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Double Vision

GEMINI MAN - It’s Will Smith versus Will Smith in Ang Lee’s wildly ambitious, technologically ground-breaking action thriller…

Comic-Book Movie Preview - Joker

DC is laying down a couple of wild cards and Marvel’s entering an all-new phase. Here’s the lowdown on every upcoming comicbook movie that matters, plus the biggest superhero names hitting the small screen.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

From Kick-Ass and Godzilla to Christopher Nolan’s next movie, British star Aaron Taylor-Johnson is firmly in Hollywood’s crosshairs. But after shepherding searing addiction drama A Million Little Pieces to fruition, he wants more than just a career on screen. Total Film meets the 29-year-old who can’t help getting creative.

Home Invasion

CAPTIVE STATE I How do you get a high-concept alien occupation film made in the era of superheroes? Director Rupert Wyatt reveals all…

Cop Land

DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE I S. Craig Zahler defends his controversial police drama…

Mothers' Slay

THE CURSE OF LA LLORONA I Michael Chaves brings the Mexican boogey(wo)man to the screen…

A Bigger Splash

Director James Wan explains why he’s not taking the standard superhero approach with AQUAMAN…

Jack Black

Comedy god, rock god… audiences have been worshipping at the temple of Jack Black for more than two decades. With a new Tenacious D album and fantasy film The House With A Clock In Its Walls both imminent, Total Film finds out what makes him tick.

Smells Like Teen Spirit DCEU

Being a superhero is child’s play in the riotous SHAZAM! 

High Flier

Glen Powell’s career has gone high-velocity this year with a breakout role in Set It Up. Now he’s getting his need for speed in Top Gun: Maverick and co-starring with Channing Tatum in an action-comedy. Watch his career go sky-high…

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The Shard Way

M. Night Shyamalan returns with GLASS, his Unbreakable/Split crossover sequel…

Analyse This

JOHN KRASINSKI IS JACKRYAN IN A NEW REBOOT FOR THE CIA HERO…

The Lady Vanishes

Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick square up for Paul Feig’s twisty comedy thriller, A SIMPLE FAVOUR, about two friends locked in a deadly game of one-upmanship. Total Film steps in to the ring to meet Feig and his two tussling heavyweights.

Blackkklansman

Making Spike Lee great again…

Dumbo Ears Looking At You, Kid…

Forget, for a moment, that Tim Burton didn’t actually like circuses as a kid – his heart broke for the captive animals, his throat constricted as trapeze artists somersaulted through the air – and this reimagination of Dumbo seems like the perfect fit. No other Hollywood filmmaker of the last four decades has so championed outsiders and celebrated makeshift families. What’s more, it was Burton’s 2010 billion-dollargrossing Alice In Wonderland that kickstarted the current wave of live-action takes on Disney’s cartoon classics.

US Bunny Games…

Us is a horror movie,” tweeted Jordan Peele recently, lest anyone got the wrong idea and started calling it ‘elevated horror’ or some such. Two years after Get Out stirred subtexts into suspense with hypnotic dexterity, Peele’s second feature refreshes and – indeed – reveres the influences of George A. Romero, John Carpenter and Wes Craven in recognising and amplifying horror’s scope for tension and implication. True, it doesn’t quite stick the landing. But it’s a twisted funhouse blast on top, and detailed enough below to reward revisits, preferably alongside its predecessor for maximum echo-chamber intrigue.

Infinity Cirlce

Thanos’ genocidal snap reduced half the world – and the Avengers – to dust in Infinity War. Now, with secrecy at an all-time high, Total Film talks to the creative team on AVENGERS: ENDGAME to find out how to close the loop on an iconic MCU chapter.

Circle Of Life

ROCKETMAN I Dexter Fletcher and Taron Egerton reteam for a flamboyant take on Elton John’s life story…

Shazam! Super-manchild…

The DCEU has always fared better with its solo movies than its team-ups. And so it resoundingly proves with Shazam!, an adaptation of one of its lesser-known characters in a determinedly small and contained standalone. It’s one of the most irresistibly likeable superhero films in ages.

Thelma & Louise's Final Ride

Let’s keep going,” Geena Davis’ Thelma says to Susan Sarandon’s Louise at the end of Ridley Scott’s 1991 genre-bender. And keep going they have. Now a neo-feminist classic, Thelma & Louise’s ballsy, emotional heft is encapsulated in its fearless ending.

Yellow Fever

Pokémon: Detective Pikachu I Ryan Reynolds Gets Cute As The Most Unlikely Star Of The Roger Rabbit-esque Videogame Spin-off…

Hot Fuzz

THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS 

Young Money

CRAZY RICH ASIANS I Jon M. Chu finds the funny in his dazzling comedy debut…

Judgement Day

THE CHILDREN ACT I Richard Eyre and Ian McEwan turn legal eagles…

Rapt Pupil

THE EYES OF ORSON WELLES I Lifelong fan Mark Cousins looks deep into the auteur’s work…

Shrinking Buddies

The buzz is audible. Marvel’s miniature hero returns – and this time he’s got a partner. As Ant-Man And The Wasp gets ready to fly into cinemas, Total Film visits the set to talk with the cast and crew about putting the laughs back into the MCU.

Planet Of The Capes

MEET THE GRANDDAD OF STEEL IN NEW DC SHOW KRYPTON...

Friends From Work

Marvel co-stars Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson bring their banter to a new spin-off of the MEN IN BLACK franchise. Total Film goes on set to play third wheel and discover that this could be the first of many buddy movies…

Destination Wedding

Haughty behaviour…

Batman Quadrilogy

All-Knighter…