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Winter Whisk(e)y Cake

Posted 8:23pm Sunday 14th July 2013 by Kirsty Dunn

Gie him strong drink until he wink, // That’s sinking in despair; An’ liquor guid to fire his bluid, // That’s prest wi’ grief and care: There let him bouse, an’ deep carouse, // Wi’ bumpers flowing o’er, Till he forgets his loves or debts, // An’ minds his griefs no more. (Robert Read more...

The Silence of the Lambs

Posted 8:23pm Sunday 14th July 2013 by Tim Lindsay

Read the title to yourself a couple of times. It is freaking creepy. It sends shivers down your spine then back up to your head to remain for days. When you watch this film, you do not see the face of evil. You enter its mind. The Silence of the Lambs won five Oscars in 1991: Best Actor and Read more...

White Lies

Posted 8:23pm Sunday 14th July 2013 by Rosie Howells

Rating: 3/5 White Lies is a film adaptation of Witi Ihimaera’s novel Medicine Woman, which tells the story of Paraiti (Whirimako Black), a Maori healer from the 1920s, and her strange involvement in the lives of the rich Pakeha woman Mrs. Vicars (Antonia Prebble) and her maid Maraea (Rachel Read more...

After Earth

Posted 8:23pm Sunday 14th July 2013 by Baz Macdonald

Rating: 2.5/5 M. Night Shyamalan has had a roller coaster of a career, from the unadulterated success and cultural penetration of The Sixth Sense to his ultimate demise with the painful The Happening and the destruction of the much-loved Avatar with The Last Airbender. Frankly, he has become Read more...

The Internship

Posted 8:23pm Sunday 14th July 2013 by Tim Lindsay

Rating: 2/5 Start of the U.S. summer? Check. An assorted cast of misfits with the odds stacked against them? Check. A worrying lack of originality in the plot? Check. Welcome to The Internship, your regular Hollywood light comedy. The film seems to benefit from director Shawn Levy’s Read more...

The Magic of Reality

Posted 8:23pm Sunday 14th July 2013 by Lucy Hunter

“Reality is everything that exists. That sounds straight forward, doesn’t it? Actually, it isn’t.” Thus begins Dawkins’ introduction to science for young people. I didn’t realise this was a young adults’ book until I started reading it, but, being an eager yet largely ignorant admirer of science, I Read more...

Art From a Laboratory

Posted 8:23pm Sunday 14th July 2013 by Charlotte Doyle

I don’t find a plastic crucifix immersed in a glass of urine offensive. However, the artist responsible for the Piss Christ received death threats for this sacrilegious work, indicating that some feel otherwise. Different individuals find different things “shocking,” but in spite of this it often Read more...

The Great Gatsby

Posted 6:05pm Sunday 7th July 2013 by Ella Borrie

Rating: 3.5/5 Baz Luhrmann is known for making beautiful films, and The Great Gatsby is no exception. The film is a polished homage to the roaring twenties that emphasises aesthetics over source material. The story follows Nick (Tobey Macguire) as he befriends the mysterious Jay Gatsby Read more...

The Hunt

Posted 6:05pm Sunday 7th July 2013 by Rosie Howells

Rating: 4.5/5 Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen) is a gentlemanly father who, due to a lack of teaching work in his small Danish village, takes a job at the local kindergarten. Owing to an imaginative child and a jumpy co-worker, Lucas is wrongly accused of sexually abusing his best friend’s young Read more...

World War Z

Posted 6:05pm Sunday 7th July 2013 by Rosie Howells

Rating: 3.5/5 World War Z is the sophisticated man’s zombie film, the fine malt whiskey to the rest of the genre’s pre-mixed orange and vodkas. Based on the 2006 Max Brooks novel of same name, production companies have been scrambling for the film rights ever since the book was published, Read more...