Private Utopia: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection

Posted 1:01pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Loulou Callister-Baker

In symbolic flashes of red, white and blue, Private Utopia spreads across the first floor of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, providing an extensive, in parts overwhelming, display of British contemporary art. Given its scale and diversity of subjects and form, wandering through the show involves Read more...

Faith No More: Sol Invictus

Posted 1:55pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Basti Menkes

Rating: 5/5 Faith No More are credited with spawning the alternative metal genre. They fused metal with many other styles, including pop, funk and alternative rock, paving the way for artists like Nirvana and the Smashing Pumpkins. Though their 1990 single “Epic” still receives Read more...

Cuban Sandwiches

Posted 1:10pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Sophie Edmonds

This is essentially just an epic ham and cheese toastie. They are called Cuban as they are most commonly found in Cuban immigrant communities in the States and are frequently consumed as a workday lunch.   I used a leg joint of pork (shoulder was preferable but not as cheap), rubbed it with Read more...

Final Fantasy Type-0 HD

Posted 2:10pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Jaxon Langley

Rating 3/5 Final Fantasy Type-0 was first unveiled at E3 in 2006, then finally released in Japan in 2011. Final Fantasy fans have been begging for a Western release of Type-0 ever since. Now, almost 4 years later — after much demand that director Hajime Tabata Read more...

Capping Show Review: Campus Watch

Posted 1:21pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Maya Dodd

Rating: 4/5 As a seasoned attendee of The Capping Show (seasoned may be a little too generous a term — I’ve only been to three), I was expecting big things. If the renowned humour associated with the comic event failed to brighten the gloomy pit in which I am currently residing, I was Read more...

Testament of Youth

Posted 1:24pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Shaun Swain

Rating: 4/5 Often in our attempts to stomach the darker parts of our past, we create sentimentality by zooming in on the massive numbers of those involved and choose to observe the smaller tales of individuals. However, Testament of Youth elegantly zooms out of a personal story of the few and Read more...

Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozhino/ The Way He Looks

Posted 1:30pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Mandy Te

Soon to be classic I fondly associate The Way He Looks with a friend who is on the other side of the world. When I told him that I would be reviewing this soon-to-be classic, he described the moment as “serendipitous” — he had watched the film only a few days ago while on a Read more...

The Gunman

Posted 1:33pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Anonymous Bird

Rating: 1/5 Basing this film on the novel The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette, Morel attempts to execute a gritty, regretful hero story but falls incredibly short. Instead, we are given an unsuccessful, drawn-out action film with an annoying love triangle that permeates the entire Read more...

Stay Tuned

Posted 1:37pm Sunday 17th May 2015 by Alex Campbell-Hunt

Cult Stay Tuned is an imaginative, entertaining and weirdly under-appreciated family comedy that answers the question we all pondered as kids: “What would happen if I could go inside my TV and participate in all of the shows?” Turns out it wouldn’t be so great, especially if Read more...

Boychoir

Posted 1:29pm Sunday 10th May 2015 by Shaun Swain

Rating: 3/5 There’s a fine line between a feel-good film and a predictably cheesy one. No matter how uplifting or audibly and visually stunning Boychoir is, Francois Girard’s drama teeters along this line like it’s a tightrope. Unfortunately, this film leans towards the Read more...