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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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BEYOND OUR KEN • A HAUNTING IN VENICE The ’tec with the ’tash grapples with the ghostly in Kenneth Branagh’s third Poirot outing.

HOT RIGHT NOW • FRAN DRESCHER IS SENDING OUT A WAKE-UP CALL…

MEMORIES OF MURDER • THE LONG SHADOW Examining the lasting effect of the crimes of the Yorkshire Ripper…

CHRIS ALMIGHTY • THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER David Gordon Green gets original star Ellen Burstyn to take a leap of faith…

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

GUITAR HEROES • FLORA AND SON John Carney scores another low-key hit as a single mum learns the guitar…

THE LL WORD • Contributing editor LEILA LATIF has something to say…

SOUND BYTES • The month in dialogue and digits.

LAST ORDERS • THE OLD OAK Ken Loach’s final film – the tale of a Syrian refugee’s bond with a pub landlord…

BETWEEN TAKES • ROSAMUND PIKE THE WHEEL OF TIME STAR ON PARTYING, ROGUE LENSES AND DOING WIRE WORK WITH A FULL STOMACH…

BLOOD TIES • BROTHER Clement Virgo gets personal with a searing drama of racial injustice in Toronto…

SHORT CUTS • The latest happenings in movieland…

NEXT BIG THING • WOODY NORMAN IS SAILING TO SUCCESS

GUN LOBBY • THE CONTINENTAL: FROM THE WORLD OF JOHN WICK Director Albert Hughes and star Colin Woodell on their TV prequel’s killer premise…

ITALIAN JOB • THE EQUALIZER 3 Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua return for the final chapter in their action trilogy…

CAN WE TALK ABOUT? • BARBENHEIMER THE DOUBLE BILL THAT MIGHT JUST SAVE CINEMA.

RESIDENTS EVIL • R.M.N. Cristian Mungiu gives his home country Romania a cinematic brain scan…

THE HERO

THE POWER OF THREE • A triple threat of the MCU’s most powerful women unite in The Marvels. Total Film meets the filmmakers to find out how Carol Danvers, Monica Rambeau, and Kamala Khan will contend with a formidable new foe, unexpected power-swaps and flerkens galore.

HELLO KITTIES • Cat trainer Jo Vaughan on Goose-wrangling

SCORE SETTLING • Composer Laura Karpman on the power of MCU music

LOVE MATCH • Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist play tennis and wicked games in Challengers, Luca Guadagnino’s sensual study of fierce friendship, competition and messy love triangles. Total Film sits down with the three champs as they serve up on sex scenes, tennis camp and Ratatouille.

COURT JESTERS • Quiet, please, for these tennis tales…

ACT OF CREATION • While teaming up on The Favourite, star Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos forged an electric creative partnership that shows no signs of slowing down. With eccentric feminist Frankenstein fable Poor Things up next, the duo talk to Total Film about their ‘once-in-a-lifetime connection’.

MACHO LIBRE • The ultimate underdog tale, Cassandro tells the story of the real-life Mexican wrestler who both dominated the ring and changed attitudes towards homosexuality. Total Film meets director Roger Ross Williams and star Gael García Bernal to pay homage to one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most iconic athletes.

GAME OF PHONES • In the early 2000s, one smartphone...