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COMEDY: OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH (Neon). Rhys Darby has left his mark on the films of Taika Waititi – as “Psycho Sam” in Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Anton the werewolf in What We Do in the Shadows. Now the pair are crossing swords in Our Flag Means Death, an American-made pirate parody which gives Darby a rare lead role and a chance for Waititi to get in front of the camera.

Darby is Stede Bonnet, a character based on a real-life 18th-century gentleman pirate of the same name who turned his back on his aristocratic beginnings to become a privateer. Waititi plays the legendary

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