Contents The Babel Issue

Clint Eastwood hoists the Flags Of Our Fathers; Will Ferrell learns that life is Stranger Than Fiction; Kevin Costner finds The Upside Of Anger; Paul Verhoeven opens his Black Book; Kevin Macdonald crowns The Last King of Scotland; Tom Tykwer wears a new Perfume.

Contents The Marie Antoinette Issue

Russell and Ridley enjoy A Good Year; Jude Law gets caught Breaking and Entering; Guillermo del Toro picks a path through Pan's Labyrinth; Neil Young reveals a Heart of Gold; German exorcists hold a chilling Requiem.

Contents The Volver Issue

Antonioni and co. get down with love in Eros; the US indie scene finds a ray of hope in Little Miss Sunshine; Gore goes Green with An Inconvenient Truth; knock and run from the Monster House; take a bite out of Nacho Libre; shed some light on A Scanner Darkly.

Contents The Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That! Issue

Brace for turbulence in United 93; take a leap of faith with District 13; no girls allowed for Offside; set an alarm for The Science of Sleep; start your engines for Pixar's Cars; answer the craving with Thank You For Smoking.

Contents The Romance & Cigarettes Issue

Phillip Seymour Hoffman's cold-blooded Capote; Hark at that - Donnie Yen unsheathes Seven Swords; shock and awe - Lars Von Trier's controversial Manderlay; thug life South African-style in Tsotsi; Sundance cred for the indie kids in The Squid and the Whale; Clooney calls the shots in Syriana; kill or be killed is The Proposition.

Contents THE JARHEAD ISSUE

Jarhead: The movie review.

Soldiers' Stories: The truth about Iraq, Afghanistan and life in the armed forces from those who are still there.

Intel Debrief: The first Gulf War by numbers.

Boys' Toys: War: never been so much fun.

Mills & Boom!: If Saddam Hussein's literary career proves one thing, it's that the pen really isn't mightier than the sword.

Well Weapon: Is Hollywood's fixation with weaponry a fantasy fetish, or are movies arming the soldier of tomorrow?

Fight Music: Off to war? Grab your iPod and take the defining music from over a century of conflict.

Serbia Calling: During the bloody Bosnian conflict of the mid-'90s, Independent Serbian radio station, B92, took the chart war to a whole new level.

Art Attack: Propaganda posters have played a crucial role in the world's most important conflicts... Didn't stop us taking the piss out of them, though.

War Of The Words: Somebody once said that George Bush uses words like handgrenades - ones that might go off in his mouth at any minute.

Talk The Talk: Want to make like a Marine with none of the effort? Dump the dhoby and dig out blind with our blagger's dictionary to being a bootneck.

Sharp Shooter: Brent Stirton has seen some action in his time: Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Angola, and three tours of Iraq. But the South African born Stirton is no UN peace keeper or gun-for-hire mercenary. He's a photographer.

Surgical Strike: Meet the transplant doctors who want to take your brain to another dimension.

Acting Tough: When the bullets started flying, who were the real Hollywood war heroes?

Sub-Marine?: What does Hollywood's fascination with the Marines tell us about the Corps?

Contents The LAND OF THE DEAD Issue

Land Of The Dead: The movie review.

The Exorcist: Forget the headlines and ignore the hysteria, LWLies brings you the truth about London Voodoo - straight from the source.

The Outsider: He's fought a 30-year battle against studio suits, but if George A. Romero is the winner, who are the real losers?

Dead Reckoning: George Romero's Dead Trilogy is an icon of the horror genre. Why?

Urban Zombie: Oh dear God save me from this melting carnage. I'm surrounded by the living dead. Was I not warned? I am turning into one. I am one. Please God help me...

The Frighteners: George A. Romero isn't the only master of the genre whose movies you should be checking out.

Rocky Horror: Buckle up for a whistle stop tour of horror's defining flicks; an ever changing story of vampires, aliens, and zombies that stretches from Germany to Japan via the good ol' US of A. Welcome to Horror History 101.

Haiti: A History Of Violence: Hollywood has long been obsessed with Voodoo, zombies and the dark secrets of Haiti. But what is the truth of this shattered island's cultural heritage?

The Zombie Survival Guide: It's finally happened: outbreak; war; defeat. Zombies control the earth, so what's next? Author Max Brooks has the answer...

The Living Dead: Drugs, debauchery, ham sandwiches: all have their place in the raucous pantheon of rock casualties. But what about the guys who didn't make it - the luckless few who survived their decades of self-destruction? Shuffling, dead-eyed, unearthly... we salute rock's living dead. Musicians, man, they creep us out.

Duck And Cover: Behind every zombie outbreak is a lab experiment gone wrong. But that hasn't stopped scientists creating some of the most dangerous substances ever devised. We take a sniff of some of the worst.

Contents The Sin City Issue

Sin City: The movie review.

The Real Sin Cities: Wish you were here? LWLies braves some of the world's most dangerous cities.

Hot Rod: Bright sun barely penetrates the room, unwelcome shafts of light that disturb the drinkers sipping tequilas...

But Is It Art?: Chris King, illustrator and member of the multi disciplinary art collective Anti explains what he loves about comic book art.

The Reality Man: Frank Miller's characters are fighting to reclaim lost turf. From the grim wastelands of Gotham, to the bars and broads of Sin City ' something's been taken away, and by God is it going to be gotten back...

Comic Book Love: As comic-book movies grow and evolve, the bandwagon-jumping masses are already waiting with prefab opinions and tired prejudices. We're as tired of this as you are, so we went to the source.

The Ultimates: You thought comic-books were for anoraks. Sin City proved you wrong. LWLies gives you the essential guide to the best of the rest...

Holywood Hardcore: You've seen the whores of Old Town, check out the pimps of Hollywood.

Contents The Life Aquatic Issue

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou: The movie review.

New Age Dawning: LWLies selects some of the most influential directors of our generation, whose work is redefining and pushing the boundaries of movie culture.

Sapphire And Cracked Emerald: Bowie through the looking glass.

Aliens Of The Deep: Until as recently as 1860 it was thought that life could not exist below 1800 feet. The first telegraph cable across the Atlantic ocean changed this. Dropped to a depth of 6000 ft, they were, when retrieved found to be covered with numerous types of marine life...

Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Will the Real Steve Zissou Please Stand Up?