Rating: 4 out of 5 After winning Best Roots Album at last year’s 2012 New Zealand Music Awards, Wellington band The Black Seeds have now re-released a Deluxe Edition of their chart topping fifth album Dust and Dirt. Their latest highly anticipated offering has been hailed by a number of critics as their best CD …
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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Running time: 158 mins Director: Tom Hooper Release date: 11 January 2013 Genre: Musical, Drama Cast: Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne Adapted from a musical based on Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel, the film version of Les Miserables is set in 19th century France. Following 19 years …
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Running time: 169 mins Director: Peter Jackson Release date: 12 December 2012 Genre: Adventure/Fantasy Cast: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage It’s what we’ve been waiting for since 2003. After the success of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson had a tough act to follow. Luckily he’s been …
RRP: $30.00 Do you want to reignite the flame with your partner? What can you do to ensure sex is fun and orgasmic? How can you introduce sex toys into your lovemaking? All these questions, and more, are answered by your sexperts, and owners of the successful sex toy company D.VICE. Wendy Lee and Ema …
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As a household name when it comes to Kiwi kitchens, Annabelle White brings together some of her winning recipes and personal favourites in Casual Cooking. This book demonstrates that cooking can be simple, fun and rewarding; it’s about enjoying the simple and glorious pleasure of feeding your family and friends. What’s inside it? You’ll find …
RRP: $50.00 Food Heroes is a beautifully presented coffee table book that takes a closer look at 22 of New Zealand’s food producers and growers who are returning to artisan methods to create some of our country’s best food and finest quality ingredients. Food writer and commentator Simon Farrell-Green has selected from throughout New Zealand …
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Chart topping songstress and Barbadian beauty Rihanna is certainly one of the hardest working players in the music industry; Unapologetic is her seventh studio album in seven years. In additon to her music, her theatrical film debut in sci-fi flick Battleship earlier this year, a seemingly rollercoaster personal life, and …
RRP: $35.00 The Beginner’s Garden – Your Simple Guide to Growing the Ultimate Kitchen Garden is aimed at the novice gardener, covering off the basics that every home cook and gardener has to have (and leaving out those plants that are too much of a hassle, or require too much attention). What’s inside it? You’ll …
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Rating: 4 out of 5 Kiwi band Kora are back with their highly anticipated second studio album Light Years; five years since their first self-titled record. Originally hailing from Whakatane, the four brothers Laughton, Francis, Stuart and Brad Kora, along with brother-in-arms Dan McGruer have returned with an offering of ‘alien funk’. Laughton says, ‘When we …
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Country pop songstress Taylor Swift has transitioned from cute young girl trying to make it in the music industry (using… gasp… the music she’d wrote herself or in collaboration rather than just using other people’s songs!), to a confident young woman with millions of record sales and now, four studio …
RRP: $37.00 In the wake of her sister’s death, Isabelle moves from her home in California to her birthplace in Mexico to take over the running of the family tuna company. There, in her sister’s house, she is woken in the night by a wild child – a thing with no name, who turns out …
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Rating: 4 out of 5 British songstress Katie Melua’s unique blend of jazzy folk-pop is here again with the singer’s fifth studio album. Katie has said of Secret Symphony, “This album was going to be my ‘singer’s album’. I had always wanted to do this one day; singing other people’s songs brings something out of …