Interview: Anthony Powell

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 11th August 2013

Through your film you explore many aspects of Antarctica, but did you have one encompassing goal or message you wanted to communicate? Yeah I guess my initial drive was just trying to articulate the experience, and I guess I had the “a picture tells a thousand words” cliché in my head. I just Read more...

Pikmin 3 - Wii U

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 11th August 2013

Rating: 7.5/10 Clearly a new definition is needed for the term “launch window.” At the moment it’s like the phrase, “I’ll be back in a moment” – it has lost any real meaning in terms of the timeframe being dealt with. We were told that Pikmin 3 (and several other Wii U games) would be Read more...

Antarctica: A Year on Ice

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 11th August 2013

Rating: 4/5 When the Dunedin International Film Festival schedule was released this year I was excited to see what would be kicking off the festival. Every year the opening film is something unique and spectacular, such as last year’s Moonrise Kingdom (directed by Wes Anderson). I was a Read more...

State of Decay XBLA

Posted 3:50pm Sunday 4th August 2013

Rating: 9/10 No doubt many of you have noticed that the world seems to have come down with a nasty case of zombie fever. Films, books, video games – name it and there is probably a large number of zombie iterations currently being developed or hitting the crowded market. This is the fifth Read more...

The Wolverine

Posted 3:50pm Sunday 4th August 2013

Rating: 4/5 It takes a movie like The Wolverine to make you realise why all of the superhero films (particularly Marvel’s) are beginning to feel stale, and it is because they all feel exactly the same. Although they all have different heroes facing different situations, they share virtually Read more...

Mario and Luigi: Dream Team (3DS)

Posted 4:45pm Sunday 28th July 2013

Rating: 8/10 How is it that an Italian plumber has become such an iconic and enduring figure within the gaming industry and pop culture in general? It’s a question that has been posed many times over the years, and though many have proffered possible answers, I don’t think there is a Read more...

The Look of Love

Posted 3:59pm Sunday 21st July 2013

Rating: 3/5 This biopic, directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring English comedian Steve Coogan, tells the true story of real estate mogul and smut peddler Paul Raymond. Though Paul Raymond is not well known to our generation, he was once known as the “King of Soho” due to the large Read more...

The Walking Dead: 400 Days

Posted 3:59pm Sunday 21st July 2013

Rating: 8.5/10 Telltale Games announced earlier this year that season two of The Walking Dead was indeed in development – an announcement that surprised very few considering the runaway success of the first season of this flawless point-and-click adventure based on Robert Kirkman’s comic Read more...

Sniffles and Sex: The Dark Truth about Student Wellbeing

Posted 3:59pm Sunday 21st July 2013

In my time at university I have had an unfortunate number of conversations in which a fellow student has described their common cold as bronchitis, or has lamented over a patch of eczema while wondering which fatal illness it may be symptomatic of. Sure, these examples are a tad hyperbolic, but the Read more...

Deadpool (XBOX 360, PS3, PC)

Posted 8:23pm Sunday 14th July 2013

Rating: 8/10 Just when you thought Marvel had adapted every single one of their heroes, here comes Deadpool, a character I believe has been under-utilised and misrepresented thus far in Marvel’s attempts to take over the world … or at the very least the entertainment industry. For those of Read more...