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App of the Week | Issue 17

Posted 4:45pm Sunday 28th July 2013 by Raquel Moss

Did you know that there are still people who carry their assignments around on a USB drive? It’s a risky game. Half the time you forget to bring it; the other half you leave it in a library computer. Awesome. Save yourself the pain by signing up for Dropbox. It’s a simple but powerful service Read more...

The Many Paths to Yeezus—Piracy or Purchase?

Posted 4:45pm Sunday 28th July 2013 by Raquel Moss

Ten years ago, you may have been regarded with awe when you successfully downloaded the new Green Day album and burned multiple copies so that your friends could listen to “Wake Me Up When September Ends” on their discmans. No? Just me? These days, piracy is a pretty casual pastime in Read more...

David Lynch - The Big Dream

Posted 4:45pm Sunday 28th July 2013 by Basti Menkes

Rating: 4/5 David Lynch began his career as a solo musician with his 2011 album Crazy Clown Time, but his knack for sound design dates back a good thirty years. Lynch helped compose the unsettling ambient score to his 1977 film debut Eraserhead, and has been involved in the music for all of Read more...

Jon Hopkins - Immunity

Posted 4:45pm Sunday 28th July 2013 by Basti Menkes

Rating: 5/5 Producing for Coldplay. Collaborating with Brian Eno. Scoring films. Over the course of the last decade, London-based producer Jon Hopkins has built himself an impressive CV. However, almost all of his work has been on the periphery of or in cooperation with other artists. This Read more...

Mario and Luigi: Dream Team (3DS)

Posted 4:45pm Sunday 28th July 2013 by Baz Macdonald

Rating: 8/10 How is it that an Italian plumber has become such an iconic and enduring figure within the gaming industry and pop culture in general? It’s a question that has been posed many times over the years, and though many have proffered possible answers, I don’t think there is a Read more...

MOTHRAs

Posted 4:45pm Sunday 28th July 2013 by Tim Lindsay

The MOTHRAs were a way to celebrate Scarfie filmmaking, and usually featured a wide variety of submissions ranging from wacky and weird to funny but sincere. It was sort of like the Oscars, except it was probably much less grand. The Mothra is a fictional Japanese monster. It sometimes Read more...

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Posted 4:45pm Sunday 28th July 2013 by Rosie Howells

“The Belafonte, home to Team Zissou, skilled crew of deep sea divers, adventurers, documentary filmmakers. Led by internationally renowned oceanographer captain Steve Zissou, expert on every aspect of marine life.” The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was Wes Anderson’s fourth feature film, Read more...

Pacific Rim

Posted 4:45pm Sunday 28th July 2013 by Basti Menkes

Rating: 3.5/5 Guillermo del Toro is one of my favourite modern directors. Regardless of whether he is dabbling in horror (The Orphanage), dark fantasy (Pan’s Labyrinth) or action (Hellboy), he brings to each of his movies a unique sense of wonder and imagination. Pacific Rim sees del Toro Read more...

Twice Born

Posted 4:45pm Sunday 28th July 2013 by Jonny Mahon-Heap

Rating: 2/5 The trope of love blossoming amid war is as old as cinema itself, with many of these films achieving classic status (Casablanca, Atonement, The English Patient – to name a few). Plenty more, however, have struggled to depict romance against the backdrop of conflict without lapsing Read more...

Monsters University

Posted 4:45pm Sunday 28th July 2013 by Amber Pullin

Rating: 4/5 As the “prequel” to Monsters, Inc. (2001), Pixar’s Monsters University revisits monsters Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) and James P. Sullivan (John Goodman) in their college freshman days, before they became “scarers.” Now, don’t be put off by this film’s “prequel” status; this Read more...