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Pulled Chicken & Peach BBQ Tacos

Posted 5:30pm Sunday 8th March 2015 by Sophie Edmonds

For those who know me or have followed my recipes here since last year, my unwavering love for soft-shell tacos is evident. My favourite being those that include melt-in-your-mouth, slow-cooked meats. For those of you who really value that extra twenty minutes of sleep in the morning and CBF putting Read more...

Stranded Deep

Posted 6:26pm Sunday 1st March 2015 by Angus Wilson

H ave you ever wanted to live out a Tom Hanks, Castaway fantasy on a deserted island with nothing but a netball for company, but couldn’t afford the tickets to nowhere? Then, boy, do I have some good news for you, and you don’t even have to leave your couch to get it. Stranded Deep is Read more...

Demons

Posted 6:26pm Sunday 1st March 2015 by Bridget Vosburgh

Demons, by Wayne Macauley, tells the story of seven Australians who retreat from the world for a weekend to get drunk and tell each other stories but find, as the weekend goes on, that the experience is becoming a disturbing one. The title and this premise make it sound like Demons might be a horror Read more...

From Dusk Till Dawn

Posted 6:26pm Sunday 1st March 2015 by Alex Blackwood

Cult Film F rom Dusk Till Dawn is a two-course action-crime buffet with references as juicy as a Kahuna Burger; the first course comes in the form of a hostage film and the second, a Vampire film that is far gorier than what we were accustomed to in 1996, let alone 2015. The Read more...

Jupiter Ascending

Posted 6:26pm Sunday 1st March 2015 by Anonymous Bird

Rating: 1/5 Jupiter Ascending follows Jupiter Jones, a young girl who hates her life, which is spent cleaning houses and bathrooms with her scary Russian family just to get by. She is convinced by her ridiculous cousin to sell her eggs to a clinic in order to get money so that she can buy a Read more...

Selma

Posted 6:26pm Sunday 1st March 2015 by Letisha Nicholas

Rating: 4/5 Fuck you, America, I have a dream! In 1964, the American Civil Rights bill was passed and African-American citizens had the right to vote. Except that black citizens were systematically and violently denied access to register and vote. Selma shows that 1965 America was filled with Read more...

Foxcatcher

Posted 6:26pm Sunday 1st March 2015 by Nick Ainge-Roy

Rating: 4/5 Foxcatcher tells the true story of Olympic wrestlers, Mark Schulz (Channing Tatum) and David Schulz (Mark Ruffalo), and their unsettling benefactor John DuPont (Steve Carrell) as they attempt to repeat their gold medal win from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics at the 1988 Seoul Read more...

Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

Posted 6:26pm Sunday 1st March 2015 by Basti Menkes

Cult Album It’s been twenty years since Oasis’s blockbuster second album, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, was released. A lot has happened in that time. The band themselves lost their critical and commercial success and their place in the zeitgeist, and fell into an oh-are-they-still-going Read more...

Top Tracks | Issue 2

Posted 6:26pm Sunday 1st March 2015 by Daniel Munro

Azizi Gibson - Claustrophobic (Prod. Kamandi) Off Azizi’s latest EP The Last, ‘Claustrophobic’ is another huge one for Gibson. Produced by NZ’s own Kamandi, this bass-heavy track is another great addition to the duo’s catalogue. Be sure to catch them both in Dunedin in early March. Read more...

Björk - Vulnicura

Posted 6:26pm Sunday 1st March 2015 by Basti Menkes

Rating: 4/5 E xperimental pop star Björk has proven more than once that she’s capable of making gorgeous, genre-defying albums. Sadly, the last time she made one of those was in 2001 with Vespertine. Sure, the three albums she has released since then had their merits, but they were Read more...