Contents include: 

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: With GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK and SYRIANA, George Clooney has confirmed his status as Hollywood's premier card-carrying liberal. Graham Fuller assesses the impact in the United States while Ali Jaafar asks him about combining entertainment with Social Commitment. Plus Ali Jaafar talks to SYRIANA director Stephen Gaghan.

Waiting for the Hangman: Truman Capote's portrait of a killer In Cold Blood may have secured his literary reputation, but it almost cost him his sanity. CAPOTE exposes the machinations behind its making - but is the film too hard on its flamboyant subject, asks Nick James.

Ballad Of The Wild Boys: Nick Cave and John Hillcoat's Australian outback Western THE PROPOSITION combines beauty with brutality. Nick Roddick talks to its makers about drugs, music, poetry and Peckinpah.

Guru Dutt, Such Sweet Sorrow: Actor-director Guru Dutt extended the range of Bollywood cinema in the 1950s by inserting a stillness of mood into the whirlwind of action. By Mark Cousins.

Natural Selection: Nicolas Winding Refn's PUSHER trilogy adds black humour to its bleak picture of Denmark's criminal fringe. He tells Jonathan Romney why crime doesn't pay.

2005 Obituaries: Bob Mastangelo pays his respects. Plus tributes to Richard Pryor, Simone Simon, Tom Milne, Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Marc Lawrence.

TV & film book reviews and more. 

The complete list of films reviewed in this issue: * Karyn Kusama's Aeonflux * Bennett Miller's Capote * Lasse Hallstrom's Casanova * Adam Shankman's Cheaper by the Dozen 2 * Chicken Little * Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne's The Child (L'Enfant) * Jake West's Evil Aliens * Feed * Dean Parisot's Fun with Dick and Jane * George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck * Harold Ramis' The Ice Harvest * Junebug * The Ketchup Effect * The Little Polar Bear The Mysterious Island * Lars Von Trier's Manderlay * Mirrormask * Steven Spielberg's Munich * North Country * John Madden's Proof * John Hillcoat's The Proposition * John Turturro's Romance & Cigarettes * Ti West's The Roost * Rob Reiner's Rumor Has It... * Running Scared * Song of Songs * Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale * Len Wiseman's Underworld Evolution * Gore Verbinski's The Weather Man * Wild Country * Roger Donaldson's The World's Fastest Indian * Jon Favreau's Zathura A Space Adventure * 

Capsule DVD and Blu-ray reviews of: * 3-Iron * The 40 Year Old Virgin * Tim Lucas on 42nd Street Forever Volume 1 * Baadasssss! * Body and Soul * The Business * Call Northside 777 * Castle of Cagliostro * Charlie Chaplin: The Mutual Films Vol 2 * Cool Hand Luke *  Dear Wendy * Donkey Skin * The Essential Steve McQueen Collection * Enthusiasm * Festival * Force of Evil * Godzilla * The Ipcress File * The Killing Fields *  Land of the Dead * Last Days * The Last Horror Movie * The Man With Two Brains * The Mysterians * The Piano * The Sea Inside * Searching For the Wrong Eyed Jesus * Shadowlands * Sky Blue * A Slightly Pregnant Man * Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song *  The Tit and the Moon * Whisky * Wolf Creek * Yes *    

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