The BFD Video: REVIEW: Taylor Swift’s Crazy Sexist ‘The Man’ Music Video
If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
Reviews
SMOS – Ben Nevis 22yo – 58.4% – 1997 to 2019
Like chomping on copper bits, this is a robust and satisfying whisky. Not a common bottling, especially in NZ, SMOS does this distillery justice. Imagine having a plate of pork chops, pork belly and a rare steak and then sticky date pudding for dessert. There is no mucking around. This
Movie Review: Midway
It’s somewhat ironic that I first saw a trailer for Roland Emmerich’s Midway at a screening of Sam Mendes’ 1917. The contrasts between the two movies highlight everything that makes Mendes’ film excel, while Emmerich makes his standard, enjoyable-enough-but-empty popcorn epic. In 1917, what CGI is used is
Movie Review: Doctor Sleep
Stanley Kubrick refused to be bound by genre: science fiction, period drama, black comedy, war movies, Kubrick covered them all, with consistently excellent results. So, when the master turned his hand to horror, the result was characteristically brilliant. The Shining is widely regarded as one of the greatest horror movies
The BFD Book Review: A Game of Birds & Wolves
Fighting Temeraire * Title A Game of Birds and Wolves The Secret Game that Revolutionised the War * Author Simon Parkin * Published 2019 * Pages 320 This is the story of WATU, the Western Approaches Tactical Unit. Led by a Captain RN who had been invalided out of the Navy with tuberculosis, and
Springbank 15yo Rum Wood 51% 2019 release
What a treat – is it the best Springbank? No, is it compelling? Yes. A unique expression of Springbank, not as filthy and dirty as usual – clean, clinical and somewhat refreshing. A must try. Thank you for Watching: Follow me on IG/Twitter/FB: @eat_smoke_drink
Drew Estate Liga Privada Feral Flying Pig
When Pigs Fly… Well, These feral flying pigs is like the ‘Beast of Blenheim’ had babies with your local Queen street synthetic weed user – It is brutal! Overwhelming but intriguing. This is not for the faint hearted. This is not for the ‘I am just starting out on cigars’ type
Gordon Macphail Morthlach 30yo – 48.8% – 1988 to 2018
You think you are a hardcore whisky drinker? If you have never had a Mortlach then you have probably never experienced a beast. Known as the ‘Beat of Dufftown’ – Mortlachs are known to burn off hair from most people’s noses and balls! Without sherry influence, it is unforgiving yet
The Battle of the Cadenheads – Benrinnes 18yo vs Benrinnes 23yo
Sometimes we taste whisky and we just take for granted the differences, but what if you side by side two whiskies, for all intents and purposes same barrel type and same bottler but 5 years apart. You get a remarkable difference in flavours. Is older better – no not always! Unless
![The BFD Book Review: ‘The [Un]documented’ by Mark Steyn](/content/images/size/w1304/format/webp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/the_bfd-book-review-1_122015_97816215731808201_c1-0-2933-1710_s885x516.jpg)
The BFD Book Review: ‘The [Un]documented’ by Mark Steyn
Kokila * Title: The [Un]documented Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned * Author: Mark Steyn * Published 2014 If you would like to submit a book review for publication send it to books@thebfd.co.nz Mark Steyn is a political analyst, notably for the UK Daily Telegraph and Spectator. He
The BFD Book Review: The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Grant * Title: The Tattooist of Auschwitz * Author: Heather Morris * Published: 2018 * Pages: 252 If you would like to submit a book review for publication send it to books@thebfd.co.nz The Author is Heather Morris who resides in Melbourne and is a native of New Zealand. She was introduced
The whisky trail – Jazz Groove – 38yo 46.7%
So you like Jazz, This has nothing to do with jazz but it has jazz written all over it. it is a old as shit whisky. Rumour has it it has old Macallan in it which is cool because new Macallan is just disappointing. Some say it is main Clynelish,
The BFD Book Review: ‘Le Pastiche Tintin’
Christchurch writer and illustrator John Stringer has a new book out published by “Maiden NZ” and IngramSpark (USA). It is a 2019 art historical review of Tintin parodies, pastiches and lampoons. It has 180 pages and more than 120 colour plates of new Tintins. It is available on Amazon or
BFD Weekender: An Undercover Journey Into the Heart of Madness
Christie Aschwanden undark.org When she was 24, Susannah Cahalan developed a sudden psychosis. She grew paranoid — convinced her apartment was infested with bedbugs, that people were spying on her, that her boyfriend was cheating. She started to believe she could age people with her mind. As she recounted in
Inside the Story: The Trauma Cleaner – a Beautiful Meditation on Death & Decay
Craig Batty University of Technology Sydney Sarah Krasnostein’s The Trauma Cleaner has won many awards since it was published in 2017, including the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Australian Book Industry Award General Non-Fiction Book of the Year. While the title may speak of a provocative premise – what
SMWS 53.237 – 16yo Caol Ila 63.5%
Called a gentleman’s Islay whisky, usually, because it is more integrated and refined than some face smashing, throat tickling Islay whisky. But this single barrel single malt expression is unusual for a caol ila. Oily as well, it will make the hair on your back and nether regions stand