Ka-Pai

Keisha Castle-Hughes continues to win over critics with her star-turn as Pai in Whale Rider. USA Today calls her “the discovery of the summer,” and the Miami Herald hails her performance as “the best … of the year – man, woman, adult, kid, virtual, you name it.” Another Miami Herald feature cites Whale Rider as an example of the emerging post-feminist aesthetic in film, and a welcome relief from such high-gloss girl-power flicks as Tomb Raider and Charlie’s Angels: “Lara Croft can have the shark. Pai gets to ride the whale, and it actually means something.”


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Cocaine Bear is Actually Allan Henry

Cocaine Bear is Actually Allan Henry

The cocaine bear in Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear is an impressive feat of visual effects wizardry, but there was an actual person behind the 227-kilogram, drug-addicted beast, and that person was…