Generation Kill
Posted 12:54am Monday 19th July 2010
TV ONE 8.30pm Monday 4/5 Like most of you, I try not to turn over to Channel One lest a cloud of depression in the form of Coronation Street or some other retirement-home-friendly drivel descend on me and make me feeble and old before my time. But recently, I have to say these guys have Read more...
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Posted 12:22am Monday 12th July 2010
Comedy Central SKY Channel 10 7:30pm (5/5) Welcome to a new section in the illustrious Critic: a section entirely dedicated to reviewing the televisual! We’re going to take recent events, programmes – practically anything compelling or disturbing from the television world Read more...
The Media and Me - 14
Posted 10:14pm Sunday 11th July 2010
A small part of me kicked the bucket, expired, crossed the great divide, croaked, passed away, breathed it’s last, went the way of all flesh, perished, and checked out the other day. Monty Python allusion aside, I saw a tragic ad that shocked me to the very core. Benicio Del Toro was selling Read more...
The Media and Me - 13
Posted 8:06pm Sunday 11th July 2010
Most don’t care to admit that the so-called ‘Top 40 songs’ or ‘New Zealand Top 40’ are not necessarily liked by anyone with a fully developed brain. For the most part they’re decided on by people who have yet to develop chest hair, let alone any intellectual acuity: the 13-and-unders. Those Read more...
The Media and Me - 12
Posted 4:06pm Sunday 11th July 2010
Let’s talk about Facebook, everybody. Please have a seat. People are here because they care about you and they want you to know that they’re concerned for your well-being. This is what a Facebook intervention may look like; and, judging by the profusion of glowing blue screens that Read more...
The Media and Me - 11
Posted 3:09pm Sunday 11th July 2010
I hate to get petty and single particular advertisements out for excoriation, but ... well, I don’t have an excuse. I’m just going to. I probably should have brought this up during the Health Issue, but all these hand sanitizer ads are getting ridiculous. ng the Health Issue, but all these Read more...
The Media and Me - 10
Posted 2:15pm Sunday 11th July 2010
Who the hell is Justin Bieber? I’m not even going to take the time to find out whether I’m spelling his name right. More importantly, why would 3 News start their report of the day's events by investigating the frenzy and hysteria around a musical spawn of Satan entering the country? The Read more...
The Media and Me - 09
Posted 1:04pm Sunday 11th July 2010
Just prior to patronising a certain Uni bar for an earth-shaking, euphonic performance from Dunedin’s immensely talented Mountaineater, I luxuriated on the couch and absorbed the exact opposite of musical freedom and creativity: American Idol. Why? I’m not entirely sure myself – Read more...
The Media and Me - 02
Posted 3:25am Monday 28th June 2010
So! Charlie Sheen went to rehab, apparently. While this doesn’t necessarily come as a shock or even a surprise (Charlie could do anything: worship the occult, drive a tractor into a children’s hospital, sell coke, and America would still plonk down on the couch for Two and a Half Men, probably in Read more...
The Media and Me - 01
Posted 11:58pm Sunday 23rd May 2010
First point of the year, and hopefully a fairly obvious one: media can be pretty dangerous when abused. Read Orwell’s 1984? That’s the worst of it. Will copious helpings of Project Runway, Desperate Housewives, and According to Jim get us there? I hope not, but maybe we do need to think about what Read more...