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Cult Classic: The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

Posted 7:30am Thursday 26th May 2011 by Toby Hills

Platforms: PC, Xbox I'm still not certain what the elder scrolls actually are. Old rolled-up papers, presumably with something mega-important written on them. I guess. If the third in the seventeen-year old series, Morrowind, doesn't ring a bell then maybe the forth will: 2006's Oblivion. No? What Read more...

Lume

Posted 7:29am Thursday 26th May 2011 by Toby Hills

Platforms: PC, OSX, (2.5/5). I payed $8.13 for Lume, which follows from prices listed in round US dollar figures. As cheap as Steam's prices tend to be (I got Portal 2 for about $62.73, give or take $3.09), I can't say that Lume was worth it. The question then becomes then what to say about an Read more...

Homage to a domestic goddess

Posted 7:27am Thursday 26th May 2011 by Niki Lomax

Nigella Lawson is the only deity I worship. This being the food issue, I felt a reasonable amount of pressure to write something awesome. I ended up deciding that the most awesome thing/person of all is Nigella Lawson. Thus in the food column this week I pay homage to Nigella Lawson, a true Read more...

Source Code

Posted 7:24am Thursday 26th May 2011 by Loulou Callister-Baker

Director: Duncan Jones, (4/5). Source Code is 2011's Inception but with less ambiguity and fewer close ups on Leonardo DiCaprio’s concerned, faraway gaze (just kidding, love you Leo). Bird’s-eye view and panning shots of Chicago open this action/sci-fi gift of a Read more...

Queen of the Sun

Posted 7:23am Thursday 26th May 2011 by Gareth Barton

Director: Taggart Siegel, (3.5/5). One of the hardest things to do with documentary filmmaking is find the perfect “talent”. Talent in a documentary is the person or people who represent the face of the film, building the story with their dialogue, and, importantly, creating an Read more...

King George VI: The Man Behind the King's Speech

Posted 7:20am Thursday 26th May 2011 by Lauren Hayes

No director credited, (2/5). You can't blame a guy for trying to cash in on The King's Speech. The film was massive, winning an awful amount of awards. It doesn't take a movie mogul to realise that the real-life “spinoff “ could make a serious quick buck, especially amidst Read more...

Water for Elephants

Posted 7:16am Thursday 26th May 2011 by Nicole Muriel

Director: Francis Lawrence, (3/5). Water for Elephants combines two fantasies – running away to the circus and a forbidden romance – offering itself as the ultimate escapist movie. The story: hopeful student Jacob Jancowski (Robert Pattinson) is about to finish veterinary school Read more...

Bad Taste (1987)

Posted 7:14am Thursday 26th May 2011 by Ben Blakely

Written/Directed by: Peter Jackson. Starring: Terry Potter, Peter O’Herne, Craig Smith, Mike Minett, Peter Jackson and Doug Wren Imagine if your dad and a bunch of his mates got together and decided to film a Mothra. It’s kinda naff cause it’s your dad and he’s a bit naff and Read more...

No More Fat Pants

Posted 6:30am Thursday 26th May 2011 by Melissa Letica

Fat pants. The Warehouse’s finest. Whatever you call them, I think they are disgusting. You know what I’m talking about; those dirty grey fleecy-lined track pants that everyone seems to be sporting these days. Retailing for $8.50 during the holy grail of yellow dot sales, a recently conducted survey Read more...

Teetering Precariously

Posted 6:27am Thursday 26th May 2011 by Ines Shennan

Here goes a rant on a particular craze that a small minority seem to mindlessly follow on campus. As Peter Griffin would say, it’s really grinding my gears. Let me preface this by saying it is not the item itself which causes me to do double-takes, but rather the times and places in which this item Read more...