STACK #204 Oct 2021

FILM & TV PREVIEWS

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MOVIES & TV SHOWS

GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE Marvel franchise alumna Karen Gillen leads a femme-powered cast in Gunpowder Milkshake , playing a young assassin who

THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR: S1 The second, standalone entry in Mike Flanagan's The Haunting anthology follows American au pair Dani (Victoria Pedretti),

has to bury the hatchet with her mum in order to save a young girl. Who's her mum? A former crackerjack assassin herself, played with total relish by Lena Headey. Noir-licked and neon-lit,

who gains employment at the eponymous English estate – but it takes just one night of eerie talismans, sudden spectres and the children's warnings to confirm that Bly Manor has a very sinister past, which could well be seeping into the present.

this is a gorgeous-looking good time.

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THE TWILIGHT ZONE: SEASON 2 Season 2 of Jordan Peele's acclaimed reboot presents 10 creepy and twisted stories: there's Jimmi Simpson ( Westworld ) as a man whose

WAR OF THE WORLDS: SEASON 2 This gritty reimagining of H. G. Wells' classic novel delivers more stirring performances from veteran character actor Gabriel Byrne,

hallucinations drive him to horrific actions, Jenna Elfman ( Dharma & Greg ) and Christopher Meloni ( Law and Order: SVU ) as a couple

and breakout star of Normal People Daisy Edgar-Jones. Emily (Edgar- Jones) continues to explore her cyborg connection, the aliens make

who discover an oddly familiar alien lifeform, and Topher Grace ( BlacKkKlansman ) as a lovestruck man in a timeloop.

bold moves, and the swapping of allegiances (with one deadly deception) keep scientist Bill (Byrne) and his faction alert.

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THE FLASH: SEASON 7 Team Flash have their work cut out for them in Season 7; while Iris is still trapped in the Mirror Dimension created by diabolical quantum engineer Eva McCullough

THE BLACKLIST: SEASON 8 Having achieved consistently adoring acclaim throughout seven seasons, The Blacklist returns with a wildly entertaining and action-

crammed Season 8. FBI Agent Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone) finally gets to the heart of informant Reddington's (James Spader) secrets, which flings the two of them into one another's crosshairs in totally

(Efrat Dor), Flash (Grant Gustin) and his posse manage to create a new, artificial Speed Force – but soon have to contend with its accompanying, possibly more

potent Forces: Strength, Sage and Still.

unanticipated, electrifying ways.

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NOTORIOUS NICK Born with a partial left arm, Nick Newell had plenty of reasons to stay away from contact sports. But in 2011 – having already

POSSESSION Feast your eyes upon Isabelle Adjani's Best Actress-winning performance (Cannes '81) as Anna, wife of Mark (Sam Neil), and the pair's increasingly bonkers and blood-spattered break-up! This

mastered wrestling and jiu-jitsu – Newell began a career in the most intensive professional combat sport there is: MMA (mixed martial arts). Cody Christian ( Teen Wolf ) plays Newell in this moving

sensual psychological horror was a commercial failure upon its release in 1981 by late Polish director

Andrzej Zulawski, but has thankfully achieved cult classic – and Blu-ray deserving – status.

and inspirational real life story.

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FEAR THE WALKING DEAD: SEASON 6 Lennie James continues his celebrated turn as hard-headed zombie apocalypse survivor Morgan Jones, who – at Season 6's

ZONE 414 Guy Pearce knocks it out of the park as private investigator David Carmichael in this dystopian neo-noir, which also stars Matilda Lutz ( Rings ) as a sentient cyborg

opening – has been left for dead with a gaping gunshot wound, courtesy of brutal Pioneers leader Virginia (Colby Minifie). Meanwhile there are desperate scenes and vendettas amongst the settlements,

with some great wigs and a savage stalker, and an almost- unrecognisable Travis Fimmel ( Vikings ) as the creator of Zone 414 , a city of robots. For fans of Ex Machina and Blade Runner.

and the walking dead are never too far afoot.

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