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Broccoli and Blue Cheese Soup

Posted 1:16pm Sunday 5th July 2015 by Sophie Edmonds

Broccoli soup came up on my Instagram feed the other day, and the vibrant bowl of green caught my eye. I just had to have some. Conveniently, the Universe agreed and made all the greens required super cheap at my local vege shop. Junk Free June continues, and while the lack of cake has been soul Read more...

Fresh and Fruity

Posted 1:04pm Sunday 5th July 2015 by Loulou Callister-Baker

Fresh and Fruity is not just a gallery space up the stairs at 140 George Street - it is also a social media endeavour with its own manifesto. Critic interviewed two members of the collective who run Fresh and Fruity, Hana Aoake and Mya Middleton, to hear more about the project.  What is Read more...

Study Tunes

Posted 1:42pm Sunday 24th May 2015 by Basti Menkes

Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works 85–92 Richard D. James’ first record as Aphex Twin has been hailed as “the birthplace and the benchmark of modern electronic music” (Warp). An odyssey of dreamy techno, SAW is the perfect soundtrack to a spell of late-night Read more...

Blur - The Magic Whip

Posted 1:29pm Sunday 24th May 2015 by Basti Menkes

Rating: 4/5 Well folks, it actually happened. Six years after reforming, and twelve since their last studio outing, Blur are back. There are several reasons why this is great news. For one, Blur always represented the more irreverent and artful side of the Britpop era. Though Blur penned some of Read more...

Paper Planes

Posted 1:21pm Sunday 24th May 2015 by Andrew Kwiatkowski

Rating 1/5 Why do I care about Dylan’s paper plane quest? After 96 minutes, this question has not been answered. Paper Planes is about an average 12-year-old Australian boy called Dylan (Ed Oxenbould), whose dead mother imparted to him the gift of folding the perfect paper airplane. His Read more...

Run Lola Run

Posted 1:18pm Sunday 24th May 2015 by Alex Campbell-Hunt

Classic Run Lola Run is a unique, adrenaline-fuelled film with an urban angst reminiscent of The Matrix and Fight Club and Guy Ritchie-esque atmosphere. However, the film stands easily on its own. With techno music, parallel universes and the late 90s involved, I can unreservedly say that Run Read more...

The Ground We Won

Posted 1:15pm Sunday 24th May 2015 by Harlan Jones

Rating 5/5 Films that grapple with issues fundamental to our concept of national identity are always going to be controversial. The Ground We Won is a documentary that delves into the New Zealand mythology made strong by the likes of Barry Crump’s A Good Keen Man and Greg McGee’s Read more...

Pitch Perfect 2

Posted 1:12pm Sunday 24th May 2015 by Maya Dodd

Rating 3/5 As a general rule, I don’t laugh in cinemas. I don’t cry, I don’t text and I don’t put my feet on the seats. While I do this out of respect for other cinema-goers, the main reason for my self-control is undeniably fear. It’s also judgment. Therefore, Read more...

Killing Floor 2

Posted 1:05pm Sunday 24th May 2015 by Isaac Yu

Rating: 4/5 Much like the Targaryens, every time a game comes out on Steam’s Early Access, the gods flip a coin to determine whether it will be a success or doomed to fail. For every Minecraft, we have dozens of titles that remain stuck in development hell, and therefore you should be Read more...

Hades

Posted 12:59pm Sunday 24th May 2015 by Bridget Vosburgh

Hades is Candice Fox’s first novel. Fox tells the story of homicide detective Frank Bennett, who has just been professionally partnered with Eden Archer, a woman who has some serious secrets. The novel is set in Australia and alternates between Frank and Eden’s investigation of a killer Read more...

Slow-Cooked Chipotle Beef Tacos

Posted 12:54pm Sunday 24th May 2015 by Sophie Edmonds

I recently bought my new favourite cookbook, My Underground Kitchen by Jess Daniell. In the last 48 hours, I have cooked three meals from it and don’t see myself stopping at that. I already have this week’s feasting planned out, and it’s all out of this book. There was a Read more...

Luke Munn - swfer

Posted 12:42pm Sunday 24th May 2015 by Loulou Callister-Baker

Blue Oyster Art Project Space has been simultaneously stripped back and expanded for Luke Munn’s swfer. One wall in the front room simply has the link “i-chat.mobi/” placed in cursive lettering onto its wall. In the same room, different — seemingly meaningless — letters Read more...

Horoscope | Issue 12

Posted 2:25pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Madame McMystery

Do you struggle with making basic life decisions? Worried about never bumping into your campus soulmate, or whether to eat two-minute noodles for every dinner this week? Fear not, chums, for I, Madame McMystery, have gazed deep into the cosmos to reveal the secrets the planetary alignments hold in Read more...

Final Fantasy Type-0 HD

Posted 2:10pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Jaxon Langley

Rating 3/5 Final Fantasy Type-0 was first unveiled at E3 in 2006, then finally released in Japan in 2011. Final Fantasy fans have been begging for a Western release of Type-0 ever since. Now, almost 4 years later — after much demand that director Hajime Tabata Read more...

Faith No More: Sol Invictus

Posted 1:55pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Basti Menkes

Rating: 5/5 Faith No More are credited with spawning the alternative metal genre. They fused metal with many other styles, including pop, funk and alternative rock, paving the way for artists like Nirvana and the Smashing Pumpkins. Though their 1990 single “Epic” still receives Read more...

The Kraken King

Posted 1:40pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Bridget Vosburgh

For those hiding under a rock, steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates steam-powered devices with Victorian design. The Kraken King, by Meljean Brooks, is a steampunk romance novel, and for once it had all the fun adventure, cool technology and body horror that people always Read more...

Stay Tuned

Posted 1:37pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Alex Campbell-Hunt

Cult Stay Tuned is an imaginative, entertaining and weirdly under-appreciated family comedy that answers the question we all pondered as kids: “What would happen if I could go inside my TV and participate in all of the shows?” Turns out it wouldn’t be so great, especially if Read more...

The Gunman

Posted 1:33pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Anonymous Bird

Rating: 1/5 Basing this film on the novel The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette, Morel attempts to execute a gritty, regretful hero story but falls incredibly short. Instead, we are given an unsuccessful, drawn-out action film with an annoying love triangle that permeates the entire Read more...

Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozhino/ The Way He Looks

Posted 1:30pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Mandy Te

Soon to be classic I fondly associate The Way He Looks with a friend who is on the other side of the world. When I told him that I would be reviewing this soon-to-be classic, he described the moment as “serendipitous” — he had watched the film only a few days ago while on a Read more...

Testament of Youth

Posted 1:24pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Shaun Swain

Rating: 4/5 Often in our attempts to stomach the darker parts of our past, we create sentimentality by zooming in on the massive numbers of those involved and choose to observe the smaller tales of individuals. However, Testament of Youth elegantly zooms out of a personal story of the few and Read more...