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034 SEPTEMBER 2017
visit HIGH-DEF HIGHLIGHTS
1 Alien: Covenant
2 The Fate of the Furious
3 The Great Wall
4 Hacksaw Ridge
5 Ghost in the Shell
6 King Arthur: Legend of
the Sword
7 John Wick: Chapter 2
8 Split
9 Resident Evil: The Final
Chapter
10 Get Out
BLU-RAY
BEST-SELLERS
for AUGUST 2017
1 Guardians of the Galaxy
Vol. 2
2 Alien: Covenant
3 John Wick: Chapter 2
4 The Fate of the Furious
5 King Arthur: Legend of
the Sword
6 Kong: Skull Island
7 Ghost in the Shell
8 Deadpool
9 Passengers
10 Dawn of the Planet of
the Apes
4K UHD
BEST-SELLERS
for AUGUST 2017
When you pick up a HD copy of The Mummy
from JB Hi-Fi on Sept 6, you'll find a few
treasures not available anywhere else.
The Blu-ray and 4K editions include a bonus DVD
featuring additional content that's exclusive to JB,
and a 4K VR Edition adds a graphic novel, a cardboard
VR headset and a download code for 'The Mummy
VR Experience' –
exclusive to this
set (see page 7). A
3D version is also
available and all HD
editions include the
following bonus
features: Four
deleted and extended
scenes, Cruise & Kurtzman: A Conversation, Rooted
in Reality, Life in Zero-G: Creating the Plane Crash,
Meet Ahmanet, Cruise in Action, Becoming Jekyll and
Hyde, Choreographed Chaos, Nick Morton: In Search
of a Soul, Ahmanet Reborn Animated Graphic Novel.
Wonder Woman (Sept 6) is available in several
wonderful variants featuring alternate artwork: there's
the Limited Edition Steelbook, Blu-ray, 3D Blu-ray, and
Sidney J. Furie's
underrated 1982
supernatural
thriller The Entity
(Sept 6) is scarier
than anything The
Conjuring franchise
can conjure up.
Based on the true
story (of course) of Carla Moran
(Barbara Hershey), a single
mother who becomes the
victim of a predatory poltergeist,
The Entity works on the same
level as The Exorcist, in that a
psychological explanation for
the phenomenon could also
exist... But of course Hershey
and viewers know better. A
welcome addition to the HD
range and a must-see for every
horror fan.
After the first ten minutes
you'll realise The Eyes of My
Mother (available now) is one
of those movies that's going to
leave you profoundly disturbed.
This black and
white slice of
American Gothic
focuses on a
lonely young
woman (Kika
Magalhaes)
who has been
permanently scarred
by a childhood tragedy,
and consequently has
strange ideas about
family. The impressive
debut feature of
writer-director Nicolas
Pesce, who notes in an
interview on the
disc that he's as
fascinated with
the more mundane
aspects of a serial
killer's life as the
crimes, and The
Eyes of My Mother
explores this
contrast with chilling
effect.
The Wiz, director Sidney
Lumet's soulful, urban version of
The Wizard of Oz, was a critical
and commercial failure back in
1978, but has since achieved
cult status. With Diana Ross
as Dorothy, Michael Jackson
as Scarecrow, and Richard
Pryor as The Wiz, it's not hard
to see why. Long out of print,
this seventies' curio makes a
surprise return to the shelves on
Sept 6.
Released during the height
of the disaster
movie cycle
in 1975, The
Hindenburg
(Sept 6)
speculates
on the conspiracy theories
surrounding the fiery fate of the
titular German blimp in 1937.
Robert Wise's dramatisation
features some big names
– George C. Scott, Anne
Bancroft – and presents
the finale as a faux b&w
newsreel that integrates
archival footage of the real
disaster. Will the matte
paintings and modelwork
hold up in HD, though?
Before Rogue there was
Dark Age. This rarely seen '80s
Ozploitation flick concerns a
killer crocodile terrorising the
Northern Territory. John Jarratt
plays the ranger tasked with
stopping the beast, which is
part of Aboriginal
legend and therefore
sacred. This Aussie
monster movie
makes an overdue
return on Blu-ray
on Sept 6, with
ample extras.
a 4K UHD edition.
The HD editions are
packed with bonus
features including
an epilogue, blooper
reel, five 'Director's
Vision' featurettes,
and six deleted scenes. And if you pre-order your
copy of Wonder Woman online at before
11:59pm AEST, 17th September 2017, you can enter
to win one of 10 Limited Edition Wonder Woman
Figurines (T&Cs apply).
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No
Tales (Sept 13) will be available in a Limited Edition
Steelbook featuring alternative artwork, along with
the standard Blu-ray and 4K UHD versions. Extras
include the documentary Dead Men Tell More Tales:
The Making of a New Adventure, plus Bloopers of
the Caribbean,
Jerry Bruckheimer
Photo Diary,
deleted scenes,
alternate coda,
and more.