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Dunedin Fringe Festival: FIND YOUR FRINGE!

Posted 2:08am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Jen Aitken

17-27 March The 2011 Dunedin Fringe Festival has attracted over 50 comedy, music, dance, theatre and visual art acts, including its biggest ever line up of comedy acts! Have you heard of Wilson Dixon? Raybon Kan? Irene Pink? Justine Smith (my personal fav)? Ben Hurley or Steve Wrigley? If you Read more...

Salmonella Dub

Posted 1:24am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Lisa McGonigle

Urban Factory, March 5 2011. On March 5 Salmonella Dub, those stalwarts of the NZ music scene, played at Urban Factory in a gig which had been postponed from its original February 26 date. Since 1991 Salmonella Dub have been pioneering that fusion of dub, reggae and drum’n’bass Read more...

Elbow – Build a Rocket Boys

Posted 1:20am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Sam Valentine

Two years after the release of the Mercury Prize-winning The Seldom Seen Kid, British orchestral-guitar four-piece Elbow return to action with Build a Rocket Boys! Once eloquently described as “prog without the solos”, Elbow’s emotionally laden, grandiose formula is evident in full effect here. Read more...

Patrick Stump – Truant Wave EP

Posted 1:19am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Midge McBryde

Patrick Stump's Truant Wave EP was unexpectedly announced last month and released a mere week later on February 22. It showcases the songs Stump has excluded from his forthcoming album Soul Punk and eases the listener into his fresh synth-pop sound. It’s probably best not to listen to this Read more...

Bulletstorm

Posted 1:13am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Toby Hills

Platforms: Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PC. (5/5). "In the new video game Bulletstorm, players are rewarded for shooting enemies in the private parts (such as the buttocks).”   My worry is that no matter what I write in this review, no matter how much I ache and strain to Read more...

Filo is Your Friend

Posted 1:09am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Niki Lomax

Filo is not scary. Filo is your friend. The fear is understandable; I too once considered filo to be a fearful and tricky business. That was before I actually used it and realised how easy it is. SO EASY. I swear. It’s not nearly as time consuming as you might assume, it’s extremely Read more...

The Adjustment Bureau

Posted 1:04am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Tom Ainge-Roy

Directed by George Nolfi. Starring Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Anthony Mackie, John Slattery (3/5). If I had left half way through this movie, I probably would have written a favourable review. Regrettably I stayed for its entirety and now I’m duty-bound to tell the truth. A good start with Read more...

I am Number Four

Posted 1:01am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Loulou Callister-Baker

Directed by D.J. Caruso. Starring Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Dianna Agron. (2/5). I Am Number Four is a teenage sci-fi where Darth Maul-like offspring go to the supermarket, wave at little children in order to look casual (despite the four functioning gills on either side of their Read more...

True Grit

Posted 12:57am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Ben Speare

Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Starring Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon. (4/5). On the surface, this is the simple story of 14 year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) trying to bring her father’s killer to justice. However, as in many westerns, there are deeper undertows Read more...

Sanctum

Posted 12:54am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Matt Chapman

Directed by Alister Grierson. Starring Richard Roxburgh, Ioan Gruffudd, Rhys Wakefield. 2/5 As an avid scuba diver, I was expecting big things from Alister Grierson's new film, Sanctum. Produced by James Cameron, it looked set to be an action movie of epic proportions; sadly, I was underwhelmed. Read more...

Mad Max

Posted 12:45am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Ben Blakely

Directed by George Miller. Starring: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keayes-Byrne, Steve Bisley. Long before Mel Gibson went bat-shit crazy, he was the star of this Australian low-budget road tale. Set “a few years from now” in a post-apocalyptic Australian outback, Mad Max follows Max Read more...

Ruby, you wee gem

Posted 4:39am Monday 14th March 2011 by Mahoney Turnbull

352 George St has never looked so pretty. Dunedin’s finest fashion aficionados were all on show last Wednesday night for the official store opening of Ruby Boutique. An intimate affair hosted by the charming double act behind the famed Ruby and Madame Hawk labels, the cute, super-skinny George St Read more...

Barefoot

Posted 4:24am Monday 14th March 2011 by Sarah Maessen

Author: Michelle Holman. Publisher: Harper Collins (2/5) Barefoot is a loose sequel to Michelle Holman’s debut novel Bonkers. She claims that she felt compelled to tell Sherry and Glenn’s story after they featured as more minor characters in their siblings’ story.   Read more...

August

Posted 4:21am Monday 14th March 2011 by Sarah Maessen

Author: Bernard Beckett. Publisher: Text Publishing (4/5) New Zealand author Bernard Beckett’s latest novel is described as a ‘philosophical thriller’. While I’m not sure that it’s quite a thriller, the combined tension of the characters’ back stories and Read more...

The Uninvited

Posted 4:13am Monday 14th March 2011 by Sarah Maessen

Author: Tim Wynne Jones. Publisher: Walker books (3/5) Mimi leaves the stress of the Big Apple for the tranquillity of her father’s house in small-town Canada, only to find that she is not the only one who thought it would be the perfect getaway. It doesn’t take long for Mimi to Read more...

Shaolin Burning

Posted 4:09am Monday 14th March 2011 by Pippa Maessen

Author: Ant Sang. Publisher: Harper Collins (3/5) Shaolin Burning is a graphic novel by the designer of bro’ Town, yet in it Ant Sang has chosen to steer clear of the New Zealand humour typical of this earlier work. Instead he explores kung fu mythology and Chinese legends. Background Read more...

Clare Fleming’s at once we are rootless and harbouring, floating on an inland sea (I am from here)

Posted 3:59am Monday 14th March 2011 by Hana Aoake

Blue Oyster art project space from March 8 To encounter Clare Fleming’s At once we are rootless and harbouring, floating on an inland sea (I am here) is to be immersed in a deeply personal inner landscape. Clare Fleming is an artist based in Dunedin and a Dunedin School of Art BFA graduate. Read more...

Disasteradio with Thundercub

Posted 3:12am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Sam Valentine

Re:fuel, February 24 2011 After an energetic and engaging performance in the foreign environment of the OUSA balcony during lunch, one-man party machine Luke Rowell, aka Disasteradio, seemed sufficiently excited for the small but passionate Re:fuel audience.   Preceded by current Read more...

Deerhoof – Deerhoof vs. Evil

Posted 3:10am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Sam Valentine

Remember being a teenager? No one could tell you what to do. You refused to clean your room while screaming Rage Against the Machine lyrics as loudly as you possibly could. This is the sound of Deerhoof’s new album. From the child-adorned cover to the free candy included in the press release (omg Read more...

Gil Scott Heron & Jamie xx – We’re New Here

Posted 3:09am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Sam Valentine

Following a period of personal and legal trouble over his drug addiction, living jazz-soul legend Gil Scott Heron released his first album of original material in sixteen years with the excellent I’m New Here in 2010. Gaining critical acclaim for its exploration of contemporary electronic music Read more...