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Prepare to defend yourself!
• Stick on your baggy pyjamas, take a bow and start slapping the stars of the big screen about with the Film Review Kung Fu Special! Then brace yourself for an unremitting onslaught of chops and kicks from both the latest and the greatest martial arts legends of all time, including:
Jackie Chan
• The king of Hong Kong cinema takes time out from his gruelling fitness regime to tell us about his life, his work and why his characters so rarely have love interests. Then the man who’s thrown himself from all the rooftops in downtown Kowloon reveals his one true fear…
 Bulletproof Monk
• Honk Kong legend Chow Yun Fat and American Pie star Seann William Scott team up in this tale of an ageless monk charged with protecting a sacred scroll.
 Bruce Lee
• We take a look at the life and career of the most influential cinematic martial artist in the history of the genre, with Bruce Lee’s widow Linda with her own perspective on the star.
Call Sheet: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• It’s an undoubted modern classic, and one of the best martial films to hit the big screen since Bruce Lee! Director Ang Lee and co-writer James Schamus give us their insight on the creation of one of the most revered, and just plain beautiful, films in modern cinematic history.
Previews!
• There’s a wealth of martial arts movies coming to your multiplex in the months to come, and we take a look at the lot!
• The Last Samurai: Tom Cruise as a disillusioned Civil War soldier charged with destroying a culture
• The Accidental Spy: Jackie Chan as an everyday Joe who discovers his Dad’s a Korean spy.
• Hero: An epic Chinese tale of assassins, love and betrayal.
• Kill Bill: Tarantino’s latest pays tribute to just about every classic kung fu film made.
• The Matrix Reloaded: Neo and Trinity are back to slap Hugo Weaving about all over again, in our picture packed preview!
And, to cap it off, there’s our usual round-up of the very best in DVDs for our chosen genre, with a full 10 pages of Discs of Death!
But that’s not all!
 Die Another Day
• To tie in with the forthcoming DVD release of the latest James Bond movie Die Another Day, we present a behind-the-scenes extravaganza – access the hidden files with:
• Born to be Bad: The evil triumvirate of Die Another Day, Rosamund Pike, Toby Stephens and Rick Yune, get together to reveal what its like to go up against Britain’s Greatest Secret Agent, and their latest plan to dominate the world!!
• The men behind the explosions, the stunts and the even bigger explosions tell us how they go about putting together the explosion, the stunts and the biggest explosions ever for a Bond film — and why CGI in Bond is a bloody great cop-out…
• Is he the real ‘M’? Producer Michael G Wilson, along with Barabara Broccolli, is the man with his hand at the tiller of the Bond franchise. He gives us the low-down on what really goes on behind the scenes, and gives us his thoughts on Bond XXI…
• Production designer Peter Lamont tells us just why those megalomaniacal Bond baddies have such outrageous taste in architecture: so does he! From ice palaces, to fencing clubs, if you want something blown up by Bond, Lamont’s the man to build it first…
• Costume designer Lindy Hemming takes a last look over her work for Halle Berry, Madonna and Pierce Brosnan, in a humungously picture-tastic fashion-mag style spread thingie!
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