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Hop

Posted 5:26am Tuesday 26th April 2011 by Phoebe Harrop

Directed by Tim Hill. (3/5). In hindsight, Hop was perhaps the most ridiculous movie I’ve ever been to. Don’t get me wrong; it made for an enthralling and delightful 90 minutes. But it’s hard to take something seriously that has, as its premise, the idea that unbeknownst to Read more...

Barbarella (1968)

Posted 5:23am Tuesday 26th April 2011 by Ben Blakely

Directed by Roger Vadim. Starring: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O’Shea When a film is set in 40,000 AD you know it’s going to be a treat, especially when it was made in the Sixties. With more outlandish costumes than Lady Gaga, the movie has all the fashion you Read more...

Afternoon tea with the Cooper sisters

Posted 4:28am Tuesday 26th April 2011 by Libby Fraser

An iDeal location, just above Dada in Moray Chambers, the Coopers (and that's TAMSIN, not TRELISE) have a perfect partnership of lovely luxe goodies for you to scope out in the impending Easter break. Ahead of their joint showcase at the iD Fashion Week show on Friday night, designer sisters Read more...

iDiDiDiDiDiDiD you???

Posted 4:26am Tuesday 26th April 2011 by Mahoney Turnbull

What a week. Fashion in full fantastic force right here in wee old Dunedin. Who would have thought we’d make it to the high-flying “People and Parties” societal pages of vogue.com.au? Thanks Damien Woolnough and your “surprisingly stylish city” concession. Damn right we are. There were fabulous Read more...

Fosterling

Posted 4:03am Tuesday 26th April 2011 by Feby Idrus

Author: Emma Neale. Publisher: Vintage (3/5) Dave—there’s no such thing as yetis.” But what if there were? And how would we react? These are the questions behind Emma Neale’s new novel Fosterling. Bu, the main character, is found in a remote forest after falling and Read more...

Wicked – The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Posted 4:01am Tuesday 26th April 2011 by Stephen Fairweather

Author: Gregory Maguire. Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (5/5) When I finished reading Wicked at 2.30am the other morning, I felt like a gold seeker panning a river and finding the mother lode. Not that I suggest good novels are as rare as gold nuggets, but this book will move you in ways Read more...

She Walks in Beauty

Posted 7:09am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Jen Aitken

Created by and staring Maya Turei and Bronwyn Wallace (4.5/5) Two girls enter into a relationship with each other. One is bisexual, the other a religious heterosexual. But love is love and they have it for each other, so what do you do?   The staging for this piece was simple but Read more...

Lonely Hearts

Posted 7:07am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Jen Aitken

Created by Luke Agnew, Staring Martyn Roberts and Audrey Morgan, (4/5). Lonely Hearts took the modern day activity of chatting online and revealed, hilariously, the reality behind a chat between a 17 year old schoolgirl and a “19” year old boy (aka a 43 year old man who lives with Read more...

Forty Hour Theatre

Posted 7:02am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Jen Aitken

This week’s Lunchtime Theatre marked the birth of what will hopefully become an Allen Hall Theatre tradition; the Forty Hour Theatre competition. Submissions and proposals were called for and two winners were chosen; their challenge was to make a 15-20 minute piece of theatre in only forty hours! Read more...

Panda Bear - Tomboy

Posted 6:38am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Sam Valentine

Over the last decade Panda Bear has made quite the name for himself in the independent music scene. Between his work with Animal Collective and his solo albums Young Prayer (2004) and the critically acclaimed Person Person Pitch (2007), he has covered pop, noise, ambient and everything in between. Read more...