STACK February 2017 Issue 148

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1 Miss Peregrine's Home
for Peculiar Children
2 The Magnificent Seven
3 Suicide Squad
4 Blood Father
5 The Hateful Eight
6 Deepwater Horizon
7 Sully
8 Stephen King's IT
9 The Revenant
10 Don't Breathe
BLU-RAY
BEST-SELLERS
for JANUARY 2017
1 Batman v Superman
2 The Magnificent Seven
3 Pacific Rim
4 Man of Steel
5 Jupiter Ascending
6 Suicide Squad
7 Inferno
8 Star Trek Beyond
9 Jason Bourne
10 The Great Gatsby (2013)
4K
BEST-SELLERS
for JANUARY 2017
T he simultaneous release of
selected 4K UHD titles with their
new release Blu-ray counterparts
has seen the range grow significantly sinc
launch. There's never been a better time
to be alive for movie buffs who value the
highest quality in video and audio.
Cruising onto the JB shelves this
month is Jack Reacher: Never Go
Back (Feb 22), with slick production
values accentuated in 4K. Extras include
featurettes: Reacher Returns, Rooftop
Battle, An Unexpected Family, On Location
In Louisiana, Lethal Combat, Reacher in
Focus: With Tom Cruise and Photographer
David James.
Also out on 4K in Feb is the thriller
The Accountant (Feb 15), in which Ben
Affleck moonlights as a number cruncher
for criminal organisations. Extras include
featurettes Inside the Man, Behavioral
Science, and The Accountant in Action.
Real-life disaster movie Deepwater
Horizon (out now) is the kind of immersive
experience that puts you in the midst of
an exploding oil rig, and the spectacular
FX are a perfect match for 4K. Plus it's
loaded with bonus featurettes: Beyond
the Horizon, Captain of the Rig: Peter
Berg, The Fury of the Rig, Deepwater
Surveillance, Work Like an American.
Dan Brown's latest, Inferno (out
now), is set against a backdrop
of museums, art galleries and
international locations, which benefit
considerably from the 4K upgrade.
The disc includes extended opening
and ending, extended and deleted
scenes, and featurettes.
And last, but by no means least,
is one of the year's best films. The
Oscar-nominated Arrival (Feb 22)
arrives on Blu-ray (no 4K as yet) in a
slipcase featuring alternative artwork
exclusive to JB stores, and bonus
featurettes: Acoustic Signatures: The
Sound Design, Nonlinear Thinking: The
Editing Process, Principles of Time,
Memory and Language.
I t's a massive month for
cult movie fans with a
number of perennial
favourites returning after being out
of print for years – and making their
debut on Blu-ray, to boot.
Mexican filmmaker Alejandro
Jodorowsky defined the midnight
movie experience with his surreal seventies'
masterpieces El Topo and The Holy
Mountain (both out now). One's a bizarre
western, the other a hallucinogenic
quest movie, and both practically defy
description. Each comes with a subtitled
audio commentary by Jodorowsky (worth
the price of the discs alone!), original
theatrical trailers and photo galleries.
El Topo also features a Jodorowsky
interview, while The Holy Mountain has
deleted scenes with commentary.
Before Kong: Skull Island stomps
into cinemas next month, along
comes the 1967 Japanese oddity
King Kong Escapes (Feb 22), in
which the big ape battles robo-foe
MechaKong with all the cheesiness
of a classic Godzilla smackdown.
Serial Mom (Feb 1) is one of
John Waters' last great films and
stars a show-stealing Kathleen
Turner as a suburban psychopath.
Death by leg of lamb is just one of
many comedic highlights.
Local cult movie merchants
Glass Doll Films continue to
impress with their latest HD
offering. Based on the novel by James Herbert,
The Survivor (Feb 15) was shot in Australia and
produced by Ozploitation kingpin
Antony I. Ginnane (Patrick, Turkey
Shoot). Extras include audio
commentary with Ginnane,
on-set interviews with director
David Hemmings and stars
Robert Powell and Angela Punch
McGreggor, as well as interviews
with Ginnane and DOP John
Searle, plus never before seen behind-the-scenes
Super 8 footage, poster gallery and a collector’s
booklet.
"Don't say it, hiss it" was the
tagline for the onomatopoeic
Sssssss (Feb 1), a 1973 mad
scientist tale in which Strother
Martin attempts to turn young lab
assistant Dirk Benedict into, you
guessed it, a snake. A King Cobra
to be exact.
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