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MIXED DRAG
EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE I Director Jonathan Butterell on his stage musical’s makeover.
IT'S A WANDA-FUL LIFE
WANDAVISION I Do not adjust your set. Scarlet Witch is back…
King's Gambit
Regina King is acting royalty and now she’s bringing all of her nuance and fierce intelligence to her directorial debut, One Night In Miami. She gets personal and political with Total Film…
RIZ AHMED
British multihyphenate Riz Ahmed has been consistently impressive in incendiary indies and bigger blockbuster fare. But as he takes on one of his most powerful roles yet as a drummer losing his hearing in Sound Of Metal, he tells Total Film that he’s just getting started... AT ITS HEART, EVERY STORY IS ABOUT TRYING TO ANSWER THE QUESTION, “WHO AM I?”
revolution calling
DOCTOR WHO’S FESTIVE SPECIAL PROMISES TEARS AND TINPOT FEARS…
KICKING & STREAMING
Thirty-five years after Daniel LaRusso crane kicked his way to victory at the All Valley Karate Championship, streaming series Cobra Kai has given the Karate Kid franchise a rousing new lease of life. Ahead of Season 3’s debut on Netflix, Total Film hits the dojo with Ralph Macchio, William Zabka and the show’s creators to discuss the unlikely resurgence of an ’80s icon, and Cobra Kai’s hardest hitting season yet.
how to train your dragon
JOHN POWELL | VARÈSE SARABANDE
CAN WE TALK ABOUT...? STAR WARS' COMEBACK YEAR
The Force is strong again… but there’s work to be done.
GREAT ESCAPE
An Oscar frontrunner after dominating festivals with its tale of itinerant van dwellers, Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland is a film for our recession-struck times. Total Film speaks to the team behind this year’s most soulful movie.
a wimple plan
HOW THE BBC ADAP OF BLACK NARCISSUS IS GETTING THINGS IN ORDER.
The Killer inside me
Brandon Cronenberg’s techno-thriller Possessor is being hailed as the genre film of the year. He sits down with Total Film to turn the gun on himself and pull the sick-trigger on a film so disturbing it would make his dad squirm.
THE KANE EVENT
Everything is Orson? Well, maybe not. David Fincher’s Mank explores the origins of Welles’ magnum opus, bringing his own Hollywood experience to bear on a 30-years in-the-making black-and-white masterpiece that feels like it could have been found on a shelf next to Citizen Kane. Total Film meets Fincher and cast to talk Hollywood past and present.
THE NEXT BIG THING
ARIANA DEBOSE IS TAKING CENTRE STAGE
SWAN SONG
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM I A blues icon gets her due in Chadwick Boseman’s final film.
Youth hurts
GUADAGNINO RETURNS TO TEENHOOD WITH WE ARE WHO WE ARE…
Parental control
For his intense directorial debut Falling, multihyphenate Viggo Mortensen has drawn inspiration from his own tough-love upbringing. He sits down with Total Film to get up close and personal…
Game For A Laugh
FREE GUY I Ryan Reynolds’ alt-reality tentpole is a comedy for our turbulent times...
Inside man
HOW PRISON DRAMA FOR LIFE SETS THE BAR HIGH…
Southern DISCOMFORT
A SENSITIVE APPALACHIAN FAMILY MEMOIR. THE BAROMETER OF A DIVIDED NATION. OR JUST OSCAR BAIT? RON HOWARD’S HILLBILLY ELEGY WILL SURELY SPLIT OPINION. TOTAL FILM MEETS THE DIRECTOR AND CAST TO UNPACK THE SEASON’S MOST INSPIRATIONAL TRUE STORY.
Civil action
THE GOOD LORD BIRD FLIES IN THE FACE OF PERIOD-DRAMA CONVENTION…
T-Zone
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL I Films that should be on your radar.
Spirited away
SOUL - Pixar’s latest concerns itself with life, death, purpose and all that jazz…
HIGH LIFE
COUNTY LINES - Henry Blake’s British socialrealist drug-runner debut sizzles…
portrait of a lady
THE CROWN REACHES THE 1980S’ BIGGEST MARRIAGE STORY…
LEAP OF FAITH
A NEW JAMES BOND, A NEW CINEMATIC LANDSCAPE AND A WHOLE NEW WORLD AFTER THE END OF THE COLD WAR. AS GOLDENEYE TURNS 25, DIRECTOR MARTIN CAMPBELL TELLS TF WHY IT WAS A HUGE…
THE 007 FILES
BOND PRODUCERS BARBARA BROCCOLI AND MICHAEL G. WILSON CRACK OPEN A TOP SECRET DOSSIER AND TALK TF THROUGH SOME RARE AND UNSEEN PICTURES SPANNING THE ENTIRE FRANCHISE…
THE LONG GOODBYE
FOLLOWING A LENGTHY DELAY, DANIEL CRAIG’S JAMES BOND SWAN SONG IS ALMOST UPON US. WITH CLASSIFIED ACCESS TO THE CREATIVE TEAM OF NO TIME TO DIE , TOTAL FILM REVEALS (00)7 UNTOLD STORIES BEHIND THE MAKING OF BOND’S MOST IMPORTANT MISSION TO DATE, HOW CRAIG IS BOWING OUT ON AN ALL-TIME HIGH AND WHAT COMES NEXT…
funny peculiar
GHOSTBUSTING MEETS GUT-BUSTING IN FROST/PEGG’S TRUTH SEEKERS…
Domestic Disturbance
Electrifying, moving and very, very scary, His House bleeds heart-stopping fantasy into bleak reality as asylum seekers are plagued by ghosts of the past. Writer/director Remi Weekes and stars Dìrísù and Wunmi Mosaku take us on a tour of a haunted house movie like no other…
ARMIE HAMMER
He can play matinee idol with his eyes closed, but Armie Hammer is more intrigued by exploring the darkness beneath the surface these days. As he hits both the big and small screen this winter with Rebecca and Death On The Nile, he tells Total Film about embracing his fears…