STACK #148 Feb 2017

HIGH-DEF HIGHLIGHTS

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BLU-RAY 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 since 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 .

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

4K BEST-SELLERS for JANUARY 2017

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

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

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

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

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)

Searle, plus never before seen behind-the-scenes Super 8 footage, poster gallery and a collector’s booklet.

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.

"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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