Day: July 15, 2021

REVIEW: The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52 [2021]

Jared Mobarak

What we can hear is often more powerful than what we can see. With an “it’s the friends we met along the way” type of mantra, documentarian Joshua Zeman uses his latest film The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52 to take audiences on a quest towards the unknown … or, at least, the misunderstood. He knows his endeavor is a fool’s errand. Everyone he asks to estimate the feasibility of finding a whale nobody has ever seen before and that hasn’t even been tracked in a decade to know…

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REVIEW: Cousins [2021]

Jared Mobarak

She had us. They only spent one summer together as children, but the connection they share via blood and heritage ultimately lasts them a lifetime whether they know it could or not. Makareta (Mihi Te Rauhi Daniels) promised young Mata (Te Raukura Gray) that she’d never give up looking for her—because even though they were together now, British laws had intervened to ensure that moment remained brief. It didn’t matter that Makareta, Missy (Keyahne Patrick Williams), and the rest of their Māori family wanted to keep her in their arms…

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