STACK #130 Aug 2016

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FAST & FURIOUS 7 DISC of the month:

ABIGAIL BRESLIN

The Fast & the Furious films definitely deliver what their title promises, but

Little Miss Zombie is quickly cementing herself as a regular among the walking dead – first in Zombieland and more recently alongside Arnie in Maggie . Scoring her big break in M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs back in 2002, Abigail Breslin went on to star alongside her older

also tend to wipe themselves from your memory once the ride is over. As well travelled as Bourne and Bond, the locations come in handy when trying to recall which film is which – Rio (Part 5), London (Part 6). Fast & Furious 7 has a major sequence set in Abu Dhabi, but this time it's the insane action set pieces that stick in the mind, as well as this being the final curtain for late star Paul Walker as former cop Brian O'Conner. There's an almost cartoonish quality to dropping cars from a plane to access a remote mountain road (a scene that would be even more fun if parachutes weren't involved), and the Wile E. Coyote-like ability of Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel to emerge unscathed from explosions, head-on collisions, and being buried beneath a collapsing concrete carpark. It's no more unbelievable than watching scantily clad women parade around the United Arab Emirates. Saw director James Wan is in the driver's seat this time and orchestrates the colossal action sequences with a prowess that proves he's more than just a horror specialist (take a look at Wan's 2007 thriller Death Sentence , which was probably instrumental in him landing the F&F 7 gig). Amidst all the "vehicular warfare", Wan executes several thrilling and well choreographed hand-to-hand combat scenes, involving Michelle Rodriguez and MMA fighter Ronda Rousey, and Walker and Muay Thai martial arts master Tony Jaa. So if you've never seen a Fast & Furious film, or can't remember if you have, the seventh – and best to date – is the one to watch.

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

brother Spencer (Conrad the Annoying in The Cat in the Hat ) with Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement , in which she played a parade girl. It was, however, her winning performance in Little Miss Sunshine that propelled Breslin to stardom. Olive Hoover’s beauty pageant prowess (that she no doubt acquired during her time on The Princess Diaries ) earns her family a road trip they won’t soon forget. Musing on her experience on the film: “Everybody's always like, 'Are you so sick of people saying Little Miss Sunshine ?' No, because I'd so much rather them say that than, like, 'Little Miss Effed Up in the Head.' I love that movie. It's a part of me and it always will be”. Following a stint as the voice of a Labrador puppy in Air Buddies , Breslin scored the role of Nim in Nim’s Island alongside Jodie Foster and Gerard Butler. She made us cry in My Sister’s Keeper , as the carer of the terminally ill Sofia Vassilieva, then made us laugh as the plucky little sister of Emma Stone in Zombieland . Breslin found herself talking to Halle Berry from the boot of a car in psycho-thriller The Call ; in the company of another dysfunctional family in August: Osage County; and as the sister of alien combat whiz Asa Butterfield in Ender's Game . In 2015 she returned to the land of the living dead in Maggie , beating fellow rising star Chloë Grace Moretz to the eponymous role. As the daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Breslin is infected with a zombie virus, which will turn her into a flesh-eater – a long way from Little Miss Sunshine ! Breslin will also be seen in the upcoming horror- comedy series Scream Queens , alongside Emma Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lea Michele, Ariana Grande and Nick Jonas, and is currently filming the fantasy adventure Yamasong: March of the Hollows , in which she plays an automated girl called Nani, opposite Castle ’s Nathan Fillion.

Zombieland (2009)

My Sister's Keeper (2009)

Ender's Game (2013)

Maggie (2015)

COMING SOON Hitting the JB shelves in September Mad Max Fury Road The best reboot in the history of franchise reboots, and the best action movie since Mad Max 2 . (Sept 2) Ex Machina The dangers inherent in creating A.I. are given a chilling new dimension in Alex Garland's superb sci-fi thriller. (Sept 10) The Guest You're Next director Adam Wingard delivers another '80s flavoured thriller and turns Downton Abbey 's Dan Stevens into a bad guy. (Sept 9)

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 Another dip in the temporal tub leads to more paradoxes than the recent Terminator movie. (Sept 2)

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