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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Emma Scammell

Director: John Madden The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel follows a group of bitter and bored 70-plus retirees who feel the need to fight the injustices of an ageist English society by travelling to India to “find themselves.” Abounding with distinguished actors, each of the seven main Read more...

La Bella Luna

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Beaurey Chan

I’m just going to put it out there: The full moon is kind of, well, freaky. Studies have cropped up throughout history striving to prove a connection between the nights the moon is full and all kinds of crazy human antics on earth, including insomnia, insanity and of course lycanthropy. Make of it Read more...

Scrawls and Swirls

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Beaurey Chan

The lecturer is droning on and on, and you’re bored to death but can’t be bothered taking notes. Inevitable solution? You start doodling. Stars, spirals, stickmen, dragons, Pokémon – whatever takes your fancy. They might one day appear in a gallery as part of your own art exhibition. Read more...

Balsamic and Sun-dried Tomato Roast Chicken

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Maeve Jones

Unfortunately, autumn is technically upon us. However there are still many reasons to celebrate; most important among these is that we still have a few weeks left to revel in the glories of summer produce. Fifty-cent corn can still be skimmed off the cob to transform any salad. Seconds tomatoes can Read more...

Necrotising Fasciitis

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Luke Agnew

Walking into the performance space I immediately felt like more than a spectator; the darkness, the soundscape and the organised chaos of the space drew the audience in before we could fully appreciate that we were immersing ourselves in the installation that is Flesh. Walking around was Read more...

Dragons and Daydreams

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Beaurey Chan

Gallery De Novo, 101 Stuart Street March 16-29 It’s a funny thing about life that we always seem to want the opposite of what we have. Cue hideously overused trope “the grass is greener on the other side”, and all that jazz. Ironically, this cliché seems to apply even more to those things Read more...

Scarfies Come Home

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Lauren Wootton

An interview with Six60 bassist Chris Mac is one of the easiest 20 minutes a music journalist can ask for. Sure I asked him the important stuff, but considering how nervous I was about calling a member of Six60 (I messed up the phone number three times, my hands were shaking so much), the yarn I had Read more...

The Binding of Isaac

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Toby Hills

I didn’t realise that the Isaac (a nude baby, the eponymous protagonist of The Binding of Isaac) was tossing large spheres of his own lukewarm salty tears at his enemies until I’d attempted the game a handful of times. Forgivable, I think, as Binding is filled with dozens of depraved, silly plot Read more...

The 10pm Question

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Natasha Loveday

“Frankie liked very much to remember that February the fourteenth had begun badly and shown every sign of becoming a real horror, but – as the benefit of hindsight proved – it marked, ultimately, a turning point in his mood and fortune, because at 8.36 a.m. the new girl boarded Cassino’s East-West Read more...

Martha Marcy May Marlene

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 25th March 2012 by Sarah Baillie

Martha Marcy May Marlene is not the full name of the young woman in this film – thank goodness. Her real name is Martha. Marcy May is the name given to her by Patrick, the leader of the cult she has been living with for the past two years. Having fled the cult community, disoriented and distressed, Read more...