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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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CALL SHEET • THIS ISSUE’S EXTRAS

TOTAL FILM WINGMAN • TF’S CINEMATIC AGONY UNCLE HAS YOUR BACK.

Dialogue • Mail, rants, theories etc.

BACK ONLINE • THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS I Breaking down the major theories and talking points from our first look at the long-awaited sequel…

OWEN WILSON • IS WOWING ONCE AGAIN.

GAME OF DEATH • RESIDENT EVIL: WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY The horror series goes back to basics.

Q&A KAYA SCODELARIO

BEAST WITHIN • NIGHTMARE ALLEY I A new kind of monster movie from Guillermo del Toro…

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

LITTLE SAINT NICK • A BOY CALLED CHRISTMAS | Director Gil Kenan retells the legend of Santa Claus.

BULLET TIME • OLD HENRY | Tim Blake Nelson saddles up for an old-school western.

MAKING WAVES • PIRATES | Reggie Yates turns feature director for a nostalgic ’90s pirate radio comedy.

JORDAN PETERS • IS DROPPING THE MIC.

HOUSE OF FUN • ENCANTO |Inside Disney’s new Colombia-set animated musical.

HALL PASS • PASSING | Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut is a lifetime in the making.

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

CHILD’S play • PETITE MAMAN | Small is beautiful in Céline Sciamma’s portrait of two little ladies...

FEST PRACTICE • VENICE & TIFF | The films to look forward to from this year’s autumn festivals

HANDMADE TAIL • ROBIN ROBIN | Aardman swaps Plasticine for needlecraft in a beautifully handmade short.

IT SHOULDN’T HAPPEN TO A FILM JOURNALIST • Editor-at-Large JAMIE GRAHAM lifts the lid on film journalism.

ORIGIN STORY • BLUE BAYOU | Justin Chon’s impassioned immigration drama burns with injustice…

MYTH MAKER • LAMB | Icelandic director Valdimar Jóhannsson’s debut is completely baa-my.

Q&A NOOMI RAPACE

HALLE BERRY • The Oscar-winner making a bruising directorial debut.

SPIRITUAL REAWAKENING • The ’busters are back in long-awaited legacy sequel Ghostbusters: Afterlife, a film that’s keeping it in the family both on and off screen. Jason Reitman and the next generation of spook-catchers answer Total Film’s call and reveal how their radical new take is keeping the spirit of a comedy classic alive.

‘bustin’ out • Key moments in the Ghostbusters timeline...

WE GOT ONE!

Q&A PAUL RUDD

Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone at 20 • AS THE VERY FIRST WIZARDING WORLD MOVIE REACHES A LANDMARK TWO-DECADE ANNIVERSARY, TOTAL FILM CHATS TO DIRECTOR CHRIS COLUMBUS TO REFLECT ON THAT FIRST YEAR AT HOGWARTS…

HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE IN NUMBERS

UP RISE • LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA CONQUERED THE WORLD WITH MUSICAL PHENOMENON HAMILTON, AND NOW HE’S STEPPING UP TO ADD MOVIE DIRECTOR TO HIS LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS. TOTAL FILM MEETS THE MULTI-AWARD-WINNING MULTI-HYPHENATE TO FIND OUT WHY HE STILL RELATES TO THE STORY OF A STRUGGLING SONGWRITER IN HIS SURPRISINGLY PERSONAL ADAPTATION OF STAGE SHOW TICK, TICK...BOOM!

HIGH STAKES • Following his first-ever Oscar nomination for First Reformed, Paul...