Julio is a Senior Author for Collider. Despite having studied History and International Relations at university, he found his calling in cultural journalism. When he is not writing, Julio teaches ...

Since its successful premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in America in January, Hunt for the Wilderpeople has become the all-time New Zealand box-office champion, and it’s easy to see why. This ...

Julian Dennison, left, and Sam Neill star in “Hunt for the Wilderpeople.” The Orchid “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” is the kind of adorable, coming-of-age dramedy that Pixar would create if it made ...

New Zealand isn’t exactly known as a hotbed of regional film production. But this country of 4.4 million people has recently found its top native filmmaker in the unlikely form of 40-year-old comedian ...

The year 2016 was the year of man’s cinematic exodus into the wild. Where before there was “The Revenant” and “Swiss Army Man,” now comes “Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” the sprightly coming-of-age tale ...

Family films today lack the edge of their 1980s predecessors. There never seem to be convincing danger or stakes, and the humor is too often for kids alone. But New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi ...