Eagle vs. Shark (opening July 6 at Landmark's Hillcrest Cinemas) is a low budget comedy from New Zealand. Think Napoleon Dynamite from down under. The film went through the Sundance Script Lab and ...

At the SXSW Film Festival in March, iW caught up with Ms. Horsley, who had been traveling since January with her friend Taika Waititi in support of the film. I’ve known [Waititi] since I was 16,” said ...

A light sprinkling of quirkiness can be charming; a heavy-handed dollop of it can, alas, put you off your popcorn. Such is the fate of New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi’s comedy “Eagle vs. Shark,” ...

“Eagle vs. Shark” is a deadpan romantic comedy about two geeky losers whose out-of-itness is clearly meant to be funnier than it is. Writer-director Taika Waititi’s Oscar-nommed short, “Two Cars, One ...