Tag: Next Goal Wins
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‘Next Goal Wins’ Scores Digital and Physical Home Release Dates
Next Goal Wins is a true underdog story from Taika Waititi, which tells the tale of the world’s worst soccer team and their ambitions to not just win a game, but even score a goal, and the hilarious and heartwarming journey from failure to… well, very, very moderate success, will be available for fans to…
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Taika Waititi Shows Off Latest ‘Next Goal Wins’ Trailer
Taika Waititi is front and center in the latest trailer for his upcoming sports comedy-drama, Next Goal Wins, which sees the ultimate underdogs in sports attempt to get their first-ever victory. Starring Michael Fassbender as Thomas Rongen, a Dutch soccer coach thrust into an unexpected challenge, the film unfolds as Rongen takes charge of the…
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‘Next Goal Wins’ Trailer: Taika Waititi’s Soccer Comedy With Michael Fassbender Is A Feel-Good Underdog Story
You’ll recall in 2014, there was the ridiculously entertaining documentary “Next Goal Wins.” Directed by Mike Brett and Steve Jamison, the doc follows Thomas Rongen, a Dutch soccer coach hired to lead the national team for American Samoa. This famously pitiful outfit spent nearly two decades at the bottom of FIFA’s international rankings. So that…
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Taika Waititi and Billy Luther Set Out to Make Indigenous Stories Feel Less ‘Alien’
After years of working in Hollywood, Taika Waititi has lived through the classic biopic scene where a protagonist wakes up and immediately questions all of their life choices.“What the fuck am I doing? Why am I doing this? For what reason? There’s no purpose and I’m getting nothing out of this,” Waititi said in an…
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‘Next Goal Wins’ Review: Taika Waititi Gets One Big Red Card For His Underdog Soccer Comedy [TIFF]
Everybody loves a winner turned loser, especially these days, Taika Waititi. As of late, in his non-“Thor” directorial output, the once-beloved filmmaker has gravitated toward zeroes meekly shuffling around the margins of power. He’s vaunted swagless vampires dissed by alpha-werewolf rivals, the dweebiest li’l squadron the Third Reich ever saw, and with his latest film…
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Why Taika Waititi Had to ‘Twist the Truth’ to Adapt Real-Life Sports Drama ‘Next Goal Wins’
Taika Waititi’s new film “Next Goal Wins” is based on the true story of the American Samoa soccer team, infamous for their brutal 31-0 FIFA loss in 2001. Their story was immortalized in the 2014 documentary of the same name by Mike Brett and Steve Jamison, so Waititi admits he took some creative liberties in…
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‘Next Goal Wins’ Review — Ok Sports Comedy Boosted by Taika Waititi Humor
This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist.The journey for Taika Waititi’s latest film, Next Goal Wins, has been a long and strange one. It had originally wrapped back in early 2020—before Waititi began…
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‘Next Goal Wins’ Review: Taika Waititi Does a Stock ‘Ted Lasso’ Riff in American Samoa-Set Soccer Comedy
Does it count as a white savior movie if the white character is the one who needs saving? In “Next Goal Wins,” the world’s top-grossing indigenous director, Taika Waititi, retells the story of how American Samoa went from having the world’s worst soccer team to, well, not the worst. While a white man was involved,…
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‘Next Goal Wins’ Scores Warm Reaction from TIFF Audience
Searchlight will sail through award season with Venice winner “Poor Things” and Telluride hit “All of Us Strangers,” but the specialty distributor slotted Taika Waititi’s “Next Goal Wins” for audience-friendly Toronto for a reason. The world premiere audience responded warmly to what one-time Toronto People’s Choice winner Waititi (“Jojo Rabbit”) calls “a true understory” sports…
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Scalpers Hijack TIFF Screenings With $400 Resale Tickets: ‘It’s Genuinely Insane’
The Toronto International Film Festival is using Ticketmaster to book seats this year, and even though opening night is more than a week away, tickets for high-profile films are already going for more than ten times their face value.Festivalgoers are not happy about the high resale prices already popping up.Opening night film “The Boy and…