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Shihad Beautiful Machine

Posted 8:39pm Sunday 3rd June 2012 by Taryn Dryfhout

“We give up that dream of being in America or we change our name and give it a go. Those were my options — Shit A or Shit B.” In this film chronicling the highs and lows of Shihad, Jon Toogood tells it like it is. Beautiful Machine traces the band’s twenty-three years of the good, the bad, Read more...

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Posted 8:39pm Sunday 3rd June 2012 by Georgia Rose

From the director of Chocolat, Dear John and several ABBA film clips (I’m not joking) comes the film Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. Based on a novel and adapted for the screen by the same guy who wrote the screenplay for Slumdog Millionaire, this film was always going to be a romantic story of triumph Read more...

Women In Love

Posted 8:39pm Sunday 3rd June 2012 by Feby Idrus

Despite its title, D.H. Lawrence’s 1920 novel Women In Love is not — I repeat, NOT — a romantic book. If anything, it gives romance of the roses-and-Valentines-Day variety a swift and decisive slap in the face. Though it is mostly about relationships between men and women, what Lawrence is really Read more...

Heart, Hand, Humerus

Posted 8:39pm Sunday 3rd June 2012 by Beaurey Chan

Blue Oyster, 24b Moray Place 16 May – 16 June There’s something utterly enthralling about these paintings that you can’t quite put your finger on. The first thing I noticed was the breathtakingly beautiful use of watercolours. Williamson’s skillful merging of inky blue, dove grey Read more...

Post-Progressive Instrumental Dunedin Shoegaze

Posted 8:39pm Sunday 3rd June 2012 by Lukas Clark-Memler

What better way to finish up New Zealand Music Month than the grand final of the OUSA Battle of the Bands. With so much talent on show, and the extreme diversity of the line-up, from ska-punk to metal to “dance music for the insane”, the judges must have had a hell of a time crowning a victor. While Read more...

Max Payne 3

Posted 8:39pm Sunday 3rd June 2012 by Vimal Patel

I stumble into my room, which is more of a mess than a coke addict’s savings plan. Falling into the chair in front of my desk, I stare into the screen. It stares back at me with a look of pure contempt, taunting me with the question: why didn’t you like Max Payne 3? Just like the game itself, Read more...

Gnocchi Al Nonno

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012 by Maeve Jones

Although relatively labour intensive, homemade potato gnocchi is incredibly cheap, very rewarding and shows that with a little time you can easily make restaurant quality meals on a student budget. “Al nonno” means served in a classic Italian tomato sauce “just like grandpa used to make.” It is Read more...

Dark Shadows

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012 by Loulou Callister-Baker

I remember when Tim Burton brought out the new Alice in Wonderland film a few years ago – the pre-watch excitement, then the gradual slide into mediocrity which climaxed with the final, excruciatingly lame dance sequence. My expectations for Burton’s latest adventure, Dark Shadows, were low. Read more...

The Grey

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012 by Taryn Dryfhout

In The Grey, Liam Neeson stars as yet another unlikely hero – the leader of a group of “blocky” working men who are trying to survive after their plane crashes in the middle of the icy Alaskan wilderness. If you have a fear of flying I suggest you sit this one out. The opening scenes leave little to Read more...

The Dictator

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012 by Critic

This is Cohen’s third appearance as the lead in a film after the hit Borat and the less successful Bruno. The movie is closer in style to Borat than Bruno, although unlike Borat the movie is fully scripted. The movie follows North African dictator Admiral General Aladeen, ruler of the state Read more...