STACK #145 Nov 2016

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DVD&BD REVIEWS

A dance with dragons. GAME OF THRONES: SEASON 6

Release Date: 16/11/16 Format:

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Audio Commentary Recreating the Dothraki World Deleted Scenes The Battle of the Bastards 18 Hours at the Paint Hall

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Episodic Previews & Recaps Guide to Westeros Histories and Lore

After six years, winter has finally arrived and the show has overtaken the books. Throners are in uncharted territory now – anything can happen and anyone can die, although the latter goes without saying. The season five cliffhanger left one big question dangling: is Jon Snow really dead, and will the Red Woman resurrect him?

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Elsewhere, religious fanatics continue to hold the balance of power in King’s Landing while Cersei plots to overthrow the High Sparrow, and over in Braavos, Arya discovers what a girl must do to reclaim her sight in the service of the Many-faced God. Daenerys finds herself back in the company of the Dothraki and learns what happens to a former Khaleesi, and Bran, having

now become the three-eyed raven, takes a trip back into the past, where intriguing insights into the nature of the White Walkers and Jon Snow’s lineage are revealed. The bloody battle to reclaimWinterfell from Ramsey Bolton is undoubtedly the highlight of the best GoT season to date. Things are finally gathering momentum towards the end game. SH (See page 28)

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Vikings

Re-Bourne. JASON BOURNE

Release Date: 23/11/16

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Bringing Back Bourne Las Vegas Showdown

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Bourne to Fight The Athens Escape

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Matt Damon returns to arguably his best known role (apart from being left stranded on planets) in the fifth entry in the Robert Ludlum-created franchise. Although the eponymous agent has now remembered everything, Bourne must still dig deep to uncover the truth about his past – namely what really happened to his father. We meet him KO-ing people in

Limited Edition with over an hour of extra content - On Foreign Soil: The Athens Riot - Bourne in the U.K. - The End of a Journey - The Bourne Style - Inside the Hub

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The Las Vegas car chase sequence took five weeks to shoot and wrecked 170 cars.

been more to his past – and his father’s death – than he initially believed. It’s great to have both Damon and director Paul Greengrass back onboard, and although Jason Bourne doesn’t hit the relentless heights of series’ benchmark The Bourne Ultimatum , it’s a welcome return to form for the franchise following that Jeremy Renner outing that nobody seems to talk about. AK (See page 36)

one-hit fights for money, having seemingly left the CIA and Treadstone behind. Alicia Vikander joins the series as a proficient hacker who’s part of a counter- terrorism taskforce, and Nicki (Julia Stiles) is back, trying to get her hands on some Black Ops files. Bourne eventually returns to the fold and teams up with Nicki, who informs him that there may have

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The Bourne Ultimatum

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