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White House Down

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013 by Rosie Howells

Rating: 3/5 In my opinion, White House Down belongs to the same family as titles such as Snakes on a Plane, Tropic Thunder and Iron Sky – it’s a big, silly action film that understands that it’s a big, silly action film. John Kale (Channing Tatum, in his second film playing an army Read more...

Blue Jasmine

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013 by Basti Menkes

Rating: 4/5 Forty-eight years since Woody Allen’s film debut What’s New Pussycat? and the reedy-voiced director is still bloody going. His latest film, Blue Jasmine, was promised by early reviews to be one of the best of his career. Though I doubt I’ve seen even half of his work, Blue Jasmine Read more...

Paranoia

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013 by Tamarah Scott

Rating: 1.5/5 I wish I could provide an understandable synopsis of Paranoia, but I still have no idea what it is about. I think it is about Adam Cassidy (Liam Hemsworth), an intern at a large corporation that sells and distributes SmartPhones. Cassidy somehow gets his whole team fired Read more...

Salinger

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013 by Baz Macdonald

Rating: 3/5 J. D. Salinger is perhaps one of the most enigmatic figures of the twentieth century. The author of one of the period’s most infamous novels, The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger exploded onto the literary and pop culture scene of the 1950s and 60s. Then, as fast as he had appeared, Read more...

Fruit Bread

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013 by Kirsty Dunn

This recipe is really an anything-goes kinda deal; it’s a great way to make use of those icky brown bananas you’ve been avoiding, the ripening apples sitting alone in the fruit bowl, the dregs of forgotten dried fruit mixes in the pantry, and those various other bits and pieces you’ve got crammed at Read more...

In The Memorial Room

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013 by Anonymous Bird

Janet Frame has a reputation as a serious New Zealand writer, and a truly successful literary genius. Knowing something of her dramatic personal life – she nearly had a lobotomy due to “psychiatric problems” – I half-expected this novel to be dark, brooding, and Sylvia Plath-esque. Instead, In The Read more...

We Think Alone

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013 by April Chiu

Emails are one of those everyday mundanities. They are part of our daily routine, used by nearly every one of us to varying degrees and for various purposes. There is one email, however, that is deserving of special mention: that which appears in my inbox every Monday from the multi-talented Read more...

Pixies - EP-1

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 15th September 2013 by Lisa Craw

Rating: 2/5 Most big bands like to make it obvious when they’re releasing new material – ads, fan announcements, at least a few posters. That was not the case for the new Pixies EP, offhandedly titled EP-1, which just sort of appeared last Tuesday and seems to have gone unnoticed since. Read more...

Arctic Monkeys - AM

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 15th September 2013 by Bella King

Rating: 4/5 Since their debut Whatever People Say I Am…, British indie rock quartet Arctic Monkeys have evolved their sound with every new release. Fifth album AM both throws all of their styles thus far into the blender – the rampant energy of their first two albums, the darker tone of Read more...

App of the Week | Issue 23

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 15th September 2013 by Raquel Moss

Next time you have to give a presentation for a class, skip the PowerPoint and give Prezi a go. Prezi is a presentation tool that allows you to scribble all over a canvas, rather than organising your ideas into traditional slides. Imagine a mind-map with fancy transition effects, embedded Read more...

Internet Art

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 15th September 2013 by Raquel Moss

Art both expresses and reflects the society in which it was produced. In an Internet-obsessed society it hardly comes as a surprise, then, that Internet art is thriving. Net art is hard to pin down and categorise, because it is as diverse as the Internet itself. Just like Internet pornography, Read more...

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 15th September 2013 by Baz Macdonald

In the 20 hours I have spent with this game since its launch I have discovered a huge amount about it. However, as those of you who have played MMORPGs will know, 20 hours is barely enough time to scratch the surface of what these types of games have to offer. With that in mind, this article will Read more...

Gone Home

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 15th September 2013 by Baz Macdonald

Rating: 9.5/10 As gamers we have become used to associating our games with grandiose situations and spectacular premises. From protecting the universe from alien threats to fighting dragons and other mythical creatures, we have the pleasure and privilege of living out some of the most amazing Read more...

Stuffed Focaccia Bread

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 15th September 2013 by Kirsty Dunn

Dissatisfied with Pak ‘n’ Save’s colourless and inadequately topped pizza bread offerings? Unhappy with your regular, run-of-the-mill, unexciting toasted sandwich? Hankering after a more sophisticated savoury treat that you can customise? Then this delish stuffed focaccia recipe is for you, Read more...

Frances Ha

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 15th September 2013 by Jonny Mahon-Heap

Rating: 3.5/5 An endearing and fresh take on the messy lives of twenty-somethings, Frances Ha is equal parts Woody Allen and Lena Dunham, taking a neurotic central character and using her to charming effect. A star-making performance from Greta Gerwig in the title role ensures that Frances Read more...

Red 2

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 15th September 2013 by Baz Macdonald

Rating: 2/5 When Red came out in 2010 it offered a fresh, light-hearted take on spy thrillers. It also featured a seasoned cast and a skilled director. Unfortunately, while all of these ingredients where once again in the mix, somewhere in the intervening three years Red 2 lost almost all of Read more...

Jobs

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 15th September 2013 by Rosie Howells

Rating: 3/5 Jobs is a biographical drama that tells the story of Steve Jobs, the co-founder and former CEO of the Apple corporation. The film starts with Jobs as a barefoot college dropout in 1974 and ends with the invention of the iPod in 2001, unfortunately skipping the last ten years of Read more...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 15th September 2013 by Harriet Hughes

There is something about the glamour of 1920s New York that makes The Great Gatsby a timeless favourite. Fitzgerald’s characters collide from one party to the next in a bubble of “purposeless splendour” where nothing has consequences, and no one loses out. Our narrator, Nick, arrives at West Read more...

Blue Oyster

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 15th September 2013 by Charlotte Doyle

Blue Oyster is the hipster gallery of the Dunedin art scene. Bound to provide you with an interesting glimpse into local contemporary art, it has until now been somewhat of a hidden gem, tucked down an alleyway on Moray Place. However, it recently underwent a transformation, and on 30 August hosted Read more...

Wiki of the Week

Posted 1:51pm Sunday 8th September 2013 by Raquel Moss

In researching this piece I came across a wiki as deliciously pitiful as Conservapedia, if not more so. The Internet Movie Firearms Database (imfdb.org) is why GCSB watch-lists may be justified after all (just kidding, they aren’t). This careful, meticulous cataloguing of weapons of personal Read more...