Total Film - August 2022

In this issue

THE SANDMAN
Neil Gaiman’s ‘unfilmable’ comic epic is finally adapted into the Netflix show of your Dreams.

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE
David Cronenberg is bringing icky back, with his Cannes-dividing sci-fi.

TEASERS - DJINN & TONIC

THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING George Miller serves up the anti-Mad Max...

4 mins

HOT RIGHT NOW

LADY GAGA IS READY TO BE CROWNED QUINN…

2 mins

FIRST WORD - DARK STAR

BLONDE Andrew Dominik is about to drop a bombshell…

2 mins

WICKED GAMES

BODIES BODIES BODIES A24’s acclaimed horror takes a sly look at dysfunctional friendship.

2 mins

ALIA BHATT IS GOING GLOBAL…

NEXT BIG THING

1 min

CRIME TEAM

SEE HOW THEY RUN Saoirse Ronan and Sam Rockwell are a pair of 1950s coppers investigating a theatreland murder...

2 mins

LOVERS ON THE ROCKS

BOTH SIDES OF THE BLADE Claire Denis’ latest is not – repeat, not – a love triangle…

2 mins

FORREST RENEWAL

LAAL SINGH CHADDHA - Life is like… a golgappa in the Hindi remake of Forrest Gump.

2 mins

RETURN OF THE RINGS

As the line between movies and TV becomes ever more blurred, along comes small-screen epic THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER. The team behind the most expensive TV show ever made take Total Film on an journey into the outer reaches of Middle-earth, featuring new faces, terrifying Orcs, and Galadriel as you've never seen her before. And this is only the beginning...

10+ mins

GOING ROGUE

ANDOR Digging into the backstory of Diego Luna's Cassian...

2 mins

SHE-HULK

It's not easy being green. Just ask Jennifer Walters, the reluctant hero in Marvel's new legal comedy SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW. Total Film speaks to the show's dream team about feminism, Fleabag and finding the MCU's funny bone.

10 mins

DREAM A LITTLE BIGGER

For 30 years, filmmakers have tried and failed to adapt Neil Gaiman’s revered comic THE SANDMAN. As the long-awaited Netflix adaptation launches, Total Film speaks to Gaiman, showrunner Allan Heinberg and the stars to ask: is this the stuff of fans’ dreams?

9 mins

JUST DESERTS

Writer/director John Michael McDonagh turns his misanthropic lens on wealthy westerners forced into atonement for their fatal nonchalance amid Morocco’s sand dunes in The Forgiven. McDonagh and his stars, Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain, tell Total Film why we’re still fascinated by cinema’s terrible people.

7 mins

Antonio Banderas - I Don't Want to Continue Playing Characters Like I'm 30… I'm Not Afraid of Showing Myself Older.

From '80s Almodóvar to Hollywood swashbuckling, Antonio Banderas’ early career was the perfect template for a European actor wishing to make it in LA. But as he returns to Spain for wicked film satire Official Competition, it’s his own third act that is proving indelible. He joins Total Film to talk acting, awards and ageing.

10+ mins

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