️ The Sherlock Society - James Ponti (Sept. 3) 📖 The Enchanted Hacienda by J.C. Cervantes (May 21) 🗞️ The Baby-sitters Club: Kristy and the Walking Disaster - Ellen T. Crenshaw (Sept.) 📖 The Baby-sitters Litter Sister: Karen’s Grandmothers - DK Yingst (Oct.) 🗞️ The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science - Kate McKinnon (Oct. 1) 📖 The Life Impossible - Matt Haig (Sept. 3) 🗞️ Ruin Road - Lamar Giles (Sept.) 📖 Yours Truly by Katie Shepard (Sept. 3) 🗞️ Wishbone - Justine Pucella Winan (Sep. 17) 📖 Haunt Your Heart Out - Amber Roberts (Oct. 8) 🗞️ The Dividing Sky - Jill Tew (Oct. 8) 📖 Heir - Sabaa Tahir (Oct. 1) 🗞️ Beautiful Dreamers - Minrose Gwin (Aug. 27) 📖 We Solve Murders - Richard Osman (Fall) 🗞️ Till the Last Beat of My Heart - Louangie Bou-Montes (Sept. 10) 📖 Aisle Nine by Ian X (Sept. 24) 🗞️ Warrior of Legend - Kendare Blake (Sept. 17) 📖 The Ancient’s Game - Loni Crittenden (Oct. 29) 🗞️ The Witch of Wol Sin Lake - Lega Jeong (Oct. 29)

Upcoming Releases: 🗞️ Tiny Reparations Books has secured North American rights to two new books by National Book Award–longlisted author LaToya Watkins. The first book, The Book of Chuck, will be published in spring 2026. 📖 Tia Williams has sold North American rights to two new novels to Grand Central. 🗞️ LeVar Burton is releasing two new books

Other News: 🗞️ The Dylan Thomas Prize 2024 longlist is up 📖 The finalists for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced 🗞️ The finalists for the 2024 Audie Awards were announced 📖 Pulitzer-winning author N. Scott Momaday passed away (first Native American author to win a Pulitzer) 🗞️ OCLC has filed a lawsuit against the shadow library search engine Anna’s Archive for allegedly stealing 2.2 TB of data from WorldCat 📖 The St. Paul Public Library launched a laser-eyed loon library card 🗞️ Writers Against the War on Gaza have written an open letter to PEN/America to release an official statement about the “225 poets, playwrights, journalists, scholars, and novelists killed in Gaza” by Israeli forces 📖 Andy Weir released a series of “lost” journal entries from Mark Watney to celebrate The Martian’s 10th anniversary 🗞️ Amazon removed multiple titles about King Charles’ recent cancer diagnoses amid concerns that they were written by AI 📖 This year’s winners and finalists of the Cybils Awards were announced 🗞️ Delacorte is launching a new YA romance imprint

[trainsinanime]

The Marvels

No spoilers (for now, will mention when they start)

Well that was better than I expected! I had fun with this. Sure, it wasn't a great movie. But was it a good movie? Well, listen here…

Okay, so the thing is: I am very inclined to be nice to this movie, because I had fun and it had people in it that I enjoy seeing, and it's just nice to see something like that in the cinema every once in a while. I am also inclined to be extra nice to it because I know that the professional misogynists over on Youtube, you know the kind of men who go, "actually Gamergate had some valid points", will later say that this movie with its disappointing money and mediocre critical scores marks the end of Marvels Cinematic Universe. Which is just ludicrous. The end of the MCU being any good is still Endgame and will forever remain that way.

That said: Wow this movie is an unholy mess! It's not that it's a bad movie, it's barely a movie at all. The whole thing feels like a cut-down version of a TV show, and that TV show would have been so much better. It's barely a story; for the most part of it, right until the very end, stuff just happens, with a minimum of connective tissue. There is not just one sequence that makes you go, "WTF is that?", but two. Both very fun in their own right, but they don't fit tonally into anything, there's no lead-up and they don't end up mattering. It's just stuff that happens.

If this had been a TV show, then both of those would have been great plots for an episode each, maybe one of them as a fun little B plot in the classic Star Trek way.

This also applies to the characters, and from here on out, spoiler warnings apply.

Getting the Marvels together sounds like a fun plan in theory, but the movie doesn't really feel like it had any story to tell that required them. Kamala is here because… well, it's fun that Kamala is here! She doesn't have an arc or anything, but it's nice to see her. Carol and Monica have a bit of an arc, tied to some stuff that happened in between movies, but they resolve it long before the movie is over. At the end of the movie (big spoilers), Monica sacrifices herself by going into an alternate universe. This comes up literally seconds before she does it, and it seem like not even genre-savvy Kamala notices that this is what she's doing. Of course, if Monica Rambeau is in a different universe, we're all hoping they'll set up Nextwave, but sadly not. The mid-credit scene only sets up the X-Men. Boring!

The individual bits of this movie are all fun in their own right, but they don't come together, or even do anything particularly interesting in their own right. Compared to things like the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, or the two Taika Waititi Thor movies (yes even the second), this is a bit disappointing. The movie is a very fun pointless mess, and it's ultimately up to you which of these two parts you focus on. I like to focus on the fun part, but you can write way more about the pointless mess here on Tumblr. And I genuinely think that you could have done more interesting things with these characters.

[fleshadept]

sorry if you've been asked this before but i'm curious: when and how did you get into film? i've followed you for some time and you mention being in film school, did you always know you wanted to study film? what/who inspired you? how close are you to graduating? i hope these questions are okay and not intrusive!

i only got into film pretty recently actually!! for the longest time i thought i didn't like movies. i went to uni to major in film primarily to take editing courses because what i wanted more than anything was to be an editor for any of the youtubers whose stuff i liked (which tbf would still be a lot of fun). i dabbled in making videos myself for a while, then kinda fell off.

i had a moment in 2020 when i sort of realized what film could be for the first time and watched a lot of great ones: oldboy (2003), fight club (1999), pride (2014), 13th (2016), portrait of a lady on fire (2019), parasite (2019), us (2019), really 2019 was a fucking great year for movies tbh. and i kind of realized that the reason i had said i didn't like movies was because 98% of what i watched was marvel/family movies and i didn't really look for anything else.

but i never REALLY got into the whole analysis thing or fell in love with film until i watched boy (2010) in april of last year. my letterboxd diary before and after that movie is crazy. something snapped in my brain idk. before that i couldn't really sit through movies very often but after that i just couldn't get enough of it and wanted to see everything movies could do because boy hit so hard and was so, so gorgeous. so i did a deep dive into taika waititi's work (i had seen thor and jojo rabbit and what we do in the shadows before but never really cared who made them) and just went a little bit insane. and started watching every other movie i had even wanted to watch a little bit

and it's funny, because looking back at my letterboxd after this, i realized the moment back in 2020 where i started watching more films for a little bit was kicked off by jojo rabbit. so something about this guy's work was just so effective for me, even when i didn't know who he was, and part of what got me so interested in film was trying to figure out why the hell that was and how he did it. and in the process of that i discovered a love for so many other things i didn't realize i had--filmmaking as well as analysis, production as well as postproduction, even writing! i love it all. but taika's work will always have a solid place in my heart because of that.

[standupcomedyhistorian]

And here's the article. Enjoy! 🎃🍁

This goes into the vampire mockumentary concept from 2005 until today, and I've also included my favorite episode of WWDitS that features Colin Robinson getting a promotion (and was directed by Jemaine Clement!)

Next month won't have a specific theme, but I do finally have the Kate Berlant article a day series ready for November, and I plan on finishing out some items that have been sitting in my drafts folder since July: Bo Burnham and Neal Brennan and Bo's Comedy Heroes about the influence Bill Bailey has had on his career.

Should be some really cool topics as well as a few exciting interviews being available on my website for the rest of 2023—Enjoy, and keep it here for more comedy fun! ✌🏼🐔

Hey, everyone!

Just one more day left for New Zealand Comedy Month, which means I have one final (spooky!) post—What We Do in the Shadows and its spinoffs! 🧛‍♂️

I will be delving into the short film from 2005, the movie from 2014, and the two shows that resulted from the acclaimed vampire film.

The identically titled FX show, featuring Matt Berry and the first female lead vampire in the Jemaine/Taika universe: Nadja!

The program also has one of the best characters EVER imo, the energy vampire Colin Robinson.

And, of course, the wonderfully weird and sweet Wellington Paranormal, which is based on the two easily hypnotized cops from the movie.

The best character on that show is the hilarious Sergeant Maaka who makes fake button noises before “entering” into his secret paranormal room haha

I hope you enjoy the article, which will be available tomorrow morning, and keep it here for more comedy fun! ✌🏼🐔

[b1rdeyes]

‼️ INTERNET SHOW AND TELL TIME ‼️

I absolutely adore documentation of internet stories and this is so fascinating. I just couldn’t resist talking ab it a little bit on here!!

(If you know ab figwit this probably is completely unsurprising, but I didn’t, and thought it was so fun)

It’s basically about this guy who was an extra on the council of Elrond in the first lotr movie and apparently some people found him cute or smth so a whole website was made about him, and it got to be like this fun little inside joke in the fandom. He even got to show up in the third movie due to his internet fame

AND ITS BRET MCKENZIE??? FROM FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS?? Like jemaine and taika are in this documentary as just his friends (I mean jemaine was also there as a band mate but anyways). Like this is pre wwdits I love it. Obviously flight of the concords was popular in its own little corner, but apparently it got a little boost at the time due to this whole deal

Also just the fact that they got Peter Jackson, Elijah Wood, and some of the other actors involved in LOTR to give little interviews is wonderful

There’s also just such an earnest awkwardness that’s so genuine and fun in regards to the documentary itself

If this seems like something you’d wanna watch (in the background or not) then have fun here it is:

mildly unrelated side note: strange aeons is a YouTuber I especially love when it comes to fascinating older internet/fandom stories