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In Film Review’s twelfth and
LARGEST-EVER 196-page Yearbook…
• …we take a comprehensive look back at 2003, a year which saw a plethora of comic-book superheroes, Fantasy figures and animated antics sprawled across the big screen!
With all of 2003’s film releases being covered in detail and comprehensively indexed, the Yearbook adds up to 13 issues’ worth of reviews – something no self-respecting fan of film should be without! And if you’re looking to augment your DVD collection with some of the latest releases, it’s a handy guide to the films themselves – what’s hot, and what shouldn’t have been shot.
From About Schmidt to X-Men 2 via Finding Nemo and, er, Gigli, it’s all here. Your cinematic year preserved forever, and for less than the price of a cinema ticket, popcorn and cola!
But that’s not all! You also get our retrospective of the year, charting its highs and lows, Kill Bill Volume 1 and Pirates of the Caribbean to – oh dear! – The Matrix Reloaded and Legally Blonde 2.
What’s more, with the release of the final chapter in The Lord of the Rings trilogy on the horizon, we give you a glimpse behind the scenes in our special section…
 Return of the King
• …featuring interviews with Gandalf himself, Sir Ian McKellen, and scriptwriter Phillipa Boyens, as well the man who would be the returning king, Viggo Mortensen!
PLUS! As if all that wasn’t enough
• Ten great interviews with some of Hollywood’s hottest and fastest-rising stars – those who can regard the year 2003 as a watershed, including…
 Colin Farrell
• Despite appearing in no less than five films this year – including The Recruit and S.W.A.T. – he’s still having trouble taking his celebrity entirely seriously, as he reveals.
 Uma Thurman
• With Kill Bill, the talented actress was again in the limelight. She tells how her pregnancy interfered with the production, and how one scene went four times over schedule.
George Clooney
• As he stepped behind the camera for the first time, 2003 saw Clooney’s directorial début with the acclaimed Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, as well as appearances in Solaris and Welcome to Collinwood. He tells us how he finds the time…
Keira Knightley
• She’s come a long way since appearing as Natalie Portman’s double in The Phantom Menace. After a celebrated performance in Bend it Like Beckham, she finally hit the big time in 2003 with a star-making performance in Pirates of the Caribbean, and she explains the fine art of corset acting…
Leonardo DiCaprio
• With both Gangs of New York and Catch Me if You Can hitting cinemas this year, it’s been a busy one for the former Titanic-star – although he won’t be doing any more films like that, he assures us…
Heath Ledger
• With three films out in 2003 starring the young Australian actor, he reveals the roots of his desire to take on unusual, independent projects, and talks about his experiences in the desert shooting The Four Feathers. He also lets slip some of his sartorial preferences…
Hugh Jackman
• A sudden sensation thanks to his role in the X-Men movies, Jackman tells us about implanting subliminal messages in his son’s mind and why he’s nervous of Wolverine fans coming to see him in his next role… as a gay Australian cabaret artiste!
Ian Holm
• Not content with merely reprising his role as Bilbo in the forthcoming The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Ian Holm also returns as Napoleon in The Emperor’s New Clothes – having first played the role more than 20 years ago…
Alison Lohman
• She wants to be “anonymous”, she tells Film Review – but that option may soon disappear for the young actress who’s suddenly sprung to the world’s attention with two films out in 2003. She won plaudits as Nicolas Cage’s daughter in Ridley Scott’s Matchstick Men, and acclaim in White Oleander. But, as she explains, she’s not about to sell out…
Maggie Gyllenhaal
• The big sister of Donnie Darko’s Jake discusses her role in three 2003 films, including Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and, crucially, the controversial Secretary. And, as she makes clear, this is the year she’s been welcomed into the film-making community.
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