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 SILENT BUT DEADLY • BOY KILLS WORLD Bill Skarsgård keeps it quiet for a coming-of-rage comedy actioner...

HOT RIGHT NOW • EBON MOSS-BACHRACH IS THE REAL THING.

TICKING CLOCK • CUCKOO Tilman Singer's increasingly barmy horror defies sanity - and that's a good thing...

HOT SHOT • HIT MAN Richard Linklater's assassin is aiming to bring sexy back...

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

SCARE BNB • THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 1 Renny Harlin's reboot of the home-invasion classic opens the door to vast terrors...

SOUND BYTES • The month in dialogue and digits.

BORED TO DEATH • SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT DYING Daisy Ridley dreams of her own demise in Rachel Lambert's poetic drama...

SOMETHING WILD • THE BEAST Bertrand Bonello's striking look at the past, present and future is a rare animal...

BODY AND SOUL • KIDNAPPED Marco Bellocchio's true-life period piece shames the Catholic Church once again...

MIGHT & MAGIC • RENEGADE NELL Sally Wainwright follows up Happy Valley with an earthy period fantasy...

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CITIZEN CANE • SUGAR Elegant and electrifying, this modernday LA noir starring Colin Farrell blends the new with the old to hit the sweet spot...

CAT PERSON • TIGER STRIPES Puberty is a monster in this Cannes-winning body horror...

SHORT CUTS • The latest happenings in movieland

BETWEEN TAKES JOSH O'CONNOR • THE CHALLENGERS STAR ON COFFEE, CHIPS AND ZENDAYA'S ONESIE...

NEXT BIG THING • SAURA LIGHTFOOT-LEON IS RIDING A TORNADO.

PAIR OF ACES • MADE IN ENGLAND David Hinton's Powell and Pressburger doc calls on Martin Scorsese...

TOMB RAIDERS • LA CHIMERA Alice Rohrwacher dives into the treasure trove of Italy's past for her latest curio...

THE HERO • ANTHONY MACKIE THE ACTOR ON FAME, FALCON AND FIRST-PERSON SHOOTERS...

RISKY BUSINESS • STUNT PERFORMERS ARE GETTING THEIR DUES IN THE FALL GUY, A CROWD-PLEASING, GENRE-BLENDING MIX OF ACTION THRILLER AND ROMANTIC COMEDY THAT CELEBRATES THE OLD-SCHOOL VIRTUES OF PRACTICAL ACTION AND STAR CHEMISTRY IN A THOROUGHLY MODERN WAY. TOTAL FILM MEETS STARS RYAN GOSLING AND EMILY BLUNT AND FILMMAKING TEAM DAVID LEITCH AND KELLY McCORMICK TO FIND OUT HOW THEY STUCK THE LANDING.

HIGH FIDELITY • DAVID LEITCH ON THE FALL GUY'S ROCKING SOUNDTRACK

GUY AND DOLL • RYAN GOSLING ON BARBENHEIMER, HEIGHTS, AND UNSUNG HEROES

EVOLUTIONARY LEAP • CINEMA'S FOREMOST SIMIAN SAGA CONTINUES TO ADAPT IN LATEST INSTALMENT KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. TOTAL FILM MEETS ITS CAST AND CREW TO DISCOVER HOW THE FRANCHISE IS EMBRACING CHANGE IN BOTH STORYTELLING AND TECHNOLOGY.

GOING APE • MOVEMENT COACH ALAIN GAUTHIER TALKS APE SCHOOL

WETA AND WILD • VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR ERIK WINQUIST ON THE FILM'S TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES

PURE IMAGINATION • DURING THE DARKEST DAYS OF THE PANDEMIC, JOHN KRASINSKI DREAMED OF AN ESCAPE FOR HIS YOUNG CHILDREN. THE RESULT IS IF - A DEEPLY FELT FAMILY MOVIE ABOUT AN UNSEEN WORLD OF IMAGINARY FRIENDS, STARRING RYAN REYNOLDS. TOTAL FILM CATCHES UP WITH...