STACK #147 Jan 2017

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Scary Poppins. MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN

Release Date: 04/01/17 Format:

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The Peculiar Story Map of Days

“Wish That You Were Here” – Florence + The Machine Music Video Gallery

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The Peculiars Hollows and Ex-Hollows

We challenged a friend, who hadn’t heard of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children , to guess the director. With scarcely a second’s thought they proffered, “Tim Burton?” The title screams Burton’s affinity for the offbeat, the out there – the, well, peculiar. From Pee-wee’s Big Adventure to Edward Scissorhands , Ed Wood to – uh, we’ll shoom past our

DID YOU KNOW...

Author Ransom Riggs has published three books in this series. The sequel to the first book is Hollow City , followed by Library of Souls . Eva Green was very fond of the pipe, citing it as a beautiful prop combining feminine and masculine aspects of Miss Peregrine’s character. She ultimately kept it as a souvenir.

word count if we keep listing – he’s championed the underdog. Such is the case here, with this visual movie feast based on a visual novel feast, Ransom Riggs’ book of the same name. It centres upon young social outcast Jake (Asa Butterfield), and the murder of his beloved grandpa. The manner of his grandfather’s death causes Jake to realise that his fantastic tales of monsters and more weren’t mere fiction, leading him to Wales. Here Who do you trust when you can’t trust yourself? THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

Jake discovers the home of the title, the appropriately birdlike Miss Peregrine (Eva Green) and her youthful charges – each of whom are, duh, peculiar! With invisible types to the super-strong, floaty, fiery and beyond, Jake discovers that he belongs – and is critical to the survival of his newfound, time-travelling family. It’s grand adventure – and without a Depp (or Elfman) in sight! AF (See page 20)

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Dark Shadows

Release Date: 25/01/17

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Deleted and Extended Scenes The Women Behind the Girl On Board the Train Feature Commentary with Director Tate Taylor

DID YOU KNOW...

The novel debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 2015 list and remained in the top position for 15 weeks, 13 of which were consecutive. The book had sold more than 3 million copies in the United States alone as of July 2015. In the book, Rachel Watson is described as chubby from being an alcoholic. Emily Blunt was pregnant with her daughter Violet during filming.

If you commute by train and choose to look out the window, you can peer in on everything from the mundanity of gridlocked drivers to the excitement of artful graffiti. Psychological thriller The Girl on the Train , based on the smash hit novel by Paula Hawkins but moved from London to New York, sees Emily Blunt as Rachel Wilson, who becomes involved in a wholly more Rear Window -

like approach to railway voyeurism. She’s a jobless alcoholic, barely keeping herself together since the end of her marriage, which followed a bout of cheating by her ex – who’s now shacked up in her house with the subject of his affair and a bouncy new baby. So why the daily commute? She isn’t doing it for work, rather she’s trying to maintain some semblance of her

normal life before losing her job. It’s on this daily back- and-forth that she becomes somewhat fixated upon former neighbours of hers. When one of them turns up dead, Rachel becomes embroiled in the mystery... It’s no airy girls’ night out, but worth the price of admission simply for Blunt’s gobsmacking immersion into her character’s grim life. AF (See page 24)

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Gone Girl

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