STACK #162 April 2018

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The celebration of a lifetime. COCO

Release Date: 04/04/18 Format:

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Dante How to Draw a Skeleton Welcome to the Fiesta (with audio commentary) Feature Audio Commentary by Director Lee Unkrich, Co-Director / Writer Adrian Molina, and Producer Darla K. Anderson Blu-ray with Alternative Artwork Special Features - Disc 2: - A Thousand Pictures a Day - The Music of Coco - Land of Our Ancestors - Fashion Through the Ages - The Real Guitar - Paths to Pixar: Coco - How to Make Papel Picado - You Got The Part! - Deleted Scenes - Promo - Un Poco Coco

Coco follows young Miguel as he struggles to work out how he fits into his family. His great-great- grandmother married a gifted musician, who then abandoned his family and was never heard from again. His mama imposed a ban on music in the family, which has been adhered to through the generations. Miguel, inspired by videos and performances he has seen of the late great musician Ernesto de la Cruz, yearns to

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his music idol while he can? This year’s Oscar-winner for Best Animated Feature is one of the most beautifully animated films in recent memory, even by Pixar’s lofty standards. Both Miguel’s world of the living and the Land of the Dead are vibrant, colourful landscapes full of depth and life. Boasting a wonderful Mexican flavour, a stirring score, and an emphasis on family and culture, Coco is a must-see – and also a genuine tear-jerker. AK

become an admired musician. After breaking into the cemetery to steal de la Cruz’s guitar – to play at the local talent show on Dia De Los Muertos (the Day of the Dead) – he is mystically swept into the Land of the Dead, where he meets the spirits of his long departed family and must earn their blessing to return to the living world. But should he also seize the opportunity to meet

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Inside Out

A man with the heart of a nation. DARKEST HOUR

Release Date: 18/04/18

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Into Darkest Hour Gary Oldman: Becoming Churchill Feature Commentary with Director Joe Wright

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Gary Oldman revealed on The Graham Norton Show that he smoked £30,000 worth of cigars on set (about 12 cigars a day) while in character as Churchill, developed nicotine poisoning, and had a colonoscopy during the Christmas filming break.

Gary Oldman is Winston Churchill. Buried under pounds of jowly makeup, his Oscar-winning performance as the iconic British PM is the centerpiece of director Joe Wright’s gripping account of the inspirational wartime leader’s early days in office. Darkest Hour finds Winston at a crucial juncture, having just been appointed PM after parliament loses confidence in Neville Chamberlain. Facing distrust from his own party and King George

never surrenders to the sort of grandstanding that can overwhelm the drama, and Wright delivers his best film since Atonement (2007). Together with Churchill and Dunkirk , Darkest Hour completes an unofficial trilogy of recent films on the events and politics that shaped Britain’s involvement in World War II. SH

(Ben Mendelsohn), after his tactical failure at Gallipoli, Churchill’s implementation of Operation Dynamo (the rescue of 300,000 men at Dunkirk) and his refusal to negotiate a peace with Hitler proves instrumental in rallying the nation to “never surrender.” Oldman, too,

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