Total Film

Total Film is the world’s best movie magazine, a monthly digest of what's hot in the empire of movie culture. Each issue offers in-depth features on the biggest movies - both mainstream and arthouse. You'll find the latest movie news, reviews of all the new releases, star interviews, on-set reports and an extensive home entertainment guide that rates all the new releases in dvd, blu-ray, videogames, books and soundtracks. If you love movies, then Total Film Magazine is your unmissable monthly companion.

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Boyz N The Wood • DA 5 BLOODS I Retired vets return to Vietnam to reclaim their fallen brother’s remains in Spike Lee’s latest.

Chris Pine • IS READY TO MAKE A STEAL…

Playing With Fire • THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND I Judd Apatow is back with the most personal film he’s ever made.

Killing Time • THE OLD GUARD I Charlize Theron leads a team of mercenaries in the last blockbuster standing…

YOU TALKIN’ TO ME? • Film quotes pose as questions. Film stars try to cope.

FATAL VISION • In his own words, writer Scott Z. Burns on the eerily prescient warnings contained in his 2011 pandemic thriller Contagion…

PREGNANT PAUSE • NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS

SOUND BYTES • Quotable dialogue from this month’s movies – and their stars

UNIVERSAL VS. CINEMAS • The traditional distribution method is under threat. Who’s in the right?

EVACUATION STATION • SUMMERLAND I Myth and motherhood combine for Jessica Swale’s directorial debut.

Slumming Of Age • DAYS OF THE BAGNOLD SUMMER I Simon Bird directs a comic-book adap unlike any other.

EARL CAVE • IS STEPPING OUT OF THE SHADOWS…

Picture Palace • SET MY HEART TO FIVE I Guest contributor Simon Stephenson on his love for cinemas…

IT SHOULDN’T HAPPEN TO A FILM JOURNALIST

David Thewlis • The Northern mainstay dips into his memories.

TIME TO SPY • CHRISTOPHER NOLAN PUTS HIS OWN UNIQUE SPIN ON THE SPY GENRE IN TENET, THE MOST ANTICIPATED – AND SECRETIVE – BLOCKBUSTER OF THE YEAR. TOTAL FILM WITNESSES EXPLOSIVE ONSET ACTION AS THE WRITER/DIRECTOR CONTINUES HIS PREOCCUPATION WITH THE CONCEPT OF TIME ON HIS MOST AMBITIOUS PRODUCTION YET. PREPARE FOR AN ‘INCREDIBLE RIDE’…

John David Washington • Meet Tenet’s protagonist

ROBERT PATTINSON • Patt-man Begins

KENNETH BRANAGH • Dunkirk’s Commander Bolton is far from home.

ELIZABETH DEBICKI • The Guardians Vol. 2 and Widows star talks set-pieces and cake.

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Blaze of Glory • Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams are Fire Saga, representing Iceland at in the aptly titled Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga. TF speaks to the on-song stars and director David Dobkin to find out why this gloriously camp comedy is exactly what we need right now…

ALONG CAME DOLLY • Beanie Feldstein dances to her own music in How To Build A Girl, an adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s hilarious and heartfelt semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel. TF goes on set to witness director Coky Giedroyc and stars Feldstein and Paddy Considine making all the right moves…

IRRÉVERSIBLE • In 2002, Gaspar Noé’s ultra-violent rape-revenge drama IRRÉVERSIBLE caused outrage wherever it played. Now, as it comes of age in the #MeToo era, Total Film revisits its shock and awe to explore whether it’s more relevant than ever before.

SIMON PEGG My Life in Pictures • He’s the geek who inherited the Earth, laying off the Cornettos to morph into an action star in the Star Trek and Mission: Impossible franchises. And now he’s proving his dramatic clout playing a music producer with schizophrenia in Lost Transmissions. SIMON PEGG...