STACK #144 Oct 2016

REVIEWS DVD&BD

Every voice deserves to be heard. FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS

Baseball daze and boogie nights. EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!

Release Date: 06/10/16

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Release Date: 05/10/16

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Monty Python cohort Neil Innes once quipped, “I’ve suffered for my music, and now it’s your turn”. He could easily have been quoting early 1900s New York socialite Florence Foster Jenkins – should she have had any awareness whatsoever as to how utterly horrific her opera “singing” was. A great patron of the arts, she was much loved, and carefully shielded from those who would try to bring her down due to her complete lack of vocal ability. But, perhaps ironically, her caterwauling ultimately attracted a legion of fans. This is, obviously,

Richard Linklater's "spiritual sequel" to his 1993 cult favourite Dazed and Confused charts the last three days of freedom for a group of twentysomething college baseball players before classes start. Our entry point is sensitive freshman Jake (Blake Jenner), who embarks on a wild weekend with his new buddies while attempting to woo an arts major (Zoey Deutch). The antithesis of the crass frat boy comedy, there's no real plot to speak of – Everybody Wants Some!! is about the ritual of male bonding and taking an enjoyable trip

her story, with Meryl Streep taking to the titular role with much gusto, while Hugh Grant does his utmost best to support the woman whom he obviously truly adores. You probably won’t buy the soundtrack, but FFJ delivers finely-tuned entertainment. AF

back to 1980 in the company of a bunch of amiable dudes sporting paisley shirts and porn star moustaches. The cast is great, particularly former Glee star Jenner and Glen Powell ( Scream Queens ), and a soundtrack of disco hits nicely complements the bong hits. SH

A killer couple. MR. RIGHT

It's time for a little madness. ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

Release Date: 12/10/16

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Sweet and significantly quirky Martha (Anna Kendrick) has just dumped her philandering boyfriend, and is deep in a “what do I do now?” fugue when she meets a rather odd gentleman in a supermarket. He’s Francis (Sam Rockwell). He’s also a hitman – or perhaps a reverse hitman, for he tends to snuff those who book him, rather than the intended targets. After all, wanting to kill somebody isn’t very nice! Anyway, something sparkles between Francis and Martha, they get chatting and the smitten thing blooms. He’s completely honest

This sequel to Tim Burton’s 2010 film is, curiouser and curiouser, more entertaining. Alice (Mia Wasikowska) returns home to London after three years at sea and is quickly lured back into Wonderland through a magic mirror, where she discovers her friend the Hatter (Johnny Depp) is not so much mad as depressed over the whereabouts of his long lost family. Determined to set things right, Alice commandeers a gyroscopic time machine and returns to the past to find the Hatter’s kin. The theme is time in this ‘Days of Future Past’ take on Lewis Carroll’s classic, so naturally the message for

about his past – she thinks he’s just eccentric. But reality soon dawns, with everybody from amateurs to Tim Roth aiming to gun Francis down. Frenetic, fun and often frightfully funny, Rockwell and Kendrick really fire in what’s possibly the most bullet-riddled romcom ever. AF

kids is that you can’t change the past, and to cherish every second, minute and hour. Alice Through the Looking Glass is darker and more melancholic in tone, but no less crammed with candy-coloured CGI. However, unlike the first film, you won’t feel like you’ve eaten a kilo of M&Ms by the end. SH

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