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How To Destroy Angels - Welcome Oblivion

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013 by Basti Menkes

For me, Trent Reznor’s music has never really surpassed guilty pleasure status. As much as I love and get a kick out of Nine Inch Nails classics like The Downward Spiral and The Fragile, the pubescent angst that permeates those records takes away from how thrilling they are musically; I always walk Read more...

Eraserhead

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013 by Callum Fredric

The Worst Film Ever Made I physically attacked my flatmate after he made me watch this film. Eraserhead is a cult film. But not cult in the good sense like Pulp Fiction or The Big Lebowski. Cult in the bad sense, like Destiny Church. As with Bishop Brian Tamaki, director David Lynch has Read more...

Great Expectations

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013 by Christine Edwards

A classic romance has graced the big screen this autumn. I would take caution when watching this film – it is sobby and may cause severe sweet tooth, but you will become emotionally invested in the character Pip. Just a heads up boys, if you take your girlfriend to this she may expect more romantic Read more...

The Master

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013 by Lyle Skipsey

I don’t know what possessed Joaquin Phoenix to take his weird break from acting/artistic endeavour but it’s great to have him back. His tortured performance as Freddie Quell, a sex-obsessed, alcoholic army vet returning to the real world in Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is the best of an Read more...

Silver Linings Playbook

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013 by Rosie Howells

Silver Linings Playbook is a dark romantic comedy/drama that follows the blossoming relationship between two damaged individuals. Pat (Bradley Cooper) is a bipolar man recently released from a psychiatric hospital who bargains with his neighbour – the depressed and promiscuous widow Tiffany Read more...

Sim City 5 (2013)

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013 by Baz Macdonald

Last year publishing company Electronic Arts (EA) was named the “Worst Company in the World” by Consumer magazine. I am not a huge fan of EA, but I couldn’t help wondering how, in a collapsing global economy, with BP spilling oils into our seas, a video game publisher got voted the worst company? Read more...

Lives We Leave Behind

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013 by Feby Idrus

Lives We Leave Behind, the newest release from Dunedin author Maxine Alterio, begins with a quote from Catherine Black, a nurse who served during World War I. “You could not go through the things we went through,” Black writes, “see the things we saw, and remain the same. You went into it young and Read more...

Kronos Quartet (USA)

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Basti Menkes

Legendary classical ensemble Kronos Quartet have been called many things in their lifetime – passionate, intense, experimental, exhilarating. With 40 years’ touring experience and almost as many albums under their belts, they are among the most prolific and influential classical musicians of the Read more...

Devendra Banhart - Mala

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Basti Menkes

Devendra Banhart was at one time among the strongest, strangest voices in psychedelic folk. He was discovered around the turn of the millennium by Swans frontman and Young God Records owner Michael Gira, who took the then-homeless Banhart under his wing and released a trio of albums that are Read more...

The Guilt Trip

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Josie Cochrane

Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand are the producers and stars of this heart-warming, yet not-so-funny, comedy. The Guilt Trip follows a mother, Joyce (Streisand) and her son, Andy (Rogen) as they embark on a cross-country road trip, attempting to sell Andy’s cleaning product creation to major buyers. Read more...