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Forest Swords - Engravings

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013 by Basti Menkes

Rating: 4/5 In the infancy of the twenty-first century, electronic music is really establishing itself as an unorthodox medium of expression. As the grind and excess of EDM declines in popularity, so grows acclaim for more reserved styles of electronic music. Among these new, more calculated Read more...

Grand Theft Auto V

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013 by Baz Macdonald

Rating: 10/10 I subscribe to the idea that art should be entirely inclusive. True art should never alienate or exclude people, but rather should create ways in which cater to everyone. For some, this may entail being able to analyse every moment in relation to its thematic significance; for Read more...

White House Down

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013 by Rosie Howells

Rating: 3/5 In my opinion, White House Down belongs to the same family as titles such as Snakes on a Plane, Tropic Thunder and Iron Sky – it’s a big, silly action film that understands that it’s a big, silly action film. John Kale (Channing Tatum, in his second film playing an army Read more...

Blue Jasmine

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013 by Basti Menkes

Rating: 4/5 Forty-eight years since Woody Allen’s film debut What’s New Pussycat? and the reedy-voiced director is still bloody going. His latest film, Blue Jasmine, was promised by early reviews to be one of the best of his career. Though I doubt I’ve seen even half of his work, Blue Jasmine Read more...

Paranoia

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013 by Tamarah Scott

Rating: 1.5/5 I wish I could provide an understandable synopsis of Paranoia, but I still have no idea what it is about. I think it is about Adam Cassidy (Liam Hemsworth), an intern at a large corporation that sells and distributes SmartPhones. Cassidy somehow gets his whole team fired Read more...

Salinger

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013 by Baz Macdonald

Rating: 3/5 J. D. Salinger is perhaps one of the most enigmatic figures of the twentieth century. The author of one of the period’s most infamous novels, The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger exploded onto the literary and pop culture scene of the 1950s and 60s. Then, as fast as he had appeared, Read more...

Fruit Bread

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013 by Kirsty Dunn

This recipe is really an anything-goes kinda deal; it’s a great way to make use of those icky brown bananas you’ve been avoiding, the ripening apples sitting alone in the fruit bowl, the dregs of forgotten dried fruit mixes in the pantry, and those various other bits and pieces you’ve got crammed at Read more...

In The Memorial Room

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013 by Anonymous Bird

Janet Frame has a reputation as a serious New Zealand writer, and a truly successful literary genius. Knowing something of her dramatic personal life – she nearly had a lobotomy due to “psychiatric problems” – I half-expected this novel to be dark, brooding, and Sylvia Plath-esque. Instead, In The Read more...

We Think Alone

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013 by April Chiu

Emails are one of those everyday mundanities. They are part of our daily routine, used by nearly every one of us to varying degrees and for various purposes. There is one email, however, that is deserving of special mention: that which appears in my inbox every Monday from the multi-talented Read more...

Pixies - EP-1

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 15th September 2013 by Lisa Craw

Rating: 2/5 Most big bands like to make it obvious when they’re releasing new material – ads, fan announcements, at least a few posters. That was not the case for the new Pixies EP, offhandedly titled EP-1, which just sort of appeared last Tuesday and seems to have gone unnoticed since. Read more...