In this issue

THE FALL GUY
You’ll need crash mats for your jaw when you see this.

THE COLOR PURPLE
Alice Walker’s novel gets a new, musical makeover.

TRADING PLACES
As the hit switch-com turns 40, director John Landis talks Curtis, Christmas and controversy..

FALSE IDOLS

THE BOOK OF CLARENCE The Messiah is reimagined and ripped off in Jeymes Samuel's audacious new Bible story.

4 mins

HOT RIGHT NOW

There is such a thing as a meteoric rise, and then there is Ayo Edebiri’s 2023, which feels carefully designed as a scientific experiment to test the possibility of omnipresence.

1 min

RETURN FLIGHT

THE BOY AND THE HERON Animation legend Hayao Miyazaki finally takes wing once more...

2 mins

VIOLET DELIGHT

Alice Walker's classic novel gets a joyous cinematic remix.

2 mins

THE OUTSIDERS

EXPATS Lulu Wang follows up The Farewell with a thorny drama about Americans abroad.

2 mins

FLOODS OF TEARS

THE END WE START FROM Eco-crisis meets maternal strength in Jodie Comer's latest.

2 mins

STREET FIGHTER

ECHO Marvel Studios' new television series starring Alaqua Cox packs a powerful punch.

2 mins

REMEMBER ME

THE TOURIST S2 Jamie Dornan returns for a second series of memory-addled mayhem...

1 min

GAME NIGHT

Level up the fun this Christmas...

2 mins

A MOG'S LIFE

MOG'S CHRISTMAS Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy star in an adaptation of Judith Kerr's classic.

3 mins

POWDER PLAYER

GRISELDA The cocaine godmother of Miami gets a Scarface-adjacent miniseries.

2 mins

GUIDING LIGHT

SAMSARA Lois Patiño's spiritual docudrama is like nothing you've ever seen...

2 mins

PREVIEW 2024

Movie Reviews

10 mins

Having a Ball

Total Film joins Taika Waititi and Michael Fassbender for a kickabout on the set of feel-good sports movie Next Goal Wins to find out how one of the worst teams in international football inspired a true underdog story.

6 mins

SILENCE OF THE LANDS

After two disappointing seasons, HBO's procedural roars back with True Detective: Night Country. Starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis as two Alaskan cops seeking eight missing scientists, this nocturnal noir promises to revitalise the franchise. Total Film joins the cast and creator Issa López on set in deepest, darkest Iceland for some serious sleuthing.

7 mins

LOST CITY

Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares team up on their feature directorial debut, THE KITCHEN, a dystopian sci-fi set in an all-tooplausible future London. Total Film meets the duo and their collaborators to talk about bringing their vision of the Big Smoke to a global audience.

6 mins

DAVID AYER

'WHAT HAPPENED WITH SUICIDE SQUAD, IT SEARED MY SOUL. BUT I'M TENACIOUS. I'LL NEVER STOP. YOU'VE GOT TO KILL ME. I HAVE SO MANY STORIES TO TELL'

10+ mins

THE BOY AND THE HERON 12A

Miyazaki in full feather...

3 mins

CLASSIC SOUNDTRACK WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

LESLIE BRICUSSE AND ANTHONY NEWLEY GEFFEN RECORDS

2 mins

TRADING PLACES

As Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy and Jamie Lee Curtis' status-switch comedy turns 40, director John Landis reflects on the film's rocky production and controversial legacy....

3 mins

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