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HE BIG NEWS
It's the end of the world as we know it, yet again - but not in the usual continent-smashing vein, as Cormac McCarthy's none-more-bleak apoco-thriller The Road hits disc.
DVD NEWS
He is not a number, he is... Jesus? Jim Caviezel dons the white-piped golf jacket and fights weather balloons in the remake of ultra-weird '60s spy-fi classic The Prisoner.
EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT...
...the second German director called Florian (after the one who did The Lives Of Others). Florian Gallenberger talks about his biopic of
John Rabe, China's answer to Oskar Schindler.
HI¬-DEF NEWS
Hiayo Miyazaki strikes gold again with another impeccably polished, heartstring-tugging anime. Ponyo, about a goldfish who wants to be a human, is out on BD soon...
ON THE COUCH WITH...
...Shauna MacDonald. When the actress isn't getting attacked by terrifying troglodyte-monsters in The Descent: Part 2, she enjoys nothing more than kicking back with a John Cassavetes boxset.
IN-DEPTH FEATURES
RETURN TO SHERWOOD
Ridley and Russell tell us how they're at it again, turning dusty old tales of boring history into gallivanting romps of derring-do. Russell Crowe IS Robin Hood. Personally we thought he'd be trying out for Friar Tuck. Mmmmmm... fryer...
RIDLEY SCOTT ON BLU¬RAY
Shiny discs for shiny movies: Scott's slickest action flicks hit hi-def, and we've got the guide to the lot...
MAN AND BOY
"Everyone in the front row just sharpen your pencils..." We
go back to John Lennon's schooldays with Aaron Johnson, as the ... Kick-Ass pretty-boy and Nowhere Boy director Sam Taylor-Wood chat about the latest Lennon biopic...
TAMING THE WILD THINGS
Let the wild rumpus commence! From 339-word children's picture-book to an $80 million feature that spent years in development hell: we reveal the story behind Spike Jonze's Where The Wild Things Are and pray he hasn't ruined our childhood...
KING OF THE UNIVERSE
Not content with proclaiming himself King of the World after bagging statues for Titanic, James Cameron - or JAM¬CAM as we've renamed him on Review - is now setting his sights on a whole new dimension with the 3D sci-fi epic Avatar....
SELECT
It's still the planet's best home entertainment reviews section and we repeat last month's challenge to fight anyone who disagrees.
NEW FILM
Including Avatar, Where The Wild Things Are, Nowhere Boy, The Men Who Stare At Goats, Departures, Me & Orson Welles, The Descent: Part 2, The Fourth Kind, The Box and Zombeak.
RETRO
Including Blu-rays of Doctor Strangelove, The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, The Last Emperor and The Passion Of The Christ, plus Melody and Night Of The Living Dead 3D on DVD.
TV
Including Glee: Season 1 - Part 1, Mad Men: Season 3 on Blu-ray, Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America, Supernatural: Season 5.1, Caprica: Feature Length Pilot and Chocky.
MUSIC
Including Ultravox: Live At The Roundhouse, The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland and Tom Petty: Damn The Tornadoes on BD.
