Issue #79 • ships from Aug 2 2006
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Special Bumper Edition
228 packed pages!

The Ultimate Film Book
• What have the 2000’s given to us? What films have been notable, or best forgotten?
In over 120 pages we list almost 2000 films from 2000 onwards, indexing the stars, the directors, and with reviews of those we think worth noting – for good and bad reasons!
Remember the good films, the bad films, and discover the ones you should be sure to see…

PLUS…

Star Wars
• We revisit the original trilogy, anticipating its CGI-free DVD release. Plus 10 reasons why you just gotta love the originals, and what life is like for those post-Empire Stormtroopers…

Spike Lee
• The director discusses his move into more mainstream territory with his latest film Inside Man and how at this point in his career, he feels he’s got to break even his own boundaries

Clerks II
• We meet the outspoken cult writer/director Kevin Smith as he frankly expounds on everything from anal surgery, his sex life to why he felt Clerks deserved a sequel.
Plus we speak to stars Jeff Anderson and Brian O’Halloran on growing up disgracefully

The Films of Kevin Smith
• We profile the career of the inimitable indie film-maker so far, including plot, background and iconic quotes, from his Clerks début to his most recent, and poorly received, Jersey Girl

Eva Longoria
• The diminutive beauty on ditching her Desperate Housewives image to show Michael Douglas and Kiefer Sutherland how to really handle a gun in the recent cop thriller The Sentinel

Invasion
• Creator and executive producer Shaun Cassidy talks to Ultimate about natural disasters, alien life, human evolution and the DVD release of his now-cancelled tv show

• Follow That Film
  The latest from behind the scenes of the independent film Rise of the Footsoldier
  
  
• DVD Spotlight
  Brittany Murphy on her 10-year job on King of the Hill and voicing the 200th episode
  
  
• The Last Word
  Kevin Smith alumni Jason Mewes discusses reprising his role of stoner Jay in Clerks II, finally moving out of Smith’s house and life post-rehab
  
  
• Competition
  Your chance to win a fantastic Xbox 360 along with a pair of gravity boots and the copy of the brilliant new game, Prey!
  
  

• The latest movie, DVD and technology news and reviews, including James Cameron’s impressive directorial return after nearly a decade and Lost’s planned move from TV to cinema, plus our word on the new DVD and movie releases, including:

New discs available in both Regions 1 and 2 including:

• Curb Your Enthusiasm –Season 5
• Hostel
• Miami Vice (the movie)
• Silent Hill
• Scary Movie 4
• The Wire – Season 3

A wealth of new reviews including...

• The Comeback
• Commander in Chief – Part 1
• Evil
• Find Me Guilty
• Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – Special Edition

All the latest discs including:

• Angel Heart – Special Edition
• Crash – Director’s Cut
• Lady in the Water
• The Proposition
• The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
• Will & Grace – Season 8

• Toshiba 42WLT66
• Archos AV 700 TV

• Dead Rising
• Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
• Miami Vice
  
  This issue was produced in conjunction with Film Review
  
  

Images taken from this issue are copyright or courtesy of: LucasFilms, The Weinstein Company

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

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