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p12 / dollhouse

Back from the brink... but can Dollhouse make the most of its second season? We talk to executive producer Tim Minear about getting pro-Active!

p18 / sense and succubus

Megan Fox has been at the forefront of the publicity for this horror dramedy from the pen of Juno’s Diablo Cody - but Impact finds that there’s more here than meets the *sigh*...

p22 / zombieland

Impact’s John Bierly looks at the recent release of Zombieland and wonders if fright makes right in this undead romp!

p26 / [asian extreme] big man japan, cyborg she & ip man

Calum Waddell takes his monthly stroll through the edges of the genre and looks at movies including Big Man Japan, Cyborg She and Donnie Yen in Ip Man...

p30 / reVisited

Readers of a certain age will remember the landmark television series V. The alien-invasion concept has been re-imagined for a new century, but will it reach a new audience?

p34 / iron man

Star of the original V and subsequently the go-to hard man for Hollywood... we talk exclusively to Michael Ironside about his career...

p38 / stormriders

Mike Leeder takes a look at the history and future of Stormriders as the latest project moves to the big screen.

p40 / [japanime] shusuke kaneko

Andrez Bergin looks at the latest anime news and the work of acclaimed director Shusuke Kaneko...

p44 / [anime attack] devil may cry

Devil May Cry is a gaming phenomenon that has spread out across the media spectrum... In addition to the live action movie on its way and a manga we review the anime series here.

p48 / raging phoenix

As Raging Phoenix gets its release in Thailand Ricky Morris sends us the first UK review of this latest action outing...

p50 / patrick swayze

Though he’d been visibly ill for some time, people were still caught off-guard by the death of Patrick Swayze. Best known for the likes of Ghost and Dirty Dancing, he was also a formidable action star...

p52 / phantasmaGoria

Horror, sci-fi and... Uwe Boll! It all came together for the second PhantasmaGoria film festival in downtown Swindon. And Andrew Skeates was there to cover it...Action,

p54 / roaring fire

With a rising reputation and a solid body of work behind him, we take a look at Henry Sanada.

p58 / ninjas!

Tall, dark and deadly... they are cinema’s most deadly assassins. With ninjas back on the big screen, Impact examines the best and worst of the martial arts men in the infamous black pyjamas...

p64 / surrogates

Bruce Willis is beside himself... literally. Does this latest action outing of clone rangers and deadly conspiracies measure up? John Bierly investigates.

p66 / 9 lives

It’s a dark and futuristic fairy-tale in the spirit of Tim Burton. Impact previews Shane Acker’s CGI story of sock-puppets and Matrix-like machines!

p68 / [multimedia] games, books, dvds and more

Here’s our regular round-up of DVDs, games, books, comics and more. Check our previous reviews right here on the website.

p74 / [far from fragile] the mid-ohio comic convention

Beau Smith is back from his appearance at the Mid-Ohio Comic Convention and gives us his exclusive diary of (almost) everything he got up to...as well as previewing the return of B’Wana Beast!!!