STACK #155 Sep 2017

DVD&BD REVIEWS

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The future of justice begins with her. WONDER WOMAN

Release Date: 20/09/17 Format:

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A Director’s Vision: Diana in the Modern World Featurette

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Wonder Woman Epilogue Blooper Reel Crafting the Wonder A Director’s Vision: Themyscira: The Hidden Island; Beach Battle; A Photograph Through Time; Wonder Woman at War Featuettes: Warriors of Wonder Woman; The Trinity; The Wonder Behind the Camera; Finding the Wonder Woman Within Extended Scenes

For a character that’s been around for 75 years, it’s a wonder Diana, Princess of Themyscira, hasn’t been given her own movie until now. Lynda Carter on TV was all we had until statuesque Israeli beauty Gal Gadot strode confidently into a male-dominated fray and made the role her own. Balancing a childlike innocence of the world beyond her island with a fierce intelligence and the ferocity

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and agility of a born warrior, Gadot is simply wonderful and brings Diana to life with total conviction. Having popped up briefly in Batman v Superman , this is a proper introduction to Wonder Woman, one of a race of Amazon warriors created by Zeus as peacekeepers and sheltered from the outside world and the evil that men do. Into this matriarchal society drops World War I pilot Steve (Chris

Pine), who tells Diana of the great war raging beyond her shores. Determined to end the conflict, she sets sail for the new world and a date with destiny. Wonder Woman brings some welcome levity to the DCEU; it’s a superhero movie with humour and heart, a highly entertaining origin story, and a ripping wartime adventure romp in the spirit of The Rocketeer and Captain America . SH

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Salazar’s revenge. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES

Release Date: 13/09/17

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First Mate Confidential

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Dead Men Tell More Tales: The Making of a New Adventure: - A Return to the Sea - Telling Tales: A Sit-Down with Brenton & Kaya - The Matador & The Bull: Secrets of Salazar and The Silent Mary - Deconstructing the Ghost Sharks - Wings Over the Caribbean - An Enduring Legacy Bloopers of the Caribbean Jerry Bruckheimer Photo Diary Deleted Scenes

The fifth Pirates film follows the story of fan-favourite Will Turner’s son, Henry (Brenton Thwaites), who has spent his life trying to break the curse that condemns his dad to the ocean. The only way to do that is by securing the mystical Trident of Poseidon. When the ship he’s aboard is set upon by Spanish Sea Captain Armando Salazar (Javier Bardem), Henry is the sole survivor charged

with delivering a message – death is coming for Captain

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are endearing additions to the cast and have genuine chemistry, but Depp’s drunken uncle shtick is wearing a bit thin by round five. Dead Men Tell No Tales is an archetypal PotC adventure with sea warfare, treasure, swashbuckling, swordfights, and the return of Captain Barbossa and the Flying Dutchman. You even find out where Jack Sparrow got his name. AK (See page 22)

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Jack Sparrow. Elsewhere, Carina (Kaya Scodelario) is on trial for witchcraft (read astronomy), and holds the only map to the Trident, and Jack is on death row after being arrested for robbing a bank. As fate would have it, Henry rescues them both, and the race is on to outrun Salazar, find the artefact, and save Will. Thwaites and Scodelario

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Quadrilogy

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