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Groove Armada Black Light

Posted 1:07pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Simon Wallace

Cooking Vinyl (3/5) As impeccably-timed as much of their back catalogue, Groove Armada’s sixth full length, Black Light, sees the duo channeling mid-‘80s synth-pop reference points to make the inevitable ‘dark’ album. Currently operating sans-frontman, the Read more...

Splinter Cell Retrospective

Posted 12:56pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Damien Khalsa

Platforms: PC, PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, Gc ith the recent release of Splinter Cell: Conviction, the newest addition to the Splinter Cell (SC) series, I would like to take a walk down memory lane with one of my favourite video game series. Though the first Splinter Cell was not Read more...

Crude

Posted 12:49pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Daniel Hunter

Directed by: Joe Berlinger (4/5) Latin America has a long history of being bent over the desk by the United States when it comes to resource exploitation. Crude offers the viewer a poignant yet stark account of this very act. For the most part, Crude is set in the beautiful Amazonian Read more...

Good Hair

Posted 12:47pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Max Segal

Directed By Jeff Stilson (4/5) Comedian Chris Rock explores conventional beauty and in particular the idea of Good Hair in this hilarious, compelling, and star-studded documentary. You have to give Rock and director Jeff Stilson credit for broaching the highly sensitive topic of how Read more...

The Missing Person

Posted 12:47pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Max Segal

Directed By Noah Buschel (4.5/5) In The Missing Person, writer and director Noah Buschel takes a nostalgic look at the classic film noir genre, but with a twist. This is a private-eye story playfully set in the present day. Private detective Rosow (Michael Shannon) wakes up in a Read more...

Top 5 Secondhand Bookstores in Dunedin

Posted 12:19pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Jonathan Jong

I can’t remember the last time I bought a book from a chain bookstore. With several online shopping options (check out goodbooksnz.co.nz: it’s often cheaper than Amazon, and proceeds go to Oxfam), and UBS so close, there seems to be little reason to leave campus for books. Besides, even Read more...

Blue Oyster Art Project Space

Posted 12:09pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by April Dell

Dunedin’s dynamic art scene owes much to the efforts of establishments like the Blue Oyster Art Project Space. Nestled in the basement of the Moray Chambers building, down a rather inconspicuous, dark, graffitied alleyway off Moray Place, you’ll find the Blue Oyster gallery. This modest, Read more...

Against the Tide: Back pain treatment – the breakthrough by Robin McKenzie

Posted 4:01am Wednesday 23rd June 2010 by Kathy Young

Publisher: Dunmore Publishing 3/5 My first introduction to the McKenzie Method was when I hurt my back and upper leg a year ago while running. I have had recurrent back pain for years, but serious training tipped it into an intolerable degree of pain. The physiotherapy clinic talked me Read more...

Martin Thompson - 5 New Works ( Brett McDowell Gallery )

Posted 3:56am Wednesday 23rd June 2010 by Critic

Hours of meticulous labour, complete concentration, and mathematical genius are the artistic virtues currently on display at the Brett McDowell Gallery. New Zealand artist Martin Thompson is showing his five newest works, which exhibit his fanatical obsession with systemised geometric drawing, his Read more...

Play

Posted 4:23am Tuesday 18th May 2010 by Jen Aitken

Written by Samuel Beckett Directed by Benjamin Blakely Allen Hall Lunchtime Theatre March 4 and 5, 1pm A man, a wife, and his mistress individually reflect on their love triangle from the confines of three urns. They are interrogated in a never-ending cycle until they are shadows of Read more...