STACK #155 Sep 2017

HIGH-DEF HIGHLIGHTS

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W hen you pick up a HD copy of The Mummy from JB Hi-Fi on Sept 6, you'll find a few treasures not available anywhere else. The Blu-ray and 4K editions include a bonus DVD featuring additional content that's exclusive to JB, and a 4K VR Edition adds a graphic novel, a cardboard VR headset and a download code for 'The Mummy

a 4K UHD edition. The HD editions are packed with bonus features including an epilogue, blooper reel, five 'Director's Vision' featurettes,

VR Experience' – exclusive to this

and six deleted scenes. And if you pre-order your copy of Wonder Woman online at jbhifi.com.au before 11:59pm AEST, 17th September 2017, you can enter to win one of 10 Limited Edition Wonder Woman Figurines (T&Cs apply). Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Sept 13) will be available in a Limited Edition Steelbook featuring alternative artwork, along with the standard Blu-ray and 4K UHD versions. Extras include the documentary Dead Men Tell More Tales: The Making of a New Adventure, plus Bloopers of the Caribbean, Jerry Bruckheimer Photo Diary,

set (see page 7). A 3D version is also available and all HD editions include the following bonus features: Four deleted and extended

1 Alien: Covenant 2 The Fate of the Furious 3 The Great Wall 4 Hacksaw Ridge 5 Ghost in the Shell 6 King Arthur: Legend of the Sword 7 John Wick: Chapter 2 8 Split 9 Resident Evil: The Final Chapter 10 Get Out

scenes, Cruise & Kurtzman: A Conversation, Rooted in Reality, Life in Zero-G: Creating the Plane Crash, Meet Ahmanet, Cruise in Action, Becoming Jekyll and Hyde, Choreographed Chaos, Nick Morton: In Search of a Soul, Ahmanet Reborn Animated Graphic Novel. Wonder Woman (Sept 6) is available in several wonderful variants featuring alternate artwork: there's the Limited Edition Steelbook, Blu-ray, 3D Blu-ray, and

deleted scenes, alternate coda, and more.

S idney J. Furie's underrated 1982 supernatural thriller The Entity (Sept 6) is scarier than anything The Conjuring franchise can conjure up. Based on the true story (of course) of Carla Moran (Barbara Hershey), a single mother who becomes the victim of a predatory poltergeist, The Entity works on the same level as The Exorcist , in that a psychological explanation for the phenomenon could also exist... But of course Hershey and viewers know better. A welcome addition to the HD range and a must-see for every horror fan. After the first ten minutes you'll realise The Eyes of My Mother (available now) is one of those movies that's going to leave you profoundly disturbed.

who has been permanently scarred by a childhood tragedy, and consequently has strange ideas about family. The impressive debut feature of writer-director Nicolas Pesce, who notes in an

of the disaster movie cycle in 1975, The Hindenburg (Sept 6) speculates on the conspiracy theories surrounding the fiery fate of the titular German blimp in 1937. Robert Wise's dramatisation features some big names – George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft – and presents the finale as a faux b&w newsreel that integrates archival footage of the real Before Rogue there was Dark Age . This rarely seen '80s Ozploitation flick concerns a killer crocodile terrorising the Northern Territory. John Jarratt plays the ranger tasked with stopping the beast, which is part of Aboriginal disaster. Will the matte paintings and modelwork hold up in HD, though?

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interview on the disc that he's as fascinated with the more mundane aspects of a serial killer's life as the crimes, and The Eyes of My Mother explores this contrast with chilling effect.

1 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 2 Alien: Covenant 3 John Wick: Chapter 2 4 The Fate of the Furious 5 King Arthur: Legend of the Sword 6 Kong: Skull Island 7 Ghost in the Shell 8 Deadpool 9 Passengers 10 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

The Wiz , director Sidney Lumet's soulful, urban version of The Wizard of Oz, was a critical and commercial failure back in 1978, but has since achieved cult status. With Diana Ross as Dorothy, Michael Jackson as Scarecrow, and Richard Pryor as The Wiz, it's not hard to see why. Long out of print, this seventies' curio makes a surprise return to the shelves on Sept 6. Released during the height

This black and white slice of American Gothic

legend and therefore sacred. This Aussie monster movie makes an overdue return on Blu-ray on Sept 6, with ample extras.

focuses on a lonely young woman (Kika Magalhaes)

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