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Gary Numan – Dead Son Rising

Posted 4:12am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Basti Menkes

(5/5) Salvaged from the cutting-room floor, this collection of previously unfinished songs continues in a similar vein to Numan’s 2006’s anthemic opus Jagged, and thanks to collaborator/programmer extraordinaire Ade Fenton, Gary’s atheistic industrial sound he established Read more...

Simon Attwool - Not Afraid

Posted 4:11am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Hana Aoake

With cascading light dancing into the space, a series of paintings with slices of glitter and flamboyantly coloured paint radiate across the desolate gallery floor. Simon Attwool is a graduate of the Dunedin School of Art and is currently based in Melbourne. Not Read more...

Win Win

Posted 4:09am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Tom Ainge-Roy

Director: Tom McCarthy (3/5) Strong performances from the entire cast anchor Tom McCarthy’s Win Win and are no doubt what’s responsible for its overall good reviews and 94% ‘fresh’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes. While I can’t really say anything bad about it, Paul Read more...

Little White Lies

Posted 4:07am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Eve Duckworth

Director: Guillaume Canet (2.5/5) Nothing, but nothing, will stand between the French middle classes and their hols, though a bunch of friends do pause for thought when their friend is left in a coma after a motorbike spill in Paris.   Guillaume Canet’s 2010 French film Little Read more...

Friends with Benefits

Posted 4:05am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Nicole Muriel

Director: Will Gluck (3/5) If you’re someone who loves the occasional film that can be ingested passively – a comfortingly familiar storyline, light comedy, attractive people, pretty set-ups and, of course, lots of romance-y stuff, even some sex – then Friends with Read more...

Chalet Girl

Posted 4:04am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Sarah Baillie

Director: Phil Traill (1/5) This story is a clichéd gem. Kim (Felicity Jones) is a washed up pro skateboarder who spends her time working to support her lazy yet loving father at the local fast food joint. After a casual but ‘fateful’ discussion with a co-worker, Kim Read more...

The Fat Years

Posted 4:02am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Sarah Maessen

Author: Chan Koonchung; translated from Chinese by Michael S. Duke Publisher: Doubleday 1/5 Two years in the future, in China, things are afoot. A month has been forgotten. Luckily we are protagonised by Old Chen, one of those writers who doesn't write. And he ends up trying to solve Read more...

Karma Comedian & ImproNoir

Posted 4:00am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Bronwyn Wallace

Performers: Trubie-Dylan Smith, Abby Howells, Tegan McKegg, Malcolm Morrison, Jerome Cousins, Megan Grinlinton, Matthew Robinson. (4/5) Anyone who has ever been to a comedy event with me will know I have the token loud laugh, which is something I’ve learnt to embrace over the years. Why Read more...

Cult Classic: Dungeons and Dragons

Posted 3:58am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Toby Hills

Platforms: Literally any flatish surface Remember when it was alright to pretend? The time, way back, when a semi-snapped green stick was a luxurious imagination stimulant? Those days, for most of us, are now long gone. For whatever reason, pretending to be a Beetleborg is no longer awesome. Read more...

Bumpy Road

Posted 3:56am Monday 3rd October 2011 by Toby Hills

Platforms: iOS (4.5/5) A sweetly Up-style elderly couple are taking a Sunday drive. They lounge with the top down, a delicate autumn sun warming the brim of his top hat and the dome of her bonnet. Totally oblivious, are they, to the destruction taking place around their little blue people Read more...