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The 10pm Question

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Natasha Loveday

“Frankie liked very much to remember that February the fourteenth had begun badly and shown every sign of becoming a real horror, but – as the benefit of hindsight proved – it marked, ultimately, a turning point in his mood and fortune, because at 8.36 a.m. the new girl boarded Cassino’s East-West Read more...

Martha Marcy May Marlene

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Sarah Baillie

Martha Marcy May Marlene is not the full name of the young woman in this film – thank goodness. Her real name is Martha. Marcy May is the name given to her by Patrick, the leader of the cult she has been living with for the past two years. Having fled the cult community, disoriented and distressed, Read more...

Project X

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Lukas Clark-Memler

Imagine the best party you never had. Thousands of people and limitless booze; DJs, fireworks and a flamethrower; a smorgasbord of uppers and downers; topless girls and a bouncy castle. So sets the stage for Project X, the latest incarnation of the “found-footage” genre. But instead of monsters Read more...

My Week with Marilyn

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Michaela Hunter

My Week with Marilyn is based on the diaries of Colin Clark (played by Eddie Redmayne), a third assistant to the film director of The Prince and the Showgirl which famously united Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams) and Lawrence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) in 1956. Clark revealed in 2000 that he had Read more...

Brother Number One

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Taryn Dryfhout

Brother Number One is a New Zealand documentary which follows former Olympic athlete Rob Hamill as he journeys to Cambodia to testify against the man responsible for the torture and killing of his brother, over thirty years ago. Rob’s brother Kerry disappeared in 1978 while sailing towards Read more...

The 2012 Dunedin Fringe Festival

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Bronwyn Wallace

Over the next 11 days the Dunedin Fringe Festival will change the way that you think about entertainment. The 2012 programme features over 50 events and more than 370 artists from places as exotic as the UK, and Canada. This week’s theatre page previews some of the best stuff on in the next few Read more...

Sweet Tooth

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Beaurey Chan

“Canker” by Audrey Baldwin 5pm, 22 March 2012 Blue Oyster Gallery That’s your preview so far for Audrey Baldwin’s performance art piece “Canker”, which features as part of the Blue Oyster Gallery’s Performance Series for the Visual Arts section of the Fringe Festival. While perhaps not Read more...

John Cooper Clarke

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Tash Smillie

In a brilliant coup d’état for Critic’s poetry section, Dunedin has snared itself a poet of international infamy as the headline act of this year’s Fringe Festival. John Cooper Clarke, “punk’s poet laureate” will be bringing his iconic performance poetry to Sammy’s this month. Described as Read more...

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Loulou Callister-Baker

Do you hate your mother for bringing you into this sinister world? Do thoughts about your high school days invoke shivers of disgust throughout you? Have you ever considered putting your baby hamster into the waste disposal? Is your name Kevin Khatchadourian? If yes – we need to talk about you. Read more...

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Nicole Muriel

If you tend to tear up in films about serious-faced, tormented kids struggling against adversity, you’ll probably be all-out sobbing before the end of this film. Its hero, Oskar (Thomas Horn) is spikily adorable with his Asperger-esque interactions and philosophical musings. Oskar is keeping Read more...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Vimal Patel

I realise that reviewing the single player portion of a Call of Duty game is like reviewing McDonalds’ salads: It’s there on the menu, but no one expects you to pay good money for it. However, I did enjoy the campaigns from the first two Modern Warfare games, and subsequently thought I might kill a Read more...

1000 Amps

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Toby Hills

It’s always a concern when a download is only 12mb. How much complexity, really, how many flamboyant characters, particle effects, grenade-launcher attachments and pre-baked cutscenes could possibly be packed into such a squashed bundle of kilobytes? 1000 Amps by Brandi Brizzi has layered Read more...

Summery Fettucine

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Ines Shennan

This pasta dish is a simple combination of vivid ingredients that will trick you into thinking summer is still in full swing. As Dunedin’s sunshine-filled days become a rarity, a colourful meal brings joy into the ritual of dinner. Rather than being coated in a heavy sauce, fettucine is nestled Read more...

Music For Whenever

Posted 4:27pm Sunday 18th March 2012 by Lauren Wootton

So it’s autumn guys. And if there’s one thing about people in Dunedin, they love to talk about the weather. Is there so little going on in the world that we have to start every conversation with “it’s a bit nippy out isn’t it”? But with the new season I find myself in front of my iTunes and Read more...

Be | Longing

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Beaurey Chan

Be | Longing was a piece of documentary theatre presented through the Theatre Studies department here at Otago. Documentary theatre involves the actors working without a script. People are interviewed, on whatever subject matter the directors decide, and actors completely replicate the interview Read more...

Be Glad You're Neurotic

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Bronwyn Wallace

Be Glad You’re Neurotic is a one-man show based on Louis Edward Bisch’s self-help book, which Phil Braithwaite chanced upon in an op shop for fifty cents. For the past five years he has been putting together the show, taking Bisch’s very serious statements and turning them into humorous Read more...

From Stubbies & SoGos to Rosé and Berets

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Beaurey Chan

Bet Dunedin’s not the first place you’d think of if someone said “arts and cultural capital of New Zealand”. It’s not particularly surprising, considering our scarfie reputation seems to almost overwhelmingly overshadow any other image linked to the city so well known for its large body of partying Read more...

The Prince of Soul and the Lighthouse

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Sasha Borissenko

If you are not alarmed by the orange colour of the book-face, perhaps it is the Crouching-Tiger-Hidden-Dragon font that ought to be questioned. Superficiality aside, this fantasy-epic essentially involves the following storyline: Boy pines over exotic girl. Boy sings to girl. Boy has trouble Read more...

Shame

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Alec Dawson

This film is a beautiful and explicit depiction of a taboo subject in the same league as Requiem for a Dream. But of all films it most reminded me of American Psycho, except the damage is far more hidden and self-inflicted. Michael Fassbender is brilliant as Brandon, who appears to be a regular (if Read more...

The Ides of March

Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012 by Eve Duckworth

George Clooney’s new film The Ides of March tells us something we probably already knew: That the experience of running an American political campaign is damaging for both one’s heart and soul. In an atmosphere heavily dripping with betrayal it is easy from the outset to be drawn in amongst the Read more...