STACK NZ Feb #81

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Issue 81 FEBRUARY 2017

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All information believed correct at time of printing. All images used for promotional purposes only. Copyright of respective owners is acknowledged. © 2017 Scribal Custom Pty Ltd. No part of this magazine may be reprinted without the written permission of the publisher. RATINGS GUIDE • Robert Scott on The Bats' new album; Poi-E: The Story of Our Song . Pg 4 CINEMA T2: Trainspotting: Sick Boy – aka Jonny Lee Miller – is back, along with a lot of personal issues he hasn't resolved, in this hotly anticipated sequel. Pg 6-7 DVD Jack Reacher: Never Go Back: Tom Cruise returns as Lee Child's lethal one-man army. Pg 08 Arrival: Denis Villeneuve ruminates on the challenges of communicating with an alien species. Pg 10-12 GAMES Nintendo Switch: Nintendo lifts the lid on its latest home console, the Switch. Pg 14-16 DVD/Blu-ray The Arrival , Fear the Walking Dead: Season 2 , The Light Between Oceans , Snowden , Hell or High Water, American Honey, Keeping Up with the Joneses, and more. Pg 18-20 GAMES Halo Wars 2, Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World, Hitman: The Complete First Season. Pg 21 MUSIC T2: Trainspotting OST, Flaming Lips and more. Pg 22 FEATURES REVIEWS

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Felicity Jones drew critical praise for her performance in The Theory of Everything . Now she's getting ready to embark upon the role of a lifetime in a galaxy far, far away… Words Jake Taylor The filmmaker who introduced the notion of seeing dead people in The Sixth Sense explores Dissociative Identity Disorder in Split , with James McAvoy exhibiting 24 different personalities. Words Gill Pringle

A stickler for homework, M. Night Shyamalan has done much research into Dissociative Identity Disorder, otherwise known as Multiple Personality Disorder. DID is still the black sheep of the psychiatric world, many believing that patients invent their “multiples” to dodge prison sentences or that therapists actually “push” the DID diagnosis on fragile patients who may be suffering from other psychiatric disorders. When STACK meets with the director in Los Angeles, his eyes light up at the sheer numbers. “Oh there are as many as like 60 personalities [that have] been diagnosed in one patient. Tons! I mean even Sybil Dorset had 16 and the famous ones, like Billy Milligan, was 22, or something like that,” he says, referencing The Minds of Billy Milligan , a film treatment to which Leonardo DiCaprio has long been attached, while the former's story was told in the 1976 mini-series Sybil , starring Sally Field. For Shyamalan, however, the 1957 film The Three Faces of Eve , starring Joanne Woodward

in an Oscar-winning performance, really spoke to him. “I found it very moving," explains Shyamalan. "I just find this psychological disorder absolutely moving and tragic, and amazing too. Especially the science of it. Pretty much everything I do in the movie, with one exception, is true. “DID is a disorder that only happens to individuals who were consistently sexually or physically abused between the ages of one and five years old, which is when the brain is still developing and the brain actually starts different synapses, and starts a different area, and goes ‘We can’t deal with the fact that our uncle or mother, or whatever it is, is doing this, so we’re going to create a whole other existence’. "And then once it learns to do that during those years, it does it forever; it keeps on splintering over the course of time, so that these different personalities all become options for them.”

Split is in cinemas now.

Founder Nic Short Editor-In-Chief Paul Jones Editor John Ferguson Creative Director Karl Lock DVD Consultant Jason Hewitt Games Consultant Sachi Fernando Production Manager Craig Patterson Social Media Manager Sally Carlier-Hull

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Contributors Graham Reid, Scott Hocking, Judy Ewens, GarethThompson,Tim Mackrell, Zoë Radas, Gill Pringle, Alesha Kolbe, Amy Flower, Ryan Huff, Simon Lukic, Michael Dwyer, Chris Murray, Denise Hylands, Simon Winkler, Adam Colby, Savannah Douglas

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