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July 11, 2005
Issue 429
Vol. 11, No. 28

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COVER ART Featured Artist:
Guillermo Vidal

INTERVIEWS

 Ioan Gruffudd leaves Lancelot behind to lead the Fantastic Four as Reed Richards, while screenwriter Rafael Yglesias dunks Jennifer Connelly and Tim Roth in Dark Water.


EXCESSIVE CANDOUR

 Critic John Clute comes face to face with The Healer after he goes under the knife of Michael Blumlein, M.D.

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Leonardo DiCaprio unravels Cat's Cradle, Owen Wilson can't drive 55 in Cars, Chow Yun-fat walks the plank in Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Freddie Highmore finds a new neverland in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and more.
ON SCREEN
 Michael Chiklis clobbers Marvel's oldest superteam in Fantastic Four, Jennifer Connelly remakes a Japanese chiller in Dark Water, and Richard Mulligan relives a good life on the Twilight Zone: The '80s, seasons two and three DVD.
OFF THE SHELF
 Michael Moorcock kidnaps Elric's heir in The White Wolf's Son, while Orson Scott Card sneaks into dreamland in Magic Street.
GAMES
 The Martians invade once more—and this time they bring along their sense of humor—in the third-person shooter Destroy All Humans!
ANIME
 Writer/director Makoto Shinkai proves that a big budget can't destroy his independent spirit in The Place Promised in Our Early Days.
SOUND SPACE
 Composer Bear McCreary manages to break all the science-fiction-music clichés on the Battlestar Galactica season-one CD.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Tales of Future Past chronicles the future we were supposed to have with sometimes cheesy but always delightful pulp art of our atomic tomorrow.
LETTERS
 Readers remember the true meaning of H.G. Wells, defend George Lucas' reputation, slam Hollywood's endless remakes, and much more.

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