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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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LIFE ON FILM • THE FABELMANS How Steven Spielberg brought his cine-memoir to the screen.

HOT RIGHT NOW • SCARLETT JOHANSSON IS ON THE CASE…

BABY TALK • BROKER Kore-eda Hirokazu’s latest gets to the heart of the baby box issue…

YOU TALKIN' TO ME? • IN THE CROSSHAIRS THIS MONTH… JENNY SLATE

OUT OF THE PAST • THE STRAYS A woman’s secret history surfaces to splinter her present in an accomplished debut thriller…

Q&A Bukky Bakray

TEAM PLAYERS • DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Game Night’s directing duo put the fun back into fantasy…

TRUE CRIME • SAINT OMER Alice Diop’s stunning drama tackles motherhood’s greatest taboo…

ASSASSIN'S NEED • THE HANGING SUN A hitman has a crisis of conscience in Jo Nesbø’s Nordic noir…

Q&A Jessica Brown Findlay

HIDDEN LIFE • BLUE JEAN Georgia Oakley’s debut tackles a grim piece of recent British history…

SEX EDUCATION • FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE Jesse Eisenberg speed-shags his way across New York.

SOUND BYTES • The month in dialogue and digits.

NEXT BIG THING • BEN ALDRIDGE CAN HEAR HOLLYWOOD KNOCKING…

COMING HOME • NOSTALGIA A richly rewarding return to one of Naples’ poorest districts…

SHORT CUTS • The latest happenings in movieland…

COOL CAT • PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH The flamboyant feline returns - and he’s down to his last life.

KISS AND MAKE UP • SHE IS LOVE Haley Bennett and Sam Riley make it up as they go along in Jamie Adams’ latest.

CAN WE TALK ABOUT? • THE EXTINCTION OF MOVIE STARS IS THE MCU MAKING THE ACTOR REDUNDANT?

GORDON'S ALIVE • NOLLY Helena Bonham Carter and Russell T. Davies resurrect a neglected legend of British TV.

LEAP OF FAITH • CREATURE Asif Kapadia takes a break from documentaries to bring us a dance film with a difference.

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

FORBIDEN LOVE • JOYLAND Pakistan’s taboo-tackling transgender love story…

THE HERO • DON CHEADLE THE AMERICAN ACTOR-DIRECTOR BRINGS THE NOISE…

big bad john • Idris Elba’s small-screen DCI eyes a feature franchise with a step up in scale and ambition. Elba and his team tell Total Film why morally compromised Luther can take on 007 in the movie stakes…

Q&A raine forecast • CYNTHIA ERIVO talks Luther’s nemesis DCI and future outings…

25 BEST DETECTIVES OF ALL TIME • From craggy PIs to slick super-sleuths to tenacious journos, the movie detective is a genre-defining figure almost as old as cinema. Join us, then, as we celebrate those who variously use their brains, brawn and/or bravado to crack crimes, right wrongs and dole out justice, one clue at a time.

KNOCK AT THE CABIN • Twisty-turny storyteller M. Night Shyamalan is at it again with Knock At The Cabin, a woods-bound, home-invasion horror movie that morphs into something totally unexpected. Here the modern-day master of suspense talks us through his process, revealing his secrets… but not those of his WTF movie.

COCAINE BEAR • Cocaine Bear tells the outrageous story of a...