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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HIDDEN AGENDA • SECRET INVASION Nick Fury is the last line of defence against a rogue faction of shapeshifting Skrulls in Marvel's gritty espionage series.

HOT RIGHT NOW • GLEN POWELL IS CHASING MEGA-STARDOM…

SEX EDUCATION • NO HARD FEELINGS Jennifer Lawrence takes on Gen Z in Gene Stupnitsky's R-rated comedy.

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

FINAL FANTASY • THE WITCHER Henry Cavill's Geralt of Rivia is back for one last growl…

BAZ TO THE FUTURE • THE FLASH The Muschiettis enter the Speed Force and wind back the clock on Michael Keaton's Batman…

GEAR SHIFT • GRAN TURISMO Neill Blomkamp puts pedal to metal on a different kind of game adap.

CAN WE TALK ABOUT? KILLING ICONIC CHARACTERS • WHY ARE SO MANY FRANCHISES BUMPING OFF THEIR HEROES?

SCREAM ICON • STEPHEN KING ONSCREEN A host of famous faces explore the horror author in film and TV…

SOUND BYTES • The month in dialogue and digits.

DEPTH CHARGE • THE DEEPEST BREATH Laura McGann’s profound freediving doc will take your breath away.

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

ALL DOLLED UP • BARBIE Greta Gerwig brings Mattel’s best-selling fashion doll to the big screen for a bright and bold live-action adventure.

CINE LITERATURE • THE SUPER 8 YEARS Nobel-winning novelist Annie Ernaux deep dives into her archives…

SHORT CUTS • The latest happenings in movieland…

NEXT BIG THING • SOPHIE THATCHER IS A DARK SOUL

COINING IT • THE GALLOWS POLE Director Shane Meadows proves history really is fun with a bold recreation of one of Britain's biggest crimes.

WORM IT UP • DUNE: PART TWO Return to Arrakis in this first glimpse of the concluding chapter.

THE SPICE OF LIFE • FLAMIN'HOT Eva Longoria turns director for an underdog story with flavour…

BLAZIN’ SQUAD • SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING Quentin Dupieux lights up for this superhero comedy…

THE HERO

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 approach.

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.

Real deal • Chris Hemsworth talks about his love of pre-CGI 80s action heroes… and how he really set his arm on...