STACK #208 Feb 2022

CONTENTS

ISSUE 208 FEB 2022

MOVIES & TV 6 Take 5 8 Death on the Nile 10 Belfast 12 Eternals

WELCOME This month in movies, Eternals adds ten new superheroes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe; sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage introduces a nemesis for Tom Hardy; and STACK chats with renowned filmmaker and actor Kenneth Branagh – twice! – about his new films, Belfast and Death on the Nile . Our games cover celebrates the arrival of the hotly-anticipated PlayStation exclusive, Horizon Forbidden West ; we take to the track with GRID: Legends and revisit some classic zombie gaming to celebrate the arrival of

14 Venom: Let There Be Carnage 16 The Many Saints of Newark

18 New from Imprint Films 20 Doctor Who : Season 17 22 Out this month LIFE TECH 24 Life Tech intro 26-30 Mobile gaming

Dying Light 2: Stay Human . In Life Tech we focus on mobile gaming, the latest smartphones to hit the shelves at JB, wireless phone car chargers, and Samsung’s exciting new Freestyle projector. And in music, peerless axe-king Slash tells us why a guitar solo is like speech; we chit-chat with Alt-J, Broods, and William Crighton on their

32-38 Smartphone special 40-42 Wireless car chargers 44-48 Back to Uni 50-52 Garmin 54-56 Headphones for working from home 58 The Freestyle 60 Sony ZV-1 62-64 CES 66 What’s New at JB MUSIC 68-74 The Music Room: interviews with Slash, Alt-J and more 76-77 Oil on Troubled Waters: Midnight Oil cover feature 78-79 STACK Record Club 80 This month at JB 82 AlbumTales: Daft Punk’s Homework (1997) 84-85 Album reviews GAMING FLIP MAG AND READ FROM BACK 2 Take 5/Game Changers! 4 Fast Forward/Q5 6 Horizon Forbidden West 8 GRID: Legends 10 Dying Light 2: Stay Human 12 Accessorise Now! 14 STACK Recommends 15 Out this month

new LPs; look back at Daft Punk’s debut ahead of its 25th anniversary reissue; and in honour of the late Ronnie Spector, celebrate our fave singing sister duos. Paul Jones, Editor-in-Chief

Founder Nic Short Editor-in-Chief Paul Jones Film & TV Editor Scott Hocking Music Editor Zoë Radas Games & Online Editor Amy Flower Creative Director Gary Siewert Movies Consultant Kerrie Taylor Games Consultant Sachi Fernando Music Consultant Mike Glynn

Marketing Manager Fleur Parker Chief Contributors Bob Jones, Gill Pringle Contributors Vale Anthony Horan 1966-2022 Glenn Cochrane, Bryget Chrisfield, Jeff Jenkins, Simon Lukic, Billy Pinnell, Denise Hylands, Simon Winkler, Jake Cleland, Holly Pereira, Adam Colby, Bec Summer,

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