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After the cannibal gore-fest The Green Inferno, Eli Roth is set to tackle a very
different sort on man-eater in Meg.
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04 APRIL 2016
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BIG OSCAR WINNERS DUE OUT NEXT MONTH
A lthough the film with the biggest haul of
Academy Awards – Mad Max: Fury Road with
six – is already out, most of the year’s other
high profile winners will start heading onto the DVD and
Blu-ray shelves in May.
Top of your pre-order list should be The Revenant, which
earned Leonardo DiCaprio his overdue Best Actor Oscar and
Alejandro G. Iñarritu ( Birdman) his second consecutive Best
Director statuette. The survival epic is due to be released on
May 18 and is expected to be followed a week later by the
star-studded financial crisis dramedy The Big Short, which
won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and
The Danish Girl, which saw Alicia Vikander pick up the Best
Supporting Actress Oscar.
Although dates are stlll to be announced, this year’s
winner of Best Picture (plus Original Screenplay), Spotlight,
has been earmarked for an early June release, alongside
Room, for which Brie Larson won the coveted Best Actress
award. Sylvester Stallone had been expected to win the Best
Supporting Actor award for Creed – which is out this month
on DVD – but the statuette instead went to British actor Mark
Rylance for Bridge of Spies, which was released last month.
NASH’S NEW PATH
Graham Nash talks to STACK about his first solo album in 14 years.
This year’s best actor Oscar winners
M yself at Last , the second
track on Graham Nash’s
sixth solo album This Path
Tonight, is about the end
of a relationship and the start of a
new one.
But it could also be seen as a
statement of intent from an artist
who’s spent the best of the past two
decades performing and recording
with his celebrated music partners
Stephen Stills, David Crosby and
Neil Young. Speaking to STACK from
California, the affable English-born
singer-songwriter agrees: “This year
it’s about me,” he affirms.
This Path Tonight was written
with and produced by Shayne
Fontayne, who Nash met when the
latter signed on as second electric
guitarist with Crosby, Stills and Nash.
It’s a very personal record, inspired
in part by his recent split with his
wife of almost 40 years and the beginning of a new
relationship.
“Divorce is a difficult process,” Nash admits. “I am
a private person but I am a musician, and as a musician
you have to be as honest as possible, and this is what is
going on with me in my life.”
The album itself came together very
quickly: Nash and Fontayne penned
more than 20 songs in a month and it
was recorded in just over a week with
a small group of musicians; in fact, one
of the tracks, the moving Levon Helm
tribute Back Home, was taken directly
from a demo Nash recorded on his
tour bus.
Although mainly personal in
nature, the bonus tracks on the deluxe
version of the album feature two fiery
political numbers: Mississippi Burning,
a traditional protest song about the
murder of three college student civil
rights workers in the 1960s, and Watch
Out for the Wind, which was inspired by
the police shooting of a young African
American in Missouri in 2014.
So does longtime activist Nash
believe that Donald Trump will be the
next inhabitant of the White House?
“Normally I would say, no, there is
not a shot in hell that Trump will be the president of the
United States,“ he replies. “But remember we elected
Ronald Reagan twice, and we elected George W. Bush
twice, so you never know…” John Ferguson
This Path Tonight by Graham Nash is out on April 15.
WHO'S THE BOSS?
A s a fledgling improv comedy performer,
Melissa McCarthy created a red-haired,
overly made-up character named Michelle
Darnell whom she described as a “megalomaniac
narcissist”. Unable to shake off her creation, 15 years
later, Darnell takes centre stage in McCarthy’s latest
comedy, The Boss.
A colourful financial guru who fills stadiums with
her admirers, The Boss sees Darnell shamed and sent
to prison for insider trading, and forced to rebuild her
image with the help of her one-time assistant,
Kristen Bell.
As mistress of her own comedy empire, McCarthy
squirms at female stereotypes.“I think a confident
woman who knows what she wants and asks for it is
labeled as pushy or aggressive, but when a man does it,
he’s considered to be really good at his job,” she argues.
If her Darnell alter-ego is easy to laugh at, then
McCarthy turns serious when STACK meets with her.
“I think it’s good to know that, at the end of the day,
you’re in charge of your own behaviour. Do you excel?
Do you try hard? Do you work as hard as you can? I like
the concept that you can adjust your ‘You’re in charge of
your destiny’ attitude.” Gill Pringle
The Boss is due in cinemas from April 14
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