STACK NZ Oct #78

REVIEWS DVD & BD

Belieb it POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING

Baseball daze and boogie nights EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!

Release Date: 12/10/16

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Release Date: 05/10/16

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Wickedly skewering the fascination that the current crop of teen idols seem to have for grandiose documentaries, this hilarious mockumentary from the Lonely Island gang charts a year in the life of Conner4Real (Andy Samberg). Once a member of Style Boyz – Jorman Taccone and Avika Schaffer, who also direct, make up the trio – Conner’s first solo record has made him a global superstar, but things start going downhill rapidly following the release of his disastrous follow-up LP. As with the best music spoofs, the songs sound pretty authentic until you listen to the

Richard Linklater's "spiritual sequel" to his 1993 cult favourite Dazed and Confused charts the last three days of freedom for a group of twentysomething college baseball players before classes start. Our entry point is sensitive freshman Jake (Blake Jenner), who embarks on a wild weekend with his new buddies while attempting to woo an arts major (Zoey Deutch). The antithesis of the crass frat boy comedy, there's no real plot to speak of – Everybody Wants Some!! is about the ritual of male bonding and taking an enjoyable trip back to 1980 in the

splendidly filthy and politically incorrect lyrics, while Samberg, Taccone and Schaffer have secured a terrific supporting cast that ranges from comic pals such as Sarah Silverman and Bill Hader through to superstars like Pink and Mariah Carey. Essential viewing for Spinal Tap -pers. JF

company of a bunch of amiable dudes sporting paisley shirts and porn star moustaches. The cast is great, particularly former Glee star Jenner and Glen Powell ( Scream Queens ), and a soundtrack of disco hits nicely complements the bong hits. SH

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The road to the White House is paved in red THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR

It's time for a little madness ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

Release Date: 19/10/16

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It's that time of year again – the annual Purge, when crime and murder are legalised for 12 hours in America. This third installment in the action-horror-thriller franchise is cunningly timed to coincide with the 2016 US presidential election campaign. A female senator (Elizabeth Mitchell) determined to put an end to the Purge should she win office, is targeted for assassination on the night murder and mayhem is allowed to run rampant. Political commentary and Clinton/Trump allusions aside, The Purge: Election Year is easily the

This sequel to Tim Burton’s 2010 film is, curiouser and curiouser, more entertaining. Alice (Mia Wasikowska) returns home to London after three years at sea and is quickly lured back into Wonderland through a magic mirror, where she discovers her friend the Hatter (Johnny Depp) is not so much mad as depressed over the whereabouts of his long lost family. Determined to set things right, Alice commandeers a gyroscopic time machine and returns to the past to find the Hatter’s kin. The theme is time in this ‘Days of Future Past’ take on Lewis Carroll’s classic, so naturally the message for

biggest and best entry in the series to date, offering a closer look at the NFFA – the sinister administration who introduced the Purge – and once again raising the question of how this radical initiative actually manages to keep the country's crime rate down. SH

kids is that you can’t change the past, and to cherish every second, minute and hour. Alice Through the Looking Glass is darker and more melancholic in tone, but no less crammed with candy-coloured CGI. However, unlike the first film, you won’t feel like you’ve eaten a kilo of M&Ms by the end . SH

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