ROBBIE COLTRANE

Born Anthony Robert McMillan in the Glaswegian suburb of Rutherglen, Robbie Coltrane’s career took in Bond movies, Cracker and the Harry Potter series before he died last month at the age of 72.

THE WONDER

Fast friends...

AFTERSUN 12A Halcyon daze...

OUT 18 NOVEMBER CINEMAS

TOXIC SHOCK

FROM HITLER ACADEMICS TO MEDICATED MUMS, WHITE NOISE IS AN EPIC SATIRE ON AMERICA. ADAPTING DON DELILLO'S UNFILMABLE' NOVEL, IT'S ALSO DIRECTOR NOAH BAUMBACH'S MOST AMBITIOUS MOVIE YET. TOTAL FILM MEETS HIM AND HIS CAST TO DISCUSS DEATH, DRUGS, AND DANCING.

HUNGER GAMES

Florence Pugh continues her patriarchy-smashing form with pertinent period drama THE WONDER. She and her filmmaking team tell Total Film how a Victorian tale of fasting and fables reflects the conflicts of a modern audience.

PASSION PROJECT

Nearly a century after Chatterley's Lover first made readers clutch their pearls, a new adaptation promises to sizzle with as much sexual politics as sauce.

RED ALERT

AFTER ESCAPING RUSSIAN PRISONS AS RED GUARDIAN IN BLACK WIDOW AND BATTLING THE UPSIDE DOWN AS CHIEF JIM HOPPER IN STRANGER THINGS, DAVID HARBOUR IS NOW SUITED AND BOOTED AS SANTA CLAUS IN COMEDY ACTION-THRILLER VIOLENT NIGHT. TOTAL FILM TALKS TO THE STAR WHOSE HALTING CAREER BECAME ALL GREEN LIGHTS WHEN HE STARTED SEEING RED IN HIS FORTIES...

QUEST IN SHOW

Thirty-four years after the original movie, the dry spell finally ends with Willow, an eight-part continuation on Disney+.Warwick Davis and his fellow adventureThirty-four years after the original movie, the dry spell finally ends with Willow, an eight-part continuation on Disney+.Warwick Davis and his fellow adventurers reveal why it's time for a new kind of magic...rs reveal why it's time for a new kind of magic...

THE HERO

MARK RYLANCE THE STAGE AND SCREEN THESP TALKS METHOD AND MITCHUM

BAD ROBOT

CHRISTMAS BLOODY CHRISTMAS Grindhouse guru Joe Begos gifts viewers a crazed robo-Santa swinging a bloody great axe...

IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN TO A FILM JOURNALIST

Editor-at-Large JAMIE GRAHAM lifts the lid on film journalism.

MIND GAMES

NOCEBO Vivarium director Lorcan Finnegan is back noodling noggins…

FOOL FOR LOVE

MAMMALS James Corden makes a dramatic comeback for a TV comedy of crisis and romance.

BETWEEN TAKES

GUY PEARCE THE STAR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDS ON ROUTINE AND MEMENTOS

STRAIGHT SHOOTER

COPENHAGEN COWBOY Nicolas Winding Refn rides in for the strangest horse opera…

5 THINGS ELF DEFENCE

THE WITCHER: BLOOD ORIGIN A prequel series that dives into the history of the Continent.

CAN WE TALK ABOUT?

LOSING INDEPENDENT CINEMAS CMI’S COLLAPSE SIGNALS A STARK FUTURE FOR UK INDEPENDENT EXHIBITION.

NEXT BIG THING

JALYN HALL HAS A DREAM...

MURDER MYSTERY

LITVINENKO George Kay takes us inside the perilous world of his new crime series...

ROYAL PEDIGREE

CORSAGE Vicky Krieps shines in Marie Kreutzer’s mischievous portrait of an Austrian empress desperate to escape her gilded cage.

CLOSE TO HOME

REBEL Batgirl directing duo Adil & Billal bounce back with a wartime musical tragedy.

EXCLUSIVE DREAM PALACE

EMPIRE OF LIGHT Sam Mendes takes on movies, mental health, and the mighty Margate…

THE STATE OF THE UNION

THE PEOPLE WE HATE AT THE WEDDING Anglo-American family nuptials go comically pear-shaped.

FAMILY VALUES

WEDNESDAY Tim Burton's TV debut explores the turbulent school days of a teenage proto-goth.

Spielberg on E.T.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of E .T. The Extra -Terrestrial, we raid our Hol lywood archives for this candid and personal interview with Steven Spielberg from the ’80s.

OLIVIA WILDE

‘YOU BETTER BE MAKING STUFF YOU REALLY WANT TO MAKE, AND NOT JUST STUFF THAT FEELS EASY’

COLLECTIVE MEMORY

After recent events in the US Supreme Court, with women’s reproductive rights curtailed, 1960s abortion drama CALL JANE has taken on an unsettling new resonance. Total Film talks with director Phyllis Nagy and her cast about one of the year’s most vital works.

DEBT TRAP

Aubrey Plaza shows off her dramatic chops in the titular role in John Patton Ford's nail-biting thriller, Emily The Criminal. Total Film meets the team behind one of the year's most compelling and stressful thrillers.

IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES

After the extremes of his earlier work, South Korea’s Park Chan-wook reins it all in to conjure one of the great films of his career: the beguiling DECISION TO LEAVE. But is it a film noir, a romantic drama or something even more cryptic? Total Film joins him to search for a decisive answer.

Educating Emma

She exploded onto the scene with Sex Education, and is breaking the biopic mould as the middle Brontë sister in EMILY, but Emma Mackey is still hungry for new experiences. Here, she tells Total Film about life lessons, Barbie, and what she's learned from working with Margot Robbie.