Pride and Prejudice

The Judd Apatow-produced BROS is the first gay romantic comedy by a major studio. It’s important and funny AF – the best romcom for years. Total Film talks to writer star Billy Eichner, co-star Luke Macfarlane and director Nicholas Stoller about bantz, butt-pics and making big-time history.

THE 25 GREATEST MOVIE ENDINGS EVER

As the Halloween series draws to a close, Total Film looks back at the finest conclusions in cinema history… Spoilers guaranteed.

Dead End

After 44 years, the blood feud between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers is coming to a killer conclusion in Halloween Ends , the “passionate” and “unexpected” climax to David Gordon Green’s latterday slasher trilogy. Ultimate final girl Jamie Lee Curtis and the ’ween team reveal the story behind a grudge match decades in the making.

SICKENINGLY RICH

TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Ruben Östlund’s queasy Cannes-winner turns on the one per cent…

BETWEEN TAKES ALAN CUMMING

THE MY OLD SCHOOL STAR ON LIP-SYNCING AND STOLEN SOFAS…

IN THE HEIGHTS

FALL Scott Mann’s vertigo-inducing thriller will flip your stomach upside down…

CAN WE TALK ABOUT? GORDY THE CHIMP

IS NOPE’S PREDATORY PRIMATE AN EXTRANEOUS SUBPLOT, OR SOMETHING DEEPER?

EATING DISORDER

FLUX GOURMET Peter Strickland’s tale of a culinary collective deserves a Michelin star…

LOOKING FOR RICHARD

THE LOST KING Sally Hawkins has a hunch there’s a king buried in a car park in Stephen Frears’ dramatisation of Richard III’s rediscovery.

BELLA RAMSEY IS FLYING HIGH…

NEXT BIG THING

CAPITAL PAIN

GANGS OF LONDON Corin Hardy returns to the mean streets of London for Season 2…

BATTLE ROYAL

Gina Prince-Bythewood follows up The Old Guard by assembling some of the world’s greatest Black actresses, led by Viola Davis and Lashana Lynch, as the mighty 19thcentury African army, the Agojie. Total Film talks to the director and stars of The Woman King about creating a new kind of historical action epic.

GENERATION KILL

JEFF BRIDGES TAKES ON THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE OF HIS CAREER FOR THE OLD MAN – THE LANDMARK CAT-AND-MOUSE THRILLER THAT CAME DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO NEVER HAPPENING. TOTAL FILM MEETS THE DUDE AND THE TEAM BEHIND HIS HITMAN SERIES.

SPECIAL K

After breaking out in comedy Booksmart, Kaitlyn Dever proved her dramatic chops with a run of heartbreaking performances. Now returning to the laughs with TICKET TO PARADISE, she tells Total Film how she wants her roles to reflect real experiences.

ROGUE WARRIOR

ROGUE ONE WAS THE END OF CASSIAN ANDOR’S STORY. NOW IT’S TIME FOR THE BEGINNING, THE MIDDLE AND MUCH MORE WITH THE GRITTY, TWISTY ANDOR ON DISNEY+. THE BAND OF REBELS BEHIND THE NEW MAXISERIES REVEAL WHY IT’S A STAR WARS SAGA LIKE NONE YOU’VE EVER SEEN…

Yas Quinn

TO CELEBRATE 30 YEARS OF CHAOS WITH HARLEY QUINN, TOTAL FILM CHARTS THE DC STAR'S QUINTESSENTIAL ORIGINS AND STRATOSPHERIC RISE, WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THE TEAM BEHIND THE MAID OF MISCHIEF.

UPPING THE ANTIHERO

Dwayne Johnson’s journey to bring the ultimate comic-book badass to the big screen has been a long time coming, and as he and his collaborators tell Total Film, BLACK ADAM is just the start of a whole new era in the DCEU…

Antonio Banderas - I Don't Want to Continue Playing Characters Like I'm 30… I'm Not Afraid of Showing Myself Older.

From '80s Almodóvar to Hollywood swashbuckling, Antonio Banderas’ early career was the perfect template for a European actor wishing to make it in LA. But as he returns to Spain for wicked film satire Official Competition, it’s his own third act that is proving indelible. He joins Total Film to talk acting, awards and ageing.

My Super Ex Girlfriend

After the rock'n'roll rowdiness of Ragnarok, THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER promises another reinvention of all things Asgardian, with Natalie Portman getting in on the action as the hammer-wielding Mighty Thor. But, the team behind the Marvel sequel tell Total Film, amid the raucous humour, guesting Guardians, and game-changing new villain, this is a film about love, actually.

ALIA BHATT IS GOING GLOBAL…

NEXT BIG THING

LOVERS ON THE ROCKS

BOTH SIDES OF THE BLADE Claire Denis’ latest is not – repeat, not – a love triangle…

FORREST RENEWAL

LAAL SINGH CHADDHA - Life is like… a golgappa in the Hindi remake of Forrest Gump.

FIRST WORD - DARK STAR

BLONDE Andrew Dominik is about to drop a bombshell…

WICKED GAMES

BODIES BODIES BODIES A24’s acclaimed horror takes a sly look at dysfunctional friendship.

HOT RIGHT NOW

LADY GAGA IS READY TO BE CROWNED QUINN…

JAMES CAAN (1940-2022)

The Godfather is primarily borne along by its battery of excellent performances, two of them by Coppola’s ‘regulars’ Robert Duvall and James Caan,” said the Sight And Sound review upon the film’s 1972 release, and it is as Michael Corleone’s older brother Sonny, famously obliterated in a storm of 140 squibs, that the Bronx-born actor will forever be remembered.

JUST DESERTS

Writer/director John Michael McDonagh turns his misanthropic lens on wealthy westerners forced into atonement for their fatal nonchalance amid Morocco’s sand dunes in The Forgiven. McDonagh and his stars, Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain, tell Total Film why we’re still fascinated by cinema’s terrible people.

DREAM A LITTLE BIGGER

For 30 years, filmmakers have tried and failed to adapt Neil Gaiman’s revered comic THE SANDMAN. As the long-awaited Netflix adaptation launches, Total Film speaks to Gaiman, showrunner Allan Heinberg and the stars to ask: is this the stuff of fans’ dreams?

SHE-HULK

It's not easy being green. Just ask Jennifer Walters, the reluctant hero in Marvel's new legal comedy SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW. Total Film speaks to the show's dream team about feminism, Fleabag and finding the MCU's funny bone.

RETURN OF THE RINGS

As the line between movies and TV becomes ever more blurred, along comes small-screen epic THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER. The team behind the most expensive TV show ever made take Total Film on an journey into the outer reaches of Middle-earth, featuring new faces, terrifying Orcs, and Galadriel as you've never seen her before. And this is only the beginning...