Total Film - August 2023

In this issue

HARRIS DICKINSON
The rising star of Brit indie drama Scrapper on big films, small films and those Bond rumours.

ZACH GALIFIANAKIS
Reveals his biggest fears, his drink of choice and whether he has pants on.

MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Alistair McGowan leaves quite an impression in this analytical Hitch-doc..

HOT RIGHT NOW

DAVID CORENSWET AND RACHEL BROSNAHAN ARE READY TO GO UP, UP AND AWAY…

2 mins

SPINNING OUT

COBWEB Director Samuel Bodin peers into the dark worlds of Poe, Kubrick and Argento…

2 mins

BAD HABIT

THE NUN II Sister Irene is back. And so is demon Valak. Director Michael Chaves conjures pure terror in 50s France…

2 mins

SUPER TROUPERS

THEATER CAMP Kooky teachers try to save a youth programme in this mockumentary…

2 mins

KID AI

Rogue One director Gareth Edwards returns with The Creator, an original IP blockbuster in which a future war rages between humans and AI. Edwards and star John David Washington tell Total Film how this huge spectacle was shot guerrilla-style, and concentrates on characters, emotions and ideas as much as large-scale action

10+ mins

INTELLIGENT DESIGN

WITH THE CREATOR ARR IV ING JUST AS THE CONVERSATION AROUND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BECOMES MORE FEVERED THAN EVER, TOTAL FILM TALKS TO EXPERTS TO FIND OUT JUST HOW REALISTIC ON-SCREEN SCI-FI IS. SHOULD WE BE WORRIED ABOUT SKYNET YET?

10+ mins

SUPER BUG

IN A CHANGING DC UNIVERSE, A NEW CHARACTER WITH TONS OF INSECT APPEAL IS ABOUT TO MAKE HIS DEBUT. TOTAL FILM  GETS THE SCOOP FROM THE TEAM BEHIND BLUE BEETLE, THE FIRST STANDALONE SUPERHERO MOVIE WITH A LATINO LEAD, AS THEY PREPARE TO DROP A BUG IN THE SYSTEM

9 mins

Fighting talk

At 27, Harris Dickinson has already carved out an enviable career, from blockbuster The King’s Man to arthouse award-winner Triangle of Sadness. With his new film Scrapper continuing his love affair with British cinema, Total Film lucks out and meets the charismatic, chameleonic Londoner

6 mins

GameStop Changer

It was a David v Goliath story that made headlines when a bunch of extremely online investors took on Wall Street in the GameStop short squeeze that had far reaching (and infuriating) consequences. Director Craig Gillespie and stars Paul Dano and Shailene Woodley tell Total Film about turning this unlikely subject matter into a propulsive talking-point movie

6 mins

Life's CAROUSEL

Separated for two dozen years, childhood sweethearts are reunited as adults in Celine Song’s devastating debut Past Lives. With the film drawing raves and looking like a potential awards-season favourite, Total Film meets Song and her cast to talk about romance and realism

7 mins

TALK TO ME

The hand that shocks...

3 mins

JOY RIDE

Great trawl of China...

2 mins

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE

Mission accomplished. Mostly...

3 mins

CLASSIC TV QUATERMASS

An experiment in small-screen terror...

2 mins

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