Issue #72 • ships from Oct 31 2005
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116 packed pages!

Doctor Who 2000s
• As Season One nears its DVD release, we take you behind the scenes in our extensive feature
• We join the director and cast in the Commentary booth as they record the final commentary track for the DVD box set
• We meet up with producer and Doctor Who fanatic Paul Vanezis to discuss the array of features that will be adorning the release, and why he felt the extras were such an integral part of the box set
Plus
• We talk to John Barrowman, who plays Time Agent Captain Jack, where he reveals why he relished playing the Who lothario, how he thinks the show should opt for a musical episode, and his enthusiasm for his upcoming spin-off Torchwood

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
• Creator George Lucas reveals how Star Wars looks set to continue evolving, and discusses the two upcoming spin-off TV shows

Plus
Producer Rick McCallum and star Hayden Christensen tell us about the exciting extras and deleted scenes on the Episode III DVD

War of the Worlds 2005
• Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise and screenwriter David Koepp discuss what the film is really about, and how they wanted to personalize H G Wells’s classic Sci-Fi tale

Plus
Ann Robinson, star of the 1953 version, reveals what it was like to cameo in Spielberg’s version

Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory
• Johnny Depp and Tim Burton on the delights of working together again, their vision of recreating Dahl’s fantastical tale...

...and what they like to get up to at the weekend!

Polar Express
• We met up with director Robert Zemeckis, star Tom Hanks and producer Steve Starkey to discuss the DVD release of their festive ‘motion capture’ film, and why they view it as such an innovative and creative technique to apply to film

American Pie Presents Band Camp
• Stars Tad Hilgenbrinck and Arielle Kebbel discuss what it was like to be in the fourth ‘American Pie’, and how it differs from the original trilogy

New discs available in both Regions 1 and 2 including:

• Batman Begins
• Millions
• Mr & Mrs Smith
• Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
• War of the Worlds
• Titanic – Special Edition
• Alias – Season 4
• Smallville – Season 4
  
  

A wealth of new reviews including...

• Bewitched (the movie)
• Gus Van Sant’s Last Days
• Office Space – Special Edition
• Born into Brothels
• Carlito’s Way – Special Edition
• Kicking and Screaming
• Veronica Mars – Season 1
• Arrested Development – Season 2
  
  

All the latest discs including:

• The Descent
• In My Father’s Den
• Hitchcock Collection
• Palindromes
• Infernal Affairs III
• Christmas with the Kranks
• Extras – Season 1
• Doctor Who 2000s – Season 1
  
  

• Commentary
  The latest news on the DVD scene, including what we can expect from the 2-disc Sin City Special Edition and the hugely successful documentary March of the Penguins
  
  
• Hardware
  We keep you informed about the latest gadgets hitting the market, including Bose’s new Lifestyle home cinema systems
  
  

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

All other contents © Visual Imagination Ltd 2006. Not for reproduction

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