STACK #130 Aug 2016

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The Divergent Series diverges. INSURGENT

Release Date: 12/08/15 Format:

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Commentary with producers Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher From Divergent to Insurgent Sneak Peek In-theatre promotional making-of HBO First Look Image Gallery Theatrical Trailers #1 to #5 Insurgent Unlocked The Others: Cast & Characters The Train Fight Unlocked The Peter Hayes Story Diverging: Adapting Insurgent to the Screen JB HI-FI EXCLUSIVE Limited Edition 2-disc Blu-ray with 40 mins of Extra Features - Insurgent in Style - Simulations: The Next Level - Veronica Roth: Tell All BD ONLY

In the competitive arena of Young Adult adaptations, some series live to fight another day, while others die after a single installment. Veronica Roth’s Divergent Series has been tough enough to spawn a four-film franchise, of which Insurgent is the second. Set in a post-apocalypse Chicago, society has been divided into five factions according to human virtues. But if you possess free will and

Four’s mother (Naomi Watts), and there’s also the issue of a mysterious box containing a message from the society’s founders, which can only be opened by a pure Divergent, making Tris’s capture a priority. Insurgent expands the series’ mythology, delving deeper into its class system and characters, as well as advancing the narrative in new and unexpected directions – which is what any good sequel should do. • See page 38

independent thought – like Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) – you’re deemed ‘Divergent’ and a threat to the status quo. With the factions on the brink of civil war at the end of Divergent , Insurgent picks up with Tris and Four on the run from power-mad Erudite leader Jeanine (Kate Winslet), who has vowed to eliminate the Divergents. The pair find allies in the Factionless, led by

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Ferrell goes to prison school. GET HARD

Release Date: 29/07/15 Format:

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The Kevin Hart Workout Face Off with Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart Featurettes - Inmates - Just Put Your Lips Together and Blow - A Date with John Mayer - Twerking 101 - Ferrell Fighting - Will Ferrell, Gangsta - Bikers, Babes and Big Bangs

The innuendo-loaded title tells you exactly what to expect from this Will Ferrell vehicle that sees the comedy superstar visiting territory previously charted by Rob Schneider in Big Stan (2007). Ferrell plays a financier who is framed for fraud and embezzlement by his boss and consequently faces a ten-year term in a maximum security prison. Kevin Hart is the

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comedy classic Trading Places – but is better than the aforementioned Big Stan – and the hysterical homophobia and racism doesn’t help. But no-one expects political correctness from a Ferrell comedy and the bad taste humour won’t disappoint his fans; on the contrary, they’ll be even more eager to get hold of it.

Will Ferrell stayed in character for all interviews and press conferences for Get Hard

“incarceration expert” he hires to toughen himself up for life inside, in the mistaken belief that because Hart is black, he must have been to prison. And that’s just the start of the barrage of politically incorrect gags that drive this mismatched buddy movie. Get Hard isn’t in the same class as the similarly themed

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Big Stan

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