This Cloud Is Queering! Val Smith

Posted 1:06pm Sunday 15th May 2016 by Robyn Maree Pickens

“What if you had the agency to take your attention anywhere?” val smith  asks. We are in the small back-gallery space of Blue Oyster Gallery on Dowling Street. It is Saturday afternoon on the last day of April. By asking about agency, val is subtly directing our attention away from Read more...

Niu Sila

Posted 12:40pm Sunday 15th May 2016 by Gini Jory

Rating: A+ Niu Sila tells the story of two boys, Ioane Tafioka and Peter Baker, growing up in the same street in 1970s suburban Auckland. One fresh from the Islands, the other as white as they come, this story spans 40 years of friendship, cultural differences, and takes a closer look at the Read more...

Braided Bread

Posted 1:10pm Sunday 15th May 2016 by Kirsten Garcia

My flat “Star Whores” had a potluck for May the Fourth, Star Wars day. As well as supplying Sangria and Pimms, I thought I would contribute some fresh made bread for starters. I totally froth over bread baskets.  This dough recipe is so easy to make because it has very minimal Read more...

Mother’s Day

Posted 12:43pm Sunday 15th May 2016 by Lisa Blakie

Rating: D (can I give this an F? is that a thing?) What is it with holiday specific movies always being so terrible? I’m not meaning Christmas movies (although there a lot of disappointments there) I’m meaning films like Valentine’s Day, The Holiday, New Year’s Eve and now Read more...

Eddie the Eagle

Posted 12:45pm Sunday 15th May 2016 by Taoran Li

Rating: B ‘Eddie the Eagle’ was advertised as the “feel good movie of the year”, and you really have to give it to mainstream filmmakers, that’s exactly what their movies do; make you ‘feel good’. This good feeling then dissipates into thin air, much like Read more...

Captain America: Civil War

Posted 12:49pm Sunday 15th May 2016 by Anonymous Bird

Rating: A+ The UN is calling for the registration and employment of super powered people, making them accountable to something more than their own moral compass. Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) believes this is the right course of action, considering the lives lost due to the battles caused, Read more...

Why Do We Need...Cryptocurrencies?

Posted 12:51pm Sunday 15th May 2016 by Anthony Marris

Cryptocurrencies are a digital money system which promotes transactions between parties bypassing a central fixed point like a bank. Arguably cryptocurrencies are an updated version of the hawala system of money transferring, where money was passed along until it reached the intended recipient. The Read more...

By the Book

Posted 12:57pm Sunday 15th May 2016 by Hayleigh Clarkson

Edited & introduction by Pamela Paul, Foreword by Scott Turow Have you ever wondered what authors, actresses, scientists or professors read? If you have, then this book is for you. Pamela Paul, the editor of The New York Times Book Review, has put together a collection of interviews of 65 Read more...

The Jungle Book



Posted 1:05pm Sunday 8th May 2016 by Jessica Thompson

Rating: A The Jungle Book, directed by Jon Favreau, is a noble re-invention of the whimsical Disney animated version that stemmed from the classic books by Rudyard Kipling.  Raised by a family of wolves in the Indian jungle, the hero of the story, the human boy Mowgli (played by Neel Read more...

Chicken Adobo

Posted 1:36pm Sunday 8th May 2016 by Kirsten Garcia

My whole family is actually visiting our homeland Philippines as this issue is being printed. They’re going to island resorts where they’ll be swimming in the reefs and I couldn’t go because of uni (sobs). So when Critic emailed saying they were doing a travel issue, I thought Read more...