RING OF POWER

Tipped for awards glory, true-life wrestling drama THE IRON CLAW tells the extraordinary story of the Von Erich family, champions in the ring and cursed in life. Total Film grapples with director Sean Durkin and hears from stars Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White and Harris Dickinson to pin down how such awe-inspiring triumph can come from such terrible adversity…

SPY GAMES

James Bond would need a nice sit-down after watching ARGYLLE, a super-spy movie that explodes with crazed ideas, mischievous twists and truly bonkers action as it turns the genre inside out. Total Film's mission? To interrogate director Matthew Vaughn and stars Henry Cavill and Bryce Dallas Howard as to, well, WTF?

CREW GRIT

George Clooney and Callum Turner tell Total Film about the hard work (and play) that went into recreating a historical sporting moment in The Boys in the Boat. Ready all, row...

ON A WING AND A PRAYER

After tackling the US WW2 effort on land and sea with Band of Brothers and The Pacific, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg turn skywards to explore the experience of the airborne 'Bloody 100th' with another zeitgeist cast.

MONSTER VERSE OF MADNESS

They've fought each other and they've punched out Mechagodzilla, but now clashing titans King Kong and Godzilla must face the worldending threat of Skar King, the most malevolent monster we've ever seen.

TRADING PLACES

As Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy and Jamie Lee Curtis' status-switch comedy turns 40, director John Landis reflects on the film's rocky production and controversial legacy....

CLASSIC SOUNDTRACK WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

LESLIE BRICUSSE AND ANTHONY NEWLEY GEFFEN RECORDS

THE BOY AND THE HERON 12A

Miyazaki in full feather...

DAVID AYER

'WHAT HAPPENED WITH SUICIDE SQUAD, IT SEARED MY SOUL. BUT I'M TENACIOUS. I'LL NEVER STOP. YOU'VE GOT TO KILL ME. I HAVE SO MANY STORIES TO TELL'

LOST CITY

Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares team up on their feature directorial debut, THE KITCHEN, a dystopian sci-fi set in an all-tooplausible future London. Total Film meets the duo and their collaborators to talk about bringing their vision of the Big Smoke to a global audience.

SILENCE OF THE LANDS

After two disappointing seasons, HBO's procedural roars back with True Detective: Night Country. Starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis as two Alaskan cops seeking eight missing scientists, this nocturnal noir promises to revitalise the franchise. Total Film joins the cast and creator Issa López on set in deepest, darkest Iceland for some serious sleuthing.

Having a Ball

Total Film joins Taika Waititi and Michael Fassbender for a kickabout on the set of feel-good sports movie Next Goal Wins to find out how one of the worst teams in international football inspired a true underdog story.

PREVIEW 2024

Movie Reviews

GUIDING LIGHT

SAMSARA Lois Patiño's spiritual docudrama is like nothing you've ever seen...

POWDER PLAYER

GRISELDA The cocaine godmother of Miami gets a Scarface-adjacent miniseries.

A MOG'S LIFE

MOG'S CHRISTMAS Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy star in an adaptation of Judith Kerr's classic.

GAME NIGHT

Level up the fun this Christmas...

REMEMBER ME

THE TOURIST S2 Jamie Dornan returns for a second series of memory-addled mayhem...

STREET FIGHTER

ECHO Marvel Studios' new television series starring Alaqua Cox packs a powerful punch.

FLOODS OF TEARS

THE END WE START FROM Eco-crisis meets maternal strength in Jodie Comer's latest.

THE OUTSIDERS

EXPATS Lulu Wang follows up The Farewell with a thorny drama about Americans abroad.

VIOLET DELIGHT

Alice Walker's classic novel gets a joyous cinematic remix.

RETURN FLIGHT

THE BOY AND THE HERON Animation legend Hayao Miyazaki finally takes wing once more...

HOT RIGHT NOW

There is such a thing as a meteoric rise, and then there is Ayo Edebiri’s 2023, which feels carefully designed as a scientific experiment to test the possibility of omnipresence.

FALSE IDOLS

THE BOOK OF CLARENCE The Messiah is reimagined and ripped off in Jeymes Samuel's audacious new Bible story.

'When you've not come through the education system of film, you have an imposter syndrome' - shane meadows

Self-doubts begone – with work like TwentyFourSeven, This is England and The Virtues, Shane Meadows is one of the finest British directors working today. So to mark the rerelease of his 2004 drama Dead Man’s Shoes, Total Film sits down with Meadows to discuss how his troubled youth infuses the personal and political nature of his work, and how he’s now entering a new chapter. ‘A full stop got put on something,’ he says.

RESIDENTS EVIL

R.M.N. Cristian Mungiu gives his home country Romania a cinematic brain scan...

CAN WE TALK ABOUT? - BARBENHEIMER

THE DOUBLE BILL THAT MIGHT JUST SAVE CINEMA.

NEXT BIG THING

WOODY NORMAN IS SAILING TO SUCCESS

LAST ORDERS

THE OLD OAK Ken Loach's final film - the tale of a Syrian refugee's bond with a pub landlord...