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132 pages

Hugh Jackman
• We talk to the Aussie heartthrob about his amazing career, from his star-making turn as Wolverine in the X-Men films to his upcoming role in magical mystery movie The Prestige

Stan Lee
• Excelsior! The creator of X-Men talks comic book movies and his fantastic cameo in next year’s highly-anticipated hottest superhero film, Spiderman 3

The Prestige
• Christian Bale, Scarlett Johansson and Michael Caine discuss acting alongside Hugh Jackman in director Christopher Nolan’s thriller The Prestige

With…

The Departed
• Legendary director Martin Scorsese and stars Leonardo Di Caprio and Matt Damon discuss their electrifying new crime thriller

Helen Mirren
• Britain’s best-loved actress gives her reaction to the right royal reception her role in The Queen has received

Russell Crowe
• Hollywood’s best-known hellraiser tells us why he’s taking it easy – for once – in Ridley Scott’s new movie A Good Year

Heath Ledger
• The Brokeback Mountain star reveals how he approached playing a heroin addict in his new film Candy

Zach Braff
• We talk to the Scrubs star about playing an absolute cad in his new romantic drama The Last Kiss

Dominic Cooper
• The upcoming British actor tells us about his role in History Boys, a movie adaptation of Alan Bennett’s hit play

Cory Edwards
• The director of new animation Hoodwinked tells us how he gave Little Red Riding Hood a millennial makeover

William Friedkin
• On the 35th anniversary of The French Connection, the director recalls the classic film’s troubled production

Jean Reno
• The enigmatic actor talks about playing detective Bezu Fache in this year’s most anticipated DVD, The Da Vinci Code

Halle Berry
• Back once again as the mighty Storm in X-Men: The Last Stand, the stunning actress tells us about the evolution of her character and a very embarrassing on-set mishap!

Plus…

The Bigger Picture
• We take a look at upcoming releases Edmond, Man of the Year and The Lost City

Your Film Review
• We visit London’s famous Leicester Square to find out what our UK readers thought of Right at Your Door

The Film That Changed My Life
• Rapper turned actor Ice T tells us how blaxploitation classic Superfly saved him from a life of crime

New Movies! 32 new releases –
including the above as well as...

• Children of Men
  Clive Owen stars in this ambitious futuristic thriller
• Borat
  Sacha Baron Cohen brings his outrageous Kazakhstani character to the big screen
• The Black Dahlia
  Brain De Palma directs this adaptation of the acclaimed true crime book
  
  

Home Entertainment – 13 pages reviewing the latest cable and satellite films showing at home, videos, books, CDs, DVDs, games…

• Our DVD section has all the latest movies heading for a living room near you. Including disaster remake Poseidon, splatter horror Slither and hard-hitting 9/11 drama United 93.
  
  
• >Audrey Hepburn - The Paramount Years tells offers a remarkable portrait of one of cinema’s greatest stars in our books section
  
  
• We get into some interactive movie violence with the Scarface: The World is Yours and Reservoir Dogs video games
  
  
• The Greatest Cinema Choral Classics CD gets us all inspired
  
  

Despatches: – 12 packed pages of the
hottest movie news and gossip

• Baby Suri revealed at last
• Jack Nicholson in hospital?
• Russell Crowe pays tribute to Steve Irwin
  
  

• Competitions
  This issue we’re giving away
  • 10 DVD copies of Monty Python and The Holy Grail: Extraordinarily Deluxe Edition in our crossword competition
  • 10 DVD copies of X-Men: The Last Stand to whoever gets a letter published in our Post Production letters page
  • 10 DVD copies of The Omen and with one lucky winner also receiving a fantastic JVC DR-MH200 DVD/160 Gb hard drive recorder.
  
  Plus…
  To celebrate the release of Ridley Scott’s wonderful new film A Good Year, we’re giving away a five-star, three-hour Vinopolis Connoisseur tour for two. The package includes the Vinopolis Tour, a how to taste wine session, five wine tastings, five additional wine tastings, four premium wine tastings, a Bombay Saphire Cocktail, a Vinopolis cockscrew or tasting notebook, Vinopolis Polo Shirt or T-shirt. And if you can find your way back after all that then you also get a two night stay in London’s very trendy MalMaison Hotel and a copy of Peter Mayle’s book, A Good Year. To win all you have to do is answer an easy movie-related question
  
  
• Film Facts
  All your cinematic questions answered by our resident expert
  
  
• Next Issue
  We’ll take a look at some of the biggest forthcoming releases, including James’s Bond return in Casino Royale, surreal fairy tale Pan’s Labyrinth and George Reeves biopic Hollywoodland
  
  

Images taken from this issue are copyright or courtesy of: Warner Bros, Pathé Pictures International, 20th Century Fox

All other contents © Visual Imagination Ltd 2006. Not for reproduction

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