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Pg 66-67 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Director Matt Reeves demystifies performance capture, praises Andy Serkis, and talks ape parkour. Pg 68 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION After the third, Michael Bay was ready to walk away, but then Mark Wahlberg dropped in. Pg 70-72 DOCTOR WHO Peter Capaldi may be an older Doctor but his energy has revitalised an already great series. Pg 74 BLACK SAILS Before Treasure Island ... Pg 76-78 SEVENTIES’ SPIELBERG Screenwriter Bob Gale on the early years of Steven Spielberg, and why 1941 plays better in its extended version. Pg 80-81 Battlestar galactica What you need to know about the enduring sci-fi series and its many incarnations.

Pg 08-16 News Pg 18 SNACK ATTACK MasterChef All Stars’ Aaron Harvie cooks up a tribute to the late, great Charles Bukowski. Pg 20 MONSTER FEST The 2014 festival of local and international cult cinema will be something to howl about. Pg 22 Q5 The co-directors of 22 Jump Street, and the day they melted a football stadium. Pg 24-26 BOB J’s CLASSIC The one Civil War movie that rewrote the history books – Gone with the Wind. Pg 28-30 ACTORS SERIES Matthew McConaughey, from Kate Hudson’s handbag

Pg 34 editor’s DESK Pg 36-37 ADVANCED WARFARE Call of Duty heads to the future. Pg 38-40 AC: Unity Join the Revolution. Pg 42 Far Cry 4 Hunting in the Himalayas. Pg 46 AC: Rogue We’re heading back to sea. Pg 48 CHOICE IN GAMES We look at Telltale’s magic... Pg 50 GTA V The trio are back in High-Def. Pg 54 FOOTBALL MANAGER 2015 Are you game? Pg 55 PES 2015 Is this the year that it’s back? Pg 56 Master chief Halo gets remastered. Pg 58-62 PREVIEWS What’s out this month at JB Hi-Fi.

Pg 08 Music Dashing from Room to Room STACK drops in on Bertie Blackman as she tests a Sonos multi-room music player. Pg 10 Music Reviews New releases from Jack Ladder, The Church, Lagwagon, Lamb of God, Ariel Pink, Leonard Cohen, Royksopp and more.

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Paddington

Michael Bond’s endearing children’s book about a cuddly bear from “the deepest, darkest Peru” has been translated into 30 languages and sold more than 30 million copies. This first ever live-action feature adaptation has been years in the making, and will star lifelong fan Nicole Kidman, who dreamt of having a a Paddington bear live at her house when she was a child. Due in cinemas December 11, Paddington is set to be a family Christmas event. Whovians will also relish the chance to catch Peter Capaldi in a plum role as Paddington’s grumpy neighbour, Mr. Curry.

Chris Hemsworth, Blackhat

HEMSWORTH TAKES AIM F ollowing a stellar 2013 which included StarTrek Into Darkness , Thor: The DarkWorld and the critically acclaimed Rush , Chris Hemsworth hasn’t been sighted much in 2014. Ok, he’s been spotted at the AFL Grand Final and at the races on Derby Day, but he’s been AWOL from the big screen. All that’s set to change next year, however, with the hunk from Phillip Island set to bag a box office trifecta. First up is likely to be Blackhat , the new thriller from Miami Vice creator Michael Mann ( Heat,The Insider ). In the Heart of the Sea , Hemsworth’s second collaboration with director Ron Howard ( Rush ), is based on the 1820 encounter between a sperm whale and a whaling vessel that also inspired Herman Melville’s 1851 classic Moby Dick . And while we’re talking whales, there’s no bigger creature on the box office high seas than 2015’s hugely anticipated Avengers:Age of Ultron . That means it’s hammer time again for Hemsworth, asThor.

Exodus: Gods and Kings

Ridley Scott has just announced the production of a TV series involving an Ebola outbreak. In the meantime, he’s also orchestrated another plague – of Biblical proportions. Exodus: Gods and Kings stars Christian Bale as Moses, who defies the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, played by Australia’s own Joel Edgerton, sans hair. Following Noah , this will be the second big budget spectacular based on the Old Testament to be released in 2014. Look for it in cinemas from December 4.

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Block busters! BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME T he humble building block is no longer mere child’s play. Since Lego began production of its interlocking toy bricks in 1949, the toy company has captured the hearts and minds of the young and the young at heart everywhere. Following the breakout success of The Lego Movie , three more branded features have been announced. First up in 2016 will be Ninjago , with The Lego Batman Movie following a year later, featuringWill Arnett once again voicing the Dark Knight. And in 2018 we’ll see the eagerly anticipated sequel The Lego Movie 2 , back with all your favourites likeWildstyle, Unikitty, and of course Emmet Brickowoski. Lego haven’t got the playground to themselves, though. In the space of a few short years, indie PC offering Minecraft has morphed into a gaming phenomenon. Consisting of building blocks that players can reconfigure into any shape they can imagine, Minecraft has developed a devoted online community boasting some wild creations. Recently, a user made a working iPhone inside Minecraft itself, while another spent two years constructing an imaginary city using 4.5 million blocks. Inevitably a movie is in the works, with reports that filmmaker Shawn Levy ( Night at the Museum, Real Steel ) will lead its development with

plans to also direct. Making Minecraft will also come with heavy expectations from its legion of video game fans. Essentially a ‘sandbox’-based game consisting of building and/or surviving in a world made of blocks, Minecraft is a world that’s also inhabited by zombies, giant spiders and beings called ‘creepers’ designed to test a gamer’s resolve. It will also be interesting to see who Levy and the producers decide to cast as the main character, Stevie.Watch this space. If a couple of years is too long a wait for the young ones, there’s plenty of family-friendly Lego viewing out this month, including Lego ChimaVol 7 and Lego Friends Boxset S1 & 2 , due in JB Hi-Fi stores on November 27.

The Hobbit:The Battle of the Five Armies

The end of year won’t be the same without a J.R.R. Tolkien feature helmed by Peter Jackson, but we might just have to get used to it following The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies . This is the third and concluding chapter of Jackson’s adaptation of The Hobbit , and it begins with a bang. The dragon Smaug threatens to rain fire on the people of Laketown. Meanwhile, Sauron is mounting a secret attack with an army of Orcs. And that’s just for starters. Boasting an all-star cast and a final showdown more ambitious than anything Jackson has mounted before, this finale is set to be absolutely epic. In cinemas Boxing Day.

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Daniel Lanois’ new album is both a sonic and personal departure.

D aniel Lanois is a prolific lover and creator of music, both as a solo artist and as a producer. Beginning his production career in the early ’70s, he’s worked as co-producer with Brian Eno on some of the ambient godfather’s own solo works, as well as working on projects withThe Neville Brothers, Peter Gabriel, U2, Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan, and numerous others. But his new solo album, Flesh and Machine, is quite a departure. Gone are Lanois’s sonic signatures, the ambient washes and spirals of sound that have echoed and bounced all over records like Dylan’s Calling STACK from a tour bus in Monckton, East Canada, after two quickly snatched hours of sleep, the musician is forthright about what’s inspired the recent changes in his music. “Bottled up anger!” he laughs. “I’d left myself off the songwriting hook. I have a responsibility to push sound to that place where it’s still a new frontier. It means a lot to me to innovate. Now I’m not driven much by preconception or commercial inspirations.“ From the wordless beginning of Rocco , the squall of The End and the nightscapes of Sioux Lookout, Flesh and Machine is about experiencing a diversity of sound, processed and expressed from its core essentials. It’s challenging, but not alienating; it’s engaging, but not overly intellectual. It’s really just pure music, honestly made. “I let the sounds unfold,” he says. “And if I start getting a feeling from them, I just want a direction that’s been dictated to me by the sounds. I don’t imagine them initially. When they come my way then the clarity of them comes Oh Mercy, Harris’s Wrecking Ball, or earlier Lanois solo albums like For the Beauty ofWynona or Acadie .

into focus …it’s the luxury of my laboratory.“ A great example of Lanois’s new MO can be seen in the clip for the driving and climatic electronic piece Opera – it’s just over three minutes on the album, but a live performance clip posted by Lanois recently shows a live studio improvisation that goes for nearly seven. “In the case of Opera, it gets to the melody more quickly. One that you see on the little film that we did in my shop, I decided to expand the front before the melody comes in. I had just met this kid in a bar, Kyle Crane. Innocently, I invited him to stop by the studio: and I keep a drum kit set up there. He said, ‘Here’s

It was officially announced at E3 in June to rapturous applause, and now the time is finally here.Yes, on November 18, Rockstar will bring its GrandTheft AutoV masterpiece to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. With a slew of technical improvements, new vehicles and weapons, GTA V is about to recruit a whole new generation of gamers, and welcome back the veterans. To celebrate the release of GTA V, STACK has produced three separate, highly collectable games covers featuring the lead characters – Michael, Franklin and Trevor. Make sure you head to your local JB and collect all three; they won’t be on the shelves for very long.To find out what you can expect from GTA V on PS4 and Xbone, head to page 50.

something I’m working on’, and a friend of mine turned

I like putting on a record and being taken

on the little camera. I just extended the front amount of pasture, so we can keep going round and round!” Perhaps unsurprisingly, Lanois remains a supporter of the album format. “I like putting on a record and being taken some place.

some place. It’s a magic carpet ride.

It’s kind of a magic carpet ride emotionally. When I was first exposed to Miles Davis, I realised he’d been some place with his imagination that I hadn’t been to yet; he’s my guide to another dimension. If I could pull that off – take a listener to a place they’d never been – that would make me happy. I want to take music to the future. I’m not saying I’m going to succeed every time, but that’s what’s going on in my mind, and it means a lot to me.

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Rowland s. howard Six Strings that drew blood “I ’ve been contemplating suicide, but it really doesn’t suit my style.”Walking a tightrope between teenaged nihilist and droll underworld dandy, Rowland S. Howard made some entrance back in 1977. Given the melodramatic flourish of Nick Cave, Shivers would become an underground classic as theYoung Charlatans’ guitarist fell into a distinguished company that would soon be called The Birthday Party.That was just the beginning of a tortuous road that this lovingly selected double-disc anthology describes, from key roles with Crime and the City Solution and Nikki Sudden, to control of his own destiny at last inThese Immortal Souls, then two classic solo albums that preceded his premature death in late 2009.To say the least, there’s quite a historic narrative between the near-comical new wave bleat and stab of the Boys Next Door’s After a Fashion and Howard’s sweetly doom-laden duet with Adalita on Magic Dirt’s 2009 swansong, Summer High . An earlier duet with Lydia Lunch, Lee Hazelwood’s Some Velvet Morning , is also included here in all its dark and twisted magic. The revelation for most is likely to be the grinding and clamouring brilliance ofThese Immortal Souls, the late ‘80s/ early ‘90s band that focused Howard’s energies so spectacularly, whether in the exhilarating crash of Insomnicide or the slow- spiralling dissolution of Black Milk . But the lion’s share of the compilation, and of the glory, lies in the last ten-song stretch of tunes from Teenage Snuff Film and Pop Crimes – two albums of high drama and magnificent noise that find him at the height of his powers as a unique singer/guitarist, wry romantic and apocalyptic visionary. A 36-page booklet of photos, doodles and handwritten gags and musings complete a vivid portrait of a talent that will probably be remembered in the shorthand of history as “wasted”.These couple of score songs, at least, beg to differ. Michael Dwyer (Liberation/Universal)

FLoyd’s River ends

Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour (left) and Nick Mason (right).

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But, in typically enigmatic style, guitarist David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason of Pink Floyd have been working furtively on a largely instrumental project dubbed The Endless River. However, Gilmour confirmed that this really will be the final studio album, telling the BBC “It’s a shame, but this is the end” last month.While the album doesn’t feature any contribution fromWaters (who issued a rather grumpy edict about it on Facebook recently), it includes a vocal contribution from legendary UK physicist Stephen Hawking, on Talkin’ Hawkin’. Tellingly, the new album however, does include music written by late keyboardistWright. Gilmour and Mason have dug up several pieces of instrumental music featuring their late colleague, and added to it over the last 12 months. Over 20 hours from 1994’s Division Bell project

have had parts added, edited or reworked, although some of the Wright-related material dates all the way back to 1969.The four-sided album is entirely instrumental, barring one track entitled LouderThanWords, with lyrics written by Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson. Pink Floyd have always been noted for their visual imagery. However, Hipgnosis designer Storm Thorgerson passed away in 2013, so this new image (below) was created by 18-year-old digital artist Ahmed Emad Eldin, after it was discovered by Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell,Thorgerson’s original partner in Hipgnosis.

been through many incarnations in the last

50 years. Co-founder and main songwriter Syd Barrett, who died in 2006, left the band in 1968. Later on, RogerWaters – who led the band through their ’70s heyday and classics like Dark Side of the Moon, Wish YouWere Here and TheWall – left, quite acrimoniously, in 1985. After the remaining members toured the world and released A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) and The Division Bell (1994), things went quiet. Barring a reunion withWaters for Live 8 in 2005, and a brief appearance at a Syd Barrett tribute in 2007, Pink Floyd have not played live or released a studio album in 20 years. After the death of keyboardist RichardWright in 2008, and the refusal of several lucrative tour offers, Pink Floyd had long been assumed to have finished up.

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BIG MATT WITH CHEESE This Matthew McConaughey box set is one from the good ‘ol days, back when he was a carefree leading man, before he got serious and stuff.

Interstellar . In short, Matthew McConaughey has ditched that clean cut, shirtless, rom-com image. But frankly, that’s not all good. Retro McConaughey was not without his own distinctive, dreamboat charms. At least we can look back fondly with this JB Hi-Fi exclusive Matthew McConaughey Collection . It features the Texas-born superstar in Failure to Launch , Sahara, and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days , alongside leading ladies Sarah Jessica Parker, Penélope Cruz and Kate Hudson, respectively. If you’re a newcomer to the charms of McConaughey, this tidy little box set will transport you back to a time when he was the leading man of choice, and

Lanie Lane

Q1/ How did moving to the country affect the songwriting on Night Shade ? It was after a build up over my life, after never having had a time without lots of people around. I’d never known what it was like to live on my own, in an isolated place. I’d never made a conscious decision to actually have a rest, see what it’s like to be me. That environment was conducive to all the internal lessons and awareness-growing I went through, and that’s come out in these songs. Q2/ The cowgirl/spaghetti western feel is gone; this is more complex. Are you getting the ‘why?’ question a lot? It’s a good question: it’s the elephant in the room. It’s an obvious change, and people want to know how that came about. It gives me an opportunity to talk about my journey of the last two years: moving from the city to the country, and being a bit more internal rather than external. The music comes from a deeper place now, a place I’d never contacted before. The music has come from more of an internal compass, feeling instead of thinking. Masculine energy is outward, it’s ‘doing’, it’s the sun. Feminine energy is more receptive, internal and dark, it’s the moon; that’s the yin and yang. Your instinctual nature and what lessons there are to be learned, is all through this album. It’s not ‘ok’ to express a raw emotion in our society now. When you squash it, what comes up is a false projection of happiness, you’re not ‘living’. Q4/ Tell us about the song Mother . It’s six minutes, but there’s a secret track at the end of the track. It was inspired by The Flinders Ranges; I went up there with five women on a five-hour bush walk, up this creek bed. It was so beautiful, I’d never been on an all day bush walk with five women before! Q3/ How the does the album explore notions of femininity?

We know, we know, he’s not all just washboard abs and cheekbones. He’s won the Best Actor Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club , and almost clinched an unprecedented double the same year with an Emmy nomination for HBO’s True Detective . He

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ROGUE GOES TEMPLAR A ccording to Ubisoft, fans of its Assassin’s Creed franchise have petitioned long and hard for the opportunity to play as aTemplar. Well, this month they will finally get a chance. “Our fans have been expecting to experience the “other side” for quite a long time -- as early as AC1 and AC2,” reveals producer on Assassin’s Creed: Rogue , Ivan Balabanov. “During our early discussions on the concept of Rogue, we decided that we have the perfect opportunity to close off the North American Trilogy. Rogue takes place after Black Flag and before ACIII. In Black Flag , we see the star of the Assassin brotherhood in the NewWorld on the rise. In ACIII, the Brotherhood is completely broken, and Connor needs to rebuild it. With Rogue , and its Templar protagonist, we’ll explain what happened between these two periods.”You can read all about Assassin’s Creed: Rogue in this issue on page 46, and play it on November 13.

Q5/ How would you characterise Night Shade all up?

The first record was live, much more spontaneous. This is more planned, we spent more time working on the subtleties. It’s freer though, there’s more scope, the band have more room to express themselves.

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New Orleans Soul 1966-76 If Davis McAlary of Treme was real, he’d be behind this collection of New Orleans soul.The city, being a major slave

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trading centre in the 19th century, soaked up West Indian and Latin influences, shaping later N.O.L.A cultural traditions. Against the backdrop of the ’50s R&B explosion in the US, New Orleans soul had a slinkier, cheekier feel.Typically of Soul Jazz’s far-reaching and deeply knowledgeable musical archaeology, there are legendary names mixed with brilliant obscurities.You’d expect to hear Aaron Neville and the still brilliant Irma Thomas (hear the Spector-influenced paean to the pain of infidelity on What’s SoWrong AboutYou Loving Me? ), but Francine King’s Two Fools (a commentary on the battle of the sexes) rates as one of the great lost vocal performances ofThe Crescent City.Typically for Soul Jazz, the accompanying booklet is a mine of information. Jonathan Alley

Foo Fighters

F oo Fighters guitarist Pat Smear is an old punk. Formerly of hardcore legendsThe in Blade Runner! ), joined the final incarnation of Nirvana, and the first line-up of Foo Fighters. So you’d think he would’ve seen much of his native land, right? Not so. According to Smear, his years visiting America’s great cities in music have been “hotel, load in, soundcheck, play, load out.” But the new Foo Fighters album Sonic Highways has finally afforded a remedy. Recorded in eight American cities, the band chronicled the Germs, he was a bit-part actor for years (he’s time for Wasting Light , he’s loved working on the new album/series. “Being involved in Sonic Highways has given me all this appreciation of amazing music I never liked before. I had a passionate but limited taste before this; it’s opened my eyes to so much,” he tells STACK from his home inWest LA. Rather than holing up and getting a studio tan, Foo Fighters visited Austin, NewYork, LA, Nashville,Washington DC, New Orleans, Nashville and Chicago for one week each, with Dave Grohl heading out evenings to interview a local music luminary. Grohl would add lyrics last minute, often cutting and pasting phrases from his interview transcriptions.ThusWillie Nelson, famed producer Steve Albini, Dolly Parton, ex-Beastie Boy Mike D, Fugazi/Dischord records’ Ian MacKaye, and even US President Barack Obama appear in Sonic Highways , talking about the heritage of American music, and the nuances of its regional history. “There recording sessions – intercut with luminaries associated with each city – for a new HBO series of the same name. After rejoining Foo Fighters full

are reasons blues made it to Chicago, why Nashville became the country capital,” Grohl told David Letterman. “New Orleans is such a beautiful city with hundreds of years of history.The humidity in the air knocks the pianos and the horns out of tune!” Another highlight of the Foos’ recent week-long sojourn on Letterman saw CheapTrick’s Rick Nielson join them for a live rendition of Stiff Competition. “I loved

Jane Tyrrell Echoes in the Aviary JaneTyrrell’s debut solo record has been years in the offing. A longtime vocalist for Sydney

CheapTrick as a kid, so getting Rick Nielson was amazing,” says Smear.

menagerieThe Herd, her lilting voice has rendered the hooks to some of Australian hip hop’s most iconic moments. But Echoes in the Aviary is very much a singular work. TZU’s Pip Norman shares production duties alongside PVT’s Pyke brothers and Dustin McLean, making this is a rich, gorgeous trip into lateral pop compositions and stunningly nuanced melodies.The title track is gorgeous, withTyrrell floating atop stuttering percussion and wonky synths. Strikingly complex piece of pop-noir. Dan Rule

While there are several guests on the album (New Orleans’ legendary Preservation Hall Jazz Band on one track, JoeWalsh on another), Smear

It’s given me an appreciation of amazing music I never liked before!

says it was much vaunted blues guitarist Gary Clarke Jr. that pulled out all the stops, playing on What Did I Do? a paean to the Southern Rock of The Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd et al. “Gary Clarke Jr. played a different solo every take he played! None of them sounded the same; he sounded like Mick Ronson (late former Bowie/Dylan side man), one of the most underrated players ever, so we bonded over Mick Ronson”. It seems that Sonic Highways the series, like the album – while truly a sum of its parts – is also about driving deep down into the core of the music’s influence. Episode two, for example, looks at the Go-Go scene in Washington DC. “Go-Go was a uniquelyWashington thing,” says Smear. “I remember driving for hours to find a punk club in LA – we had our own local, hard to find version of it – but Go-Go just didn’t exist outside DC at all.” Smear says the project made him think about the band differently. “Everyone in Foo Fighters comes from different parts of the US; this project couldn’t work if we came from the same city.”

Collarbones Return On their first two records (2011’s Iconography and 2012’s DieYoung ) Adelaide/Sydney duo Collarbones mapped out a sonic path of listenable

forays into R’n’B, through the lens of contemporary, deconstructed electronica. If it harbours playfulness, pop and perfunctory melodicism, this is a more sonically, lyrically and structurally complex clutch of intermeshed moods. SingleTurning is a case in point. A nod to NewYork diva and vogue- inflected house, its scattershot rhythms and yearning vocal hooks float atop a rugged, tectonic bass rumble that shifts the frame of reference. There’s plenty more where that came from; OnlyWater (featuring Oscar Key Sung) is a dense compound of synth shimmer and vocal layers. Collarbones make us work a little harder, but it only makes the rewards all the more sweet. Dan Rule

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L ast year I was doing my tri-weekly comb through of all of the DVDs and Blu-rays at my local JB Hi-Fi (which the team at the Moore Park Super Centre can testify to) in the hope of finding the remake of Maniac with Elijah Wood (awesome movie by the way). When I found the 2012 Maniac, I was thrilled to see a reissue of the ‘80s film with original artwork sitting right next to it, on the label Cinema Cult. Over the course of the next few months, I found other beloved forgotten titles like Flesh for Frankenstein , Driller Killer , The Burning , Lifeforce and The Abominable Dr. Phibes , to name a few… as well as the unbelievably underrated 1987 classic, Barfly . Barfly follows Henry Chinaski (Mickey Rourke), who serves as the literary alter ego of Charles Bukowski in several of his novels, and this semi-autobiographical journey of his time in Los Angeles, drinking heavily. Henry is a destitute alcoholic, living in a shabby apartment and carving out

an existence through a series of menial jobs. Despite his life and outward appearance, Henry is a talented writer and expresses himself through short stories and poetry. Henry spends his life in a series of dive bars, drinking and bent on self destruction. He meets fellow alcoholic and kept woman Wanda (Faye Dunaway) and the two begin an affair, living together and purchasing alcohol on the account that Wanda’s older lover settles. But things change when Henry is tracked down by wealthy female book publisher Tully Sorenson, who offers to publish his work. Given money and a way out of his circumstances, Henry must choose between being true to himself and his work, or selling out his ideals for success and money. Barfly is a classic movie, simultaneously dark and funny, gritty and hopeful, and serves as a great introduction for anyone out there who wants to get into

the wild and weird world of Bukowski and his incredible body of work. The author wrote the screenplay himself with Sean Penn in mind for the lead role, but the two couldn’t see eye to eye on a director. The role eventually went to Mickey Rourke, who is nothing short of amazing. And although he was initially critical of his performance, Bukowski went on to say in later years “…Part of my luck was the actor who played Henry Chinaski. Mickey Rourke stayed with the dialogue to the word and the sound intended. What surprised me was that he added another dimension to the character, in spirit.” Charles Bukowski would go on to write the book Hollywood , which is based on his experiences while making Barfly the movie, with the characters all thinly veiled versions of the real-life actors and directors he worked with during the process. I decided to make a bar- themed dessert for this movie using things you would normally find in a dive bar, including beer, bourbon, pretzels and beer nuts. Now you may think that Beer Ice Cream is not a delicious idea, but I promise you, you are wrong. The molasses sweetens its dark, malty flavours and they work perfectly together with the ultra rich and gooey brownie and the salty sweet caramel. For the full recipe, download the STACK app or visit stack.net.au

Ingredients

For the Bourbon & Beer Nut Brownie 90g Salted Beer Nuts 40g g Flour ¼ tsp. Baking Power ¼ tsp. Salt 225g Dark Chocolate 150g Castor Sugar 160g Unsalted Butter 2 Eggs 30ml Bourbon 2 tsp. Vanilla Extract 100g Milk Chocolate For the Stout and Molasses Ice Cream 330ml Stout ¼ Cup Molasses 1 Vanilla Bean 2 Cups of Heavy Cream 2 Cups Milk ¾ Cup Castor Sugar 6 Egg Yolks

For the Salted Dulce de leche 1 Tin Condensed Milk Sea Salt To Finish Pretzels Sea Salt Hot Chocolate Fudge

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Kaufman – the titan of trash who brought us enduring cult classics like TheToxic Avenger , Bloodsucking Freaks and Tromeo & Juliet . Budding filmmakers will want to attend Kaufman’s ‘MakeYour Own Damn Movie’ masterclass, part of this year’s inaugural Monster Fest Academy of Horror & Mayhem workshop to be held atYahYah’s. Joining Lloyd Kaufman on the special guest list are The Soska Sisters (theTwistedTwins who gave us the terrific bod-mod shocker American Mary ) and the middle segment of The Human Centipede: First Sequence , Ashley C.Williams . As always, the fiendish curators of Monster Fest have lined up a perverse program of Australian premieres that will screen at Carlton’s Cinema Nova, opening with local production Charlie’s Farm and closing with the insane anthology ABCs of Death 2 . Of the close to 40 films screening throughout Monster Fest, top of our list are Eli Roth’s hotly anticipated cannibal film The Green Inferno , Nazi zombie sequel Dead Snow 2 , and the

Battlestar Galactica’s Jamie Bamber comes back down to Earth as an amateur crimefighter targeting sex offenders in John Doe: Vigilante , a topical, polarising and thought-provoking crime thriller shot on the mean streets of Melbourne.

Something to howl about! A feast of depravity will be served in Melbourne when the annual Monster Fest – Australia’s freakiest film festival showcasing international cult and horror cinema – returns on 20 November 2014. Running until 30 November at Carlton’s Cinema Nova and Collingwood barYahYah’s, Monster Fest is much more than just mind-melting movies. One of the international guests attending this year’s Fest is none other thanTroma President Lloyd

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Whatever your choice of flavour, there’s something for all tastes in the blackly humorous Ozploitation flick Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla , in which an ice cream man falls for a soap starlet, runs over his cat, and is bullied by a local drug dealer. Something’s gotta give, and his meltdown into madness echoes Scorsese’s classic Taxi Driver . Siren plunders Greek mythology when a trio of friends on a sailing vacation rush to the aid of a castaway and fall under the spell of a seductive, supernatural femme fatale. If only they’d read The Odyssey ! Dutch director Ate de Jong is a long way from his 1991 comedy Drop Dead Fred with the transgressive thriller Deadly Virtues , whose theme is marriage counselling via home invasion and torture. Love. Honour. Obey. The title tells you all you need to know about Gun Woman , a gruesome Japanese shocker in which a mad scientist transforms a meth addict into an assassin by implanting gun parts inside her body, which she must reassemble. Now that’s what you call carrying a concealed weapon!

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03/ Do you have any crazy or fun stories from set? CM: There’s a scene where this helmet car explodes on a football field, but it exploded at about three times the scale that anyone thought it would. It melted the end zone and we almost got kicked out of the football stadium and we had to replace all the turf because of this massive fireball that burned up the football field. PL: So that was like a cute thing that happened. We had some people almost burned alive. It was fine. It was hilarious. We all had a good laugh. There’s a scene where this helmet car explodes on a football field, but it exploded at about three times the scale that anyone thought it would. 04/ Was there room on set for improvisation from Channing, Jonah and Ice Cube? CM: There was a lot of room for improvisation. The first cut of the film was four hours long because of all of that improvisation. But we got great stuff out of it and those guys always find a way to surprise one another, and it helps us find ways to surprise the audience. 05/ Who are your influences as directors? There are so many.The movies we grew up loving are The Jerk , Raising Arizona, Harold and Maude and Young Frankenstein . We like comedy directors who reach for things that are deeper than just jokes. And what all of those

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What better than having two mates co-directing a buddy movie. That’s exactly what Phil Lord and Christopher Miller did on 22 Jump Street. They’re still friends and happy to talk about it.

01/ What do you think the key is to keeping an audience engaged with a sequel? Christopher Miller: It’s true for sequels and for all movies; the real important thing is to have a character relationship that you care about driving you through the story. Otherwise, it’s just a bunch of jokes and you’re living joke to joke. So the thing that was key for us was finding a place to take these two guys’ relationship even further. Phil Lord: In the first movie, they fell in love for the first time. In this movie it’s, how do you sustain a relationship over a long period of time? That also seemed to be a lot like, how do you sustain a

franchise over a long period of time? Once we realised that those were the same thing and that we could have a lot of fun with those themes, we got really excited about the sequel.

02/ What are the challenges of making a sequel?

CM: I’d say that sequels, by their nature, are bigger and more expensive and crazier, so you have to do bigger, more ridiculous things, so the challenge was scale. So we were having crazy helicopter chases and things exploding and all sorts of shenanigans like that, and all the stunt work. It was a lot, lot harder.

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Gone With the Wind (1939) Directed by Victor Fleming

“F orget it, Louis. No Civil War movie ever made a nickel”. During a meeting with Louis B. Mayer in early 1936, MGM’s production chief Irving Thalberg had listened to the synopsis of a soon to be published Civil War novel. Thalberg’s comment prompted Mayer not to buy the movie rights. Six months later, the 37-year-old Thalberg was dead and the Civil War novel he convinced Mayer to reject was a publishing phenomenon – the fastest selling book in history (it would also win a Pulitzer Prize and go on to sell over 30 million copies). Louis B. Mayer’s son-in-law, David O. Selznick, was an independent film producer working out of RKO studios, and like his father-in- law, had initially expressed no interest in buying the novel’s film rights. But Selznick-International Pictures New York-based story editor Kay Brown urged her boss to think again; she excitedly told him that this could be the greatest motion picture ever made. Selznick still had doubts about the commercial success of a film based on the Civil War. However, he trusted Kay Brown implicitly. After sleeping on it, the next morning he wired her to close the deal with Macmillan Publishing. She did so for $50,000; at that time the highest price ever paid for the film rights of a first novel by an unknown author. Atlanta-born Margaret Mitchell had always toyed with the idea of writing a Civil War story after having been weaned as a child on family stories of Sherman’s siege and the burning of Atlanta. Her book Gone with the Wind had taken ten years to write and tells the story of pampered and spoilt Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara, her loves, marriages and upheavals during the war between the States. The novel’s title reflects the departure of a way of life that existed in the antebellum American South before being overturned and swept away by the Civil War. For some readers the book was a racial

lightning rod, while for others, especially those suffering through the Great Depression of the 1930s, it proved a model for survival. Mitchell summarised her novel thus: “If my book has a theme, it is that of survival. What makes some

people come through a catastrophe and others, just as able, strong and brave, go under? I only know that survivors call that quality gumption. So I wrote about people who had gumption, and people who didn’t”. Selznick was now faced with the monumental task of turning the 1037-page novel into a workable film script. He gave the job to leading playwright Sidney Howard, who having already read the book described it to Selznick as “a sentimental piece of tripe about a bitch and a bastard”. While Howard struggled with the adaptation, Selznick began casting his production; in particular the “bitch” and the “bastard” roles.  The male protagonist of the story was the rakish blockade runner and speculator, Captain Rhett Butler. And as far as the moviegoing public was concerned, only one actor could portray the role – the king of Hollywood himself, Clark Gable. But Gable was under contract at MGM, and Selznick had no intention of asking his father-in-law to borrow the studio’s top male star because he could guess what it would cost him. Actors such as Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper, Basil Rathbone and Errol Flynn were considered by Selznick for the part of Butler, but for one reason or another, were all declined. The public and media clamour for Clark Gable to be cast had now reached fever pitch, leaving Selznick no other option but to go cap in hand to Mayer

False smiles as Louis B. Mayer signs the contract for Clark Gable’s services on Gone with the Wind , watched by Gable and David O. Selznick.

for the services of the actor. The MGM mogul drove a brutal bargain for contributing Gable to the production, which included 50 per cent of the profits, 15 per cent of the gross to distribute the picture, and Selznick to pay Gable’s salary for the 12 weeks the actor was required – plus a $16,666 bonus. Selznick almost balked at the deal, but Gable was indispensable; he reluctantly accepted Mayer’s terms. With false smiles all round for the publicity photo, Selznick watched Mayer and Gable sign the contract. The legal agreement presented Selznick with a major contractual issue. MGM demanded exclusive distribution rights for Gone with the Wind . Selznick already had a contract with United Artists to release his films through to the end of 1938, which meant he couldn’t start filming GWTW until early 1939. He knew he needed to maintain the public and media interest in his movie until its theatrical release, but what could he do? Selznick’s solution to his problem was pure genius. As he still needed to cast an actress to play the fiery Scarlett O’Hara, he announced to the media that he would launch a nationwide search by hiring a hundred talent scouts to scour the country for an unknown female to play the

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Southern belle. Thousands of young women from offices, stores, beauty parlours, finishing schools, stock theatres and amateur productions lined up for the chance to audition for the most coveted role in Hollywood. Selznick’s only aim was publicity – and lots of it! And that’s exactly what he got; the potential Cinderella story kept his upcoming movie on the front pages of the national newspapers for months. While America went into a Scarlett frenzy, Selznick quietly turned his attention to the real search to find his Scarlett amongst Hollywood’s established female stars. Practically every eligible Hollywood actress, from Tallulah Bankhead to Lana Turner, undertook screen tests, but none of them captured the character of Scarlett as detailed in Mitchell’s book. Although Selznick considered Paulette Goddard’s screen test to be the closest to the character, he was still not confident enough to cast her in the role. Meanwhile, the huge sets required for the production were to be constructed on RKO’s massive 40-acre backlot, which was still littered with old sets from previous productions ( King Kong , The Garden of Allah and King of Kings ) that would require dismantling. Selznick’s production manager hit upon the brilliant idea of building facades to represent Atlanta, placing them in front of the old sets, and torching the lot at the production’s conclusion. This would not only make way for the new sets required, but at the same time allow the major scene of the burning of the munitions warehouses at the Atlanta depot to be shot. On the night of 10 December 1938, seven Technicolor cameras were set up and stunt doubles of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara were placed in a wagon to race through the flames. As Selznick stood on a high rise platform and watched the fire light up the Los Angeles night sky, he was joined by his brother Myron, holding the hand of a beautiful young woman. “David, I want you to meet Scarlett O’Hara,” his brother said. The woman was the British actress Vivien Leigh, who was also accompanied by her fiancé Laurence Olivier. According to Hollywood legend, that’s how David O. Selznick found his Scarlett O’Hara. The truth, however, is somewhat more mundane. Selznick had already heard of Leigh early in his search and had watched a number of her films. Believing she was exactly what he wanted, he had kept her a secret because he was fearful that the American public would reject an Englishwoman playing a Southern belle. Consequently, Selznick

The beautiful Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara

Below: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Margaret Mitchell, David O. Selznick and Olivia de Havilland arrive in Atlanta for the premiere of Gone with the Wind.

Vivien Leigh then went into a grand sulk. She hated Fleming, who referred to her on set has “Fiddly Dee”, and repeatedly requested that Cukor be reinstated. Miss Leigh also complained bitterly about Gable’s false teeth and bad breath, and often refused to undertake the kissing scenes with the actor. Gable had in fact eaten a clove of garlic each morning to deliberately annoy his co-star.   Leslie Howard, who played Confederate officer Ashley Wilkes, commented later that it was the most miserable and bad tempered production he had ever worked on. Nevertheless, 12 months later, Gone with the Wind – a film that had been conceived in doubt – was finally delivered and had its premiere in Atlanta, Georgia, on 15 December 1939. It was an immediate box- office hit and went on to win ten Academy Awards, including Outstanding Production (the forerunner of the Best Picture award). Gone with the Wind completely overturned the axiom that “Civil War films are poison at the box-office” and became legendary. Today, 75 years after it first hit the screen, it is still arguably Hollywood’s most famous motion picture.

meeting Scarlett on the night his Atlanta burned was pure hype, concocted and arranged by his publicity department; the gullible, movie-mad public and the media absolutely adored the story and it quickly became part of Hollywood history. Successful screen tests followed, and the vibrant and dynamic Vivien Leigh won what is potentially the most vexing vixen role in the history of motion pictures. With the cast finally in place, filming began in earnest in early January 1939, but the production soon threw up a tranche of major problems on-set. Gable, who never wanted to play Rhett Butler, immediately clashed with director George Cukor over the character’s Southern accent, which he refused to imitate. He also felt that Cukor’s reputation as a “woman’s director” was diminishing his part in the picture. Cukor was replaced with Gable’s best friend Victor Fleming, who wanted – and got – an entire script rewrite. Popping Benzedrine every day, Fleming suffered a nervous breakdown and SamWood was recruited until Fleming was fit enough to return to the director’s chair.

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