NEW FILMS:

31 NEW FILMS REVIEWED THIS ISSUE INCLUDING:
Good Night, And Good Luck, Syriana, The New World, Walk The Line, Grizzly Man, Chicken Little and Aeon Flux (hint: the last one's rubbish)

FEATURES:

GEORGE CLOONEY
Gorgeous George Clooney? Whatever. He’s gone all fat (Syriana) and, like, political (Syriana, Good Night, And Good Luck). Yep, the man who flutters female hearts has decided to put his balls to good use. Look out ‘The Right’, your days are numbered...

MUNICH
If you really can’t get enough trauma in your life, we offer you Steven Spielberg’s staggering terrorism movie Munich... Kevin Macdonald, he of One Day In September, talks us through the murk...

THE TOTAL FILM INTERVIEW: ROB REINER
Your sides split during This Is Spinal Tap, your heart broke in The Sure Thing and then grew bolder thanks to Stand By Me, before falling in love with When Harry Met Sally... and going mad in Misery. A director of our lifetime speaks...

THE MOVIES GET SEXY!
Sharon Stone back for Basic Instinct 2... Casanova’s Brit bombshell Sienna Miller reveals all... The real Hollywood Casanovas (Nicholson, Beatty, Flynn, Dietrich) and their naughty secrets... The 10 Most Shocking Sex Scenes Ever, by the people in them... Hollywood films remade by the porn industry, plus Paris, Pammy and Tom Sizemore... lots of tits and ass. Plus some old cock.

THE PROPOSITION
Guy Pearce returns to Australia, but it’s got absolutely nothing to do with Neighbours or cross-dressing. Nope, it’s Nick Cave’s gloomy, grimy Outback Western instead. Champion.

GRIZZLY MAN
Werner Herzog, for whom the phrase “a few sandwiches short of a picnic” may have been coined, has made a film about a man a couple of cards shy of a full deck, who was killed by bears. Grrrrr.

CHARLIZE THERON
Aeon Flux. What a name. What hateful parents Mr and Mrs Flux were. Thankfully, she’s sex in PVC legs. Oh, she’s also in North Country. In which she’s called Josey Aimes. Better film, better name.

LADY VENGEANCE
It’s Park Chan-wook’s follow-up to Oldboy and is a little less “Oh, please, no. Don’t do that, you sicko!” than its predecessor. It’s revenge again, but this time it’s a dish served cool.

THE ICE HARVEST
John Cusack. Billy Bob Thornton. Darkly funny. And, hot on the heels of Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang it all points to a film noir comeback. A fad we’ve been quick to latch onto with our warts’n’all idiots...

THE A-Z OF FILM NOIR
...guide to a genre almost ruined by Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid. From ‘Alienation’ to ‘Zither’, you’ll be able to spot the is-it-a-noir-or-not Lucky Number Slevin’s credentials next month.

CAPOTE
To mark Philip Seymour Hoffman’s coronation as acting champ, we’ve bashed together a piece of literary excellence in which our finest newshound finds out the truth behind Truman...

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Stallone talks Rocky VI, exclusive first pic of the most exciting movie of 2006, we meet X-Men 3’s new mutants, Reese Witherspoon: pretty and clever, Richard Pryor’s greatest gob-offs, Jim Carrey talks to YOU...

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