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Hotel Transylvania

Posted 5:59pm Sunday 7th October 2012 by Lulu Sandston

Hotel Transylvania is based on the concept that humans are the perpetrators of scariness and monsters are the victims. The Hotel, built by Dracula (Adam Sandler), is a sanctuary for monsters, a place where they don’t have to hide in the shadows and can indulge all their eccentricities. For Read more...

Looper (2012)

Posted 5:59pm Sunday 7th October 2012 by Callum Fredric

In the year 2044, there are no flying cars. Admittedly, there are motorbikes that hover, but they’re totes unreliable. Most people drive the same cars as in 2012. And realistically, that’s what the future is going to be like. How much have cars actually changed since the 1950s? Likewise, antihero Read more...

Where Do We Go Now

Posted 5:59pm Sunday 7th October 2012 by Taryn Dryfhout

With the starring role played by the director herself, this movie was bound to be a little odd. Where Do We Go Now is set in a fictional village in Lebanon, where Christians and Muslims are living in harmony, oblivious to the war-torn nature of their relationship outside of their own community. This Read more...

THEA152 presents Voyager X: Baby Forest Animal Emporium

Posted 5:59pm Sunday 7th October 2012 by Bronwyn Wallace

Get a bunch of 30 overly dramatic, scheming theatre students together and tell them to create a show that uses a stage in new and innovative way. Ready, set, go – you’ve got Voyager. Tell them they can take any idea, any theme, any over-the-top, ridiculously outlandish, and extravagantly impossible Read more...

Sir Frank Brangwyn: Captain Winterbottom and the Billiard Room of Horton House

Posted 5:59pm Sunday 7th October 2012 by Taryn Dryfhout

When you enter the new exhibition at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the enormous pool table that monopolises a large floor area in the centre of the room grabs your attention. The exhibition is “Sir Frank Brangwyn: Captain Winterbottom and the Billiard Room of Horton House”, and it is this billiard Read more...

A review, an outro; a comedy: Melville’s Bartleby

Posted 5:59pm Sunday 7th October 2012 by Josef Alton

It was on a fine day in New York City that the tall and lanky young man entered the chambers of an elderly Wall Street lawyer and undertook the job as a legal scrivener (legal copyist). The lawyer’s chambers were on the second story of a building that sat in the shade of its neighboring buildings. Read more...

Tex Mex Beef

Posted 5:59pm Sunday 7th October 2012 by Ines Shennan

Let me tell you about a dessert-related revelation I had some years ago. You take an overflowing handful of fresh strawberries, hull them, halve them, and place them into a bowl. Next, grab your nearby spice grinder, conveniently filled with black peppercorns. Crack the pepper over the strawberries. Read more...

Civilization V: Gods and Kings

Posted 5:59pm Sunday 7th October 2012 by Vimal Patel

2005’s Civilization IV was a wholesome game to give to your offspring. Combat, though it was very possible, was rarely an optimal method to achieve a successful, wide reaching collection of cities. IV was a game that promoted agriculture, enlightenment and diplomacy, a game that, after its patch Read more...

NY Excuse For A Good Time

Posted 5:59pm Sunday 7th October 2012 by Isaac McFarlane

New Year’s Eve is an important time for a lot of us – the final goodbye to a year of triumphs or failures, and the ushering in of new beginnings. Well, either that or a black hole in your memory from Dec 27 till Jan 2. Often the soundtrack to this haze of hedonism is provided by one of many Read more...

Mini Raspberry Citrus Cheesecakes

Posted 5:01pm Sunday 30th September 2012 by Ines Shennan

I’ve got something to share with you. I haven’t been entirely honest this year. From the recipes featured, my tastebuds would appear to lean towards the savoury; clearly I am a carb-consuming, meat-eating, spice-loving, caramelised-onion-obsessed lunatic. What have failed to grace these pages are Read more...

Soulwax

Posted 5:01pm Sunday 30th September 2012 by Isaac McFarlane

My good friend Tom Tremewan may have changed my life. Searching for a sense of sanity on a recent excursion to Captain Crunch’s World of Weird and Wacky, situated just 5 hours north of Dunedin, he turned to me and fumbled for the only topic that could save us from the Netherworld – music. “Have you Read more...

Otago Festival of the Arts

Posted 5:01pm Sunday 30th September 2012 by Bronwyn Wallace

I think we often forget, or rather overlook, the privilege of living in a culturally assimilated city like Dunedin. We always have a production on somewhere, be it professional or student-led, so if we feel like it we can take the evening off to enjoy a show. We are also lucky enough to have a Read more...

The Marriage Plot

Posted 5:01pm Sunday 30th September 2012 by Bradley Watson

After he focussed on mass suicide in The Virgin Suicides and then hermaphrodism in Middlesex, I was curious to see what Jeffrey Eugenides had in store for us with his latest novel, The Marriage Plot. Unlike his other novels, The Marriage Plot does not trade in shock value. Instead, the plot centres Read more...

Savages

Posted 5:01pm Sunday 30th September 2012 by Michaela Hunter

It pretty obvious from the get-go what kind of movie this is, because we’re told in direct narration by the sultry voice of main character O (short for Ophelia), played by Blake Lively. She explains that she’s a hot rich girl whose parents don’t love her, but who happened to win the affections of Read more...

Madagascar 3

Posted 5:01pm Sunday 30th September 2012 by Dan Benson-Guiu

I arrive at the theatre with great anticipation, unopened popcorn on my lap, just waiting for the ready-set-go. I haven’t seen a kids’ movie since way back, and nothing is better than trailers to get you in the mood. But we all remember the sheer awesomeness of Madagascar, right? Let’s move it! Read more...

Ruby Sparks

Posted 5:01pm Sunday 30th September 2012 by Georgia Rose

My expectations for this film were pretty non-existent, although I’d heard it was directed by the same duo that made Little Miss Sunshine, which gave me hope. I was also vaguely aware that it was about an author whose female character comes to life as his girlfriend, and anything he writes about her Read more...

Two Little Boys

Posted 5:01pm Sunday 30th September 2012 by Ashlea Muston

Two Little Boys is the story of Nige and Deano, two best mates from Invercargill. Nige (Bret McKenzie) finds himself in way over his head when he runs over a Norwegian backpacker. He confides in his friend Deano (Hamish Blake), despite their recent disagreement over a toasted sandwich. However, in Read more...

Smoky Repose

Posted 5:01pm Sunday 30th September 2012 by Beaurey Chan

A young woman poses in profile against an indistinct backdrop, a cigarette propped just so in her mouth as she gazes coolly into the unknown distance. Another girl’s hair is drawn tightly back as she clenches her face into an expression of what could be pain or pleasure. The cigarette makes Read more...

Mark of the Ninja - REVIEW

Posted 5:01pm Sunday 30th September 2012 by Toby Hills

"Other” ninja games, and developer Klei Entertainment refuses to name names, are very un-ninja-like. Why spend all that time shrouding yourself in stifling, shadowy rags if you are going to blunder into the middle of a swathe of foes and paint the walls in their bright red blood just to show, Read more...

Chicken Caesar Salad

Posted 4:25pm Sunday 23rd September 2012 by Maeve Jones

Caesar salad often emphasises the heavy, creamy dressing, which is more often than not over-processed and ruins a perfectly good salad. For me it is all about the croutons. Croutons are a delicious and convenient way to use bread that is past its prime. Most cultures in the world have some creative Read more...