STACK NZ Dec #80

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A wilder west THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN

Release Date: 28/12/16 Format:

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Directing the Seven Rogue Bogue The Seven Magnificent Music

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Vengeance Mode Deleted Scenes Gunslingers The Taking of Rose Creek

Those who gripe that there’s no need to remake The Magnificent Seven should remember that John Sturges’ 1960 Western classic was itself a reimagination of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai . This time around, instead of a Mexican peasant village it’s the community of Rose Creek that needs protection from dastardly

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Composer James Horner and Antoine Fuqua became friends while making Southpaw . According to Fuqua, Horner’s team visited him on the film’s set in Baton Rouge, one month after Horner’s accidental death, to deliver the completed score. Horner had been so inspired after reading the script that he composed the entire score during pre-production.

industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), who wants to strip mine the town and exploit the residents as a workforce. After her husband is gunned down in the street, local girl Emma Cullen (Haley Bennett) enlists bounty hunter Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington) and six gunslingers (Ethan Hawke, Chris Pratt, Vincent D’Onofrio, Byung Hun-Lee, Martin

Sensmeier, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) to oust Bogue and his goons. Director Antoine Fuqua ( Training Day ) wisely avoids a hip and cool makeover – this is a very traditional Western, with lashings of Leone and Ford and an explosive climax that’s pure Peckinpah. It’s also a reminder that this often neglected genre is still loaded with grand entertainment value. Scott Hocking

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The Magnificent Seven (1960)

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Wonder what they do all day? THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS

Release Date: 14/12/16

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The Humans That Brought You Pets: Meet the Team Animals Can Talk: Meet the Actors All About the Pets Hairstylist to the Dogs The Best of Snowball “Lovely Day” Lyric Video Hot Dog Sing Along Brian the Minion on Pets GoPro - The Secret Life of Pets

You head to work each weekday, content that your beloved pet will behave, spending the day pining for your return. Ha-ha – fool! You have a life, so why shouldn’t they? From conscience wrestles with roast chooks to eschewing classical music for a spot of System of the Down head-banging, The Secret Life of Pets does for our cats, dogs, birds and such what

SING Trailer Mini-Movies - NTV: Norman Television - Weenie - Mower Minions The Making of the Mini- Movies

In the house filled with cats, you can see the news reporter from Despicable Me on the TV. DID YOU KNOW...

things go down they have to collaborate. There’s a bunny named Snowball, you see, who’s the leader of ‘The Flushed Pets’. He and his crew are pretty peeved at being rejected, and are plotting revenge on humans. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll crave sausages! The Secret Life of Pets , from the Despicable Me peeps, is fab fun for all the family – yes, even your animal companions. Probably. Amy Flower

Toy Story did for cowboy dolls, plastic space rangers and rubber dinosaurs. RARRRR! The star is a terrier named Max, who shares a Manhattan apartment with his human, Katie. One day she has a surprise for the little guy – a BIG guy named Duke, who’s to be Max’s adopted bro. Uh-oh! Max isn’t impressed at this hairy behemoth stealing Katie’s affection, but when bigger

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Zootopia

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