STACK #155 Sep 2017

REVIEWS DVD&BD

The spirit of the nation is in her hands. THEIR FINEST

Great friends. Terrible choices. ROUGH NIGHT

Release Date: 30/08/17

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Release Date: 27/09/17

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The British propaganda movies of the Second World War inform this handsomely mounted dramedy. A Ministry of Information copywriter (Gemma Arterton) lands a screenwriting job to provide a female perspective for an upcoming film, supposedly based on the true story of two sisters who took their dad’s boat to Dunkirk to rescue stranded British soldiers. The fact that the girls didn’t actually make it to France is the least of her problems, however, with a pompous actor (Bill Nighy) grouching that he isn’t the star, and a

Four college best buddies – Jess (Scarlett Johansson), Alice (Jillian Bell), Blair (Zoë Kravitz) and Frankie (Ilana Glazer) – reunite 10 years later for a bachelorette weekend in Miami. Add a ringer from a Jess semester in Australia in Pippa (Kate McKinnon) and all’s set for a great time… until they accidentally kill their stripper. With Jess running for local government and everybody else just kind of not wanting to end up in Orange Is the New Black territory, the race is on to dispose of the body. A few plot twists – some

heroic US pilot (Jake Lacy) who can’t act in the leading role. There are also complications on the homefront when she falls for her charming, and married, co-writer (Sam Claflin). The making of this fictional film provides plenty of fun, along with a few moments of pathos. JF

clever, some incredibly predictable – present themselves, amidst a lot of cringe comedy and some genuine laugh-out-loud moments. Rough Night doesn’t rewrite any rules or push any new buttons, but it serves its girls behaving badly ambitions well. AF

Just the facts on 2Pac. ALL EYEZ ON ME

Beaches ain't ready. BAYWATCH

Release Date: 20/09/17

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Release Date: 30/08/17

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Tupac Shakur was an icon of hip hop during the '90s, enjoying phenomenal success and multi-platinum album sales before his death in a drive-by shooting, aged 25. Taking its title from his fourth studio album, this sprawling biopic charts the rapper and sometime actor’s rise from his turbulent youth and formative years performing with Digital Underground, to a controversial solo career full of incendiary lyrics, accusations of misogyny, and multiple arrests. With his bling growing in proportion to his success, Tupac emerges as a young man driven

Baywatch was one of the most watched TV series in the world during the ‘90s. The fact it was a feast of beefcake and bikini babes might have had something to do with it, so the movie upsizes the bare flesh and jiggling cleavage accordingly. The Hoff and Pammy’s red swimwear has been passed on to the dependable Dwayne Johnson, Alexandra Daddario (those eyes!) and Zac Efron (those abs!), who set out to bust a local drug syndicate after corpses and bags of meth begin washing up on the beach. The movie lampoons the

by a resolute desire to change the world, imbued at an early age by parents with revolutionary ideals. All Eyez on Me is certainly thorough in presenting the facts on his short life, but tends to gloss over the unsavoury elements and never truly gets under the skin of its subject. SH

series’ stereotypes in a tongue-in-cheek comedy caper that works on a lowbrow level, thanks largely to the combined charisma of Johnson and Efron. Watch out for some inevitable cameos, and make sure you get the free pull-out poster inside this issue up on the wall. SH

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