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Dying Light

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 22nd March 2015 by Isaac Yu

Rating: 4/5 Much like fresher flu, zombies are hard to escape at the moment. Books, movies, TV shows, games: Dying Light is the latest triple-A attempt to cash in on the zombie craze following the giant let-down that was Dead Island. Made by the same developer, Techland, Dying Light takes Read more...

Zoe Crook & Aodhan Madden Suspicious Minds

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 22nd March 2015 by Loulou Callister-Baker

The first time I met artists Zoe Crook and Aodhan Madden was at the Blue Oyster Art Project Space while they were partway through initial preparations for their Fringe Festival performance piece, “Suspicious Minds”. They had moved the office to a back room, covered the entire front window and Read more...

The Rise and Fall of National Women’s Hospital: A History

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 22nd March 2015 by Bridget Vosburgh

The Rise and Fall of National Women’s Hospital: A History is exactly that. Author Linda Bryder covers the history of the National Women’s Hospital in Auckland, beginning with the political and social circumstances that led to the hospital’s opening in 1946, and ending with the conditions that led to Read more...

GASP

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 22nd March 2015 by Daniel Munro

GASP is a DJ and producer based out of Dunedin, and is set to support Raiza Biza and Jay Knight at Refuel on the 23rd of April. At just 17 years old, Eden Burns is making waves locally and internationally. With recognition from both Vice and Mix Mag, Critic caught up with him to check out what he’s Read more...

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Chasing Yesterday

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 22nd March 2015 by Basti Menkes

Noel Gallagher has to be one of the most tragic figures in rock history. Okay, he’s not quite up there with Daniel Johnston or Syd Barrett, but he is piteous in his own way. Like The Beatles (yes, it’s sentence three and I’ve already made that comparison), Oasis started out as lovable British Read more...

Dunedin Fringe Festival Dance/Theatre Performance: Bbeals

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 22nd March 2015 by Rachael Hodge

Rating: 4/5 A s one dancer rightly pointed out, Bbeals “sure was no swan lake.” To say the least, Bbeals, performed by the New Zealand dance company, Footnote, and a French company, Danses en l’R, was interesting. I wasn’t sure what I was expecting from the show. However, I was Read more...

Kidnapping Mr. Heineken

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 22nd March 2015 by Shaun Swain

Rating: 3/5 Films “based on a true story,” especially ones about kidnap heists, usually fit into one of two categories. Category one: documentary footage that is so intensely dramatised that it becomes almost fictitious. Category two: documentary footage that sticks diligently to historical Read more...

The Salt of the Earth

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 22nd March 2015 by Harlan Jones

Rating: 4/5 “People are the Salt of the Earth” Sebastião Salgado informs us — hardly a surprising conclusion from a successful social photographer. The observation establishes the impetus for the documentary, which quickly moves from being a biopic about Salgado into a wider meditation on Read more...

Chappie

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 22nd March 2015 by Maya Dodd

Rating: 2/5 Have you ever heard people say, “there goes [insert minutes, hours, seconds here] of my life that I’ll never get back”? Deon Wilson (Dev Patel) spent — or wasted, depending on how you want to look at it — the better part of three years creating an artificial intelligence Read more...

Mediterranean Lamb Burgers

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 22nd March 2015 by Sophie Edmonds

I compensate for my lack of a Victoria’s Secret-worthy bod by seducing men with my charm, wit and culinary efforts. My usual go-to involves spaghetti and meatballs made from scratch, as carbs and meat tend to go down a treat in most males. This time I felt the pasta fest that I usually do wouldn’t Read more...