itch.io and Indie Games
Posted 1:26pm Sunday 24th September 2017 by Lisa Blakie
Itch.io is a website that has 100s of games, both free and premium, to download. You can also donate to creators of games and choose what to pay for purchase! How incredible is that? Game accessibility has been hugely increased through mobile free to play games, however it is extremely rare that iOS Read more...
Paris Can Wait
Posted 1:45pm Sunday 24th September 2017 by Gem MacDuff
Rating: 1/5 I really, really wanted this to be the Eat, Pray, Love we all deserve, but all this film made me feel was hungry. Eleanor Coppola’s Paris Can Wait follows Anne (Diane Lane), the wife of a loving but distant movie producer and his business partner Jacques (Arnaud Viard) as Read more...
The Virgin Suicides
Posted 1:26pm Sunday 17th September 2017 by Jessica Thompson
The Virgin Suicides, written in 1993, is, I suppose, a haunting depiction of the ‘enigma’ that is girl-hood. Set in small town Michigan in the 1970s, the novel is narrated by an anonymous group of boys who obsess over the Lisbon sisters. There are five sisters: 13-year-old Cecilia, Read more...
Frog Fractions
Posted 1:31pm Sunday 17th September 2017 by Lisa Blakie
Rating: 5/5 Miniclip and Neopets were the only experiences I ever really had with browser based games made in Flash and as it turns out, I’m missing out on a lot. My mate Jack: “Lisa, have you played Frog Fractions?” Me: “No way, maths is Read more...
Marvel’s The Defenders | Netflix TV Series
Posted 1:05pm Sunday 17th September 2017 by Samuel Rillstone
Rating: 4/5 Marvel Entertainment’s latest Netflix release offers a miniaturised street level version of the Avengers in the form of the Defenders. Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Luke Cage (Mike Colter) and Iron Fist (Finn Jones) make up the roster, following their Read more...
Ethel & Ernest
Posted 1:09pm Sunday 17th September 2017 by Alex Campbell-Hunt
Rating: 4.5/5 What a nice film. Ethel & Ernest is an animated film based on a book by Raymond Briggs, the author of a number of beloved ‘80s and '90s children’s picture books, about the lives of his parents, milkman dad Ernest and lady’s-maid mum Ethel, voiced superbly Read more...
6 Days
Posted 1:12pm Sunday 17th September 2017 by Diana Tran
Rating: 3.5/5 6 Days tells the true story of the 1980 siege of the Iranian Embassy in London. The embassy was stormed by six individuals, who held 26 people hostage for six days. The film follows police negotiator Max Vernon (Mark Strong), who aims to resolve the situation diplomatically and Read more...
Generation Housing NZ
Posted 1:22pm Sunday 17th September 2017 by Cora-Allan Wickliffe
In 2016 Daniel and I moved back to New Zealand to have our son. We moved into my childhood home with my parents, who live in a state house in an area which has increasingly become less comfortable. I remember the big move when I was 3 years old. My parents knew the neighbours who bought the house Read more...
Critic Interviews: Rudeism
Posted 12:50pm Sunday 10th September 2017 by Lisa Blakie
Dylan Beck is a good friend of mine and I got to know him before he became Rudeism, a Twitch stream extraordinaire who has over 35,000 followers and can turn anything into a videogame controller. I sat down with him to ask about his newfound popularity and creative genius. When did you Read more...
Miranda Parkes: The Merrier
Posted 12:43pm Sunday 10th September 2017 by Waveney Russ
Photo credit: Miranda Parkes: the merrier’ installation view featuring antibody banner; push me; (all 2017) courtesy Hocken Collections, Uare Taoka o Hākena. Photo: Iain Frengley. The Frances Hodgkins Fellowship comes around once a year, and when it does, Christmas comes Read more...
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