Posts Tagged 'Column'

OPINION // Inter-Continental Boredom

Why both British and American celebrities fell symptom to sombre circumstances at The Grammys and The BAFTAs. As the photographs of celebrities posing across trans-continental red carpets infiltrated the likes of JustJared and The Huffington Post last week, conclusions swept

OPINION // Inter-Continental Boredom

Why both British and American celebrities fell symptom to sombre circumstances at The Grammys and The BAFTAs. As the photographs of celebrities posing across trans-continental red carpets infiltrated the likes of JustJared and The Huffington Post last week, conclusions swept

OPINION // New Years Resolutions: A Guide

Keep it Simple and the Rest Will Follow Welcome! Today I will be padding out that area where your psychologist, confidante, best friend and pile of women’s magazines exist by walking you through the anxiety-riddled gauntlet that is New Year’s

OPINION // New Years Resolutions: A Guide

Keep it Simple and the Rest Will Follow Welcome! Today I will be padding out that area where your psychologist, confidante, best friend and pile of women’s magazines exist by walking you through the anxiety-riddled gauntlet that is New Year’s

OPINION // Slave to Mark Zuckerberg

Is constant interconnectivity making us stupid? There are two things that immediately come to mind when the topic of our interconnectedness is raised. The first is the nape of Keanu Reeves’ neck. Not because I find him a babe (Speed

OPINION // Slave to Mark Zuckerberg

Is constant interconnectivity making us stupid? There are two things that immediately come to mind when the topic of our interconnectedness is raised. The first is the nape of Keanu Reeves’ neck. Not because I find him a babe (Speed

OPINION // Adaptation

Why we are obsessed with turning novels into films? A while back a trailer came out; current it-girl Jennifer Lawrence Winter’s Bone, X-Men First Class was running through a forest, bow and arrow in hand, destination and hunter unknown, and

OPINION // Adaptation

Why we are obsessed with turning novels into films? A while back a trailer came out; current it-girl Jennifer Lawrence Winter’s Bone, X-Men First Class was running through a forest, bow and arrow in hand, destination and hunter unknown, and

OPINION // How do you Solve a Problem like Zooey Deschanel?

The advent of The Manic Pixie Dream Girl and why it’s killing our culture. Of course you love The Smiths, of course you proceed to sing them and of course Joseph Gordon-Levitt proceeds to fall in love with you. Zooey

OPINION // How do you Solve a Problem like Zooey Deschanel?

The advent of The Manic Pixie Dream Girl and why it’s killing our culture. Of course you love The Smiths, of course you proceed to sing them and of course Joseph Gordon-Levitt proceeds to fall in love with you. Zooey

OPINION // Quantity and Quality

Why television episodes are the efficient drama-filled programming we prefer to a Saturday night at the movies. I know, I know, I’m late to the game: I’ve just started watching Boardwalk Empire. Martin Scorcese’s small-screen debut, I have been swamped

OPINION // Quantity and Quality

Why television episodes are the efficient drama-filled programming we prefer to a Saturday night at the movies. I know, I know, I’m late to the game: I’ve just started watching Boardwalk Empire. Martin Scorcese’s small-screen debut, I have been swamped

OPINION // Hip To Be Square

Why all of a sudden being super lame is super cool. Attending New Zealand Fashion Week this week it’s clear that this trend hasn’t found its way to the front row just yet. Immaculately out-turned ladies and gentlemen are still

OPINION // Hip To Be Square

Why all of a sudden being super lame is super cool. Attending New Zealand Fashion Week this week it’s clear that this trend hasn’t found its way to the front row just yet. Immaculately out-turned ladies and gentlemen are still

OPINION // Living The Dream

Has our obsession with celebrity gone too far, and will we even know when it has? Two nights ago while casually settling in to a re-watch of The Bourne Identity (and yes I am aware how admitting to a re-watch

OPINION // Living The Dream

Has our obsession with celebrity gone too far, and will we even know when it has? Two nights ago while casually settling in to a re-watch of The Bourne Identity (and yes I am aware how admitting to a re-watch

OPINION // SLASH

Jack of all trades, master of none. It’s the saying that tears from my conscience into my stomach and manifests itself as deep-rooted anxiety occasionally causing nausea. I am a bonafide Slashie, splitting my ‘professional’ time in the media industry

OPINION // SLASH

Jack of all trades, master of none. It’s the saying that tears from my conscience into my stomach and manifests itself as deep-rooted anxiety occasionally causing nausea. I am a bonafide Slashie, splitting my ‘professional’ time in the media industry

OPINION // Let’s Get Out to the Country

Why a holiday is better than change, as long as you actually chill out. Hollywood gets some things backwards. Most of us live in the city (a place, not the reality television show starring Whitney Port) and the city is

OPINION // Let’s Get Out to the Country

Why a holiday is better than change, as long as you actually chill out. Hollywood gets some things backwards. Most of us live in the city (a place, not the reality television show starring Whitney Port) and the city is