STACK #179 Sept 2019

Founder Nic Short Editor-in-Chief Paul Jones Film & TV Editor Scott Hocking Contributors

Issue 179 SEP 2019

Music Editor Zoë Radas Online Editor Amy Flower

Creative Director Gary Siewert DVD Consultant Kerrie Taylor Games Consultant Sachi Fernando Music Consultant Mike Glynn Marketing Manager Fleur Parker

WELCOME

September is a grand month. Winter has grabbed its coat and left for another year and the warm weather (well, if you live outside of Victoria anyway) is just around the corner. If you’re an entertainment enthusiast – and if you’re reading STACK, you almost certainly are – it also signals the start of hunting season. Yep, the run up to Christmas is when you’ll find the big catches grazing in the aisles of JB – and it all begins this month. Let’s kick off with the gamers amongst us. The first Borderlands game from Gearbox came crashing onto the scene seemingly from nowhere ten years ago. Ten years? Not only did its colourful and unique art style pull developers away from the drab sepia palette prevalent in games at the time, it paved the way for a new genre in gaming, the looter shooter, and would go on to influence the Destiny and Division franchises. The good news is Borderlands 3 is landing in-store this month and it’s one we can’t wait to surrender our social life to. Gears 5, FIFA 20, ePES 2020, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening and NBA 2K20 are just some of the other stellar gaming titles coming this month. For movie lovers, Keanu Reeves is back as John Wick for a third chapter in the acclaimed action franchise, and Godzilla, the X-Men, Chucky and the Men in Black all return in new instalments/reboots. We also paid a visit to the set of IT Chapter 2 , and chatted with acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann about the Director’s Definitive Cut of ‘90s favourite The Last of the Mohicans, which makes its local debut on Blu-ray this month. Paul Jones, Editor-in-Chief

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