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Hanna

Posted 6:07am Monday 19th September 2011 by Eve Duckworth

Director: Joe Wright (3.5/5) Think The Bourne Identity but in the form of a teenage girl who has been trained by her father from babyhood to be an ice-cold killer, and you have Hanna.   The film begins sixty miles below the Arctic Circle. There, in a snowscape across which a deer Read more...

Incendies

Posted 6:05am Monday 19th September 2011 by Michaela Hunter

Director: Denis Villeneuve (5/5)   Incendies opens with an unsettling scene of child soldiers having their heads shaved, accompanied by the evocative Radiohead’s ‘You and Whose Army?’. The undefined nature of this scene flows throughout the film, which is somewhat Read more...

The Bang Bang Club

Posted 6:01am Monday 19th September 2011 by Jane Ross

Director: Steven Silver (3/5) Based on the real-life experiences of four South African photojournalists who achieved international notoriety and recognition for their documentation of the turbulent lead-up to the Republic’s first free election in 1994, The Bang Bang Club really should Read more...

Chrome yellow

Posted 3:23am Monday 12th September 2011 by Bronwyn Wallace

This week’s lunchtime theatre featured an adaption of Aldous Huxley’s 1921 novel Crome Yellow, a story that mocks the fashions of the time and delves deeply into topics such as art, education, love and life. The director went unaccredited in the programme, so I apologise for not Read more...

Chad VanGaalen – Diaper Island

Posted 2:58am Monday 12th September 2011 by Critic

  With a prolific musical and illustrative output only matched by his passionate cult following, Chad VanGaalen seems on a mission to induct listeners into his own insular, idiosyncratic world. Populated with melancholy, melody and wonderfully off-kilter compositions existing on a musical Read more...

Beastwars with Soulseller and Idiot Prayer

Posted 2:56am Monday 12th September 2011 by Critic

Once again returning to Dunedin after a spectacular May performance, the Beastwars Winter Tour saw some true sonic weight hit Re:Fuel. Friday September 2 Re:Fuel  Opening proceedings, Idiot Prayer played an unfamiliar set comprised of new material. With almost industrial Read more...

Bastion

Posted 2:53am Monday 12th September 2011 by Markus Ho

Platforms: PC, XBLA You can’t help but feel like a child as you play through Bastion, bright-eyed and attentive, completely captivated by the story of the Great Calamity. “Proper story supposed to start from the beginning. Ain't so simple with this one” is how the story of Read more...

Moroccan chickpeas with spicy paella

Posted 2:51am Monday 12th September 2011 by Ruby the nutritionist

Chickpeas are just the best. Every time I go home for a holiday I fill a gym bag with delicious things from my mum’s pantry (Air NZ “sports allowance”, thank you!), including various nuts and seeds and dried fruit and, of course, cans of delicious legumey goodness. Mum just sighs wearily and reminds Read more...

The Guard

Posted 2:46am Monday 12th September 2011 by Daniel F. Benson-Guiu

Director: John Michael McDonagh (4.5/5)  Your average Dubliner would think a small town in rural Ireland wouldn’t need a policeman. Connemara, 200 km west of Dublin, doesn’t have a cop, well, at least not a conventional one. Jerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) could not care Read more...

Senna

Posted 2:43am Monday 12th September 2011 by Theo Kay

Director: Asif Kapadia (5/5) Senna is an unforgettable film. The documentary examines the public career of Formula One driver and Brazilian national icon Ayrton Senna. At the same time it presents an extremely personal portrait of a man who revolutionised the racing world. There is no doubt Read more...