STACK #128 Jun 2016

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Issue 128

JUNE 2015

WELCOME T he winners of this year’s major Oscar categories hit the JB shelves this month. Birdman beat the highly favoured Boyhood in the Best Picture race, with the film’s director Alejandro G. Iñárritu – a consistently great filmmaker – awarded Best Director. The best performances this year were a tighter contest and harder to pick, with the exception of Julianne Moore, who was always destined to claim a long overdue Best Actress honour for her performance as an Alzheimer’s patient in Still Alice . The guys, however, were all worthy of the award, with four of the nominees – Bradley Cooper, Benedict Cumberbatch, Steve Carell and Eddie Redmayne – playing real-life characters and becoming them, rather than simply portraying them. Michael Keaton’s terrific comeback in Birdman was the hot tip, but when you watch The Theory of Everything (out June 4) you’ll realise the Academy got it right – Eddie Redmayne is Stephen Hawking. He’s also loads of fun as the villain in this month’s sci-fi spectacle from the Wachowskis, Jupiter Ascending , delivering a truly hilarious performance that’s as far removed from Hawking as the film is from reality.

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