Special Issue #71 • ships from Apr 9 2008
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In 148 pages...

I Am Legend
• Director Francis Lawrence takes us through the process of bringing Richard Matheson's novel to the screen again, and star Will Smith chats about acting alone

Stargate SG-1
• Star Amanda Tapping talks about the SG-1 team taking its adventures to the next level with the release of the straight-to-DVD movie The Ark of Truth

Echo Beach
• Neighbours survivor, entertainer and actor Jason Donovan reminisces about his career so far and tells us about returning to soap opera for Echo Beach

Sweeney Todd:
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Director Tim Burton and stars Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter discuss the latest version of the classic tale of the man hell-bent on revenge who still finds time to do the occasional short back, sides… and throat!

Moving Wallpaper
• The ubiquitous Ben Miller gives his thoughts on playing Jonathan Pope, producer of soap opera Echo Beach, in behind-the-scenes comedy Moving Wallpaper

30 Days of Night
• Creator Steve Niles relates the evolution of his vampire horror from the comic to the silver screen

Futurama
• Back after a long break with Bender's Big Score, the man who voices the stealing, smoking, drinking robot of the title, John Di Maggio, tells us why his character's a good role model

Derren Brown
• Mental as anything? Master manipulator Derren Brown tells tales of his tour and his apparently magical ability to out-think almost any Human alive

When Good Film-Makers Go Bad
• Inspired by the horrible shambles that is Richard Kelly's Southland Tales, we take a look at other directors who've struck box office gold before becoming badly tarnished shortly thereafter

10 Things to Do With Your HD DVD Player
• With Blu-ray the winner of the 2008 format war, many people will have an HD DVD player and no idea what to do with it. We offer some suggestions …

The Last Word
• Oscar-winning actor Sir Ben Kingsley, takes us through the process of putting You Kill Me together and looks back on his roles to date

• (Ratings out of 5 for movie-tv/extras)
• Enchanted (5/3)
• I Am Legend (4/2)
• The Golden Compass (3/5)
• Sleuth (2007) (3/3)
• Lions for Lambs (2/3)
• Southland Tales (1/2)
  
  

• (Ratings out of 5 for movie-tv/extras)
• Curb Your Enthusiasm - Season 6 (5/3)
• No Country for Old Men (5/2)
• Bee Movie (4/4)
• The Kite Runner (4/3)
• The Mist (1/4)
  
  

• (Ratings out of 5 for movie-tv/extras)
• The Assassination of Jesse Jaames By the Coward Robert Ford (5/2)
• Entourage - Season 3, part 2 (4/4)
• Black Sheep (4/2)
• Lust, Caution (4/1)
• The Killing of John Lennon (3/1)
• Hitman (2/3)
  
  

• (Ratings out of 5)
• Frontlines: Fuel of War (5)
• Army of Two (4)
• Bully: Scholarship Edition (4)
• Ninja Reflex (4)
• No More Heroes (4)
• Viking: Battle for Asgard (4)
• Dark Sector (3)
• Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed (3)
• Iridium Runners (2)
• Lost: The Video Game (2)
• Star Trek: Conquest (2)
• Turning Point - Fall of Liberty (2)
• Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity (1)
• and a preview of The Bourne Conspiracy!
  
  

• (Ratings out of 5)
• Leatherheads (3)
• Nim's Island (3)
• Shine a Light (3)
• Superhero Movie (3)
• 21 (2)
• Drillbit Taylor (2)
• Shutter (2)
• Street Kings (2)
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall (1)
• Stop-Loss (1)
  
  

• (Ratings out of 5 for movie-tv/extras)
• 3.10 to Yuma (5/4)
• The Fly (5/4)
• A Few Good Men (4/3)
• Run Lola Run (4/3)
• Crimson Tide (4/2)
  
  

• (Ratings out of 5)
• 30 Rock - Season 2 (5)
• Boston Legal - Season 4 (4)
• Brothers & Sisters - Season 2 (4)
• CSI - Season 8 (4)
• Desperate Housewives - Season 4 (3)
• Grey's Anatomy - Season 4 (4)
• House - Season 4 (4)
• The Office (US)- Season 4 (5)
• The Riches - Seasons 1 & 2 (5)
• Ugly Betty - Season 2 (4)
  
  
  Produced in conjunction with The Works #20 and Ultimate #89

Images taken from this issue are copyright or courtesy of: ITV, The Sci-Fi Channel, Warner Bros Pictures

All other contents © Visual Imagination Ltd 2008. Not for reproduction

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