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How I Ended This Summer

Posted 4:04am Monday 5th September 2011 by Eve Duckworth

Directed by Shinsuke Sato, (2.5/5).   A prizewinner at both the Berlin and London film festivals, How I Ended This Summer is set and shot amongst the remoteness of the Arctic Circle. Amongst this breath taking landscape, two meteorologists operate a weather station, gathering detailed Read more...

The Trip

Posted 4:00am Monday 5th September 2011 by Jane Ross

Directed by Michael Winterbottom, (4/5). Anyone who sat through the end credits of Michael Winterbottom’s film within a film Tristram Shandy: a Cock and Bull Story was aptly rewarded with the side-splitting comedic brilliance of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s sparred and improvised Read more...

Love Story

Posted 3:53am Monday 5th September 2011 by Henry Feltham

Directed by Florian Habicht, (4.5/5).   There’s a point in Florian Habicht’s Love Story where he faces the camera and confesses ‘I fall in love so often.’ Not quite explaining, not quite apologising. ‘It happens all the time,’ he sighs. The fatalism is Read more...

Love Story

Posted 3:51am Monday 5th September 2011 by Henry Feltham

Directed by Florian Habicht, (4.5/5). There’s a point in Florian Habicht’s Love Story where he faces the camera and confesses ‘I fall in love so often.’ Not quite explaining, not quite apologising. ‘It happens all the time,’ he sighs. The fatalism is no Read more...

SUTURE SELF, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY

Posted 3:25am Monday 5th September 2011 by Critic

Curated by Victoria Bell and featuring works by Jenny Bain, Michele Beevers, Victoria Bell, Neil Emmerson, Tenille Lategan, Simone Montgomery & Karen Taiaroa Suture Self is an exhibition featuring the work of staff, recent graduates and a current masters student from the Dunedin School of Art. Read more...

2 be S-Pacific

Posted 1:17am Friday 26th August 2011 by Kathryn Hurst

Directed by Nylla Ah-Kuoi Tamati, (3.5/5). Best. Welcome. EVER! The whole cast cheered each audience member inside as they clapped along to music that I’m pretty sure was part of the soundtrack for Sione’s Wedding. Which, as we all know, is good music; it makes me feel like a cool Read more...

Liam Finn w/ The Drab Doo-Riffs

Posted 11:38pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Sam Valentine

Thursday August 11 - ReFuel, Dunedin Fresh from releasing the awaited follow up to 2008’s treasured I’ll Be Lightning, it was a typically energised and affable Liam Finn who appeared onstage to celebrate the release of FOMO last Thursday night. With his new material simultaneously Read more...

Cult Classic: Just Cause 2

Posted 11:36pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Toby Hills

You resent the presence of a story from the opening picosecond of Just Cause 2. It's the bland characters and the plot about some dictator who's all bad and such that are responsible initially for this reaction. But a few seconds later, the screen will literally go completely pitch black to load Read more...

Trauma

Posted 11:34pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Toby Hills

Platforms: OSX, PC, LINUX There's a looming sense of effort in Trauma. Not the good kind. The strained kind: “Come on guys. We've got to be evocative. We've just got to. Otherwise what will happen? I don't know. Jeez guys. Jeez.” It's not appealing when a game shamelessly begs for Read more...

Chicken Tonight?

Posted 11:31pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Susie Krieble

You may have noticed that the vast majority of recipes this year in Critic have been vegetarian. This is for two reasons: 1) meat is expensive and we are povo and 2) the food editor and 90% of the contributors live meat-free and vege-plenty. However, we understand that not everyone is this way Read more...