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ROGUE GOES TEMPLAR
A ccording to Ubisoft, fans of its Assassin’s
Creed franchise have petitioned long and
hard for the opportunity to play as aTemplar.
Well, this month they will finally get a chance. “Our
fans have been expecting to experience the “other
side” for quite a long time -- as early as AC1 and
AC2,” reveals producer on Assassin’s Creed: Rogue,
Ivan Balabanov. “During our early discussions on the
concept of Rogue, we decided that we have the
perfect opportunity to close off the North American
Trilogy. Rogue takes place after Black Flag and
before ACIII. In Black Flag, we see the star of the
Assassin brotherhood in the NewWorld on the rise.
In ACIII, the Brotherhood is completely broken, and
Connor needs to rebuild it. With Rogue, and its
Templar protagonist, we’ll explain what happened
between these two periods.”You can read all about
Assassin’s Creed: Rogue in this issue on page 46,
and play it on November 13.
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BIG MATT
WITH CHEESE
This Matthew McConaughey box
set is one from the good ‘ol days,
back when he was a carefree leading
man, before he got serious and stuff.
We know, we know, he’s
not all just washboard abs
and cheekbones. He’s won
the Best Actor Oscar for
Dallas Buyers Club , and almost
clinched an unprecedented
double the same year with
an Emmy nomination for
HBO’s True Detective. He
also played a fugitive
on the run in Mud and
a hitman in Killer Joe.
And now he’s about
to save humanity in
Christopher Nolan’s
Q1/ How did moving to the country
affect the songwriting on Night Shade?
It was after a build up over my life, after never having had
a time without lots of people around. I’d never known what
it was like to live on my own, in an isolated place. I’d never
made a conscious decision to actually have a rest, see what
it’s like to be me. That environment was conducive to all the
internal lessons and awareness-growing I went through,
and that’s come out in these songs.
Q2/ The cowgirl/spaghetti western feel
is gone; this is more complex. Are you
getting the ‘why?’ question a lot?
It’s a good question: it’s the elephant in the room. It’s an
obvious change, and people want to know how that came
about. It gives me an opportunity to talk about my journey
of the last two years: moving from the city to the country,
and being a bit more internal rather than external. The music
comes from a deeper place now, a place I’d never contacted
before. The music has come from more of an internal
compass, feeling instead of thinking.
Q3/ How the does the album explore
notions of femininity?
Masculine energy is outward, it’s ‘doing’, it’s the sun.
Feminine energy is more receptive, internal and dark, it’s
the moon; that’s the yin and yang. Your instinctual nature
and what lessons there are to be learned, is all through
this album. It’s not ‘ok’ to express a raw emotion in our
society now. When you squash it, what comes up is a
false projection of happiness, you’re not ‘living’.
Q4/ Tell us about the song Mother.
It’s six minutes, but there’s a secret track at the end of
the track. It was inspired by The Flinders Ranges; I went
up there with five women on a five-hour bush walk, up this
creek bed. It was so beautiful, I’d never been on an all day
bush walk with five women before!
Q5/ How would you characterise
Night Shade all up?
The first record was live, much more spontaneous. This is
more planned, we spent more time working on the subtleties.
It’s freer though, there’s more scope, the
band have more room to express themselves.
Night Shade by Lanie Laneis out now
via Liberation/Universal Music.
Lanie Lane
Interstellar. In short, Matthew McConaughey
has ditched that clean cut, shirtless, rom-com
image. But frankly, that’s not all good. Retro
McConaughey was not without his own
distinctive, dreamboat charms. At least we can
look back fondly with this JB Hi-Fi exclusive
Matthew McConaughey Collection. It
features the Texas-born superstar in Failure to
Launch, Sahara, and How to Lose a Guy in 10
Days, alongside leading ladies Sarah Jessica
Parker, Penélope Cruz and Kate Hudson,
respectively. If you’re a newcomer to the
charms of McConaughey, this tidy little
box set will transport you back to a
time when he was the
leading man
of choice, and
the romantic
romp was all
the better for it.
For a complete
MM career
retrospective,
make sure you
check out our
Actors Series on
pages 28–30.
Dallas
Buyers Club
A CLINT EASTWOOD FILM