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March 2011

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Impact Magazine March 2011 Issue Coversammo hung

He’s one of the East’s top names and made a mark for himself internationally over the last three decades... he is, of course, Sammo Hung. Calum Waddell meets the big man himself.

by the numbers

It’s been marketed as the ‘new answer to Twilight’ but does this mainstream action movie tick TOO many boxes?

a very singular suspect

We were sad to learn of Pete Postlethwaite’s passing in January. Here, Impact’s editor John Mosby remembers the great character actor and his meetings with him over the years....

spaced out

You may never look at ET the same way again! After they skewered the undead in Shaun of the Dead, Impact catches up with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the writers and stars of Paul to see how they handle aliens!

hard drive

Veteran actor William Fichtner could have been a lawyer, but in Drive Angry 3D, he’s an ‘Accountant’ after Nic Cage’s soul....

sven thorsen: great dane in hollywood

From Denmark to Hollywood, Impact meets Sven-Ole Thorsen, the real muscles behind the cinematic tussles...

benny chan

Eastern editor Mike Leeder quizzes veteran Benny Chan on ‘Zen and the art of commercial film-making’...

japanime

This month our Tokyo-entrenched scribe Andrez Bergen reports on an innovative series of anime movies that are making inroads in Japan... plus an old manga classic character that’s about to be reinvented for the big screen - just as he has been every year since the 1980s!

[anime attack] summer wars

It may not yet be spring, but Neal Molyneaux takes a seasonal look at Summer Wars... The Royal Tenenbaums meets War Games in this tale of rogue AIs and family values...

rock solid

The classic British gangster movie Brighton Rock gets re-imagined for another generation. Impact looks at its journey to the screen...

tangled webs?

It’s always interesting when action finds a new format, but is the Spider-man musical on Broadway a step too far? John Mosby takes a look at the spin behind the Turn off the Dark headlines and the troubleshooting- webshooting...

fear to retread

The next TV season may well take us back to the future with a whole raft of remakes and re-imaginings... we look at what is heading our way later in 2011...

fx: the sky’s the limit...

As Skyline gets released on DVD, Abbie Bernstein goes behind the scenes on the low-budget, high-concept alien invasion...

fx: the importance of being there...

Continuing our look at special effects, John Mosby looks at the advantages and disadvantages of new techology and the actors involved...

naked soldier

2011 sees the release of a third ‘Naked’ movie, the Wong Jing produced Naked Soldier directed by Marko Mak and featuring Sammo Hung Impact’s own Ian Powers and Wushu wonder girl Jiang Liu-xia. We takes a sneak peek at the film and those involved.

[far from fragile] crimes of fashion

Beau Smith gets FAB-u-lous! Our comics industry expert looks at some of the crimes of fashion.

multimedia

A round-up of the latest books, DVDs and games that should be on your shopping list post-Christmas...

next month

All our regular features... plus Impact gets virtual as we explore the online action landscape and find ourselves in our (Danger) Element...

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