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Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Adrian Ng

Ben Frost - Venter A beautiful, atmospheric, heavily percussive track, which builds up and collapses into itself with an awe-inspiring climax. Tune Yards - Water Fountain Merrill Garbus returns with the first single of her upcoming album. “Water Fountain” is Read more...

Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else

Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Peter McCall

Rating: B+ On Cloud nothing’s latest Lp, frontman Dylan Baldi is learning to “focus on what [he] can do [himself].” One thing he can clearly do is write a bunch of powerful, catchy, guitar-driven songs. Once claiming that he approaches guitar more like piano, Baldi’s playing is complex Read more...

Frankie Cosmos - Zentropy

Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Loulou Callister-Baker

Rating: B+ Sunlight passing through a prism, creating a stretched rainbow across the floorboards. Waking up to an old pet cat purring on your face. Early morning family road trips past infinite power-poles and vast fields. Faded glow-in-the-dark stickers covering the ceiling in your old Read more...

TitanFall

Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Baz Macdonald

Rating: A- We are living in the Multiplayer era. Five years ago it was the MMORPG that was dominating the gaming landscape and the conversations of gamers. Now, however, it is time for the First Person Shooter (FPS) Multiplayer to shine. The last couple of years have been exciting with the Read more...

Asian Lettuce Cups

Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Sophie Edmonds

This is the Asian and skinny equivalent of mince on toast. Mince on toast is actually something I have never had. Or maybe I have, but I was drunk and it was late at night and I probably stole it off someone else; so it doesn’t really count. Make the most of the cheap iceberg lettuce at the Read more...

The Monuments Men

Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Andrew Kwiatkowski

Rating: D- The story about the preservation of precious art during the Second World War is fascinating as a page in history, but as an all-star Hollywood war epic, it’s simply appalling. Ironically, it is very preachy about the innate value of cultural products (such as films. Yes, George Read more...

Clueless (1995)

Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Rosie Howells

Cult Film This month, 1995 smash hit Clueless has well and truly been shoved back into the pop culture consciousness, through Iggy Azalea’s sassy-as-hell homage in her new music video for “Fancy.” Azalea has ensured that no one will be forgetting the brick cell-phones, yellow tartan and Read more...

300: Rise of an Empire

Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Baz Macdonald

Rating: B The biggest benefit of this generation’s trend towards adapting graphic novels is how it lends a vast array of interesting visual styles for directors to experiment with on the big screen. This was used to great effect in Zack Snyder’s 2007 adaptation of Frank Miller’s 300, with its Read more...

Hannah Arendt

Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Ashley Anderson

Rating: A It was the year 1961. In jerusalem, nazi Adolf Eichmann (as himself) was on trial for being involved in the war that brought the world to its knees. As an SS Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel), he sent Jews to concentration camps and was thus an integral part of the Read more...

Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Book Store

Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014 by Imogen Davis

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore is the debut novel of American author Robin Sloan. Originally written as a short story on his blog, he soon expanded and developed the story into a novel. Sloan is a writer for today; a self-styled media inventor, his book is a gripping mystery set between discourse Read more...