Legal weed. It sounded like a good idea at the time. Three friends and I sat outside. We rolled up a joint (can you still call it that when it isn

I had always wanted to see this Kiwi documentary after seeing a 60 Minutes feature on the filming, and it was on Maori TV a while back, so I booked the date with the TV, ignored my flatmates whinging and settled in to watch.

The documentary follows the Karena family of Hawkes Bay, who live a nomadic, simplistic lifestyle of a by-gone era. The head of the family, Peter, is an expert horse handler, and his skills and horses are the driving force of the family. Scenes of the six fearless Karena kids hooning down sand dunes bareback on huge stallions are amazing to watch, and the skills of the children are far beyond their years (seven year old Aurora rides her massive horse bareback with only a rope halter), and as one reviewer commented, this causes us to question our ideas of what children are really capable of.

The family are endearing, intimate, untamed and unpretentious, and the documentary is a wonderful window into a world so foreign and alien to most of us. It is a pleasure to see that it is still possible for families to live like this if they choose, and the bonds between them all are enviable. It is easy to see how this film made selection at most of the major film festivals around the globe.

This album is really impressive for a guy who wrote, recorded and played all the instruments on the album himself. Most of the songs sound like lullabies, and if you are a slow starter in the morning like me, and need music to wake you up that doesn

Artist: Rise Against

Album: Endgame

Released: 2011

Rating: 5/5

Reviewer: Colgate.

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