Issue #78 • ships from Jul 5 2006
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132 packed Pages!

The Hottest TV Shows on DVD
• Rome Set Report!
Ultimate goes to Rome to find out why Ancient Rome isn’t that different from modern-day America plus we meet with star Polly Walker and director Alan Poul on sexing up history

Lost
• Star Evangeline Lilly talks about the show’s phenomenal success, why she still doesn’t own a TV and who she’s really got her eye on on the island (and it’s not real-life boyfriend Dominic Monaghan!)

• Supernatural
Wiseguys Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki on why their paranormal show is quite unlike anything else on TV

• Battlestar Galactica (2000s)
Veteran Galactica actor Richard Hatch candidly discusses his failed spin-off and why he returned to the re-vamped show

• No Angels
Star Kaye Wragg talks to Ultimateabout the demise of the nurse comedy and its upcoming US revival

• Miami Vice
Reflecting n the classic ’80s cop show that’s remembered as much for the storytelling as its fashion sense and soundtrack

• Doctor Who (2000s)
Billie Piper on new Doctor David Tennant, her own imminent departure and coping with fame

V for Vendetta
• Actor Hugo Weaving talks about his controversial role as the enigmatic eponymous 'V' and about stepping into the shoes of James Purefoy four weeks into shooting

A Scanner Darkly
• Director Richard Linklater on why his Philip K Dick adaptation is the most innovative yet and also the truest to the Science Fiction writer’s vision

The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
• Director Alexandre Aja on the DVD release of his Horror shocker, getting the film past the censors and why he loves bad movies

Snakes on a Plane
• This cheesy action flick looks set to achieve cult status following the unprecedented amount of internet publicity it’s generating. We speak to star Sunny Mabrey to get the lowdown

• Follow That Film
  Things seem to be coming to a temporary standstill behind the scenes of the independent film Rise of the Footsoldier
• Commentary Uncut
  Milla Jovovich on her new actioner Ultraviolet and why she walked off set
• The Last Word
  Rapper-turned-actor Ludacris gets verbal about his public feud with Oprah and why he thinks the talk show host dislikes African American rappers
• Cutting Edge
  Brooke Burgess, creator of the online graphic novel and DVD Broken Saints on breaking the mould

• The latest movie, DVD and technology news and reviews, including Bryan Singer’s claims that they’ll be even more Superman Returns on DVD, news of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner getting three different DVD editions, plus our word on the new DVD releases, including:

New discs available in both Regions 1 and 2 including:

• Broken Saints
• Firewall
• Rome – Season 1
• Superman Returns
• Syriana
• V for Vendetta

A wealth of new reviews including...

• Frasier – Season 8
• Medium – Season 1
• Mr & Mrs Smith – Unrated Edition
• Night Watch
• Ultraviolet

All the latest discs including:

• Capote
• Inside Man
• The Lake House
• Lost – Season 2, Vol 1
• Lucky Number Slevin
• The Squid and the Whale

• Sky High Definition
• Philips 42PF9831D

• Forbidden Siren 2
• Night Watch
• X-Men: The Official Game
  
  

Images taken from this issue are copyright or courtesy of: ABC, Warner Bros, New Line Cinema

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

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