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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...

Gabriella & Silvana Mangano - Visible Structures

Posted 6:26pm Sunday 1st March 2015 by Loulou Callister-Baker

C onfronted by a wall of text that partially blocks Gabriella and Silvana Mangano’s “Visible Structures”, the viewer can experience only a slice of the show from the outside. These glints of colour and light from one of the show’s projected films, mixed with ethereal, overlapping sounds, lure Read more...

Vegan Steamed Buns

Posted 6:26pm Sunday 1st March 2015 by Sophie Edmonds

Needing a post-O-Week detox yet? While I believe in butter, smash back trays of eggs every fortnight and am pretty much the poster child for milk consumption, I am also a massive fan of these vegan steamed buns. I base them on a Jamie Oliver recipe, which I tweaked due to my lack of mushrooms, Read more...

Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic That Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries

Posted 4:35pm Sunday 22nd February 2015 by Bridget Vosburgh

D o you like horror stories? Do you ever wish for factual proof that the world is completely terrifying? Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic That Remains One of Medicine’s Greatest Mysteries is about a disease known as encephalitis lethargica. It’s not surprising if you haven’t heard of it. It was Read more...

Panda Bear - Panda Bear vs. the Grim Reaper

Posted 4:35pm Sunday 22nd February 2015 by Basti Menkes

Rating: 5/5 Experimental pop group Animal Collective requires no introduction. Between their critical acclaim, alluring sense of mystery and smattering of successful singles, they are certainly a band whose reputation precedes them. In the absence of a conventional frontman, it was Read more...

A Constant Companion

Posted 4:35pm Sunday 22nd February 2015 by Loulou Callister-Baker

I n a taxi one night in Beijing the taxi driver told me he dreamt of travelling — out of Beijing, around the world — but never could because of a lack of money. The driver explained, speaking slowly in simple Mandarin, that he travelled instead through his passengers and the stories of their Read more...