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032 AUGUST 2015 JB Hi-Fi
COMING SOON Hitting the JB shelves in September
Mad Max
Fury Road
The best reboot in the
history of franchise
reboots, and the best
action movie since Mad
Max 2. (Sept 2)
Ex Machina
The dangers inhere
in creating A.I. are
given a chilling new
dimension in Alex
Garland's superb sc
thriller. (Sept 10)
The Guest
You're Next director
Adam Wingard delivers
another '80s flavoured
thriller and turns Downt
Abbey's Dan Stevens int
a bad guy. (Sept 9)
Hot Tub Time
Machine 2
Another dip in the
temporal tub leads to
more paradoxes than
the recent Terminator
movie. (Sept 2)
FAST &
FURIOUS 7
DISC of the month:
Little Miss Zombie is quickly
cementing herself as a regular
among the walking dead –
first in Zombieland and more
recently alongside Arnie in
Maggie.
Scoring her big break in M.
Night Shyamalan’s Signs back
in 2002, Abigail Breslin went
on to star alongside her older
brother Spencer (Conrad the Annoying in The Cat in
the Hat) with Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews in
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, in which
she played a parade girl.
It was, however, her winning performance in Little
Miss Sunshine that propelled Breslin to stardom.
Olive Hoover’s beauty pageant prowess (that she
no doubt acquired during her time on The Princess
Diaries) earns her family a road trip they won’t
soon forget. Musing on her experience on the film:
“Everybody's always like, 'Are you so sick of people
saying Little Miss Sunshine?' No, because I'd so
much rather them say that than, like, 'Little Miss Effed
Up in the Head.' I love that movie. It's a part of me
and it always will be”.
Following a stint as the voice of a Labrador puppy
in Air Buddies, Breslin scored the role of Nim in Nim’s
Island alongside Jodie Foster and Gerard Butler. She
made us cry in My Sister’s Keeper, as the carer of the
terminally ill Sofia Vassilieva, then made us laugh as
the plucky little sister of Emma Stone in Zombieland .
Breslin found herself talking to Halle Berry from
the boot of a car in psycho-thriller The Call; in the
company of another dysfunctional family in August:
Osage County; and as the sister of alien combat whiz
Asa Butterfield in Ender's Game. In 2015 she returned
to the land of the living dead in Maggie, beating fellow
rising star Chloë Grace Moretz to the eponymous role.
As the daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Breslin is
infected with a zombie virus, which will turn her into a
flesh-eater – a long way from Little Miss Sunshine!
Breslin will also be seen in the upcoming horror-
comedy series Scream Queens, alongside Emma
Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lea Michele, Ariana
Grande and Nick Jonas, and is currently filming the
fantasy adventure Yamasong: March of the Hollows,
in which she plays an automated girl called Nani,
opposite Castle’s Nathan Fillion.
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Zombieland (2009)
My Sister's Keeper (2009)
Ender's Game (2013)
Maggie (2015)
ABIGAIL BRESLIN
visit EXTRAS DVD&BD
The Fast & the Furious films definitely
deliver what their title promises, but
also tend to wipe themselves from yo
once the ride is over. As well travelled as Bourne and
Bond, the locations come in handy when trying to
recall which film is which – Rio (Part 5), London (Part
6). Fast & Furious 7 has a major sequence set in Abu
Dhabi, but this time it's the insane action set pieces
that stick in the mind, as well as this being the final
curtain for late star Paul Walker as former cop Brian
O'Conner.
There's an almost cartoonish quality to dropping
cars from a plane to access a remote mountain road
(a scene that would be even more fun if parachutes
weren't involved), and the Wile E. Coyote-like ability
of Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel to emerge
unscathed from explosions, head-on collisions, and
being buried beneath a collapsing concrete carpark.
It's no more unbelievable than watching scantily clad
women parade around the United Arab Emirates.
Saw director James Wan is in the driver's seat
this time and orchestrates the colossal action
sequences with a prowess that proves he's more
than just a horror specialist (take a look at Wan's
2007 thriller Death Sentence, which was probably
instrumental in him landing the F&F 7 gig). Amidst
all the "vehicular warfare", Wan executes several
thrilling and well choreographed hand-to-hand
combat scenes, involving Michelle Rodriguez and
MMA fighter Ronda Rousey, and Walker and Muay
Thai martial arts master Tony Jaa.
So if you've never seen a Fast & Furious film, or
can't remember if you have, the seventh – and best
to date – is the one to watch.