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.

Welcome to TOTAL FILM THE SMARTER MOVIE MAGAZINE

CALL SHEET • THIS ISSUE’S EXTRAS

PORTAL COMBAT • DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS Benedict Cumberbatch on embracing insanity in an even Stranger sequel…

HOT RIGHT NOW • BARRY KEOGHAN IS HAVING THE LAST LAUGH…

RETURN OF THE JEDI • OBI-WAN KENOBI Ewan McGregor’s Old(ish) Ben is back.

BUILDING BUZZ • LIGHTYEAR Director Angus MacLane on thinking outside the toybox.

YOU TALKIN’ TO ME? • FILM QUOTES POSE AS QUESTIONS. FILM STARS TRY TO COPE.

MIND OVER MATTER • VORTEX Gaspar Noé heads into the void with his most mature movie yet…

CAN WE TALK ABOUT? • THE BATMAN’S BIG FINALE LIKE BRUCE IN A WINGSUIT, BAT’S LATEST OUTING DOESN’T STICK THE LANDING.

FRENCH REVOLUTION • DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA Cultures clash as the Crawleys visit the south of France…

SOUND BYTES • The month in dialogue and digits.

CAT-MAN RETURNS • PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH Shrek’s stabby tabby is down to his last life…

NEXT BIG THING • ADRIA ARJONA IS PLAYING AGAINST BITE…

CHILDREN OF THE EVOLUTION • THE INNOCENTS Co-writer of The Worst Person In The World turns to spooky, psychic kids.

BETWEEN TAKES • KIEFER SUTHERLAND THE ERSTWHILE JACK BAUER SPILLS HIS MOVIE-SET HABITS…

SUICIDE SQUAD • EVERYTHING WENT FINE François Ozon digs into life, death, and the messy bit in between…

Q&A Sophie Marceau

HAIL, SATAN • THE LAST PLANET Mark Rylance on playing Lucifer for Terrence Malick…

STATE OF THE NATION • EMERGENCY Carey Williams and his cast on their socially conscious Superbad.

NATURE CALLS • WILD MEN If you go down to the woods today…

BEST OF THE FEST

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

FALLING ON DEAF EARS • LISTEN Ana Rocha de Sousa’s powerful debut explores the foul practice of forced adoption…

Q&A Sophia Myles

RAPPED UP • CASABLANCA BEATS Time to get inspired with Nabil Ayouch’s Moroccan hip-hop musical…

THE HERO • ANDREW DOMINIK THE CHOPPER DIRECTOR ON NICK CAVE, BRAD PITT AND MARILYN MONROE…

THE SKY’S THE LIMIT • THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER THE ORIGINAL TOOK FLIGHT, TOP GUN: MAVERICK IS BACK TO GIVE US THAT LOVIN’ FEELING ONCE AGAIN. TOTAL FILM SPEAKS TO TOM CRUISE, THE FILMMAKERS AND CAST ABOUT REVISITING A CLASSIC WHILE BREAKING NEW BOUNDARIES.

MILES TELLER Q&A

GLEN POWELL Q&A

LOWDEN CALLING • Having made an impact in the varied likes of Dunkirk and Fighting With My Family, Jack Lowden is stepping into the spotlight with two very different must-see projects: WW1 drama BENEDICTION and espionage series SLOW HORSES. Total Film meets the rising Scottish star to talk war games, spies, and moving behind the camera.

GODFATHER SQUAD • Miles Teller, Juno Temple and Matthew Goode lead the sprawling cast of The Offer, a big-budget TV drama chronicling the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 classic.

TIME AFTER TIME • Giri/Haji creator Joe Barton on his mindbending time-loop thriller.

PERSPECTIVE SHIFT • Elisabeth Moss heads up a brain-scrambling crime thriller…

COURT IN THE ACT...