Oct 2002 • ships from Sep 12 2002
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• The super spy genre gets a fierce makeover as buffed-up star Vin Diesel appears in the first of a new action movie franchise as the extreme sports star dragged into the murky world of the secret agent.

Movie Spotlight: Road to Perdition
• Oscar-winners director Sam Mendes, Tom Hanks and Paul Newman reveal all about their time on the 1930s gangster revenge flick.

Red Dragon
• Uncork that Chianti and celebrate the return of our favourite man-eater, Hannibal Lecter, in the new and updated prequel to Silence of the Lambs.

Call Sheet: The Fantastic Voyages of Sinbad
• We profile the men behind the classic Sinbad movies: animators Ray Harryhausen and Charles H Schneer. They reveal their secrets.

The Rookie
• As baseball movie The Rookie prepares to enter the box-office major leagues, star Dennis Quaid steps up to the plate to talk to us about his career, his movies and his hopes for the future.

New Movies! 24 brand spanking new releases -
including all the newcomers above, as well as...

• My Big Fat Greek Wedding
  A tale of one woman’s fight to get married doesn’t sound like the most scintillating movie of all time, but it’s our favourite film in the issue!
• One Hour Photo
  Robin Williams develops more than just holiday snaps in this chilling thriller
• Lilo & Stitch
  Disney’s latest creation can’t be called cute and cuddly – but it can be called fantastic!
• Still Showing. . .
  Our in-depth guide to more than 50 films at cinemas near you in the UK at the time of going to press

Home Entertainment – 10 pages reviewing the latest cable and satellite films showing in homes, plus videos, books, CDs, DVDs… Including:

• Examining Russell Crowe’s A Beautiful Mind
• Getting spooked out with Nicole Kidman in The Others
• And catching up with Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction

Despatches: – 10 pages of the hottest movie news

• Massive preview of the eagerly-awaited musical Chicago
• The race to make the first and best Alexander the Great biopic
• Mel Gibson’s plans to film the life of Christ – with Vatican approval
• All the latest box-office charts
• …and much, much more!

• Competitions
  Win copies of the latest rental releases including K-PAX and The Count of Monte Cristo – with a DVD player thrown in, too!
• The Best Seat in the House
  James Cameron-Wilson wonders why women directors don’t have it so good in Hollywood. And don’t forget, you can always put his movie knowledge to the test in our famous Film Facts!
• Next Issue
  Sugar, spice, and everything nice! That’s what little super-heroines are made of as we catch up with the Cartoon Network’s famous trio, The Powerpuff Girls. We dive to the depths aboard the K19 – The Widowmaker with Liam Neeson and Harrison Ford. Then we’re Changing Lanes with Ben Affleck and Samuel L Jackson as two men whose road rage escalates out of control!

Images taken from this issue are copyright or courtesy of: 20th Century Fox, MCA/Universal Pictures

All other contents © Visual Imagination Ltd 2002. Not for reproduction

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