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WELCOME My wife calls me a Blu-ray snob because I prefer to watch my films on that format. I disagree. I do watch DVDs – the majority of advance press screeners that we receive from studios for review are on this format (not to mention heavily watermarked). But for blockbusters, or a classic from Hollywood’s illustrious past, there’s only one way to watch it – on Blu. A cinemaphile for as long as I can remember, it’s not just the High-Def visual and audio experience that draws me to Blu-ray, it’s all the extras that I obsessively scrutinise for every detail of information I can find about the film I’ve just seen. Blu-ray now has a monopoly on bonus features like director commentaries, behind-the-scenes documentaries and deleted scenes, which makes recent fan favourites like Deadpool and Star Wars: The Force Awakens all the more essential on Blu. Moreover, the collectable nature of the format makes it the perfect fit for limited edition Steelbook packaging on selected releases, which you’ll only find in JB stores. Until the uptake and range of 4K UHD titles increases, Blu-ray remains the benchmark for High-Def home entertainment. Paul Jones, Editor-in-Chief

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Extras Pg 10–12

Cinema Pg 14–20

DVD & BD Pg 26–46

Games Pg 47–69

Music From back Pg 1–21

Pg 8–12 NEWS Supanova and Oz Comic-Con are back in June, and E3 is going to blow the lid on the hottest games coming this year. Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling play nice in an all-new buddy movie, and Harley Quinn joins a handful of female comic book characters set to get a standalone film. Pg 22–24 BOB J. The epic production of Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee reaches the editing room, while studio execs plot the director’s downfall. Pg 34-35 DAVID LYNCH STACK ’s Beginner’s Guide introduces you to the man Mel Brooks called “Jimmy Stewart from Mars.” Pg 70 GIVEAWAYS Win your own drone, a LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens game prize-pack (inc. BB-8 bag), an Elgato Game Capture HD60, and more.

Pg 14-15 INTERVIEW The defence of our planet is in capable hands – Liam Hemsworth’s to be precise – in the alien invasion sequel Independence Day: Resurgence . Pg 16 CINEMA BUZZ Megan Fox comes out of her shell for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows , and Jesse Eisenberg uses his illusions in Now You See Me: The Second Act . Pg 18–20 CINEMA REVIEWS X-Men: Apocalypse, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Captain America: Civil War, Bad Neighbours 2, Bastille Day

Pg 26-27 THE HATEFUL EIGHT STACK ’s Scott Hocking talks Jennifer Jason Leigh, 70mm and Ennio Morricone with director Quentin Tarantino. Pg 28 ROOM This powerful drama will affect viewers on a number of different levels, says its Oscar-winning star, Brie Larson. Pg 30 BLACK SAILS A prelude to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island , this pirate series is on a course to greater success with a knockout third season. Pg 32 DOWNTON ABBEY From the very beginning, star Phyllis Logan was the housekeeper who saw it all in the beloved British series. She shares some of her memories with STACK . Pg 36-44 REVIEWS Zootopia, Room, The Danish Girl, Trumbo, Lady in the Van, Carol, Brooklyn, Son of Saul, Triple 9, Steve Jobs, Concussion, London Has Fallen, Zoolander 2, How to Be Single, Dirty Grandpa, Grimsby, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Black Sails: Season 3, Even Lambs Have Teeth, Kindergarten Cop 2, Arrowhead, and more...

Pg 50-52 lego Star wars: the force awakens “Why does everyone want to go back to Jakku?” Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been reimagined in LEGO form, and there’s some added content that’s worth checking out. 11 levels from the movie and seven full of brand new content – that’s nothing to poke a stick AT-AT. Pg 54 THE WITCHER 3 The latest Witcher 3: Wild Hunt expansion, Blood and Wine, is out now, and VaatiVidya walks you through Geralt’s latest adventure. Pg 56 game changer The second – and final – part of our coverage of the original DOOM ; the title that changed first- person-shooters forever. Pg 58-60 games accessories You’ve got the games, now you need the gear. This month we take a closer look at a few Xbox One controllers, the Chat Pad, an Audio Technica headset, Elgato’s latest capture card, and Logitech’s G900 Chaos Spectrum.

Pg 3-8 INTERVIEWS + NEWS We spoke to Rates, Ladyhawke, Jamie Hince (The Kills), Shirley Manson (Garbage), Emma Russack, Luca Brasi and more. Pg 10-12 THE TEMPER TRAP Now a four-piece, The Temper Trap have blossomed into their slimmer sound without losing any of their anthemic grace. We discussed new album Thick As Thieves with frontman Dougy Mandagi and keys player/ guitarist Joseph Greer. Pg 16-20 Music Reviews Flume, The Temper Trap, Swans and Radiohead lead our music reviews section, which also includes belters from Emma Russack, The Kills, Gold Panda, Wabz, Mumford & Sons, Garbage, Paul Dempsey, Air, Letlive, Metal Church, The Screaming Jets and Jimmy Barnes.

Pg 62 GAMES PREVIEWS What’s in-store this month.

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HARLEY QUINN TO BUST OUT SOLO Even though Suicide Squad is still a few months away, Warner Bros. is apparently already looking at a spin-off movie for anti-heroine Harley Quinn.

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A ccording to The Hollywood Reporter , the movie will also feature a number of other female characters from the DC Universe. The comic book giant has a strong stable of female crimefighters and villains – Wonder Woman, Quinn’s Suicide Squad sidekick Katana, Batgirl, Poison Ivy, Catwoman – and is targeting the growing number of female fans through series such DC SuperHero Girls and Birds of Prey , which features a team of superheroines originating from Gotham City. Details are being kept closely under wraps, but THR says that Margot Robbie is the main driver behind the project, and is likely to produce as well as star in the Harley Quinn film. In a comic book universe crowded with male protagonists, Harley Quinn will join Wonder Woman as the only female comic characters with standalone features in the works. Fans

already got a taste of Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice , and will have to wait till 2017 to catch the Amazon warrior in her own blockbuster movie. And word from the Marvel camp is that a spin-off movie for Scarlett Johansson's Avenger, Black Widow, is being considered. Meanwhile, the Man of Steel's cousin has been gaining lots of fans on the small screen. From the makers of The Flash and Arrow, Supergirl features former Glee star Melissa Benoist in the title role, and Season One will be available on DVD on July 27. And make sure you mark July 20 on your calendar – that's when Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice arrives on DVD and Blu-ray. Margot Robbie, along with Will Smith and the rest of the Suicide Squad will hit cinemas August 4.

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I n more DC news, one of the most acclaimed and best-selling graphic novels of all time is set to make its animated debut. Batman:The Killing Joke was first published in 1988, and is widely considered to be the definitive origin story of The Joker. Writer Alan Moore ( V for Vendetta , Watchmen ) wanted to explore how 'one bad day' finally drove a failed comedian over the edge, and turned him into Gotham City's most feared supervillain. The Killing Joke has been adapted as an animated feature, but be warned, it's not family-friendly, with an 'adults only' rating expected for its August 2016 release. Headlining the voice cast will be Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill. Hamill and actor Kevin Conroy have a strong DC legacy as the voices behind the Joker and Batman, respectively. They've worked together on the Batman animated series during the nineties, and also lent their vocal talents to the popular Batman: Arkham video game series, which made its debut in 2009. If you're excited about Batman: The Killing Joke , make sure you check out a sneak peek on the DVD and Blu-ray of animation extravaganza Justice League vs.TeenTitans , out now at JB Hi-Fi.

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The Deadpool Blu-ray may not contain a more violent, raunchier and profanity-laden Director's Cut as many speculated it would (director Tim Miller has declared he's happy with the film the way it is), but the bonus features more than compensate for the lack for an R-rated version. The movie's massive fanbase aren't shortchanged with a handful of EPK featurettes – this disc is fully loaded! A 5-part documentary feature covers all aspects of the production in the same irreverent tone as the film. The deleted scenes clock in at 19 minutes and include a significant sequence that Miller (who provides an optional commentary track) calls the 'Cancer World Tour', in which Wade takes a trip to Mexico in search of a cure. Look out for Nathan Fillion, too. 'Deadpool's Funsack' rounds up all the promo material that bombarded us prior to the release, and the gag reel is of course a belter, with the improvisational nature of a lot of the lines providing ample alternate takes. It's a return to the generous package of extras we used to get in the early days of Blu-ray and DVD. As Deadpool would say, "Maximum effort!" BEST BLU-RAY BITS

BLACK COMEDY Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling have a mutual admiration society going on, bonding on the set of Shane Black’s '70s-set crime caper, The Nice Guys . By Gill Pringle

“I still remember being pulled from the scene to go to school in the trailer – it’s a weird life to be a child actor. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you feel you have no other choice what to do,” he says. Both actors received their own share of bruises and scrapes on the set, Crowe even breaking his nose. “Oh my God, I crawled to my trailer every night,” says Gosling. “I felt for Wile E. Coyote and everything that he had gone through in those Warner Brothers cartoons. But even though it hurt, I also love that stuff. Falling into a pool, crashing through a plate glass window or getting hit by a car. I couldn’t get enough of it.”

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C rowe plays a small-time enforcer to Gosling’s clueless private eye, and both actors were surprised to learn how funny the other one was. Crowe has been a Gosling fan since he saw him in Drive five years ago. “I went backwards from Drive to see where he came from and I’ve seen everything he’s done since. We just laughed really easily and that’s not something you could have predicted,” he says, referencing a slapstick scene in a men's restroom where Gosling is sat on the john juggling a magazine, a cigarette and a gun. “That was our first day together on set,“ says Gosling. “And I had my pants around

corner and we are both laughing because this is so stupid and that was the moment where I felt like this is going to be fun.” If Gosling’s Holland March is a pretty useless PI, then he’s an even worse father – cringing at how he had to treat Angourie Rice, the child actress who plays his screen daughter. “Russell and I were constantly like, ’Oh my God this is just so bad. How can we do this to her?’ But she was totally unfazed and such an incredible kid with such a great perspective, even though we were both very apologetic all the time,” says Gosling, 35, who began his own career as a child actor.

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I s it really June already? Yes it is and for gamers that can only mean one thing: it’s time for E3. What can we expect this year? Well, Nintendo have already dashed any hopes that its enigmatic NX will appear, announcing that it would reveal the console later this year. Will the rumoured PS4.5 or modular Microsoft console make an appearance? E3 will indeed be different in 2016 with EA pulling out from its traditional presence, instead opting to reveal its upcoming slate at a press conference on the Sunday before the show. And Activision, too, will ditch the booth, instead opting

reality headset remains to be seen, but we’ll undoubtedly see jaw- dropping game demos featuring the tech. And what about the games? Well, as expected there’s a quality line-up and we could fill the page here with our most wanted lists, but we’ll save that for post-show analysis. Despite EA and Activision removing their

solely for behind closed doors sessions. Elsewhere, it’s business as usual with Bethesda, Microsoft, Ubisoft and Sony all conducting press briefings. VR will again feature heavily with more on Sony’s PSVR and its purported slew of titles. Just what Microsoft intends to do with its augmented

booth presence, E3 remains the highlight on the gaming show calendar, exhibiting the very best we can expect to be playing in the lead up to Christmas and beyond. Keep an eye on the website and our social media channels for all the up to date coverage while we’re over there.

COSPLAY TIME! I f you're looking for your next pop culture convention fix, June is the month for you. Whether you live in Melbourne, Sydney or Perth, there's a chance for you to dust your cosplay off and pull out the trusty Sonic. If you find yourself within earshot of Jeff's Shed on June 11 and 12 for the Melbourne leg of Oz Comic-Con , you might catch sight of Rachel Luttrell ( Stargate: Atlantis ), Robert Patrick ( Terminator 2 ), John Barrowman ( Torchwood, Arrow ), Lucy Lawless ( Xena: Warrior Princess - Saturday only), or Rose McIver ( iZombie ). For those headed to Supanova in Sydney (June 17-19) or Perth (June 24-26), you may be lucky enough to run into Travis Fimmel ( Vikings, Warcraft ), Sean Astin ( The Lord of the Rings ), Tyler Hoechlin ( Teen Wolf ), Peter Facinelli ( The Twilight Saga ), or even Troy Baker ( Uncharted 4: A Thief's End ) – whom STACK is lucky enough to be chatting with! Keep your eyes peeled for our interview online, and don't forget to share with us all your cosplay pics.

XBOX COMES ALIVE I f you’re looking for an excuse to pick up an Xbox One console (like Halo 5: Guardians isn’t enough), this month at JB you’ll score a bonus four months of Xbox Live Gold for free when you purchase a new system! What will that get you? Xbox Live has been around since the original Xbox, and is one of the easiest ways to game with mates. Xbox Live Gold, the paid subscription service, gives you even more bang for your buck, with Microsoft offering a selection of games for free every month with your Gold subscription. You’ll pick up almost $1000 worth of free games over the course of a yearly subscription. Adding to the appeal of Microsoft’s newest console is the backward compatibility catalogue. Now you can chuck in your old 360 discs and play yesterday's favourite titles today, with more becoming available all the time. So far, you can check out classics like Call of Duty: Black Ops, Gears of War 3, Assassin's Creed 2, and Borderlands.

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Independence Day: Resrugence

Twenty years after the original movie, Independence Day: Resurgence sees the world faced with a new alien threat. Luckily Earth has a new hero, and he’s a Hemsworth…

W hen iconic FX-fest Independence Day was first released, Liam Hemsworth was six. He remembers watching the alien invasion epic on VHS but says he had no idea he would be starring in its sequel exactly twenty years later. But every Independence Day needs its hotshot, cocksure hero, and Hemsworth fills Will Smith’s boots perfectly as Jake Morrison, a US pilot serving in the Earth Space Defence (ESD) unit who lost both his parents in the original attack. “He's a little bit more outspoken than I am. A little bit more of a rule breaker than I am. His ego is a little bigger than mine – I don't really take myself too seriously,” says Hemsworth, reflecting on the role. “We begin the film with him being a forklift driver on the moon. And because his ego got in the way, he made a bad decision.” Independence Day: Resurgence , which will be invading cinemas in June, sees the planet much changed in the two decades following the first attack. Having harnessed some of the advanced technology from the spacecraft wreckage, a global defence programme (ESD) is in place to prevent further invasions, with a military base established on the moon. The trouble is that in the meantime, the aliens have also greatly advanced their technology and are hungry for revenge. The film sees Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman return in their respective roles, and, like the original, it's

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Hemsworth, who is best known for his role as the rebellious Gale Hawthorne in The Hunger Games franchise. Growing up as the youngest of the Hemsworth dynasty on Phillip Island, Victoria, he is also used to defending his corner and admits that whilst he and brother Chris are close now, as kids it was a different story. “We're both so like-minded and so stubborn that we would constantly fight for whatever we thought was right!” says the 26-year-old. “There was one time when my parents went overseas for a couple of months and me and my brother Luke stayed at my grandma and grandpa’s house, and Chris had to stay at my uncle's house because we were too much trouble for my grandparents. We couldn't be together without having a fight.”

same combination of explosive action, global devastation, and heartfelt humour. Hemsworth admits that working with the

I don't really take myself too seriously

esteemed German director was partly what drew him to the role, saying: “I was a huge fan of Roland's. He's an amazing director who pioneered this genre and does this sort of film so well, so I was happy to be a part of it. "He manages to create a great

balance in these epic scenarios. He creates very chaotic, literally out-of- this-world scenarios with very real human relationships and situations that show you how humans would really react in that situation – he nails that

really well by finding what cuts to the core of audiences and really making it heartfelt.” Playing the charming, maverick is not new to

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Megan Fox has some serious turtle envy in Teenage Mutant NinjaTurtles: Out of the Shadows . By Gill Pringle FOX ON THE RUN

H e’s played a zombie hunter, an ecstasy dealer and comic book villain Lex Luthor, and received acclaim for his portrayal of Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network . But Jesse Eisenberg’s favourite role to date is as master magician J. Daniel Atlas in Now You See Me , which he reprises for sequel NowYou See Me:The Second Act . “This movie is like the greatest relief I can have, because this is a character that’s also a professional performer, and yet he is totally MAGIC HAPPENS AGAIN

made up; Bay casting her in the first TMNT movie two years ago. “He loves me. We’re best friends now,” she says. Wed to Brian Austin Green, the couple have two sons and a third boy on the way. As a mum, she feels strongly that TMNT 2 shouldn’t be inappropriate for young audiences. “If you ask me, I don’t think April should even kiss,” she teases. She even considers herself a role

I can’t stand that they all get to eat pizza. I used to love a good cheesy pizza, but I’m dairy free now,” says Megan Fox. Reprising her role as journalist April O’Neil, don’t expect to see her playing a shrinking violet. Its just not in her DNA. “I was always really strong as a kid. Where I’m from in Tennessee, it was considered that I had a masculine personality because,

at that time, women are damsels and ladies and they’re gentle, and I was very fiery and no-nonsense, so I think that’s always been a part of my personality. I definitely wear that and put that out there because in this industry it's important for people to understand that I am not a dumb girl. I’m a very clever girl and you’re not going to get anything over on me. There has to be a level of respect. I’m not like a silly, stupid little actress.” Fiery Fox famously fell out with Transformers director Michael Bay, the man responsible for catapulting her to stardom nine years ago, casting Rosie Huntington- Whiteley in the third Transformers movie instead. But they’ve since kissed and

model. “That’s subjective of course. It depends on what your version of a role model is. If a role model to you is someone who encourages kids or people to embrace eccentricities and be counter-culture, then I definitely believe I’m a role model. I’m strong and have never worried about fitting in or belonging and have always shunned needing praise or the validation of other people’s opinions. But if you’re looking for a role

comfortable with himself,” explains the actor who openly discusses his own anxiety and guilt issues. “He has no self-doubt, he’s worked really

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hard on his skill set and yet feels no guilt

about his success, so it’s all this stuff that I kind of aspire to but don’t feel, feeling like a confident performer, feeling like I’ve earned the right to be at the table so to speak, and so I really like playing this character. In a way it’s like a more comfortable version of myself.” A huge Penn and Teller fan, the magicians have even let Eisenberg into the secrets behind some of their famous tricks. “I’m a naturally curious person, and they could see how infuriated I got when I couldn’t figure something out. The great thing about Penn and Teller, and also about Now You See Me , is that they tell you how their tricks are done and it’s not any less impressive. In fact, in a way, it’s even more impressive because it shows you how much effort it takes to do these things.” Gill Pringle

model that’s very traditional and encourages traditional morals and values, then I would say I’m not

your kind of role model!”

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Last time it was all about Nemo. Now the focus is on forgetful fish Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), who sets off to find her family in this hotly anticipated sequel to the 2003 Disney/Pixar favourite. Can Dory dethrone Frozen as the new queen of animated features at the box office? One thing is certain: every kid will now want a Blue Tang for their fishtank. June 16 . FINDING DORY

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O pening with a short prologue that's better than all two hours of Gods of Egypt , the biggest X-Men movie to date introduces the first mutant, whose seemingly unlimited powers include the ability to transfer his mind into a new body. Then things grind to an abrupt halt as the film spends far too much time introducing younger, 1980s incarnations of existing X-Men – although Kodi Smit McPhee's Nightcrawler is a welcome addition – and revisiting the Stryker/Wolverine subplot. The most interesting of these reintroductions is Magneto's new life as a family man in Poland, before a personal tragedy sees him reverting to his wicked ways and predictably siding with the enemy. Watching Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and Raven/Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) continually switching sides in every film is getting as boring as Prof X (James McAvoy) declaring he sees the "good" in them. But what about the bad guy? Apocalypse is at its best whenever the godlike, eponymous mutant (Oscar Isaac, under loads of latex) is on screen, even if his motivation to destroy the world isn't exactly clear. The X-Men films have always stood apart from their Marvel siblings by taking a less is more approach. However, in its haste to cram as many characters as possible into a narrative that doesn't really need them (like Rose Byrne's CIA agent), Apocalypse succumbs to the kitchen sink brand of filmmaking that's now de rigueur for superhero epics, burying them and any nuances under all the CGI rubble. It also seriously undermines the mutants'

ongoing battle for tolerance and acceptance that has always been at the heart of the franchise. Given the scale of destruction unleashed (it's not called Apocalypse for nothing), it won't be long before the UN are regulating the X-Men like their Avengers counterparts. Moreover, after three consecutive adventures, it's time for the First Class (and Bryan Singer) to take a school holiday so that Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, Famke Janssen, et al, can return for a more focused and satisfying film. And maybe bring Deadpool along. Scott Hocking

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Video game phenomenon WoW comes to the screen under the direction of Duncan Jones ( Moon ), with Vikings ' star Travis Fimmel kicking Orc butt. Will it live up to its acronym? Find out on June 16 . WARCRAFT

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RELEASED: Now Showing DIRECTOR: Nicholas Stoller CAST: Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron RATING: MA15+ Anyone who might have guessed that a sequel to Nicholas Stoller’s atrocious 2014 comedy (a generous description) Bad Neighbours would not only be consistently funny but also include compelling social commentary has a remarkable degree of intuition. Bad Neighbours 2 improves on the original in every way. It also bucks the recent trend of unfunny American comedy. The narrative situation from the first film is revisited, unbelievably, and the characters are shoehorned into an almost impossible scenario. But we know that going in. Marc (Seth Rogen) and Kelly (Rose Byrne) are expecting their second child and preparing to move out of their house when the sorority sisters of the Kappa Kappa Nu move in next door. The mission of the sorority is to break free of the misogynistic culture associated with the female relationship with fraternities. With 30 days to go before the house sale is finalised, Marc and Kelly team up with their old nemesis, Teddy (Zac Efron), to disestablish Kappa Kappa Nu. There are no villains in Bad Neighbours 2 . The behaviour of Shelby (Chloë Grace Moretz), the leader of the sorority, may not be savoury but it is understandable and comes from a decidedly principled place. The commentary on gender equality is unexpectedly edged and the humour surprisingly effective. Who'd have thought it? John Roebuck BASTILLE DAY RELEASED: Now Showing DIRECTOR: James Watkins CAST: Idris Elba, Richard Madden, Kelly Reilly RATING: M The influences are in plain sight in James Watkins’ Bastille Day . It’s the latest in the long line of Die Hard rip offs, which, between White House Down and Olympus/London Has Fallen , have seen a startling resurgence of late. An American pickpocket ( GoT 's Richard Madden) living in Paris becomes the principle suspect in a terrorist plot after stealing the bag of a bomb mule. CIA Agent Briar (Idris Elba) must locate the thief before France’s national day of celebration, Bastille Day, escalates into riots. Madden and Elba make a terrific duo and there are moments in Bastille Day that shine, thanks to some energetic direction from Watkins – the film blasts from one action set piece to another, which distracts from the plot holes and the improbable nature of some of the narrative developments. Bastille Day is a lively and amusing way to kill a couple of hours, particularly for action enthusiasts. John Roebuck

RELEASED: Now Showing DIRECTOR: James Bobin CAST: Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter RATING: PG

Follow-ups to children’s classics – Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator and Through the Looking Glass – are usually less fondly remembered, if they are remembered at all. This Disney sequel isn’t exactly memorable either, but it’s less gaudy and grotesque than Tim Burton’s 2010 film, which somehow managed to gross a billion dollars. And – curiouser and curiouser! – it’s actually the more entertaining of the two. Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is now a ship’s captain who’s been travelling the globe for the last three years. Returning home to London, she’s given the choice of losing her father’s ship or her family home. But before she can worry about that, she’s lured back into Wonderland through a magic mirror, where she discovers her friend the Hatter (Johnny Depp) is not so much mad as depressed over the whereabouts of his long lost family. Determined to set things right, Alice commandeers a gyroscopic time machine and returns to the past to discover the whereabouts of the Hatter’s kin. The theme is time in this ‘Days of Future Past’ take on Lewis Carroll’s classic, so naturally the message for kids is that you can’t change the past, and to cherish every second, minute and hour. Oh, and family is important too. Darker and more melancholic in tone but no less crammed with colourful CGI, some of which looks pretty good in 3D, Alice Through the Looking Glass might lack a sense of wonder, but unlike the first film, you won’t feel like you’ve eaten a kilo of M&M’s by the end. Scott Hocking ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

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CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

When is an Avengers movie not an Avengers movie? When it’s a Captain America movie subtitled Civil War . The righteous soldier out of time is still the focus, but the Avengers ensemble all play a major part, sans Thor and the Hulk. Which leaves room for Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) and a certain webslinger from Queens to make up the numbers. The collateral damage from the Avengers’ attempts to save the planet leads the world’s governments to demand the UN regulate the team. Tony Stark agrees to sign the new accord but the Cap refuses, fearing this will compromise the team’s ability to respond to future threats. It doesn’t help that Cap’s old army buddy Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), aka The Winter Soldier, has reappeared and has his Avenger pal’s support, adding fuel to an already volatile situation. The Russo Brothers never lose control of this potentially unwieldy Marvel juggernaut, alternating the hyperactive action scenes with comic relief, ethical dilemmas and thriller tropes, while effortlessly introducing Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) and the new Spider-Man (Tom Holland). Of all the Avengers, Captain America has pulled off a hat-trick in the standalone Marvel movies: The First Avenger is a cracking Saturday matinee-style adventure, The Winter Soldier a propulsive espionage thriller, and Civil War is all kinds of awesome – a massive movie that sets a new benchmark for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Scott Hocking

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Major Dundee (1965) Directed by Sam Peckinpah First Cutand Betrayal Part 4:

C olumbia's vice president and numerous studio lawyers had arrived in Mexico determined to fire Sam Peckinpah from the production and replace him. But although Sam's erratic behaviour had alienated most of his cast and film crew, a few cast members rallied R.G.Armstrong , Warren Oates, L.Q. Jones and Ben Johnson all threatened to walk off the set if Peckinpah was replaced. Heston went one step further and offered to forfeit his $200,000 salary if the studio relented and let Sam finish the movie. Much to Heston's surprise and chagrin, the studio willingly accepted his offer, which meant that the actor worked on the film for nothing. However, Heston's generous gesture allowed Peckinpah to retain the director's chair until the film finally wrapped at the end of April 1964. By the time Sam returned to Hollywood to begin post-production work on Major Dundee, his personal relationship with producer Jerry Bresler and Columbia executives was so dire, Bresler would have much preferred to have kept Peckinpah out of the editing process altogether. But Sam's contract had guaranteed him the right to a first cut of the film and to screen that cut at a public preview. One of the basic tenets of studio post-production was that the first cut of any motion picture was usually no more than raw material of the finished product. Peckinpah was aware of this, but he also believed that the public was the ultimate arbiter of a movie's quality and consequently, only an audience and not the "studio suits" could decide if a picture really worked or not. Peckinpah sensed that amongst the around their beleaguered director. Charlton Heston, Richard Harris,

Leaving Fort Benlin, the Rebel volunteers begin to sing the Confederate martial anthem "Dixie"

thousands of feet of exposed celluloid lurked a great movie; all he wanted now was to be left alone in the editing room to put it all together. With the assistance of three Columbia editing staff, Sam got

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to work, sifting through 400,000 feet of exposed film. The assistant editors noted that the first sequence of edited scenes were all pure gold, realistically captured by award-winning cinematographer Sam Leavitt. Moreover, these scenes featured well defined, character-driven dialogue that immediately set the tone Peckinpah had been striving to establish for the film. The first scene introduced the authoritative Major Amos Dundee, as he arrives with his troop at the burnt out Rostes farm. As Dundee views from a distance the mutilated bodies of his massacred cavalry troop and the Rostes family, he addresses his lieutenant

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thus: "I have only three commands. When I signal you to come, you come. When I signal you to charge, you charge. And when I signal you to run, you follow me and run like hell". Whilst Dundee attempts to muster volunteers to rescue the kidnapped Rostes children, he orders his scout, Samuel Potts, to locate the Apache, adding: "Do not get yourself killed, as that will inconvenience me." The next scene is the capture of five Confederate escapees, led by the flamboyant Captain Benjamin Tyreen (a standout performance from Richard Harris). The five Rebels are sentenced to be hung for killing a prison guard. Dundee then offers Tyreen a reprieve if he and 20 of his men volunteer to serve their country's flag and join his expedition. A defiant Tyreen replies, "It's not my country Major Dundee. I damn its flag and I damn you. I would rather hang than serve." However, to save his men from For almost four months Peckinpah toiled in Columbia's editing room until finally, he had a first cut of two hours and forty one minutes the scaffold he reluctantly agrees, "But only until the Apache is taken or destroyed." Thus in the film's opening scenes, Peckinpah had skillfully established the plot and a cast of disparate characters consisting of rival factions who hate each other more than the Apache they are after. The open hostility of this dysfunctional group is slightly tempered with the scene of Dundee leading his ramshackle command out of Fort

A scene from the fight at the river with a regiment of French Lancers

Benlin to begin his mission. The Confederates start to sing their martial anthem, "Dixie", the Union troopers counter with "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", and the civilian volunteers bring up the rear with "Oh, My Darling Clementine". This

The captured Rebel prisoners played by (l to r) L.Q. Jones, Ben Johnson, Richard Harris, John Davis Chandler, and Warren Oates

nostalgic scene was an homage to John Ford's famous cavalry trilogy, but Peckinpah had no intention of delivering a traditional Ford cavalry film. For almost four months Peckinpah toiled in Columbia's editing room until finally, he had a first cut of two hours and forty one minutes. However, he told Bresler that he felt he had been somewhat impetuous and as a consequence needed to put another ten minutes back in before the first public preview. This would make it closer to the three hour movie as originally conceived, and if the audience reaction proved positive, it would vindicate him once the studio executive realised his version worked. But producer Jerry Bresler and Columbia Pictures had other ideas. Whilst he waited for Bresler to make

arrangements for a public preview, Peckinpah busied himself with sound effects and selecting a composer for the music score. But without Sam's knowledge, instead of organising a preview, Bresler took the director's cut to NewYork and screened it for a number of theatre exhibitors. Their damning verdict was, "too long and too violent." On his return to Hollywood, Bresler relayed the verdict to Peckinpah, whose immediate reaction was, "To hell with the theatre owners, let the public decide after the preview". But the producer remained adamant that the film needed to be cut to a two hour running time, which Peckinpah vehemently disagreed with. The following morning when Sam drove up to the studio front gate, the guard told him he was under strict orders not to admit him and passed him a large cardboard box containing Peckinpah's personal belongings from the studio office, which had presumably been cleared out the night before. Sam Peckinpah was no longer an employee of Columbia Pictures and would have no further input into the post- production of Major Dundee . The ruination of Peckinpah's version of the film now moved into its final phase.

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Scott Hocking talks Jennifer Jason Leigh, 70mm and Ennio Morricone with THE HATEFUL EIGHT director, QuentinTarantino.

Q uentin Tarantino’s flair for savvy casting has revived a number of dormant careers in Hollywood: Pulp Fiction (1994) heralded John Travolta’s comeback, while Jackie Brown (1997)

reminded moviegoers what they loved about Blaxploitation legend Pam Grier back in the seventies. The Hateful Eight ’s wildcard is Jennifer Jason Leigh, who was a prolific and prominent presence on cinema screens throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s in films like The Hitcher , Single White Female and Last Exit to Brooklyn . “I ended up having a Jennifer Jason Leigh film festival when I started thinking about casting her, so I literally watched those movies

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Jennifer Jason Leigh was the female Sean Penn,” Tarantino astutely offers. “She didn’t just give performances, she gave these huge performances that the entire movie was built around, and that’s what I needed for Daisy Domergue.” At the risk of this interview becoming a mutual appreciation of Jennifer Jason Leigh’s talents, the subject moves on to other Hateful Eight cast members, in particular Tim Roth’s Oswaldo Mobray – a role that could well have been written for Christoph Waltz. But Tarantino frowns at this suggestion. “People have been saying that about Tim and it actually disturbs me a little bit; it makes me feel bad about myself. “I think it’s possibly because I dressed him in grey,” he reflects. “I really think that’s part of it. To me, Tim is playing such a posh, British twit, and I would never cast Christoph Waltz in that role. But because I made him so visually like Christoph, he’s not getting the credit for what he’s done, and I almost think it’s my fault, frankly.”

you’re talking about, as well as Eyes of a Stranger , Heart of Midnight , Georgia and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle ,” Tarantino recalls. As outlaw Daisy Domergue, “wanted dead or alive for murder”, Leigh is on the receiving end of some brutal abuse from her captor, ‘Hangman’ John Ruth (Kurt Russell), and Tarantino laughs when I suggest that she has made a career out of playing mistreated characters.

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“Yeah, in The Hitcher she was ripped in half!” he grins. “Exactly the extent of what a trouper she was, I didn’t know, until we just started doing it. But she was just so happy with this character, she was up for anything.” Was it this fearlessness that influenced his

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