Total Film Magazine - October 2022

In this issue

HALLOWEEN ENDS - Jamie Lee Curtis and David Gordon Green on the night he came home… for the last time. Plus, James Jude Courtney on how he gets into The Shape.

GREATEST ENDINGS - We jump to conclusions to salute the best film finales.

SICKENINGLY RICH

TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Ruben Östlund’s queasy Cannes-winner turns on the one per cent…

4 mins

Dead End

After 44 years, the blood feud between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers is coming to a killer conclusion in Halloween Ends , the “passionate” and “unexpected” climax to David Gordon Green’s latterday slasher trilogy. Ultimate final girl Jamie Lee Curtis and the ’ween team reveal the story behind a grudge match decades in the making.

10+ mins

THE 25 GREATEST MOVIE ENDINGS EVER

As the Halloween series draws to a close, Total Film looks back at the finest conclusions in cinema history… Spoilers guaranteed.

10+ mins

Pride and Prejudice

The Judd Apatow-produced BROS is the first gay romantic comedy by a major studio. It’s important and funny AF – the best romcom for years. Total Film talks to writer star Billy Eichner, co-star Luke Macfarlane and director Nicholas Stoller about bantz, butt-pics and making big-time history.

7 mins

Educating Emma

She exploded onto the scene with Sex Education, and is breaking the biopic mould as the middle Brontë sister in EMILY, but Emma Mackey is still hungry for new experiences. Here, she tells Total Film about life lessons, Barbie, and what she's learned from working with Margot Robbie.

7 mins

IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES

After the extremes of his earlier work, South Korea’s Park Chan-wook reins it all in to conjure one of the great films of his career: the beguiling DECISION TO LEAVE. But is it a film noir, a romantic drama or something even more cryptic? Total Film joins him to search for a decisive answer.

7 mins

DEBT TRAP

Aubrey Plaza shows off her dramatic chops in the titular role in John Patton Ford's nail-biting thriller, Emily The Criminal. Total Film meets the team behind one of the year's most compelling and stressful thrillers.

7 mins

COLLECTIVE MEMORY

After recent events in the US Supreme Court, with women’s reproductive rights curtailed, 1960s abortion drama CALL JANE has taken on an unsettling new resonance. Total Film talks with director Phyllis Nagy and her cast about one of the year’s most vital works.

7 mins

OLIVIA WILDE

‘YOU BETTER BE MAKING STUFF YOU REALLY WANT TO MAKE, AND NOT JUST STUFF THAT FEELS EASY’

10+ mins

Spielberg on E.T.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of E .T. The Extra -Terrestrial, we raid our Hol lywood archives for this candid and personal interview with Steven Spielberg from the ’80s.

10 mins

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