STACK #159 Jan 2018

DVD&BD

REVIEWS

He made a bet. She made history. BATTLE OF THE SEXES

Nightmare logic. MOTHER!

Release Date: 17/01/18

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Release Date: 17/01/18

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Tennis pro Billie Jean King’s 1973 match against former champ and self-styled male chauvinist Bobby Riggs was a circus that captured global attention, while also highlighting the disparity in pay and respect between male and female players – issues that are still being battled today. This entertaining dramatisation from Little Miss Sunshine duo Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton is an ebullient romp through the early seventies, with the rampant sexism and dinosaur attitudes of the era played mostly for laughs. Emma Stone is simply ace as Billie

There’s a reason the title has an exclamation point – this is Darren Aronofsky’s most bonkers movie since The Fountain . Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem play a married couple living in a big old house in the middle of nowhere, which they have just restored after a fire. He’s a poet struggling with writer’s block and she’s focused on painting walls, behind which something weird and organic pulsates. Their hermetic world is shattered by the arrival of two strangers (Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer), who Bardem treats like old friends. Then an act of bloody

Jean King and Steve Carell is also at the top of his game, portraying Riggs as the exaggerated buffoon that he is. The final scores in the Battle of the Sexes are in the history books if you want spoilers, but the real victory is what Billie Jean achieved for gender equality and gay athletes. SH

violence brings more uninvited guests, and chaos reigns. Making sense of Mother! is like trying to understand Twin Peaks – it’s best to just go with the flow of this histrionic psychodrama, which invites comparisons to Polanski’s Repulsion and Aronofsky’s own Black Swan. SH

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JACKIE CHAN

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