An

Posted 1:51pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Jess Alsop

Rating: B+ Ever had doriyaki before? I haven’t, but from what I now know, they are little pancakes filled with sweet bean paste (called an). In An, doriyaki shop manager Sentaro (Masatoshi Nagase) hires Tokue (Kirin Kiki), a little old lady who makes the best an he’s ever Read more...

All The Light We Cannot See

Posted 1:11pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Hayleigh Clarkson

Rating: A+ Anthony Doerr’s All The Light We Cannot See is the most stunning novel I have ever read. It is a beautiful tale of Marie-Laure, a young blind girl living in Paris, and Werner, a young orphan boy living in Germany on the cusp of the Second World War. Doerr intricately weaves the Read more...

Winston’s Birthday

Posted 1:56pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Tom Lord

Rating: A Going to anything at the Fortune Theatre is always exciting – there’s just something about walking in through the doors of the delightfully Gothic church and into the theatre that secretes anticipation. Indeed, the beautifully constructed set of Winston’s Birthday, Read more...

Why Do We Need...drones?

Posted 1:15pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Anthony Marris

Circling 30,000 feet above a desolate village in Afghanistan (or Yemen, Somalia or Pakistan) is the latest chariot of fire, harbinger of death and destruction ready to launch Hellfire upon the plain. With politically disarming names like Shadow, Global Hawk and Rainbow, they can lurk for at least 30 Read more...

Superhot

Posted 1:18pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Campbell Calverley

Rating: B Superhot has got style. If you were to take the minimalistic washed-out aesthetic of Mirror’s Edge, turn all of the enemies into red glass, and add a pinch of the time manipulation from Braid, then you would get something resembling Superhot. It is less than three hours long, but Read more...

Remuera Exhibit –White Night

Posted 1:24pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Susan Nunn

Three recent graduates from the Dunedin School of Art were invited to exhibit at the Auckland Art Festival as part of the White Night Remuera Exhibit, on Saturday 12th March 2016. Daniel Bloxham’s Commodity, Slaughter, Keystone, Extinction, Decimation (2015) is a large scale series of Read more...

Herb Nerd

Posted 1:30pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Kirsten Garcia

Welcome to Herbs101, I thought it might be helpful for those new to cooking or just not familiar with this uplifting ingredient to have a basic guide for what to do with them. Here are a few of my faves. Basil This is the herb that sparked my curiosity for all herbs, the little leaves that Read more...

10 cloverfield lane

Posted 1:44pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Jessica Thompson

Rating: A- In the film world, 10 Cloverfield Lane is essentially ‘The House at the End of the Street meets War of the Worlds’. And really, you know a film is doing its job when you forget to eat your Kit-Kat... or alternatively feel too sick to eat your Kit-Kat.  Directed Read more...

A Bigger Splash

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Alex Campbell-Hunt

Rating: B- Imagine if Spring Breakers was directed by Woody Allen. This movie is a bit like that, but sadly isn’t as interesting as the description makes it sound.  Tilda Swinton plays Marianne Lane, a Bowie-esque rock star who is vacationing on an idyllic Italian island, with her Read more...

Mahana

Posted 1:45pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Lisa Blakie

Rating: C+ Mahana is the New Zealand film adapted from Witi Ihimaera’s novel Bulibasha: King of the Gypsies. Successful New Zealand actor Temuera Morrison plays Tamihana aka. the World’s Grumpiest Grandpa, who is the patriarch controlling literally every aspect of the Mahana Read more...