STACK May 2016 Issue 139

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hat, they’ve remade Point Break already? Well, it has
een 25 years – that’s a long time in Hollywood. So, Patrick
wayze’s Bodhi and Keanu Reeves’ Utah have been replaced
ith newer, hipper models in Edgar Ramirez and Aussie Home
d Away escapee Luke Bracey. The story’s also been given a
1st century bump in the excitement stakes, with the action
quences amped considerably. The chilled bank-robbing
rfers are now a bunch of Robin Hood-styled extreme sports
hletes, pulling off such capers as nicking a fortune in cash
and then letting it loose over an underprivileged Mexican
village, and ripping off diamonds from a skyscraper before parachuting to
freedom. But with FBI guy Utah deeply embedded among them, they’re gonna
go down, right? Much like a movie equivalent of your favourite energy drink,
this Point Break takes Hollywood recycling TO THE EXTREME! AF
100% pure adrenaline.
POINT BREAK
Release Date: 11/05/16 Format:
ith over 60 books in R.L. Stine's mega-selling series
f scary tales for kids, how does Hollywood pull off a
oosebumps movie? It takes a meta approach; casting
ack Black as the reclusive author, who keeps his creepy
reations locked within their respective manuscripts in his
asement. When said books are opened, a maelstrom of
onsters is unleashed upon the quiet town of Madison,
elaware, and it's up to Stine's daughter (Odeya Rush)
nd her new neighbour (Dylan Minnette) to get the
fictional creatures back between the covers. A chaotic
clash of Jumanji and Night at the Museum, there's simply way too much
going on in this overly ambitious adventure, including Black pulling double
duty as Stine and the voice of his diabolical dummy nemesis, Slappy.
Goosebumps won't raise any, but kids will be sufficiently entertained. SH
There goes the neighbourhood.
GOOSEBUMPS
Release Date: 25/05/16 Format:
ur world hasn’t always been the paradise of gender
quality that it is today (a pause to let the scornful laughter
ubside). But seriously folks, things have actually come
uite a long way. While Australia was only second to New
ealand in allowing votes for women, the rest of the world
agged well behind. Early 1900s England was one such
lace, and this inequality gave birth to the suffragette
ovement – women inspired by one Emmeline Pankhurst
Meryl Streep), who were prepared to fight for justice,
often quite literally. Amidst this rousing maelstrom of
female assertiveness we have laundress Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan),
who is seduced by the movement. As such she is shunned by neighbours
and her husband alike, which just inspires her to further fight for the cause.
Suffragette is a gripping historical drama that also holds a few shocks. AF
They're going to move it, move it.
SUFFRAGETTE
Release Date: OUT NOW Format:
Law is, appropriately, a joy in this uplifting David O.
ssell dramedy that’s loosely based on real life. That
ould be the rise of American entrepreneur Joy Mangano,
ho went from inventing a mop that changed the face
, well, mopping, to running a multi-million dollar empire
eating home shopping products. We meet Joy when
e’s still juggling more than any woman should have to.
e’s a divorced mum with two young kids, her mother,
d and grandmother all living under her roof – plus her
, an aspiring lounge singer who’s still at the aspiring
stage. Creative since she was little, Joy works as an airline clerk, but
invents things in what little spare time she has. When she comes up with
the mop, Joy faces mass indifference – even her family are dismissive.
But she’s one tenacious woman, determined to, er, clean up. AF
J. Law cleans up.
JOY
Release Date: OUT NOW Format:
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