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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...

Oz the Great and Powerful (3D)

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Jonny Mahon-Heap

To say that the resurgence of fairytales within recent blockbusters has yielded mixed results would be an understatement. From the commercially successful but creatively bankrupt (Alice in Wonderland, Snow White and the Huntsman), to those bankrupt both commercially and creatively (Little Red Riding Read more...

I Give It A Year

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Tim Lindsay

I Give it a Year is a pleasant deviation from your run of the mill rom-com. Dan Mazer, known for his production and writing roles in Ali G Indahouse, Borat, Brüno, and The Dictator superbly balances cringe-worthy humour with more subtle hilarity and raises serious questions about love, married life Read more...

Amour

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Jonny Mahon-Heap

Director Michael Haneke is comfortable with depicting horror. Whether capturing a home invasion in Funny Games, or pre-World War 2 atrocities in The White Ribbon, his slowly built tension and pace creates very creepy, yet successful films – Amour won the Palme d’Or and the New York Times film of Read more...

Tomb Raider (2013)

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Baz Macdonald

It has been a long time since the heyday of the Tomb Raider franchise. The teenagers of the 90s enjoyed nothing more than playing with their heavily-breasted gal pal Lara Croft, but as the generation moved out of their mums’ basements and into the real world Lara was unfortunately left on the shelf Read more...

The Plague

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Lucy Hunter

Rats are dying. Arriving home one night, Dr Bernard Rieux witnesses a sick rat rupturing and spurting blood from its mouth. Soon thousands are dead, burning in piles in the streets. Dr Rieux acknowledges the dead rats with intrigue. Then his door-porter dies of a peculiar fever, with a terrible Read more...

The Sweeney

Posted 5:18pm Sunday 3rd March 2013 by Kathleen Hanna

I had a real problem with this film, more so than any other crime film I’ve seen. The tagline for The Sweeney is “act like a criminal to catch a criminal.” It’s not the moral ambiguity of that I have a problem with. Hell, all movies should be morally ambiguous up to a point, especially those in Read more...

Beautiful Creatures

Posted 5:18pm Sunday 3rd March 2013 by S M Morgan

Beautiful Creatures is a supernatural fantasy, adapted from a book, which jumps right into things six months before the lead’s, Lena’s, birthday. On her birthday her powers will be claimed for either the “light” (good) or “dark” (evil) depending on the judgement of her “true nature,” which will Read more...

Safe Haven

Posted 5:18pm Sunday 3rd March 2013 by Rosie Howells

Straight off the bat, you should know I’m not built for “Soul-Searching-Romance.” I didn’t even enjoy The Holiday, which I understand essentially makes me The Tin Man, or Kim Jong Il, or something. So I was a little worried to hear that Safe Haven’s writer Nicholas Sparks is also responsible for Read more...