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The Blocks Cometh

Posted 2:56am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Toby Hills

It’s a melancholy thing to ruminate on these sub two-dollar iPod touch games, to glimpse a vertical slice of a dystopian world in which we all must eternally run to the right with no respite until we inevitably tumble into the ink. In The Blocks Cometh, you instead jump upwards and because the Read more...

Frittering with courgettes

Posted 2:52am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Niki Lomax

I saw my breath this morning and I fear that what has been a glorious summer may now be ending. And along with it, the season of cheap and fresh summery produce. Tomatoes! Oh how I will miss your abundance. You really rock my world. Courgettes! Can I still convince the flatties to buy you when Read more...

Café review - Green Acorn Cafe

Posted 2:50am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Pip Schaffler

72 Albany St (opposite the Central Library). (2/5) Prices: Flat white – $4.50, Long black – $3.50, Mocha - $4.80   Atmosphere: dreary and tired   Service: prompt but we were the only people in the place.   Location: very convenient – opposite the Read more...

Winter’s Bone

Posted 2:47am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Tom Ainge-Roy

Directed by Debra Granik. 4/5 Winter’s Bone isn’t by any stretch of the imagination a feel-good movie. That said, those of you who can stomach the ceaselessly grey skies, endlessly bleak atmosphere and uncomfortable realism of an American South steeped in meth addiction are in for a Read more...

The King’s Speech

Posted 2:45am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Sarah Baillie

Directed by Tom Hooper. 5/5 So yeah, The King's Speech won Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Actor and Screenplay at the Academy Awards last week; I guess it deserves a mention in the hallowed pages of Critic. Not just another “historical drama” (a genre which can be boring), the film Read more...

In A Better World

Posted 2:44am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Nicole Muriel

Directed by Susanne Bier. 4.5/5 Danish drama In a Better World won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe this year for Best Foreign Language Film. With the action divided between small-town Denmark and an African refugee camp, it follows the lives of two children, Christian (William Jøhnk Read more...

Love Birds

Posted 2:39am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Hamish Gavin

Directed by Paul Murphy. 3/5 Love Birds continues the recent New Zealand trend of lighthearted genre films. Since Sione’s Wedding we’ve had No.2, Boy, Paul Murphy’s Second Hand Wedding and now Love Birds, also directed by Murphy. Starring Rhys Darby and Sally Hawkins, Love Birds Read more...

Harold and Maude - (1971)

Posted 2:36am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Ben Blakely

Directed by Hal Ashby. Starring: Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon, Vivian Pickles. Harold is a young man, perhaps late teens/early twenties. He enjoys staging suicide attempts and going to funerals. Maude is seventy-nine, she enjoys stealing cars, collecting and making art-works and going to funerals. What a Read more...

DUD: The Dunedin Comic Revue

Posted 1:49am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Sarah Maessen

Author: The Dunedin Comic Collective (3/5) In stark contrast to The Good Book, the Dunedin Comic Collective’s first comic revue is blissfully unpretentious.   A long time coming, this publication is a selection of works by members of the Dunedin Comic Collective and friends. It Read more...

The Good Book

Posted 1:47am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Sarah Maessen

Author: Lucinda McMeeken and Trudy Cockroft. Self Published (2/5) When you choose such a name as The Good Book, you’re giving yourself awfully big shoes to fill and it doesn’t appear that Dunedin’s ‘fresh young designers’ have particularly large feet. Obvious Read more...

Permanent Vacation

Posted 1:42am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Sarah Maessen

Author: Kerry Ann Lee. Self Published (4/5) Kerry Ann Lee knows her stuff. She’s been producing zines for at least a decade, with the result that her latest appears effortless and polished. Permanent Vacation is essentially a collection of musings on travel; what it’s like to be an Read more...

Reuben Moss, Don’t look up

Posted 1:38am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Hana Aoake

Rice and Beans Gallery (February 24 - March 15, 2011). Entering Reuben Moss’s Don’t look up creates a strong sense of having entered a disjointed environment, with many of the exhibition’s core ideas leaving the viewer feeling distant. Don’t look up examines the horrors Read more...

We Will All Burn In Hell

Posted 1:35am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Lauren Hayes

a gallery (February 10 – March 5) While the a gallery, located two kilometres south of the university, is slightly outside the usual student stomping ground, it's worth the walk to catch the current exhibition. We Will All Burn In Hell is the first show to be held in the new artist-run space, and Read more...

Review: The Wonder of Sex

Posted 4:54am Monday 28th February 2011 by Jen Aitken

Written by Patrick Barlow, Directed by Lisa Warrington. Staring Phil Grieve and Keith Adams. (2/5) The Wonder of Sex spans the ‘sexual’ history of the last 2000 years, coincidently the combined age of the audience at tonight’s performance, few though they were. Thankfully, Read more...

Melvins

Posted 4:34am Monday 28th February 2011 by Sam Valentine

Re:fuel, Dunedin. 20th February 2011 With the audience like black-t-shirt-wearing, leather-clad moths to the proverbial flame, Re:Fuel seemed close to capacity as the Melvins took the stage. The oddly placed Sunday timeslot seemed to have deterred few.  It was as if the crowd were sending Read more...

Radiohead – The King of Limbs

Posted 4:31am Monday 28th February 2011 by Sam Valentine

Nearly three and a half years after their masterpiece In Rainbows, Radiohead return with The King of Limbs, which can only be described as a challenging album. With the first few listens reaping little reward, it would be safe to describe this release as one for the Radiohead devotees. In the Read more...

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Posted 4:28am Monday 28th February 2011 by Sam Valentine

Hey Pitchfork, I’mma let you finish but… Probably the most (over) hyped album of 2010, Kanye West’s opus My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (MBDTF) certainly deserves a post-uproar review. Drawing on the narcissism and bragging of his previous album, MBDTF takes Kanye’s musical Read more...

Brains – constant love forever

Posted 4:26am Monday 28th February 2011 by Sam Valentine

“give me highbrow, or give me death” With the long awaited constant love forever, ex-Dunedin trio brains should silence all ‘the haters’. Recorded in surprisingly fitting spacious high fidelity, a masterful ear for melody slowly reveals itself across the ten tracks. Removing the almost Read more...

Magika

Posted 4:21am Monday 28th February 2011 by Toby Hills

In Magicka, Arrowhead Game Studios have constructed a game where magic feels as powerful as it should, where an exploding magma ball behaves exactly as you would expect it to, yet within an incredibly balanced, robust system of game mechanics. Energy beams shift with slow weight, feeling like Read more...

NOT TOAST

Posted 4:15am Monday 28th February 2011 by Niki Lomax

This being my fourth year in this fair southern city, I am well acquainted with the inadequacies of the student diet. It’s fair to say that in the last three years I have consumed my body weight several times over in toast and pasta. Toast for breakfast, toast for lunch, pasta - usually covered in Read more...