Funerals & Snakes

Funerals & Snakes

Something to watch tonight: Thursday 5 February

Utu Redux (Murphy, 1984/2013)

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Dan Slevin
Feb 05, 2026
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Anzac Wallace as Te Wheke in Geoff Murphy’s masterpiece Utu Redux (1983/2013)

Tomorrow is a public holiday here in Aotearoa New Zealand — Waitangi Day — so there won’t be a newsletter sent out.

I thought this weekend would be a good time for people to revisit a Kiwi classic.

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Geoff Murphy’s Utu was first released in cinemas in 1984 and it got an excel…

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