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Boards Of Canada - Tomorrow’s Harvest

Posted 6:05pm Sunday 7th July 2013 by Basti Menkes

Rating: 4.5/5 No electronic composers affect me quite like Boards Of Canada. With but a few notes the Scottish duo can fill me with loneliness, nostalgia, dread, or a mixture of all three. Since their 1998 debut Music Has the Right to Children they have maintained a distinctive sonic Read more...

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Posted 6:05pm Sunday 7th July 2013 by Lucy Hunter

Mary Shelley, at the age of 21, published what is arguably the first science fiction novel; a fantasy story with a scientific rather than supernatural explanation. Shelley had apparently heard of recent experiments to “reanimate” corpses by making them jerk around with electric shocks, and dreamed Read more...

The Editor

Posted 3:03pm Sunday 26th May 2013 by Josef Alton

Tales of obsession never lose their appeal. If there is a character’s flawed logic, actions ignited by the flame of desperation, and the smell of blood disrupting the logical flow of common sense, we the readers love to wait for the eventual calamity. Samuel Dansam’s The Editor reads like an Read more...

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City

Posted 3:03pm Sunday 26th May 2013 by Basti Menkes

Rating: 3/5 A band like Vampire Weekend requires no introduction. Whether you’ve heard their hip blend of afrorock and indie pop intentionally or by accident, whether you’ve loved it or you’ve hated it – you’ve heard it. Their first two albums, 2008’s Vampire Weekend and 2010’s Contra, came Read more...

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Posted 3:03pm Sunday 26th May 2013 by Basti Menkes

Rating: 5/5 “Let the music of your life give life back to music.” So go the opening lines of Daft Punk’s eagerly-awaited new album, Random Access Memories. It has been eight years since the French house duo’s last studio album and 12 since they revolutionised electronic dance music (EDM) with Read more...

Con Air (1997)

Posted 3:03pm Sunday 26th May 2013 by Tim Lindsay

By the time Nicolas Cage (Cameron Poe) utters the moving line “I’m going to show you God does exist” and takes a bullet without flinching, Con Air has teleported us right back to the grand (but cheesy) days of the 1990s. Watching the archetypal Hollywood action thriller of its day is quite a Read more...

Invisible Ink? The Bastard Child of the Movie Biz

Posted 3:03pm Sunday 26th May 2013 by Lyle Skipsey

If the modern day film industry mimics Shakespeare’s King Lear then the screenwriter is Edmund, the unloved bastard child, underappreciated but still vital to the plot. As Sunset Boulevard’s Joe Gillis said, “audiences don’t know somebody sits down and writes a picture. They think the actors make it Read more...

Metro: Last Light

Posted 3:03pm Sunday 26th May 2013 by Baz Macdonald

Rating: 9/10 Last year, THQ proved that even giants fall. In December THQ (one of the gaming industry’s biggest publishers with titles such as WWE and Saints Row under their belt) finally succumbed to the pressures of the economic downturn and filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. I still have no Read more...

The Material World: Sculpture at Dunedin School of Art 2002-2013

Posted 3:03pm Sunday 26th May 2013 by Charlotte Doyle

This week I’ve made a rather awkward mistake. Failing to think about the fact that exhibitions have a finishing point, I arrived at the Dunedin School of Art gallery on the morning of 17 May planning to write a phenomenal review of their contemporary sculpture exhibition. Then I realised it ends on Read more...

Caramel, Apple and Coconut Tart

Posted 3:03pm Sunday 26th May 2013 by Ines Shennan

This sweet thing is easy to whip up and looks more impressive than the effort required. Keep the peel on the apple for an extra pop of colour. I used Braeburn, though if you’re in the mood for something a little more tart, substitute these for Granny Smiths. Either way, there is something quite Read more...