Issue #32 • ships from Jul 16 2002
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• The first part of Peter Jackson’s spectacular and faithful adaptation or Tolkien’s Fantasy epic comes to DVD in early August. We hear from the director and members of his cast, plus we’ve an in-depth look at the disc and a hint of what we can expect on the massive Special Edition, due in November.

Free Coverdisc
• A complete episode of Xena: Warrior Princess from its great Season Three.
This VCD PAL disc is available from our catalogue with the Lord of the Rings cover.

24
• A thrilling tv story told in real time: 24 hours in the life of a special agent as he tries to stop an assassination attempt. We're on set at the end of the season…

The 7 Deadly Sins of DVD
• We love DVD right?
But sometimes we hate discs when the distributors get it wrong. We investigate the seven most common sins. Would you agree with them?

DVD Essentials
• We go behind the scenes of the great movie Don’t Look Now, in which a grieving couple meets a psychic in Venice and death is foretold and a ghost may have risen…

James Coburn
• The much-loved actor talks exclusively to Ultimate DVD about the tongue-in-cheek Sixties spy film series that inspired Austin Powers:
the Flint movies.

The Time Machine
• Guy Pearce tries out mainstream movie-making with this new version of the HG Wells's novel. He talks to us about the film, and his distinguished career.

Kung Pow
• Beware crouching tigers! Steve Oedekerk presents a comic twist on the genre with this marvel of film-making. He tells Ultimate DVD about the amazing disc.

New discs available in both Regions 1 and 2 including:

• The Global Picture
• The Lord of the Rings:
  The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Affair of the Necklace
• Amélie: Special Edition
• Star Trek: The Next Generation
  – Season Three
• Don’t Look Now
• Metropolis

A wealth of new reviews including...

• Collateral Damage
• Dragonfly
• Dune Mini Series: Special Edition
• Hart’s War
• Highlander: Immortal Edition
• In Like Flint
• M*A*S*H Season Two
• Our Man Flint
• Pearl Harbor: Vista Edition
• Queen of the Damned
• The Time Machine

All the latest discs including:

• 13 Ghosts
• American Outlaws
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  Season One Box Set 1
• Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
• Kiss of the Dragon
• The Last Castle
• Made
• Marilyn Monroe: The Diamond Collection
• The One
• Training Day
• The West Wing Season One Box Set 2
• Willow

• Spotlight on Hollywood
  Sarah Michelle Gellar reveals why she’s missing on the extras on the latest Buffy box set.
• Commentary – news from the DVD scene:
  The fabulous line up for Spider-Man and ET, plus the latest breaking news.
• Hardware (Region 2 editions only)
  Recordable DVD is here – and we’ve tried out the latest Phillips model. Plus we reveal the must-have DVD hardware coming on the market soon…
• Your letters
  Why not tear yourself away from the tube or flat screen, and drop us a disc-related line?

Images taken from this issue are copyright or courtesy of: 20th Century Fox, Paramount

All other contents © Visual Imagination Ltd 2002. Not for reproduction

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