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Avenue Q

Posted 4:16am Monday 5th September 2011 by

Avenue Q is a simple coming-of-age parable about finding your purpose in life - oh, and it is also a Broadway musical. Marketed as Sesame Street for adults, Avenue Q is pretty much just that: cheerful (and not so cheerful) puppets and people interact, discovering how to deal with life and all Read more...

Nevernudes – Cereal EP

Posted 4:12am Monday 5th September 2011 by Richard Ley-Hamilton

After experiencing the Nevernudes’ First EP back in late 2009, I stared at my iTunes, somewhat unconvinced. Their abrasive and darkened delivery was quite discouraging, especially to my conventional-music-adoring ears, and left the idea of a second listen seem fairly daunting. However, Read more...

Wugazi – 13 Chambers

Posted 4:11am Monday 5th September 2011 by Sam Valentine

    In the post-Dangermouse era, where the Beatles met Jay-Z and created history in the process, the rap/rock mash-up has been a mixture of occasional high peaks, and diminishing returns. For every triumph of introduction and re-imagination (The Grey Album), there have been Read more...

Billy T - Te Movie

Posted 4:06am Monday 5th September 2011 by Maya Turei

Directed by Ian Mune, (5/5). Billy T – Te Movie is awesome. Ian Mune does a wonderful job of exploring Billy T James as an icon and most importantly, as a person. It was really interesting to watch the difference between his on-stage and off-stage personae develop. A New Zealand Read more...

How I Ended This Summer

Posted 4:04am Monday 5th September 2011 by Eve Duckworth

Directed by Shinsuke Sato, (2.5/5).   A prizewinner at both the Berlin and London film festivals, How I Ended This Summer is set and shot amongst the remoteness of the Arctic Circle. Amongst this breath taking landscape, two meteorologists operate a weather station, gathering detailed Read more...

The Trip

Posted 4:00am Monday 5th September 2011 by Jane Ross

Directed by Michael Winterbottom, (4/5). Anyone who sat through the end credits of Michael Winterbottom’s film within a film Tristram Shandy: a Cock and Bull Story was aptly rewarded with the side-splitting comedic brilliance of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s sparred and improvised Read more...

Love Story

Posted 3:53am Monday 5th September 2011 by Henry Feltham

Directed by Florian Habicht, (4.5/5).   There’s a point in Florian Habicht’s Love Story where he faces the camera and confesses ‘I fall in love so often.’ Not quite explaining, not quite apologising. ‘It happens all the time,’ he sighs. The fatalism is Read more...

Love Story

Posted 3:51am Monday 5th September 2011 by Henry Feltham

Directed by Florian Habicht, (4.5/5). There’s a point in Florian Habicht’s Love Story where he faces the camera and confesses ‘I fall in love so often.’ Not quite explaining, not quite apologising. ‘It happens all the time,’ he sighs. The fatalism is no Read more...

SUTURE SELF, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY

Posted 3:25am Monday 5th September 2011 by Critic

Curated by Victoria Bell and featuring works by Jenny Bain, Michele Beevers, Victoria Bell, Neil Emmerson, Tenille Lategan, Simone Montgomery & Karen Taiaroa Suture Self is an exhibition featuring the work of staff, recent graduates and a current masters student from the Dunedin School of Art. Read more...

2 be S-Pacific

Posted 1:17am Friday 26th August 2011 by Kathryn Hurst

Directed by Nylla Ah-Kuoi Tamati, (3.5/5). Best. Welcome. EVER! The whole cast cheered each audience member inside as they clapped along to music that I’m pretty sure was part of the soundtrack for Sione’s Wedding. Which, as we all know, is good music; it makes me feel like a cool Read more...

Liam Finn w/ The Drab Doo-Riffs

Posted 11:38pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Sam Valentine

Thursday August 11 - ReFuel, Dunedin Fresh from releasing the awaited follow up to 2008’s treasured I’ll Be Lightning, it was a typically energised and affable Liam Finn who appeared onstage to celebrate the release of FOMO last Thursday night. With his new material simultaneously Read more...

Cult Classic: Just Cause 2

Posted 11:36pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Toby Hills

You resent the presence of a story from the opening picosecond of Just Cause 2. It's the bland characters and the plot about some dictator who's all bad and such that are responsible initially for this reaction. But a few seconds later, the screen will literally go completely pitch black to load Read more...

Trauma

Posted 11:34pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Toby Hills

Platforms: OSX, PC, LINUX There's a looming sense of effort in Trauma. Not the good kind. The strained kind: “Come on guys. We've got to be evocative. We've just got to. Otherwise what will happen? I don't know. Jeez guys. Jeez.” It's not appealing when a game shamelessly begs for Read more...

Chicken Tonight?

Posted 11:31pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Susie Krieble

You may have noticed that the vast majority of recipes this year in Critic have been vegetarian. This is for two reasons: 1) meat is expensive and we are povo and 2) the food editor and 90% of the contributors live meat-free and vege-plenty. However, we understand that not everyone is this way Read more...

Cafe Review - Everyday Gourmet

Posted 11:28pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Pippa Schaffler

466 George Street, down the road from Rob Roy. 5 Stars. Prices: Flat White: $4.20, Long Black: $3.20, Mocha: $4.70 Why I came here: A friend and I felt the need for a coffee to get through our Friday morning lectures and decided to venture towards George St Atmosphere: Cute, Read more...

Director Profile: David Cronenberg

Posted 11:17pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Theo Kay

David Cronenberg is a Canadian-born director who began a career in film in 1969. His early years were marked by a series of low-budget sci-fi horrors which jolted his name into the public mind. Cronenberg's work continues to seamlessly mutate and fill the gaps in our subconscious. His pictures Read more...

Glee: The 3D Concert Movie

Posted 11:16pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Phoebe Harrop

Directed by Kevin Tancharoen, (5/5). Glee: The 3D Concert Movie was possibly the best 90 minutes of my life. As its somewhat unimaginative title suggests, the movie was not actually a feature-length Glee episode (glepisode?), but was in fact a 3D film version of the Glee stage show which Read more...

Larry Crowne

Posted 11:14pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Julia Sandston

Directed by Tom Hanks, (3.5/5). Larry Crowne is Tom Hank’s sophomore attempt at writing and directing a film. Sitting a little uncomfortably between drama and comedy, it isn’t entirely sure of itself, but it is otherwise enjoyable and relatively easy viewing.   Larry Read more...

Gantz

Posted 11:12pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Sam McChesney

Directed by Shinsuke Sato, (1.5/5). Allegedly, you will either love Gantz or hate it. My experience of the film was certainly consistent with this principle. And hint: I didn’t love it.   Let me make one thing clear: I am not opposed to films based on comic books. Scott Read more...

Miss Representation

Posted 11:10pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Sarah Baillie

Directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, (5/5). Before you stop reading because you think this film looks like it’s only for crazy feminists, wait! It’s not. Miss Representation is a film that every person in the world should watch. An exploration of the impact of the negative portrayal Read more...