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132 pages
Film Review is 55!!
A Brief History of Film Review
• We take a look back at the long and illustrious history of this evergreen magazine
The Top 55…
• Continuing with our theme of 55, we explore some different aspects of this number, in terms of…
 …Films
• Decade by decade, we’ve tracked down the most striking pictures of the last 55 years, from 1950’s Sunset Boulevard through to 1971’s A Clockwork Orange and 2002’s The Pianist
 …Stars
• We highlight the talents of the best English-speaking actors to grace the silver screen during the last 55 years, including Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Robert De Niro & Nicole Kidman
 …Directors
• We pay homage to the best international directors to date, including such cinematic legends as Fritz Lang, Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg
The Five Most Important Movies
• Continuing with the 5 theme, we move on to look at our choice for 5 important movies in the last 55 years…
Star Wars
• From the bold reinvention of an archetypal story to the innovative special effects, we examine just what it is about this seminal Sci-Fi flick that changed the movie industry
Psycho
• We examine the thoughts of Hitchcock himself, and the reflections of his actress daughter, to try to unravel the success of this darkly comic shocker
Rebel Without a Cause
• Flawed parental figures, middle-class myopia and moody teenagers are just three of the ingredients that made this an explosively influential film on its release
Reservoir Dogs
• Tarantino explores the creative process that led to him making this low-budget classic, while Harvey Keitel reveals what drew him to the script
Jurassic Park
• More than just a collection of ingeniously animated lizards, we go under the skin of this spectacular Spielberg adventure and hunt down the source of its success
Plus!
Billy Bob Thornton
• The renowned actor and director, and frequent favourite of gossip columnists, reveals how packed his upcoming schedule is and explains why he chose to make Bad News Bears
Sean Bean
• The barnstorming Brit explains why his filming schedule has been keeping him away from home for nearly a year at a time and reflects on his increasingly successful career
With…
The Film Review Directory
• Two months’ worth of film reviews all in one place!
Trailer Park
• Our take on six of the latest Trailers, from Peter Jackson’s long-awaited King Kong, to Terry Gilliam’s The Brother’s Grimm, Disney’s Chicken Little, the colourful Keira Knightley outing Domino, Jodie Foster’s latest, Flightplan, and the swashbuckling adventure The Legend of Zorro
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