Issue #42 • ships from Apr 24 2003
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Bond: Die Another Day
• Looking great at 40… The anniversary 007 spectacular blasts onto DVD with a two-disc set, and we celebrate the release with a special nine-page extravaganza. Stars Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry discuss their explosive on-screen chemistry, while writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade reveal how to create a Bond script – and divulge why they haven’t recorded a DVD Commentary…

Buffy The Vampire Slayer
• Stars James Marsters and Michelle Trachtenberg and that trio of Danny Strong, Adam Busch and Tom Lenk reveal how they’re taking over the Buffy universe on DVD.

Free Coverdisc
• Behind the scenes of Buffy Season Six. Featurette with cast, crew, behind-the-scenes shots and clips from the chilling Red Dragon. This VCD PAL disc is available from VI Direct with the Buffy cover.

28 Days Later
• Writer Alex Garland and producer Andrew Macdonald on this thrilling low-budget movie. We’ve the whole story on the alternate endings, unfilmed scenes and deleted sequences.

NYPD Blue
• We get a warrant to go on the NYPD Blue set, as we meet the cast and crew from Season One as they divulge the secrets of the must-have DVD…

Billy Campbell
• TV’s Mr Nice turns bad for Enough, and discusses working with Jennifer Lopez, the much-missed series Once and Again, and his starring role in Tales of the City – also out on DVD this month.

Leonardo DiCaprio
• Catching up with the star of Catch Me If You Can.

Sunset Boulevard
• Restoring a classic – we meet Barry Allen, Paramount’s director of film presentation, and discover how a vintage movie is painstakingly revived for DVD.

Antwone Fisher
• Star Derek Luke on the DVD début of his star-making movie.

Spotlight on Hollywood
• The Spinal Tap team on their next DVD, A Mighty Wind.

New discs available in both Regions 1 and 2 including:

• 8 Mile
• Die Another Day
• Inspector Gadget 2
• Red Dragon
• Swept Away
• X-Men: The Legend of Wolverine

A wealth of new reviews including...

• Antwone Fisher
• Bushwhacked
• Catch Me If You Can
• Darkness Falls
• Drumline
• Empire
• Evelyn
• Far from Heaven
• Futurama – Season 1
• The Ghost and Mrs Muir
• Personal Velocity
• Quest for Fire
• The Secretary
• Tales of the City
• The Transporter
• The Truth About Charlie
• Windtalkers – Special Edition

All the latest discs including:

• 28 Days Later
• Brazil
• Buffy The Vampire Slayer – Season 6
• Cold Feet – Season 5
• Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
• Ealing Comedy Collection 2
• Enough
• Fargo – Special Edition
• Friends – Season 9 Vols 1-3
• The Good Girl
• Joe Somebody
• Juwanna Mann
• Like Mike
• The Lost World
• Manhunter – Director’s Edition
• M*A*S*H – Season 1
• NYPD Blue – Season 1
• Possession
• The Salton Sea
• Stargate SG-1 – Volume 27
• Sunset Boulevard
• The West Wing – Season 2, Volume 1
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit

• Commentary
  Daredevil hits the bullseye with a two-disc set, Terminator 2 gets a bigger and better release and there are rumours of Schindler’s List…
• Hardware
  The Pacific DVD 1002 and JVC TH-A75R reviewed, and we reveal all the must-have hardware coming to the market soon.

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

All other contents © Visual Imagination Ltd 2003. Not for reproduction

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