STACK #143 Sept 2016

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Issue 143 SEPTEMBER 2016

Extras Pg 10–16

Cinema Pg 18–26

DVD & BD Pg 32–58

Games Pg 59–73

Music From back Pg 1–22

Pg 10–14 NEWS Having faced dinosaurs in Jurassic World , meeting the fluffy star of Pete’s Dragon was a walk in the park for Bryce Dallas Howard. We also talk to Laika’s Travis Knight about stop-motion hit Kubo and the Two Strings . Pg 16 GIVEAWAYS A marvellous Captain America: Civil War prize-pack, FIFA 17 games, Ministry of Sound albums, and more... Pg 28-30 BOB J. Studio powers fire the opening salvo in their war against Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil . Pg 44-45 BEGINNER’s GUIDE STACK explores the Star Trek universe, and tells you why you should boldly go there.

Pg 18-19 THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke and Chris Pratt saddle up for Antoine Fuqua’s star-powered remake of The Magnificent Seven , and Haley Bennett breaks female stereotypes in Westerns. Pg 20 DAVID BRENT: LIFE ON THE ROAD Ricky Gervais’s cringe-inducing comic creation returns, thirteen years after the cameras stopped rolling at The Office . Pg 22 DON’t BREATHE A deceptively simple yet ingenious horror-thriller from Sam Raimi disciple, Fede Alvarez. Be warned, you’ll never look at a turkey baster the same way again. Pg 24–26 CINEMA REVIEWS The Shallows, Blood Father, Sausage Party, David Brent: Life on the Road, Kubo and the Two Strings.

Pg 32–33 CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR Team Cap or Team Iron Man? Star Chris Evans sees a very human story at the heart of the latest Marvel blockbuster. Pg 34-35 X-MEN: APOCALYPSE Nicholas Hoult returns as Beast in the biggest X-Men movie yet, and finds himself on the pointy end of co-star Olivia Munn’s sword. Ouch! Pg 36 WARCRAFT How did Warcraft buck the trend of video game adaptations and become a box office success? Story consultant James Waugh puts it down to attention to detail. Pg 38 THE WALKING DEAD It’s the season that broke ratings records and climaxed with one of the greatest cliffhangers in TV history. And there’s this guy named Negan. Pg 40 THE NICE GUYS Lethal Weapon creator Shane Black is back with another mismatched buddy comedy. Pg 46–54 REVIEWS X-Men: Apocalypse, The Conjuring 2, Money Monster, The Nice Guys, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Now You See Me 2, TMNT: Out of the Shadows, Warcraft, The Angry Birds Movie, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Me Before You, Supernatural: S11, Arrow: S4, Better Call Saul: S2 and more...

Pg 62-63 fifa 17 It’s that time of year again – FIFA’s back! And this time it’s a Journey. Pg 64 quakecon 2016 We headed over to Dallas, Texas, to cover the “largest LAN in North America” – and we had an absolute blast. Pg 66-68 12 games we’re looking forward to... We’re at the tail-end of 2016, but that doesn’t mean we’re running out of games. There’s a dozen you should be looking out for in the lead up to the silly season. Pg 70 asteroids This month’s game changer takes a look at another arcade classic – Asteroids . Pg 71 dishonored 2 The long-awaited sequel to STACK ’s 2012 Game of the Year is almost in our hands. Here’s what to expect. Pg 72-73 previews What’s in-store this month.

Pg 4-12 INTERVIEWS + NEWS We spoke to Glass Animals, Cass McCombs, Ball Park Music, Felix Riebl, Harts, Drapht, Angel

Olsen and more... Pg 13 BIG SOUND

It’s time for Australia’s biggest music conference/festival; we investigate Tash Sultana, Sampa The Great, Mike Noga, and the others you must look out for. Pg 16-22 REVIEWS Angel Olsen’s My Woman is our Album of the Month, but we’ve also got feelings about This Sporting Life , Ceres, Drugdealer, Kylie Auldist, Georgia Fields, Jamie T, De La Soul, Venus II, Big Scary, Backsliders, Jarrow, Opeth, Kishi Bashi, Dolly Parton/ Emmylou Harris/Linda Ronstadt and more.

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