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Singles in Review | Issue 21

Posted 1:48pm Sunday 30th August 2015 by Basti Menkes

Triumphs - “Beekeeper” and “Solid Bones” Triumphs are a heavy instrumental duo from Dunedin, consisting of guitarist John Bollen and drummer Mathew Anderson. The bearded beaus are about to release their debut album, Beekeeper/Bastardknocker, on Monkey Killer Read more...

Ghosts of Electricity - Trolls

Posted 1:44pm Sunday 30th August 2015 by Basti Menkes

Rating: 4/5 A punk band is a curious thing nowadays. Four decades ago, The Clash, The Sex Pistols and The Ramones were raging against the establishment and the decadence of mainstream rock with their lo-fi, hard-hitting, no-nonsense blasts of musical anger. Sure the music was Read more...

The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream

Posted 1:31pm Sunday 30th August 2015 by Bridget Vosburgh

The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream is a memoir by Katherine Norbury. After miscarrying a much-desired pregnancy, Norbury distracts herself from her grief with the writing of a man named Neil Gunn. One of Gunn’s novels, The Highland River, tells the story of a young man walking a river to its Read more...

Alison Embleton Presents The Merchant of Venice

Posted 1:29pm Sunday 30th August 2015 by Mandy Te

Mandy Te got the chance to talk to director, Alison Embleton, about her version of The Merchant of Venice and the process of adapting William Shakespeare for a modern audience. The Merchant of Venice will be showing from 2 to 5 September at St. Paul’s Cathedral Crypt. Student tickets are Read more...

Rebecca

Posted 1:24pm Sunday 30th August 2015 by Rosie Jensen

Classic Hollywood has made every flavour of brooding, handsome bachelor-zillionaire who loses his shit over the shy, boring heroine. So when a film like Gone Girl comes along, it’s refreshing and thrilling. Unbeknown to many people, before Gone Girl, there was Alfred Hitchcock’s Read more...

The Man from U.N.C.L.E

Posted 1:17pm Sunday 30th August 2015 by Siobon Inu

Rating: 3/5 Guy Ritchie’s ability to successfully revive iconic films — ones with sophisticated and mysterious plotlines — through a modern cinematic approach has given audiences high expectations of his directorial skills. However, although full of action and suspense, The Man Read more...

Fantastic Four

Posted 1:13pm Sunday 30th August 2015 by Maya Dodd

Rating: 2/5 A t best, the 2005 version of Fantastic Four was average. The acting was poor, the storyline was mediocre, and the flexible guy really freaked me out. But with Miles Teller now playing Reeds Richards (the flexible one), I had hope for the revival of Fantastic Four. Teller is Read more...

Trainwreck

Posted 1:10pm Sunday 30th August 2015 by Shaun Swain

Rating: 3/5 Judd Apatow’s rom-com, Trainwreck, is anything but a trainwreck — rather, it’s a tightened, secure and mostly enjoyable ride. Trainwreck is about magazine writer Amy (Amy Schumer), who is a heavily career- and goal-oriented woman who barely gives the concept of Read more...

Intersections: Ceramics from Ralph Hotere’s Personal Collection

Posted 1:01pm Sunday 30th August 2015 by Sue Nunn

As one of New Zealand’s most significant twentieth-century artists, the late Dunedin painter, Ralph Hotere (1931–2013), had a life intrinsically shaped by the connections he made with people and through art. These relationships are the focus of Intersections: Ceramics from Ralph Read more...

Massaman Roast Beef

Posted 12:57pm Sunday 30th August 2015 by Sophie Edmonds

I got really excited at Pak’nSave the other day. Every time I see a beef roast on the cheap, I buy it without really thinking.      I always slow cook my beef roasts, so this one has been sitting in my freezer for a few weeks now while I thought of ways to make it slightly Read more...

Singles in Review | Issue 20

Posted 2:13pm Sunday 16th August 2015 by Basti Menkes

Myrkur - “Hævnen” 2015 shall forever be remembered as the year women took over metal. Following fantastic releases from Chelsea Wolfe and Dorthia Cottrell in the last couple of months, we’re about to see Amalie Bruun’s one-woman black metal outfit, Myrkur, Read more...

Mac DeMarco - Another One

Posted 2:06pm Sunday 16th August 2015 by Basti Menkes

Rating: 3/5 Rejoice, everyone! Your favourite John Lennon-impersonating hipster doofus is back. No, I did not mean Kevin Parker. That esteemed title surely belongs to Mac DeMarco, the talented young singer-songwriter from Canada. Over the last three years, DeMarco’s been making waves Read more...

The Monogram Murders

Posted 2:02pm Sunday 16th August 2015 by Bridget Vosburgh

Sophie Hannah’s The Monogram Murders is a murder mystery starring Agatha Christie’s most famous detective, Hercule Poirot. Poirot is dining at a coffee house when a woman enters in an obvious state of panic. Poirot asks what is troubling her, and she tells him that she is about to be Read more...

Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones

Posted 1:59pm Sunday 16th August 2015 by Anonymous Bird

Rating: 4/5 Stealth Inc 2 is a sequel to Stealth Bastard Deluxe, a stealth-based 2D platformer. You play a clone who is attempting to escape his cloning facility and, in the process, discover the reason the clones exist. Cut scenes show a human working overtime monitoring the clones attempting to Read more...

Josh Hunter & Jessie Lee Robertson - As Bad As Me

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 16th August 2015 by Loulou Callister-Baker

“My mum knew I’d be fucked if I did anything else,” Josh said when I asked him why he went to art school. Enamoured of popular culture, Americana, comics and tattoos, Josh Hunter and Jessie Lee Robertson aren’t quite like the art school graduates I typically encounter, but Read more...

Skinny Soup

Posted 1:43pm Sunday 16th August 2015 by Sophie Edmonds

I make a lot of cakes. Pastries, slices, anything baked really. I even have a site called Sophie Likes Cake. You can probably guess that because of this I would also consume a lot of cake. In an attempt to counteract my calorific hobby, I also go to the gym. A lot. I also tend to eat a lot of Read more...

Theatre: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Posted 1:35pm Sunday 16th August 2015 by Kirsty Gordge

Rating: 4/5 With three actors playing several roles throughout the show, The Hound of the Baskervilles is a theatre production that provides a refreshingly unconventional take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most well-known Sherlock Holmes mystery. Featuring Detective Sherlock Holmes (Nick Read more...

Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation

Posted 1:31pm Sunday 16th August 2015 by Maya Dodd

Rating: 3/5 I never used to be a fan of the Mission: Impossible franchise. Maybe I was too young to appreciate it — or maybe I was jealous of Katie Holmes — but with Tom Cruise’s love of Scientology and his overwhelming arrogance, I don’t know why I’d have ever Read more...

Les Combattants

Posted 1:28pm Sunday 16th August 2015 by Cameron Evans

Rating: 3/5 With nine nominations at the 40th César Awards, Les Combattants’ arrival on the big screen was much anticipated. While the film offers the audience an unconventional and interesting romantic comedy, it often teeters on the line between mediocre and good. With some Read more...

Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago

Posted 1:24pm Sunday 16th August 2015 by Shaun Swain

Rating: 4/5 As the old saying goes, “it’s not the destination that counts, it’s the journey” — in the case of the 1200-year-old Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, there really is no other way to put it. But while it is the journey that truly counts, it’s nothing Read more...