Feature Columnist: Sir Roger Douglas Feature Columnist: Gareth Hughes Games: Monaco Interactive 5: Game Previews Panda Diplomacy – Not So Black and White Reel Brazil Festival Entering The Corporate World Your Protest Sucks. Sir Rogerotica
 
Feature Columnist: Sir Roger Douglas

Feature Columnist: Sir Roger Douglas

I am always bemused to see people who pay homage to revolutionary leaders like Ernesto Guevara, Fidel Castro, Mao Tse Dong etc. by wearing clothes or eating at trendy restaurants that bear their face. Despite killing millions, they continue to be revered. Maybe it is for their good looks or revolutionary zeal. It is hard [...]

Feature Columnist: Gareth Hughes

Feature Columnist: Gareth Hughes

VSM. Three little letters that stand for Very Silly and Malicious, as well as Voluntary Student Membership. Sir Roger Douglas has a Bill to ram through VSM and this will have a massive negative impact across the country.

Games: Monaco Interactive 5: Game Previews

Games: Monaco Interactive 5: Game Previews

As Craccum’s Games Editor, the closest I usually get to fancy industry parties is drinking a bottle of vodka while watching YouTube and playing Pokemon. And while there’s nothing wrong with that, I was overjoyed when I recently received an invitation to Mi5 (or Monaco Interactive 5), the Kiwi equivalent of E3. What it boiled [...]

Panda Diplomacy – Not So Black and White

Panda Diplomacy – Not So Black and White

China loves Pandas. So much so that they are given to other nations as diplomatic gifts to strengthen ties between two nations. Nixon got one, Edward Heath got one, and not too long ago, Prime Minister John Key was desperate to get his hands on one. This is known as called Panda Diplomacy, but there [...]

Reel Brazil Festival

Reel Brazil Festival

The Reel Brazil Film Festival runs for a week from Thursday (August 26) in Rialto Newmarket, and features films seen and celebrated at festivals all over the world—such as the music documentary Beyond Ipanema: Brazilian Waves in Global Music, and Jean Charles, which tells the story of the man mistakenly killed by British police in [...]

Entering The Corporate World

Entering The Corporate World

It is the second semester, and in a few months many students will be graduating and heading out into the work force for the very first time. If you are doing a non professional degree such as science, arts or commerce then often it is up to you to ensure that you have the right [...]

Your Protest Sucks.

Your Protest Sucks.

When trying to articulate your point just doesn’t work or you don’t understand the arguments involved, there’s nothing like a good old fashioned protest. Don’t think that just walking down Queen Street will cut it though. If you’re going to do something, you might as well do it right. Just follow our guide below and [...]

Sir Rogerotica

Sir Rogerotica

Don’t hate the player, hate the harsh regulatory environment. I’d just come off a double tutorial session of Accounting 311 and Accounting 312. I had been waiting for lift before I realised I had no way of knowing if the elevator contract was awarded as the result of a lowest-priced competitive tender. Then, on my way [...]

Coming Soon: The Runaways

Coming Soon: The Runaways

23 August 2010

The first feature from US-based Italian director Floria Sigismondi chronicles the rise and fall of the world’s supposedly first-ever all-girl punk rock band, opening with their formation in 1975 and leading to their breakup, amid bickering and out of control drug use, in 1979. As it’s based on the autobiography of lead singer Cherie Currie, [...]

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BLU-RAY – In the Loop

BLU-RAY – In the Loop

23 August 2010

Armando Iannucci’s brilliantly witty political satire is one of the most quotable comedies of all time—and all of those quotes will involve swear words wrapped around one another like linguistic pretzels. The film is set some time in 2003, in the immediate pre-Iraq-invasion era, when a gaffe from the British Secretary of State for International [...]

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Coming Soon: Predicament

Coming Soon: Predicament

23 August 2010

Based on Ronald Hugh Morieson’s novel of the same name, Jason Stutter’s cringe-worthy new film follows Cedric (Hayden Frost), a lanky Harry Potter lookalike, as he teams up with a tubby blowhard, Mervyn (Heath Franklin), and an anaemic oddball nick-named “Spook” (Jemaine Clement), to photograph and blackmail adulterous couples around town. Cedric is a bookish [...]

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DVD: Solitary Man

DVD: Solitary Man

23 August 2010

Michael Douglas channels his performances as Gordon “Greed is Good” Gekko in this tale of a 60-year-old corporate high-flyer whose life gets flip-turned upside down—and let me take a minute, just sit right there, I’ll tell you why you shouldn’t watch this sad excuse for entertainment. His character is a narcissistic misogynist, filled with bile [...]

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DVD: Unmade Beds

DVD: Unmade Beds

23 August 2010

The third feature from Argentinean director Alexis dos Santos is exactly as lazy as its title implies. Although it’s a step up from the tedious naïveté of his 2006 film Glue, the film still leaves the viewer wanting something—anything—more, especially in terms of character development. The film follows a frizzy-haired aimless dude in his early [...]

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DVD: Date Night

DVD: Date Night

23 August 2010

Steve Carrell and Tina Fey play Phil and Claire Foster, an ordinary couple bored with their own ordinariness. To spice things up a little, they decide to go out to a flash restaurant—the kind that requires booking months in advance. When another couple, the Tripplehorns, fail to show for the table they reserved, the Fosters [...]

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