REVIEW: Rango
BY LAURA SHEARER
Surprisingly not presented by a well-known animation company, Rango shows that its independent flourish of originality is on a par with the big studio contenders. Possibly the best animation this year so far, Rango is a little bit of what you know muddled up with the enigmatic. A creation to be proud of, it’s surely a work worth the box office success it’s receiving.
March 28th, 2011 | No Comments
EDITORIAL: Performance related pay only complicates things
An SU sabbatical officer is elected on a one-year term; if he or she fails to live up to expectations then Student Council can call a vote of no confidence, and in most cases one would assume a resounding defeat for that sabbatical officer would make his or her position untenable. If poor representatives decide to run for re-election at the end of the academic year then the electorate can use their vote to ditch them. That’s politics. It’s as simple as that. Performance related pay seems only to complicate matters.
March 28th, 2011 | Comments (14)
NEWS: O’Neill to co-operate with PRP despite concerns
Incoming SU President Jason O’Neill has said that while he is “against PRP on principle”, he will co-operate with the measure if it represents the “popular consensus” of student representatives. Reacting to Student Council’s almost unanimous support of performance related pay on Wednesday 16 March, O’Neill has warned it would “undermine the sense of a team” and could lead to “animosity among the executive”. BY JAMES DOUGLAS
March 28th, 2011 | Comments (6)
REVIEW: The Rite
BY MATTHEW MCKERNAN
The Rite is the latest exorcist film, a horror subgenre with much unfulfilled potential and a lot of woeful films to answer for. The Rite aims for a more back-to-basics approach. Jettisoning the comic gimmickry of the recent Season of the Witch and the faux documentary tactics of The Last Exorcism¸ The Rite feels like a return to the principles and ideas of William Friedkin’s 1973 classic The Exorcist.
March 28th, 2011 | No Comments
FEATURES: Maybe to AV
BY EMMA GALLEN
The AV debate is one that is far more interesting and complex than the referendum would have you believe. On 5 May when we vote it is to say “Yes” or “No” to switching to the alternative voting system. What this overlooks is the number of people who vote no but would like the voting reform to happen, those who vote yes but really just want anything but first past the post.
March 27th, 2011 | No Comments
REVIEW: Waste Land
BY MATTHEW MCKERNAN
Waste Land was nominated for the Best Feature Documentary Oscar (however, Inside Job won). It starts off with a festival full of people, lights and sounds. Filmed on an epic scale, it seems more like a setting for a major fiction film. The festival is big, grand and full of life. Suddenly, it’s the next day and bin lorries mill around the same empty streets, picking up the debris of the previous night’s celebrations. The banners and a giant dragon, so vibrant and colourful before, are now wreckage waiting to be picked up. Yesterday’s art becomes today’s rubbish.
March 26th, 2011 | No Comments
FEATURES: No to AV
BY ALEXANDER REDPATH
On 5 May we will be asked whether we wish to change the system of voting MPs to Westminster. The question is whether we stick with first past the post the system we have used for centuries or adopt the alternative vote (AV) which is more proportionate. Proponents of this change maintain that it is a no-brainer to adopt a more proportionate and thus fairer system of voting. This is not strictly true as it can be argued that proportionate means of voting promote incompetence and stagnation.
March 26th, 2011 | Comments (16)
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