STACK #152 Jun 2017

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His time has come. LOGAN

Release Date: 07/06/17 Format:

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Audio commentary by director James Mangold Deleted scenes with optional audio commentary by James Mangold

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Making Logan

The best has been saved for last in this swan song for the surly Wolverine, after five X-Men films and two spin-offs. Mutants have become virtually extinct by the year 2029, so a mad scientist (Richard E. Grant) has been designing his own, one of which is a mute young girl who has her own set of adamantium blades and the attitude to match. Having escaped and found her way into

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James Mangold stated that the film is set in 2029 to avoid any conflict with the timeline established in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), but that his goal was to make a standalone film that was not bound to continuing previous storylines, or setting up sequels.

Mangold for taking the creative risk of transplanting the Wolverine into a brutal and intense western noir devoid of the usual global threat and visual effects overload we’ve come to expect from the X-Men universe. Jackman hasn’t been this good since Prisoners and it’s the best he’s ever been as the Wolverine, who is finally given the standalone film he deserves and a fantastic, albeit relentlessly grim, send off. SH (See page 24)

Logan’s care, the Wolverine becomes a surrogate father to this temperamental little mutant and the pair hit the road. But don’t expect a sentimental journey – Logan is more concerned with slicing through heartstrings than tugging them. Where Deadpool rewrote the rulebook for violence in superhero movies, Logan throws it out – don’t let your kids watch this! Kudos to director James

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The Wolverine

Face your past. Choose your future. T2 TRAINSPOTTING

Release Date: 14/06/17

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When we last saw Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) he’d just ripped off his mates to the tune of 16,000 quid (and Underworld’s ‘Born Slippy’), and was going straight and choosing life. Now, 20 years later, he’s returned to Edinburgh to look up old friends, and needless to say it’s a tumultuous homecoming. After saving a suicidal Spud (Ewen Bremner), who’s still on heroin and a failure as a father, Renton

Although Irvine Welsh wrote a follow-up to his novel Trainspotting in 2002 called Porno , the movie sequel is actually only very loosely based on it. It’s mostly an original story which includes some unused parts of the Trainspotting novel, and some elements from Porno . Jonny Lee Miller offered to shave his head to look older, but Danny Boyle insisted that Sick Boy retain his iconic blond hair.

with Renton as the narrator and primary focus. T2 is a more sombre and measured affair that reflects its now middle-aged protagonists, dividing the screen time between all four characters and their respective subplots. The hyper-stylised look is back and nostalgia and fan service proliferate, with echoes and beats from the original resonating throughout this highly satisfying sequel. SH (See page 26)

looks up Sick Boy/Simon (Jonny Lee Miller), who offers him a partnership in a dodgy business venture. Then there is the matter of one Francis Begbie (Robert Carlyle), who’s still as psychotic as ever and has just made a sly prison break; it’s only a matter of time before he runs into Renton... Trainspotting defined the UK youth culture and music of the ‘90s,

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Trainspotting

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