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Worms: Ultimate Mayhem

Posted 4:57am Monday 10th October 2011 by Toby Hills

Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3, PC (3/5) “Ultimate mayhem?”, you say. How can this incarnation of Worms possibly be the apotheosis of anarchy when it has only been rated E10+ by the ESRB? Worms: Ultimate Mayhem might be a misnomer but it's still Worms (albeit 3D Worms) and it is still Read more...

Burnout CRASH!

Posted 4:55am Monday 10th October 2011 by Toby Hills

Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3 (2.5/5) Speed limits mean that cars don't matter. It's harsh, I know, but that's the truth. It doesn't matter if your car is a V13 with big-ol’ fuel injected cutoffs and chrome plated rods (oh yeah), it will stagnate and slowly die, never able to achieve its Read more...

Gary Numan – Dead Son Rising

Posted 4:12am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Basti Menkes

(5/5) Salvaged from the cutting-room floor, this collection of previously unfinished songs continues in a similar vein to Numan’s 2006’s anthemic opus Jagged, and thanks to collaborator/programmer extraordinaire Ade Fenton, Gary’s atheistic industrial sound he established Read more...

Simon Attwool - Not Afraid

Posted 4:11am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Hana Aoake

With cascading light dancing into the space, a series of paintings with slices of glitter and flamboyantly coloured paint radiate across the desolate gallery floor. Simon Attwool is a graduate of the Dunedin School of Art and is currently based in Melbourne. Not Read more...

Win Win

Posted 4:09am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Tom Ainge-Roy

Director: Tom McCarthy (3/5) Strong performances from the entire cast anchor Tom McCarthy’s Win Win and are no doubt what’s responsible for its overall good reviews and 94% ‘fresh’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes. While I can’t really say anything bad about it, Paul Read more...

Little White Lies

Posted 4:07am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Eve Duckworth

Director: Guillaume Canet (2.5/5) Nothing, but nothing, will stand between the French middle classes and their hols, though a bunch of friends do pause for thought when their friend is left in a coma after a motorbike spill in Paris.   Guillaume Canet’s 2010 French film Little Read more...

Friends with Benefits

Posted 4:05am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Nicole Muriel

Director: Will Gluck (3/5) If you’re someone who loves the occasional film that can be ingested passively – a comfortingly familiar storyline, light comedy, attractive people, pretty set-ups and, of course, lots of romance-y stuff, even some sex – then Friends with Read more...

Chalet Girl

Posted 4:04am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Sarah Baillie

Director: Phil Traill (1/5) This story is a clichéd gem. Kim (Felicity Jones) is a washed up pro skateboarder who spends her time working to support her lazy yet loving father at the local fast food joint. After a casual but ‘fateful’ discussion with a co-worker, Kim Read more...

The Fat Years

Posted 4:02am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Sarah Maessen

Author: Chan Koonchung; translated from Chinese by Michael S. Duke Publisher: Doubleday 1/5 Two years in the future, in China, things are afoot. A month has been forgotten. Luckily we are protagonised by Old Chen, one of those writers who doesn't write. And he ends up trying to solve Read more...

Karma Comedian & ImproNoir

Posted 4:00am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Bronwyn Wallace

Performers: Trubie-Dylan Smith, Abby Howells, Tegan McKegg, Malcolm Morrison, Jerome Cousins, Megan Grinlinton, Matthew Robinson. (4/5) Anyone who has ever been to a comedy event with me will know I have the token loud laugh, which is something I’ve learnt to embrace over the years. Why Read more...

Cult Classic: Dungeons and Dragons

Posted 3:58am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Toby Hills

Platforms: Literally any flatish surface Remember when it was alright to pretend? The time, way back, when a semi-snapped green stick was a luxurious imagination stimulant? Those days, for most of us, are now long gone. For whatever reason, pretending to be a Beetleborg is no longer awesome. Read more...

Bumpy Road

Posted 3:56am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Toby Hills

Platforms: iOS (4.5/5) A sweetly Up-style elderly couple are taking a Sunday drive. They lounge with the top down, a delicate autumn sun warming the brim of his top hat and the dome of her bonnet. Totally oblivious, are they, to the destruction taking place around their little blue people Read more...

Quiche

Posted 3:53am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Critic

With uni getting more stressful by the day (seriously - nervous breakdown imminent), a meal that takes 20 mins to throw together and another 30 mins or so to cook sounds ideal. Making a quiche is really easy. It requires minimal preparation and then you pretty much just throw it in the oven and walk Read more...

Walton EP

Posted 6:25am Monday 19th September 2011 by Critic

(3/5) The debut release from fresh-faced 20-year-old Mancunian producer Sam Walton (aka Walton), the simple titled Walton EP finds Hyperdub producing yet another clinical yet widely experimental EP.   Effortlessly blending genres from UK Garage to an almost relaxed post-dubstep vibe, Read more...

Teenage Hate/Fuck Elvis Here's the Reatards

Posted 6:24am Monday 19th September 2011 by Critic

Four Tapes. (4/5) With his already esteemed reputation receiving a typical post-death boost, Teenage Hate/Fuck Elvis Here’s the Reatards sees a superbly packaged reissue of early material from late punk hero Jay Reatard. The liner notes accurately crediting Reatard with “Guitar, Read more...

Mama's Red Lentil Dhal

Posted 6:22am Monday 19th September 2011 by Critic

I think it’s time for a collective sigh of relief. Winter is pretty much over and a head of broccoli is less than $2 again. Let the joyous prancing ensue! Before you know it we will all be feasting on tomato and capsicum like it’s going out of fashion. Clearly, I’m still in a winter Read more...

Read Aloud

Posted 6:20am Monday 19th September 2011 by Bronwyn Wallace

Fortune Theatre Studio Read Aloud is the fortnightly play reading event performed in the Fortune Theatre Studio. It gives playwrights and local theatre practitioners a chance to hear plays being read aloud (as the title would suggest). Read Aloud is not a full production of text; it is just a Read more...

A Dream Romance

Posted 6:19am Monday 19th September 2011 by Josh King

Lunchtime Theatre. (4.5/5) If I was enough of an old fart to remember the Fifties, I’m sure A Dream Romance would paint the perfect picture. Blonde, gum-chewing bimbos, leather jacket wearing, combing-toting sleazy guys and, if Grease and High School Musical got anything right, teenagers Read more...

Wondering how we ever came to this thank you, for instance. Or possible or just whatever whatever whatever!!!!:

Posted 6:17am Monday 19th September 2011 by Hana Aoake

Matthew George Richard Ward, Elle Loui August. Rice & Beans, 127 Stuart Street Bathed in golden shards of light flowing through from the surreal scene below, Wondering how we ever came to this thank you, for instance. Or possible or just whatever whatever whatever!!!! at Rice and Beans engulfs Read more...

Nelson Mandela by Himself - Nelson Mandela

Posted 6:14am Monday 19th September 2011 by Sarah Maessen

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”   Under the apartheid government of South Africa, it was illegal to quote Nelson Mandela. He is now among the most quoted people in the world, Read more...