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Posted 3:00pm Sunday 21st September 2014 by Adrian Ng

Ariel Pink - Put Your Number In My Phone Ariel Pink is an experimental pop musician based in Los Angeles, known for his prolific nature and his pioneering of lo-fi home recording during the earlier stages of his career. “Put Your Number In My Phone” is the first single to drop from Read more...

Good Morning, Vietnam

Posted 3:00pm Sunday 21st September 2014 by Mandy Te

Classic Film First on my road of escapism (the post-mid-semester-blues haven’t left) was Good Morning, Vietnam. Settling in the lounge, a place incredibly similar to a bus stop, I was instantly met with approval for watching such “a good, classic film.” Good Morning, Vietnam is set Read more...

The Keeper of Lost Causes (Kvinden I Buret)

Posted 3:00pm Sunday 21st September 2014 by Alex Campbell-Hunt

Rating: B Scandinavian cinema has a tendency to be kind of grim and morbid, and the recent wave of crime-dramas is no exception. After watching this movie, or The Bridge or the Millennium trilogy, one might be left with two strong impressions of Scandinavia: that it’s completely grey and Read more...

Into the Storm

Posted 3:00pm Sunday 21st September 2014 by Baz Macdonald

Rating: B- Disaster movies can be approached in one of two ways. It can either be a character film, in which you follow interesting and dynamic characters as they deal with the disaster, or it can be disaster porn in which everything constructed is solely for the purpose of producing Read more...

Before I Go to Sleep

Posted 3:00pm Sunday 21st September 2014 by Andrew Kwiatkowski

Rating: A Okay, so if you are anything like me, and you hear that this movie is about a woman with amnesia waking up every day with no memory of who she (or her husband) is, you immediately think it’s going to be a crappy re-hash of Memento or 50 First Dates, right? Wrong. While Read more...

Barry Brickell - His Own Steam

Posted 3:00pm Sunday 21st September 2014 by Hannah Collier

Dunedin Public Art Gallery (DPAG) Exhibited until 1 March 2015 The DPAG is clearly into ceramics at the moment and I have been enjoying the refreshing change from paintings to pottery. Barry Brickell is one of the pre-eminent contemporary potters working in New Zealand and is a Read more...

Butter chicken, raita and pilaf

Posted 3:00pm Sunday 21st September 2014 by Sophie Edmonds

This butter chicken reminds me of a time I cooked for three excellent gentlemen (you know who you are). Prior to this curry’s consumption, the four of us went on an excursion for garlic naan to serve with it. During the half-hour round trip, two of us attempted to drink a Pump bottle of 50/50 gin Read more...

Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 14th September 2014 by Adrian Ng

Rating: B+ There was a period in the early to mid-2000s when the word that best summed up Ryan Adams was “prolific.” The man released a staggering 12 studio albums during a ten-year span. I'm not even counting the numerous bootleg albums and EPs circulating the web. Of course, the quality of Read more...

Velocity 2X

Posted 4:38pm Sunday 14th September 2014 by Baz Macdonald

Rating:A- It is exciting to consider the developments that are yet to come to existing genres. Looking at the past two decades of game development you can track the innovations and developments that have evolved genres, making them better and better. However this gradual progress makes it Read more...

Wildwood

Posted 4:38pm Sunday 14th September 2014 by Ella Borrie

Wildwood is a children’s novel that follows Prue McKeel’s adventures in the Impassable Wilderness behind her suburb. She and her classmate Curtis discover the hidden province of Wildwood as they track a murder of crows that abducted her baby brother Mac. Wildwood is in political upheaval: there’s a Read more...