In this issue

JOEL SCHUMACHER
Looking back on the life and star-making career of the late Lost Boys auteur.

UNDERRATED
From Strange Days to Sorcerer, we reveal great directors’ most greatly overlooked movie.

MICHAEL KEATON
Just Wayne you thought it was safe to rob Gotham, Batman returns.

FLOP CULTURE
In a new regular, our boxoffice-bomb squad revisits the sunken wreck that is Cutthroat Island.

Open Wide

A QUIET PLACE PART II I The much-anticipated sequel to 2018’s surprise hit will expand the world and introduce new threats…

5 mins

MICHAEL KEATON IS NEXT UP TO BAT…

It’s amazing that people are still sticking by me. When they come up to me in the street, I want to write them all cheques.” So said Michael Keaton when he made a major comeback playing washed-up superhero actor Riggan in 2014 hit Birdman. It was a success he built on, playing antagonist Adrian ‘Vulture’ Toomes in Spider-Man: Homecoming, and landing roles in the upcoming Aaron Sorkin drama The Trial Of The Chicago 7 and superhero movie Morbius (perhaps playing Vulture again).

1 min

Super Natural

PROJECT POWER I Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt star in a street-level superpower story.

2 mins

KNIFE OUT

HALLOWEEN KILLS I Michael Myers faces mob justice in a rage-fuelled Halloween sequel

2 mins

BRYAN CRANSTON

The Breaking Bad and The One And Only Ivan star on tattoos, nudity and healthy eating.

3 mins

MIKE HODGES

The Get Carter director on his six-decade career…

3 mins

THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE

As pop-culture touchstones (Tony Stark even referenced them) and fan favourites, it should have been totally easy to reunite time-traveling BFFs, Bill & Ted, for a third installment. Bogus theory, dudes! As real-life buddies Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter and their team tell Total Film, BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC has been a 29-year labour of love driven by tenacity, artistic integrity and friendship. And air guitar...

10+ mins

JOEL SCHUMACHER 1939 - 2020

THERE WAS A LOT MORE TO THE DIRECTOR’S HIGH IMPACT CAREER THAN THE LOST BOYS AND BATMAN & ROBIN. TOTAL FILM LOOKS BACK AT ONE OF THE MOST IDIOSYNCRATIC RESUMÉS – AND COLOURFUL CHARACTERS – IN HOLLYWOOD.

7 mins

THE DARK NIGHT

As low-budget sci-fi horror Pitch Black celebrates its 20th anniversary with a 4K Blu-ray release, director David Twohy reminisces with Total Film about a tumultuous shoot, casting clashes and why he thought he was going to get fired.

8 mins

RON PERLMAN

Since his 1981 debut, Ron Perlman’s carved out a career in movie monsters – most famously in Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy. But after swapping prosthetics for producing, he’s now unleashing a very different beast. As he brings us his conflicted oilman in The Big Ugly, Total Film meets an actor on the ride of his life.

10+ mins

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