Love, Lies, and a Concerning Amount of Lab Safety Violations
Rating: -1/5 The Love Hypothesis is the cinematic equivalent of eating an entire packet of biscuits in one sitting: deeply enjoyable, slightly embarrassing, and best not examined too closely. The film follows PhD student Olive Smith as she enters a fake relationship with intimidatingly tall and emotionally constipated professor Adam Carlsen. Naturally, the fake relationship […]
Holden’s Growing Up, Unfortunately
Rating: 2/5 Holden Caulfield spends The Catcher in the Rye convinced that everyone around him is a phony, but beneath all the complaining, he is slowly developing something more valuable: worldly intelligence. His wandering through New York becomes an education outside the classroom, exposing him to sex, loneliness, adulthood, exploitation and the complicated realities of […]
Recipe: Salad
Basic Salad that’s actually really fkn’ good. Playlist: Something summery and fun. Santeria by sublime, in too deep by sum 41 and californication by the red hot chilli peppers are a good start. Ingredients: Method:
Maybe the Movie Doesn’t Have to Be Like the Book
There is perhaps no more terrifying sentence to say in a room full of English students than: “I liked the movie better than the book.” You can practically hear the collective gasp. Somewhere, an academic is clutching their copy of Middlemarch in distress. Book-to-film adaptations are often judged on one question: “Was it true to […]
Turn a Place to a Playground: Skating Across Kenya
Skitty interviewed by Toby Brockelbank Nexus are stoked to share our interview on the Kenyan skate scene and some of the crew’s recent mish skating across Kenya, from Nairobi to Lodwar – that’s over 700 km on a fucking skateboard! We reached out to the Skateboarding Society of Kenya (SSK) who lined us up with […]
Conan Gray Concert
Conan Gray’s Wishbone Tour kicked off its last leg in Auckland over the previous weekend, and while it was a rocky show back, he brought all the noise to Spark Arena. Earlier in the day, Conan posted a story on his Instagram with an apology to the fans who would be attending. Turns out, some […]
Victor Songs
It’s time to rise and grind, mother fuckers. Trimester B is coming to an end, exams are approaching, and Nexus knows all you chads are in need of a killer playlist to fuel your winning aura. Don’t be a beta, become the alpha you were born to be.
Horoscopes – Issue 23
Aries: You will make a questionable decision this week. Fortunately, it will also be your most entertaining one. Taurus: Your bed is calling. Ignore it. You have things to do, allegedly. Gemini: Stop changing your mind. Actually, change it. No, wait. Keep the original one. Cancer: Someone will hurt your feelings. You will dramatically overthink […]
The Forgotten Side of Stoicism
If you’ve spent enough time on social media engaging with self-improvement content, you’ve probably encountered Stoicism at some point. This content is usually accompanied by marble busts of Marcus Aurelius, short-form gym content, and edgy quotes about discipline. The message is clear: don’t complain, don’t let your emotions control you, embrace discomfort and become mentally […]
Folk-tales And Artistic Methods Of Framing Fear
Fairies have shrunk over the years both in size and scope. It was only from the 14th century and onwards that the term began to narrow in definition. Before that ‘fairie’ was used to describe a collection of different creatures such as gnomes, sprites, dryads, banshees and all manner of magic that dwelt on the […]