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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WELCOME TO THE FILM

TRIAL BY FIRE • CHRISTOPHER NOLAN DIVES INSIDE THE MIND OF HIS MOST COMPLEX PROTAGONIST YET IN THE TRUE – LIFE STORY OF OPPENHEIMER. TOTAL FILM SITS IN ON THE SOUND MIX TO LEARN ABOUT A FILM AS AMBITIOUS AS THE DIRECTOR HAS YET MADE, WITH A MIND – BOGGLING SCALE, AN INVENTIVE APPROACH AND AN ALL-STAR CAST GIVING A HISTORICAL BIOPIC THE BLOCKBUSTER TREATMENT.

HOWARD'S WAY • Nolan on how his unmade Howard Hughes biopic paved the way for Oppenheimer.

TESTING TIMES • Visual-effects supervisor Andrew Jackson on Oppenheimer's unique demands.

FIRE POWER • Special-effects supervisor Scott R. Fisher on Oppenheimer's incendiary approach.

ALL DOLLED UP • BARBIE Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling on the year's vibrant box office champ.

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

BIG WICK ENERGY • We're thinking he's back… the hardest-hitting American action series returns for a Japanese-flavoured fourth instalment that promises a mano-a-mano main event with a martial-arts legend, and puts John Wick under an existential spotlight in his fight for liberation from the High Table. Total Film suits up with Keanu Reeves, director Chad Stahelski, and the wider cast and crew to uncover a film gunning for greatness.

LET'S DANCE • How spin-off Ballerina is poised to blow the world of Wick wide open.

LUCK OF THE DRAW • Five great movie duels

ACHIEVING THE IMPO SSIBLE • An elite team, comprising people with their own unique set of skills, guided by a charismatic leader on a quest of seemingly insurmountable odds… Sound familiar? Total Film meets the key creative powerhouses crafting Mission: Impossible – Dead Beckoning Part One into a tour de force of tension and suspense.

ROAD TO DESTRUCTION • It's the beginning of the end in Fast X, the penultimate film in the nitro-powered saga which unleashes Jason Momoa's sadistic new villain on Dom and the family, and brings Brie Larson's ‘guardian angel’ into the fold. Total Film revs up with director Louis Leterrier, producer/star Vin Diesel and the new Fast cast to reveal the explosive story behind the series’ latest chaos-fuelled entry…

MODERN MARVEL • Brie Larson ongoing higher, further and a lot faster.

MEAN MACHINE • Vehicle co-ordinator Dennis McCarthy on Dom's constantly evolving Dodge Charger…

RAKE'S PROGRESS • This time it's personal for Tyler Rake in Extraction 2, as he hurls himself into a crazed mission with ties to his pained past. Total Film talks to star Chris Hemsworth, director Sam Hargrave and stunt coordinator Shane Habberstad about how they landed emotional punches among some of the best action sequences ever put on screen.

FORD FOCUS • A legendary cinema character gets a final outing in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny as llarrison Ford prepares to hang up the fedora for good. Total Film meets the star and his collaborators to talk ageing heroes, and stepping back in time in more ways than one…

MADS MIKKELSEN

NO SPIN • James Mangold on making a standalone adventure…

BOYD HOLBROOK

PHOEBE WALLERBRIDGE

JACKIE CHAN • Stunt master…

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