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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TEASERS NO STRINGS ATTACHED • GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO The filmmaking team on giving life to the classic fable and creating poetry in stop-motion.

HOT RIGHT NOW • LILY-ROSE DEPPIS SINKING HER TEETH INTO THE GOOD STUFF…

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

MAJORS CONFLICT • CREED III Old friend becomes new foe in MBJ's toughest-ever tussle…

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

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

CLOSE TO HOME • REBEL Batgirl directing duo Adil & Billal bounce back with a wartime musical tragedy.

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

SOUND BYTES • The month in dialogue and digits.

MURDER MYSTERY • LITVINENKO George Kay takes us inside the perilous world of his new crime series…

SHORT CUTS • The latest happenings in movieland…

NEXT BIG THING • JALYN HALL HAS A DREAM…

CAN WE TALK ABOUT? • LOSING INDEPENDENT CINEMAS CMI'S COLLAPSE SIGNALS A STARK FUTURE FOR UK INDEPENDENT EXHIBITION.

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

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

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

FOOL FOR LOVE • MAMMALS James Corden makes a dramatic comeback for a TV comedy of crisis and romance.

MIND GAMES • NOCEBO Vivarium director Lorcan Finnegan is back noodling noggins…

IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN TO A FILM JOURNALIST

BAD ROBOT • CHRISTMAS BLOODY CHRISTMAS Grindhouse guru Joe Begos gifts viewers a crazed robo-Santa swinging a bloody great axe…

THE HERO

A Bigger Splash • The long-awaited sequel to the highest-grossing film of all time and the opening chapter in a fully conceived four-film saga, Avatar: The Way Of Water is a 13-years-in-the-making return trip to cinema's most immersive world. Total Film plunges back into Pandora with James Cameron, the film's cast and its crew to uncover the bigger, bolder, even bluer sequel.

AVATAR 1.5 • Before writing The Way Of Water, Cameron penned, and later scrapped, an entirely different, feature-length screenplay for Avatar 2. Now retooled as a three-part graphic novel, The High Ground will fill in the 14-year gap between Avatar and its sequel. Cameron explains…

ZOE SALDAÑA • The Way Of Water's Neytiri comes up for air…

DIE ANOTHER DAY • ‘Dead’ villains who make the ultimate comeback in sequels…

'dunit again • After the unexpectedly huge success of Knives Out, Benoit Blanc is back on another case. Total Film meets writer/ director Rian Johnson, returning star Daniel Craig and a new line-up of potential suspects/victims for clues on how to crack the murdermystery follow-up.

Favourite mystery detective?...