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What's Inside The Issue?

Kick-Ass
Our fetchingly bruised cover star this month is Kick-Ass' Aaron Johnson (along with co-stars Chloe Moretz and Nicolas Cage), and inside is our comprehensive set report and interviews with the cast and crew. Director Matthew Vaughn explains why he was delighted that the studios didn't want it; Nicolas Cage explains the influence of an ex-girlfriend on his role, and we hear how Christopher Mintz-Plasse got the Zac Efron part. This may be the coolest film of 2010; you're going to want the lowdown.

Avatar 2
James Cameron was, unsurprisingly, in good form when we spoke to him recently about the success of Avatar, its award prospects and - most importantly of all - what we can expect from a sequel. But that's just the opener to our new section, The Slate, which also has exclusive pics and news from Scott Pilgrim, The Expendables and more, as well as interviews with Amanda Seyfried, Brendan Fraser, Tom Ford and more...

Wall Street 2
In these financially uncertain times, it's good to know that Gordon Gekko is still out there preaching that greed is good, or possibly bad, or maybe so-so. To find out which, you're really going to have to read our first look at Oliver Stone's Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. With an exclusive on-set report and the latest from Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf and Stone himself, this will fully prepare you for its April release.

Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone and now Shutter Island, talks us through Martin Scorsese's new thriller and explains why the book is the result of him "imploding" as he wrote it. He's also got the inside scoop on working with Scorsese and the filmic touchstones to the paranoia-drenched, Gothic thriller, and explains why the only people who are really going to like it are the French...

Natalie Portman
She's more beautiful than sunset reflected on a diamond necklace designed by da Vinci, but Natalie Portman isn't just playing love interests and girlfriends. In Brothers, she's playing drama and tragedy as the wife of a Marine lost in Afghanistan, but after that she's going straight for lighter movies with the knockabout comedy of Your Highness, the action of Thor and the, er, zombies of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies - and we've got her take on all of them.

Harrison Ford
The man, the myth the legend, that is Harrison Ford talks us through his new film Extraordinary Measures (which he also produces), his stellar career and confounds our Ian Freer's best attempts not to mention Indiana Jones, Rick Deckard or Han Solo. In fact, he manages to talk about all his major films at some length, so if you're studying for a degree in Ford-ology, this should be your textbook.

Legion
Paul Bettany has accomplished many things since he turned to acting, appearing in Oscar-winning films, with the Royal Shakespeare Company and as Chaucer in, er, A Knight's Tale. But the pinnacle of his career to date is surely his turn in Legion as a de-winged, machine-gun-armed archangel fighting the heavenly host to protect the unborn Second Coming from a vengeful Almighty. Sign up for Legion with director Scott Stewart and Bettany himself in the new issue.

Roman Polanski
Oscar-winner and fugitive Roman Polanski is probably one of the most controversial figures in the world right now, something that has, to date, thoroughly overshadowed the release of his new film, The Ghost. Nev Pierce untangles the web that surrounds Polanski to report on the arrest, the aftermath and the film that Polanski finished editing from jail. That, at least, involves a political rather than a criminal scandal.

Re.View
Pixar's mighty Up leads off our look at this month's home entertainment, where we also explain how to follow Mesrine's lead in breaking out of prison, what Park Chan-Wook was thinking when he swapped vengeance for vampires, and what Christopher Walken really thinks about his internet fame. Plus all the games, books, soundtracks and TV that you'd expect.

The Back Story
Sure, there are also features on 30 Rock's Tracy Morgan, war movie Lebanon and Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan - but if you're a fan of Hollywood history, the one you're going to want to focus on is the theory that Orson Welles was responsible for the still-unsolved murder of the Black Dahlia, aspiring actress Elizabeth Short. Sound barmy? Well, maybe - or maybe not! (or maybe). Read the facts and judge for yourself.

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