RISE UP

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA CONQUERED THE WORLD WITH MUSICAL PHENOMENON HAMILTON, AND NOW HE’S STEPPING UP TO ADD MOVIE DIRECTOR TO HIS LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS. TOTAL FILM MEETS THE MULTI-AWARD-WINNING MULTI-HYPHENATE TO FIND OUT WHY HE STILL RELATES TO THE STORY OF A STRUGGLING SONGWRITER IN HIS SURPRISINGLY PERSONAL ADAPTATION OF STAGE SHOW TICK, TICK…BOOM!

Michael Winterbottom On Why The UK Isn't Making More Indie Films

Michael Winterbottom is one of Britain’s most prolific film directors, but in his new book he lifts the lid on why it’s so hard to get films made in the UK. Having used the first covid lockdown to interview a who’s who of the country’s auteurs, winterbottom tells total film why the industry often fails to nurture its most promising talent.

ANDREW GARFIELD

He has worked with titans like Fincher and Scorsese, and played Spider-Man. Yet nothing in Andrew Garfield’s remarkable career so far can prepare us for the range of talent displayed in three upcoming movies: Mainstream, tick, tick…BOOM! and The Eyes Of Tammy Faye…

ROMEO + JULIET

Back in October 1996, Baz Luhrmann presented his latest film to journalists – an audacious, modern take on Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. Filmed in Mexico during extreme weather (and with crew kidnappings!), it starred 22-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio and a teenage Claire Danes as the titular star-crossed lovers, and had yet to be seen, let alone embraced, by audiences. As it celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, Total Film looks back to the eve of its premiere (just as DiCaprio began work on Titanic) when the trio discussed language, love and lots of water...

GANGSTER'S PARADIGM

With prequel movie The Many Saints Of Newark about to hit cinemas, Total Film pays respect to modern TV classic THE SOPRANOS, and how a hit show changed the mob genre, long-form storytelling and audience expectations forever.

THE BITE STUFF

DRACULA has been terrifying readers ever since Bram Stoker first created the ultimate vampire. As Bela Lugosi’s screen turn as the bloodsucker celebrates its 90th birthday, Total Film examines the appeal of one of horror’s most enduring icons.

Riding High

THE HARDER THEY FALL. Jeymes Samuel spotlights the forgotten faces of the American West…

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

Two young women with big dreams discover that London can be the stuff of nightmares in Edgar Wright’s disturbing, dazzling Last Night In Soho. Total Film cowers on set as Wright terrorises Thomasin McKenzie and Anya Taylor-Joy in the horror event of the year.

FINE PRINT

SET AROUND A FICTIONAL MAGAZINE, WES ANDERSON’S COMIC ANTHOLOGY THE FRENCH DISPATCH IS A TRIBUTE TO BOTH A BYGONE ERA AND THE WRITTEN WORD. TOTAL FILM LISTENS UP AS THE CAST AND CREW GIVE THE LOW-DOWN ON THE DIRECTOR’S MOST AMBITIOUS MOVIE YET.

MAJORS' LEAGUE

AFTER CONSISTENTLY IMPRESSING IN POWERHOUSE DRAMAS, JONATHAN MAJORS IS GEARING UP FOR WORLD DOMINATION IN THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE AND CREED III. AHEAD OF THE RELEASE OF REVISIONIST WESTERN THE HARDER THEY FALL, TOTAL FILM MEETS THE EFFORTLESS CHARISMATIC MEGASTAR-IN-WAITING.

10 IMMORTAL HEROES 7,000 YEARS ONE OSCAR WINNING DIRECTOR MARVEL'S BOLDEST MOVIE YET

THE NEXT MOVIE IN MARVEL’S PHASE 4, ETERNALS IS SET TO BE MARVEL’S BIGGEST S W I N G Y E T . COMBINING MILLENNIA-SPANNING SWEEP WITH INDIE SENSIBILITIES AND ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING ENSEMBLES YET ASSEMBLED FOR A SUPERHERO FILM, CHLOÉ ZHAO’S SUPER-FAMILY EPIC COULD CHANGE THE COMIC-BOOK MOVIE LANDSCAPE FOREVER.

CREATIVE SPARKS

ANNETTE I The American pop duo meet French auteur Leos Carax for a movie musical like no other…

MICHAELA COEL

IS HEADING TO WAKANDA…

OR IS MARGE GUNDERSON THE COEN BROS' GREATEST CHARACTER?

IS IT JUST ME…

FLOP CULTURE - SPEED RACER

With their “live-action anime”, the Wachowskis hurtled off-road. Did it spend too much time grinding its gears for a kids’ movie?

Robin Hood - PRINCE OF THIEVES

Buff looks back at how one American Kevin teamed up with another to give Nottingham’s legendary outlaw a new lease of life in Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves. But it wasn’t all plain sailing: production problems, casting issues and on-set difficulties proving almost as dastardly as the scene-stealing Sheriff…

Domestic Disturbance

The Nest is Sean Durkin’s first film since Martha Marcy May Marlene and it’s well worth the decade-long wait. The director and stars Jude Law and Carrie Coon tell Total Film about a family’s fracturing in the shadow of the Overlook Hotel…

Knives Out

DUNE I Denis Villeneuve and a fighting-fit Timothée Chalamet bring Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi classic back to the screen.

GOYA GOYA GONE

THE DUKE - Roger Michell’s Ealing-Esque true story paints a pretty picture…

THE NEXT BIG THING EMILIA JONES IS ON SONG…

I love a challenge,” says Emilia Jones. “I welcome pressure.” Just as well. The 19-year-old Brit (Locke & Key) had to learn American Sign Language, trawler fishing and public singing for Sundance smash CODA, in which she plays Ruby, a would-be songstress with Deaf parents. At least being the daughter of The Snowman cherub Aled Jones might help, right?

Wonder Hall

REBECCA HALL has had a very good year – professionally and personally – despite lockdown. As she stars in psychological horror The Night House, she tells Total Film about reckoning with her own past, realising a long-awaited dream, and haunted bread…

GAEL FORCE

GAEL GARCÍA BERNAL returns to Hollywood for M. Night Shyamalan’s high-concept thriller Old, in which his character starts to age rapidly. It’s got him thinking about his two decades as a globally celebrated actor, and how he’s always done it his way…

CHANNING TATUM IS PUMPED FOR A COMEBACK…

I promise you I would not look like this,” said Channing Tatum recently, “unless I had to be naked in most of my movies, mostly.” After four years of animation voicework and time spent (possibly) bench-pressing buses, Tatum will be reminding us just what he looks like on-screen soon, clothed or otherwise.

JOHN CARPENTER: CELEBRATING THE MASTER OF HORROR

On the eve of Halloween Kills, Total Film meets the man behind Michael Myers, R.J. MacReady and most of your favourite ’80s movies to discuss his tumultuous career, and how he’s happier than ever making music…

GUESS WHO'S BACK

PRODUCER JORDAN PEELE AND DIRECTOR NIA DACOSTA HAVE ETCHED A NEW CHAPTER IN THE TERRIFYING LEGEND OF CANDYMAN. TOTAL FILM FINDS OUT HOW THE FILM USES BLOOD AND BRAINS TO EXPLORE THE BLACK EXPERIENCE…

'FIELD OF SCREAMS'

Michael Myers is back for blood in Halloween Kills, but this time Haddonfield is taking the fight to The Shape. Ahead of the savage middle chapter in the new fright night trilogy, Total Film speaks to the film’s director David Gordon Green and star Jamie Lee Curtis about tapping into real-life fears and sticking the knife in the big screen’s ultimate boogeyman.

FLOP CULTURE - JONAH HEX

Subject to infamous reshoots, Warner Bros’ adaptation of the DC comic book needed a clearer push at the outset…

Gripping Yarn

NIGHT OF THE KINGS I Fact and fantasy collide in a prison movie like no other

MAX MADS

RIDERS OF JUSTICE I Mikkelsen re-teams with his gang for an unpredictable genre-defier.

Cena evil

DIESEL-POWERED SEQUEL PUTS FAST BACK IN FIFTH GEAR…