STACK #126 Apr 2016

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Focus on THE BEST OF ME From the maestro of romance novels Nicholas Sparks ( Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Dear John, The Lucky One, and this year's The Longest Ride ), comes another adaptation to shred your Kleenex: The Best of Me . It's the story of Dawson Cole and Amanda Collier (James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan, respectively) who are reunited following the death of Dawson's father. The true nature of their past connection is revealed slowly across the length of this sweet yarn, as Dawson unpacks his former life – both literally and figuratively. Absolutely perfect for the coming moody, autumnal weather, we think.

STACK takes a look back at what you may have missed. By Zoë Radas

I s it just me or is Nicolas Cage actually accelerating into the twilight of his career? He is not going gentle into that good night. And that's kind of cool with me, because his latest, Left Behind , is actually a really intriguing drama. It's an apocalyptic thing which does away with any of the over- thought premises that your average sci-fi might entertain: basically, millions of people all over the world disappear in an instant, leaving their clothes in a pile exactly where they'd just been standing, and the film is about how that affects the people who remain. Although there are tons of car crashes and planes falling out of clouds and people screaming in confusion, the most shocking scene shows quiet rows of empty baby cribs in a hospital nursery, each one containing a tiny beanie or onesie. It's worth a look, even if hammy old Cage is your captain. Back on the homefront, it's time to take a look at how Mandy McElhinney has done depicting mining heiress Gina Rinehart in biographical mini-series The House of Hancock . As was to be expected, Rinehart herself launched a fusillade of legal action against the production's airing, but now you

Hector and the Search for Happiness

of Channel Nine TV "events" is the seven-part drama Gallipoli , which was adapted from the bestselling book of the same name by Les Carlyon. It stars awesome Aussie dude Kodi Smit-McPhee, who is now 18, but whom you might remember as the 12-year-old kid accompanying Viggo Mortensen in the horrifying The Road a few years back. Gallipoli follows the ten-month campaign of ANZAC soldiers in Turkey, who attempt to develop their combat skills whilst enduring all kinds of seriously treacherous situations on the front. If you're after something uplifting, you can bend your boots towards Hector and the Search for Happiness , which does exactly what it says on the label, and stars Simon

is starring in a surprisingly amazing comedy about a young substitute teacher who realises his detention students are super sexually confused. He instigates an after- school Sexual Education program which becomes wildly popular; the only issue is that he's not terribly sexually experienced himself, and so struggles with feelings of fraudulence. His kinky roommate convinces him he needs to end his dry spell, which winds up suitably disastrous. Sex Ed is in stores now.

can take a peep into the machinations behind the Filipino housekeeper Gina hired to help her ailing iron ore magnate father, the subsequent whirlwind romance between said housekeeper and magnate, and Gina's protracted battle to try and grasp her inheritance in a super public brawl of litigation. Also emerging from the land

Pegg no less. He's such a charming guy and fits the role of poor Hector – a psychiatrist whose patients start to get the better of him, and hence decides to embark on a lengthy trip to discover where that elusive kernel of delight in life lies – to a tee. Meanwhile in Haley Joel Osment news, our favourite dead people seer

Left Behind

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