Youth hurts

GUADAGNINO RETURNS TO TEENHOOD WITH WE ARE WHO WE ARE…

Parental control

For his intense directorial debut Falling, multihyphenate Viggo Mortensen has drawn inspiration from his own tough-love upbringing. He sits down with Total Film to get up close and personal…

Game For A Laugh

FREE GUY I Ryan Reynolds’ alt-reality tentpole is a comedy for our turbulent times...

Inside man

HOW PRISON DRAMA FOR LIFE SETS THE BAR HIGH…

Southern DISCOMFORT

A SENSITIVE APPALACHIAN FAMILY MEMOIR. THE BAROMETER OF A DIVIDED NATION. OR JUST OSCAR BAIT? RON HOWARD’S HILLBILLY ELEGY WILL SURELY SPLIT OPINION. TOTAL FILM MEETS THE DIRECTOR AND CAST TO UNPACK THE SEASON’S MOST INSPIRATIONAL TRUE STORY.

Civil action

THE GOOD LORD BIRD FLIES IN THE FACE OF PERIOD-DRAMA CONVENTION…

T-Zone

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL I Films that should be on your radar.

Spirited away

SOUL - Pixar’s latest concerns itself with life, death, purpose and all that jazz…

HIGH LIFE

COUNTY LINES - Henry Blake’s British socialrealist drug-runner debut sizzles…

portrait of a lady

THE CROWN REACHES THE 1980S’ BIGGEST MARRIAGE STORY…

LEAP OF FAITH

A NEW JAMES BOND, A NEW CINEMATIC LANDSCAPE AND A WHOLE NEW WORLD AFTER THE END OF THE COLD WAR. AS GOLDENEYE TURNS 25, DIRECTOR MARTIN CAMPBELL TELLS TF WHY IT WAS A HUGE…

THE 007 FILES

BOND PRODUCERS BARBARA BROCCOLI AND MICHAEL G. WILSON CRACK OPEN A TOP SECRET DOSSIER AND TALK TF THROUGH SOME RARE AND UNSEEN PICTURES SPANNING THE ENTIRE FRANCHISE…

THE LONG GOODBYE

FOLLOWING A LENGTHY DELAY, DANIEL CRAIG’S JAMES BOND SWAN SONG IS ALMOST UPON US. WITH CLASSIFIED ACCESS TO THE CREATIVE TEAM OF NO TIME TO DIE , TOTAL FILM REVEALS (00)7 UNTOLD STORIES BEHIND THE MAKING OF BOND’S MOST IMPORTANT MISSION TO DATE, HOW CRAIG IS BOWING OUT ON AN ALL-TIME HIGH AND WHAT COMES NEXT…

funny peculiar

GHOSTBUSTING MEETS GUT-BUSTING IN FROST/PEGG’S TRUTH SEEKERS…

Domestic Disturbance

Electrifying, moving and very, very scary, His House bleeds heart-stopping fantasy into bleak reality as asylum seekers are plagued by ghosts of the past. Writer/director Remi Weekes and stars Dìrísù and Wunmi Mosaku take us on a tour of a haunted house movie like no other…

ARMIE HAMMER

He can play matinee idol with his eyes closed, but Armie Hammer is more intrigued by exploring the darkness beneath the surface these days. As he hits both the big and small screen this winter with Rebecca and Death On The Nile, he tells Total Film about embracing his fears…

PAIN AND WAYNE

THE BATMAN I R-Batz steps out of the shadows at DC Fandome.

SOUTHERN GOTHIC

Janelle Monáe leads the way in a sinister social horror with a twist, which blends harrowing scenes of pre-Civil War slavery with a presentday look at contemporary life in New Orleans. Total Film meets the creators and stars of Antebellum, who say the film’s themes couldn’t be more urgent…

WORLD IN 'MATION

THE DINOS ROAR IN ANI-SERIES JURASSIC WORLD: CAMP CRETACEOUS…

The Witches at 30

Nicolas Roeg’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches terrified a generation of children. As the film turns 30, and a big-budget remake approaches, Total Film reflects with star Anjelica Huston on the making of a kid-friendly creepfest.

THE EX FILES

DAPHNE DU MAURIER’S TIMELESS TALE OF ENVY, COMPARISON AND PASSION GETS THE BEN WHEATLEY TREATMENT IN THE LATEST ADAPTATION OF GOTHIC ROMANCE, REBECCA. TOTAL FILM STEPS ON SET TO DISCOVER A UNIVERSAL TRUTH – WE ARE ALL LOOKING OVER OUR SHOULDER TO THE PAST…

THE SCARLETT LEDGER

NATASHA ROMANOFF MIGHT HAVE MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE IN AVENGERS: ENDGAME, BUT HER STORY ISN’T COMPLETE JUST YET. SCARLETT JOHANSSON AND CO TELL TOTAL FILM ABOUT DIGGING INTO THE AVENGER’S CHEQUERED PAST IN B L A C K W I D O W, A GRITTY PREQUEL UNLIKE ANY PREVIOUS MARVEL MOVIE.

CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Remembering the real-life superhero and his revolutionary legacy.

FREE SOLO

Alden Ehrenreich needed a break after Solo but now returns, revitalised, with Brave New World. The star tells Total Film about how he remains down to earth when dealing with fame, intimacy coordinators and a galaxy far, far away...

CRUISE CONTROL

KENNETH BRANAGH MARSHALED A STELLAR ENSEMBLE CAST FOR MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS – NOW HE RETURNS TO HELM A BOATLOAD OF STARS IN DEATH ON THE NILE. HE AND HIS CO-CONSPIRATORS TELL TOTAL FILM HOW THE ACTOR/DIRECTOR IS BRINGING SEXY (AND THAT ’TACHE) BACK WHILE KEEPING TABS ON CAST HIJINKS…

BRIAN COX

Manhunter’s Hannibal Lecter, the Bourne movies’ Ward Abbott, X-Men 2’s William Stryker, and now, most terrifyingly, Succession’s sweary patriarch Logan Roy… Brian Cox has made a 60-year career out of playing authoritative bad guys. “It really goes back to my classical roots,” he tells Total Film.

Sister Act

How do you reinvent SHERLOCK HOLMES, the most adapted literary character of all time? Focus on his kid sister, of course. Total Film visits the stately set of Netflix’s Enola Holmes, to uncover clues with the help of stars Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill and Sam Claflin.

THE WORST MOVIES EVER MADE

JUST LIKE IT’S HARD TO MAKE A MASTERPIECE, IT’S HARD – VERY HARD – TO MAKE A FILM SO TERRIBLE IT SCARS VIEWERS FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. ONCE SEEN, THESE SHOCKERS WILL NEVER BEEN UNSEEN. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

How to make a... horror movie

Saint Maud wowed festival audiences, made critics rejoice and sparked a bidding war for distribution. Firsttime writer/director Rose Glass explains just how she did it and hands out tips for any would-be filmmakers…

Man in the Mirror

A reimagining of one of the scariest – and most politically charged – genre movies ever made, the new Cand yman is horror for the Black Lives Matter era. Director Nia DaCosta and stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Teyonah Parris discuss terrors new and old, imagined and all too real…