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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...

Man of Steel

Posted 6:05pm Sunday 7th July 2013 by Baz Macdonald

Rating: 3.5/5 In the eight years since Superman was last on the big screen in Superman Returns, the film industry has gotten into superheroes in a big way. Whereas we used to see only one or two of these films a year, it now seems a week doesn’t go by without a new caped crusader hitting Read more...

Southern Comfort

Posted 6:05pm Sunday 7th July 2013 by Kirsty Dunn

Ah, the Great Cheese Roll. The epitome of comfort food in all its toasted, cheesy, buttery, get-it-in-your-mouth-quick-before-it-runs-down-your-chin-y glory, these bad boys are the perfect antidote to a cold Dunedin eve. Not only are they tasty, inexpensive, and easy to make, they take pride of Read more...

App of the Week | Issue 14

Posted 6:05pm Sunday 7th July 2013 by Raquel Moss

Google Reader is dead. Google Reader, that faithful web servant, which, for the past seven years, has fed me my web content. Its demise is a sad loss for we traditionalists who still get our news and read blogs via RSS. But all hope is not lost – hopefully, before its end, you exported your Google Read more...

Putting the Social Back in Social Networking

Posted 6:05pm Sunday 7th July 2013 by Raquel Moss

Remember when social networks were new? And Facebook? Back when you could poke someone and gift them a picture of a flower … just because? It was exciting back then – social networks were revolutionising the way we connected with people. But what has that really amounted to? Facebook has become a Read more...

A Broader Perspective

Posted 6:05pm Sunday 7th July 2013 by Charlotte Doyle

At the beginning of last year I was lucky enough to be taken to the United States by my parents, which involved traipsing around the Midwest and California for five weeks. Being avidly art-oriented, my mother has an incredible knack of finding galleries: take a very recent trip to the depths of the Read more...

E3 2013

Posted 6:05pm Sunday 7th July 2013 by Baz Macdonald

The next generation of gaming is upon us. Despite industry assurance that the next generation of consoles would not hit the market until 2015, it seems that fierce competition between Sony, Microsoft and, to a smaller degree, Nintendo, have pushed that date forward a year. Nintendo launched Read more...

The Last of Us (PS3)

Posted 6:05pm Sunday 7th July 2013 by Baz Macdonald

Rating: 10/10 The gaming industry is abuzz with anticipation surrounding the impending new generation of consoles and games, as am I (turn the page for my coverage of E3 2013). However, while we are all dreaming of what the next generation has to offer, the future of gaming is right before Read more...

Sigur Rós - Kveikur

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

Rating: 4.5/5 Fairies. Fireflies. Icebergs. Rain. Learning how to fly. Whatever imagery people associate with Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós, there is a common sense of wonder to it. I’ve always likened listening to them to diving into an ocean, the way their music engulfs you and makes Read more...