Die Stakes - ARMY OF THE DEAD

Netflix bets big on Zack Snyder’s zombie-heist movie.

THE NEXT BIG THING Cristin Milioti IS BREAKING OUT…

Best known as How I Met Your Mother’s elusive mom, Cristin Milioti has found success on stage (Once, Lazarus) and screens of all sizes (The Wolf Of Wall Street, Black Mirror) across her career. But beloved comedy Palm Springs, in which she and Andy Samberg come unstuck in time, has proved a breakout role in more ways than one. “That level of reaction was wonderful to witness,” Milioti says.

There will be blood - MORTAL KOMBAT

How James Wan and Simon McQuoid are putting the backbone back into everyone’s favourite fighting franchise.

Accidental hero - THUNDER FORCE

Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer team up to fight mutant crime.

YOU CAN BE MY WINGMAN ANYTIME

As the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues its small-screen expansion with THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER, Total Film sits down with stars Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan to talk superheroes, spin-offs and their competitive bromance.

A LEAGUE OF HIS OWN - JUSTICE LEAGUE

RETURNS FOR ANOTHER ROUND - BUT NOT AS YOU’VE SEEN IT BEFORE. IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, DIRECTOR ZACK SNYDER TELL TOTAL FILM HOW HIS VERSION OF THE SUPERHERO TEAM-UP GOT AN UNLIKELY REPRIEVE.

Fast & Furious 9

The turbocharged franchise revs up its next huge installment...

The Avenger - PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

Emerald Fennell’s twist on the revenge thriller is a provocative stunner.

Chris Evans IS HEADING FOR INFINITY…

The first time I saw the suit I thought, ‘This could be the suit I die in,’” Chris Evans told us from the set of Captain America: The First Avenger. A decade on, it’s safe to say Evans owned that suit. And he will soon own another suit, as worn by another American (and fleetingly Spanish) hero.

WONDER WOMAN 1984 12A

back in time NO MORE WAITING FOR GADOT…

WHAT LIES BENEATH

Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan dug deep to portray real-life treasure hunters uncovering Sutton Hoo in The Dig. They tell Total Film how the right hat, emotional connection and being buried alive made a period drama a personal matter...

west end boys

RUSSELL T. DAVIES HEADS BACK TO THE ’80S – AND THE AIDS CRISIS…

The WITCHING HOUR

It’s the twist no one saw coming – turning the MCU into a sitcom and asking Dick Van Dyke to help tell Marvel’s most ambitious story to date. The cast and crew of WandaVision tell us what to expect from Phase 4’s new chapter…

A Big Plus

DISNEY I At the recent Investor Day, the Mouse House dropped the motherlode. TF unpacks all the details we can physically cram in…

STAR WARS BOOKS

American epic space-opera media franchise, centered on a film series

'YOU HAVE TO DO THINGS WRONG SOMETIMES TO KNOW HOW TO DO THINGS RIGHT' - ROSAMUND PIKE

From Bond girl to Gone Girl, Rosamund Pike likes to confound expectations with diverse roles championing strong women. But as she heads into black comedy with festival favourite I Care A Lot, she tells Total Film that she likes a challenge...

MIXED DRAG

EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE I Director Jonathan Butterell on his stage musical’s makeover.

IT'S A WANDA-FUL LIFE

WANDAVISION I Do not adjust your set. Scarlet Witch is back…

King's Gambit

Regina King is acting royalty and now she’s bringing all of her nuance and fierce intelligence to her directorial debut, One Night In Miami. She gets personal and political with Total Film…

RIZ AHMED

British multihyphenate Riz Ahmed has been consistently impressive in incendiary indies and bigger blockbuster fare. But as he takes on one of his most powerful roles yet as a drummer losing his hearing in Sound Of Metal, he tells Total Film that he’s just getting started... AT ITS HEART, EVERY STORY IS ABOUT TRYING TO ANSWER THE QUESTION, “WHO AM I?”

revolution calling

DOCTOR WHO’S FESTIVE SPECIAL PROMISES TEARS AND TINPOT FEARS…

KICKING & STREAMING

Thirty-five years after Daniel LaRusso crane kicked his way to victory at the All Valley Karate Championship, streaming series Cobra Kai has given the Karate Kid franchise a rousing new lease of life. Ahead of Season 3’s debut on Netflix, Total Film hits the dojo with Ralph Macchio, William Zabka and the show’s creators to discuss the unlikely resurgence of an ’80s icon, and Cobra Kai’s hardest hitting season yet.

how to train your dragon

JOHN POWELL | VARÈSE SARABANDE

CAN WE TALK ABOUT...? STAR WARS' COMEBACK YEAR

The Force is strong again… but there’s work to be done.

GREAT ESCAPE

An Oscar frontrunner after dominating festivals with its tale of itinerant van dwellers, Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland is a film for our recession-struck times. Total Film speaks to the team behind this year’s most soulful movie.

a wimple plan

HOW THE BBC ADAP OF BLACK NARCISSUS IS GETTING THINGS IN ORDER.

The Killer inside me

Brandon Cronenberg’s techno-thriller Possessor is being hailed as the genre film of the year. He sits down with Total Film to turn the gun on himself and pull the sick-trigger on a film so disturbing it would make his dad squirm.

THE KANE EVENT

Everything is Orson? Well, maybe not. David Fincher’s Mank explores the origins of Welles’ magnum opus, bringing his own Hollywood experience to bear on a 30-years in-the-making black-and-white masterpiece that feels like it could have been found on a shelf next to Citizen Kane. Total Film meets Fincher and cast to talk Hollywood past and present.

THE NEXT BIG THING

ARIANA DEBOSE IS TAKING CENTRE STAGE

SWAN SONG

MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM I A blues icon gets her due in Chadwick Boseman’s final film.