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Filthy Fudge Brownies

Posted 5:13pm Sunday 21st April 2013 by Ines Shennan

This brownie is immoral and fiendish. Unlike the consistently firm, cake-like brownies often found sitting pretty in cafe cabinets, this is far more brutish and unforgiving. On the Chocolate Baked Goods Spectrum, it sits far closer to a decadent slice of fudge than a cake. Luckily, it has a more Read more...

Sweet, Salty, Saturday: Indulgent Food

Posted 5:13pm Sunday 21st April 2013 by Ines Shennan

This week Ines Shennan spins a few stories about her Farmers Market exploits, and delivers recipes for decadent, salty, sweet, soft, crunchy, spicy, and generally delicious mouthfuls of bliss. The kind of rich, heartwarming, beaming-smile-across-your-face kind of food that you can’t wait to share Read more...

Lego City Undercover (WiiU)

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Baz Macdonald

The Wii U was launched a year earlier than it should have been. Nintendo denies it, but the truth is that they sold their consoles with promises of games, promises that have now been revealed as lies. When the Wii U was announced at E3 2012 it had a wide variety of launch titles, including Pikmin 3, Read more...

Mefisto by John Banville

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Lucy Hunter

What would you sacrifice to have everything you ever wanted? What happens if you sell your soul, but there is no afterlife to suffer in? John Banville recreates Goethe’s Mephistopheles in twentieth-century Ireland, bringing the old religious parable into a modern, secular setting, where God and the Read more...

Rust and Bone

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Sam McChesney

Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts), an unemployed man in his mid-twenties, hitches into town with his five-year-old son. He crashes at his sister’s squalid abode, and finds work as a nightclub bouncer. One night he breaks up a fight – a girl, Stéphanie (Marion Cotillard), is bleeding, so he gives her a ride Read more...

Trance

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Lyle Skipsey

Danny Boyle’s latest movie is a mind-bender. Starring James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, and Vincent Cassel, the movie follows an art heist gone wrong. Simon (McAvoy) is an auctioneer of fine art. He is charged with selling the rarest of paintings to the world’s wealthiest people. When an attempt Read more...

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Ella Booray

Perks is a coming-of-age story with a surprising absence of acne and angst. Charlie (Logan Lerman) is a misfit lost in the labyrinth of high school. Enter Patrick (Ezra Miller) and Sam (Emma Watson), who envelop him into their warm bosom of friendship. The film follows the group as they grow up, Read more...

Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Basti Menkes

Though never previously a fan of Justin Timberlake and his music, I always considered him to have a lot of potential. Admiring his vocal talent and the reverence with which he channels his influences (namely Michael Jackson and Prince), I hoped that one day the planets would align and he would come Read more...

Badd Energy - Underwater Pyramids

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Charlotte Doyle

When writing a review, it can be extremely difficult to take an objective, non-partisan perspective and put my own personal taste to one side. Especially with the album Underwater Pyramids by Badd Energy, as it is a style of music that sits at the lower end of my music-enjoyment spectrum. Initially Read more...

Autechre - Exai

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013 by Basti Menkes

Anybody familiar with Mancunian duo Autechre will know they make some of the most complex, unconventional, inaccessible electronic music in the world. Their trademark sound is of stranded synth melodies, eerie digital drones, and pieces of electronic shrapnel ricocheting off one another to form Read more...