Issue #47 • ships from Sep 11 2003
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The Matrix Reloaded
• The Matrix helped define the limits of the format when it was first launched on DVD, so this ballistic sequel is certain to become one of the biggest discs of 2003. We meet the cast of this amazing film – Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne share their thoughts on its philosophy, Carrie-Anne Moss reveals how she has applied its disciplines to her own life, and we discover how to make hundreds of Agent Smiths.
Plus:
A photo preview of the eagerly-awaited final instalment, The Matrix Revolutions.

The Lion King
• The spectacular Disney animation arrives on DVD in a Special Edition. Our first review of the movie looks at the film's new scene and the many, many extras…

Smallville
• Stars Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum discuss the TV show’s development, while co-creator Alfred Gough tells us what’s to come. Plus a full review of the season one DVD box set.

Coupling
• Writer Steven Moffat tells how one of the best British comedies in years grew out of his own relationship with the show’s producer and divulges how the American version will differ.

Rules of Attraction
• Roger Avary, friend of Quentin Tarantino and director of this brilliant adaptation of Brett Easton Ellis’s novel, on how to make a bad guy out of Dawson’s Creek’s James Van Der Beek.

Ken Annakin
• The director of many Hollywood greats looks at his films on DVD.

Pierce Brosnan
• The name’s Doyle, Desmond Doyle. Pierce looks beyond Bond to his latest film on disc – the true-life tale Evelyn.

Doctor Who
• The sixth Doctor Colin Baker on the DVD release of The Two Doctors.

New discs available in both Regions 1 and 2 including:

• Bionicle: Mask of Light – The Movie
• The Good Thief
• The Kid Stays in the Picture
• The Lion King – Special Edition
• A Man Apart
• NYPD Blue – Season 2

A wealth of new reviews including...

• Angel – Season 2
• Bowling for Columbine – Special Edition
• Babylon 5 – Season 3
• Confidence
• Down With Love
• ER – Season 1
• Highlander – Season 2
• Levity
• The Office – Season 1
• The Osbournes – Season 2
• The Outer Limits – Season 2
• Rocky and Bullwinkle – Season 1
• Spin City – Volumes 1 and 2
• The StoryTeller
• Titanic (1953)
• The Vampire Lovers/Countess Dracula

All the latest discs including:

• Antwone Fisher
• Around the World in 80 Days
• Auto Focus
• Barbershop
• Cahill: US Marshall
• The Chaplin Collection
• Chisum
• City of God
• Coupling – Season 3
• CSI – Season 2 Volume 2
• Darkness Falls
• Doctor Who: The Two Doctors
• Ealing Classics
• Evelyn
• Fame
• Fear Dot Com
• Halloween Resurrection
• The Haunting
• In Search of Shakespeare
• The Omega Man
• The Rules of Attraction
• The Streisand Collection
• Soylent Green
• Sweet Home Alabama
• Tenko – Season 2
• Trapped
• Urban Gothic – Season 1
• The X-Files – Season 1

• Commentary
  The hot news on the coming blockbusters: X-2, Charlie’s Angels, Hulk and Terminator 3.
• Hardware
  The Hyundai 50 Box and Toshiba RD-XS30 are reviewed, and we reveal all the must-have hardware coming to the market soon.
  

Images taken from this issue are copyright or courtesy of: Walt Disney Home Video, Warner Bros, BBC

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

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