STACK #187 May 2020

FILM REVIEWS

visit stack.com.au

And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn. BIRDS OF PREY

RELEASE DATE: 13/05/20 FORMAT:

TOP HITS

EXTRAS

DVD & BD

Birds of Prey : Birds of a Feather – featurette

BD/4K ONLY

Birds Eye View Mode Romanesque A Love, Skate Relationship Grime and Crime Sanity is Sooo Last Season Wild Nerds Gag Reel

Not only has Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) escaped the shackles of the Suicide Squad to go wild in her own romp, she’s also split with the Joker, and isn’t taking the break-up with Mr. J particularly well. So Harley hits the town – and many of its denizens – and must now face the fact that without the protection of Joker, she’s a marked woman. Basically, she’s upset a lot of people in her time – primarily nightclub proprietor Roman Sionis, aka Black Mask (Ewan McGregor).

movie and the superheroine collective. A rambunctious ride that’s loaded with inventive action scenes, abundant wit, a kick-butt soundtrack and a girl power explosion that would have the Spice Girls grinning from ear to ear, Birds of Prey is the most resolutely FUN comic book movie since Deadpool , and Robbie absolutely shines as the ratbag star of the show. AF (See page 20)

Harley takes young pickpocket Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco) under her wing, and when you add cop Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez), the crossbow-wielding Helena Bertinelli (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), and a singer with a killer voice in Dinah Lance/Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett- Bell), you have the recipe for Birds of Prey – both the

4K UHD + Blu-ray Steelbook (while stocks last)

Never meet your heroes. THE BOYS: SEASON 1

RELEASE DATE: 06/05/20 FORMAT:

TOP HITS

EXTRAS

DVD & BD

Deleted Scenes Blooper Reel

DID YOU KNOW?

Translucent is a new character created for the television show. In the graphic novel, the remaining member of The Seven was an “alien” character named Jack from Jupiter, an expy of DC’s Martian Manhunter.

Does the world need another superhero series? It does when it’s a smart, subversive, excessively gory and gleefully R-rated take on the genre called The Boys. In world where superheroes have been corporatised, seven key crusaders go about their business saving lives, posing for selfies and accruing social media likes. The Seven are mostly cheeky analogs of familiar DC

FURTHER VIEWING

them down. The series has the same bonkers and ultra-violent vibe as Preacher , which isn’t surprising given it’s also based on a Garth Ennis comic book and adapted for TV by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, along with Supernatural ’s Eric Kripke. The Boys will have you hooked from the opening episode, so strap in for a wild, bloody and often hilarious ride. SH

characters – there’s Homelander (Superman), The Deep (Aquaman), A-Train (The Flash), and Queen Maeve (Wonder Woman). But beneath the heroic veneer they’re a pretty corrupt bunch – a fact that drives the title group of vigilantes (led by Karl Urban, with a dodgy cockney accent) to attempt to take

30 MAY 2020

jbhifi.com.au