STACK #168 Oct 2018

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Never tell him the odds. SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY

Release Date: 03/10/18 Format:

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Solo: The Director and Cast Roundtable Team Chewie Kasdan on Kasdan Remaking the Millennium Falcon Escape from Corellia The Train Heist Becoming a Droid: L3-37 Scoundrels, Droids, Creatures and Cards: Welcome to Fort Ypso Into the Maelstrom: The Kessel Run The Millennium Falcon: From Page to Park Deleted Scenes

The formative years of Star Wars ’ much-loved scoundrel and smuggler, Han Solo, isn’t really a tale that fans have been clamouring for, but here it is anyway. Now for the good news: Solo is easily the best new Star Wars film since The Force Awakens , with a focus on rollicking adventure and narrow escapes (including a full throttle train heist) befitting the title rogue. We first meet Han (Alden Ehrenreich) and girlfriend

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Thandie Newton) who will further shape his destiny. Solo triumphs in the casting of Ehrenreich, whose bromance with our favourite Wookiee is the heart of the film. And it’s no spoiler to reveal that we discover how he acquired the Millennium Falcon from gambler Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover), and that the Kessel Run can be achieved in less than 12 parsecs. SH (See page 18)

Qi’ra ( GoT ’s Emilia Clarke) on his homeworld of Corellia where, following a run-in with a worm-like crime boss, he’s forced to make a hasty exit alone. Solo, in fact. After signing up with the Imperial armed forces, young Han meets his new best buddy, Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo), and a pair of criminals (Woody Harrelson and

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Don’t look down. SKYSCRAPER

Release Date: 31/10/18

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Deleted & Extended Scenes with Commentary by Director Rawson Marshall Thurber Dwayne Johnson: Embodying a Hero Opposing Forces Friends No More Kids in Action Pineapple Pitch Feature Commentary by Director Rawson Marshall Thurber

Die Hard meets The Towering Inferno in the latest big budget action vehicle for Dwyane Johnson (the third to hit home entertainment this year). Playing a former FBI special-ops guy turned skyscraper security consultant (after losing a leg below the knee in a botched hostage situation), Johnson takes a job in Hong Kong, moving into the residential wing of the world’s tallest and most advanced building with his wife (Neve Campbell, who hasn’t aged

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a daredevil rescue attempt like he’s Tom Cruise on an impossible mission – or John McClane. “Yippee-ki-yay!” A relentlessly paced modern disaster movie with an old school premise and a larger than life hero, Skyscraper delivers exactly what it says on the box. AC

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a day since Scream ) and kids. When European terrorists seize control of the skyscraper, trapping his family on a burning floor and setting the police on his tail, Johnson is of course ready to rock, scaling the megastructure in

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