STACK #219 January 2023

CONTENTS

ISSUE 219 JAN

MOVIES & TV 6 Take 5 7 Babylon 8 Avatar: The Way of Water 10-11 Coming to cinemas in 2023 12 Black Adam 13 Halloween Ends 14 Doctor Who : Classic Season 2 Collection 15 The 10 best movies of 2022 16 The 10 best TV series of 2022 17 The 10 best 4K UHD releases of 2022 18 Out this month MUSIC 22 Wax chat with the kids 23 Thriving live 26-28 Choice cuts of ‘22 29 Cream of the ‘22 crop 30-31 AlbumTales: Arctic Monkeys’ 32 STACK Record Club 34-35 Album reviews 36 This month at JB GAMING 38 Take 5/Game Changers! 39 Fire Emblem Engage 40-41 Dead Space 42 Top 20 games of 2022 44-46 Team up for summer games! 48 STACK recommends 50 Out this month 52 Accessorise Now! 54 Fast Forward/Q5 TECH FLIP MAG AND READ FROM BACK 4 Tech Intro 6-30 It’s our jumbo back-to-school tech feature 32 Lifting the lid on air purifiers in the home 38 It’s our summer tech special! 42 Find out what our favourite tech devices of 2022 were. 44 What’s New in tech at JB this month Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (2006)

2023

WELCOME

The new year is off to an absolute flyer. Our vibrant cover for January features Dwayne Johnson, who grabs his dream role as DC Comics’ antihero Black Adam in a relentless action blast that promises to seriously shake up the superhero genre. Jamie Lee Curtis chats to STACK about bidding farewell to her iconic character Laurie Strode in Halloween Ends , and we select the ten best movies, TV series, and 4K UHD releases for 2022 – find out if your personal favourites made it onto the lists. School’s back in session at the end of the month for children across the country, and with the new start comes a new list of tech must-haves. Our writers have pulled together a guide to the best in back-to-school tech to cater to all budgets. We also look at air purifiers for the home, and pick our favourite tech devices from last year. Choice Cuts, our annual

analysis of the best records of 2022, leads in music, while the 40th-anniversary pressing of Michael Jackson’s Thriller features in Record Club. Fire Emblem Engage comes to the Nintendo Switch for gamers this January, and the excellent Dead Space (last seen on our screens back in 2008) gets a complete remake. It’s a good month in home entertainment to stay indoors and beat the heat! See you on the couch. Paul Jones, Editor-in-Chief

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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 Gill Pringle, Bob Jones Contributors Bryget Chrisfield, Jeff Jenkins, Simon Lukic, Billy Pinnell, Denise Hylands, Simon Winkler, Jake Cleland, Holly Pereira, Adam Colby, Bec Summer, Dan Nicholson, Alex Deutrom

Social Media Manager Glenn Cochrane Production Manager Craig Patterson Correspondence STACK editor@stack.com.au

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