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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 . NASH’S NEW PATH Graham Nash talks to STACK about his first solo album in 14 years.

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

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

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

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.”

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

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This Path Tonight by Graham Nash is out on April 15.

The Boss is due in cinemas from April 14

BIG OSCAR WINNERS DUE OUT NEXT MONTH A lthough the film with the biggest haul of 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 The Revenant

APRIL 2016 H O L L I E S M I T H WATER OR GOLD 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 This year’s best actor Oscar winners

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.

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