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Dropkick Murphys - Live on Lansdowne

Posted 4:13am Monday 2nd August 2010 by Caleb Wicks

4/5 Live on Lansdowne is the second live album from Celtic Punk group Dropkick Murphys, second live album. It consists of an entirely new set from their original St. Patricks Day live album, which came out back in 2002. Live CDs make me apprehensive: generally, they sound like shit because Read more...

Sleigh Bells - Treats

Posted 4:10am Monday 2nd August 2010 by Sam Valentine

NEET Recordings 4/5 After gaining some serious indie hype late last year with their bedroom-recorded demos, noise pop duo Sleigh Bells has finally delivered with debut effort Treats. Comprising short, well-written pop drenched in boom box distortion, Treats proves to be an exciting and Read more...

Die! Die! Die! - Form

Posted 4:07am Monday 2nd August 2010 by Sam Valentine

Flying Nun Records 4.5/5 Building on the more melodic moments on their previous work, with Form semi-Dunedin trio Die! Die! Die! has created a work of true mastery. This new album features a notable shift in production values from the cold and distant Promises Promises; Form moves the band Read more...

Zelda Series

Posted 3:59am Monday 2nd August 2010 by Ethan Khalsa

To continue with the ripping-out of well-loved games, here are the Zelda games as an entirety. These games are fun as a general rule, and the classics have been argued to be some of the best games ever made. Nintendo has never really tried to hide the fact that they are milking their old games Read more...

FoodWishes.com

Posted 3:14am Monday 2nd August 2010 by Tien-Yi Toh

I’m a big fan of FoodWishes.com. Every one of Chef John’s recipes that we’ve tried has turned out perfectly, and that is not something I can say about any of the current celebrity chefs. I’ve always wanted to have a typical ‘Southern’ meal, which to me, having been influenced by pop TV, equals fried Read more...

Clive Neeson: Film Maker, Physicist, Surf Pioneer.

Posted 3:09am Monday 2nd August 2010 by Hugh Barnard

Last Paradise Director: Clive Neeson NZ IFF, Rialto Friday August 6 , 6.15 pm Saturday August 7, 5.30 pm Last Paradise is a film with perhaps the longest gestation period in New Zealand cinema: filmmaker Clive Neeson spent forty years recording images of New Zealand’s Read more...

Inception

Posted 3:06am Monday 2nd August 2010 by Nell O'Dwyer-Strang

Directed by Christopher Nolan Hoyts, Rialto (5/5) Christopher Nolan is well on his way to becoming one of the biggest and most successful directors of our time, and Inception is a shining example of his talent as a director and a story-teller. Leonardo DiCaprio heads an impressive cast Read more...

Knight and Day

Posted 3:03am Monday 2nd August 2010 by Sarah Eckhoff

Directed by James Mangold Hoyts, Rialto 3.5/5 James Mangold, director of Walk the Line and 3:10 to Yuma, pairs Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise in their second film together since Vanilla Sky. This action comedy sees Diaz playing June Havens, an incredibly girly mechanic who gets thrown in with Read more...

Religion

Posted 3:00am Monday 2nd August 2010 by Jonathan Jong

Title: Dialogues Concerning Religion Author: David Hume Publisher: Oxford University Press Title: The Miracle of Theism: Arguments For and Against the Existence of God Author: John L. Mackie Publisher: Oxford University Press   Title: The Existence of God Read more...

Still Life: The Art of Anatomy

Posted 2:56am Monday 2nd August 2010 by April Dell

DPAG Until September 12   The current exhibition at the DPAG is a novel mixture of art and science. Works from public and private local collections and the Otago Medical School are combined to present a diverse exploration of the representation of the human form from Read more...