Total Film - October 2024

In this issue

THE PENGUIN - Colin Farrell, Matt Reeves and co. track Oz Cobb’s violent rise to the top of the underworld. P-p-ppick up this Penguin.

ANORA - Sean Baker’s on-the-money Palme d’Or winner about a Brooklyn sex worker marrying a Russian oligarch.

RETURN TO OZ

WICKED Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande defy gravity as the Broadway smash reaches cinemas.

4 mins

Grin and Bear it - SMILE 2 Trauma-horror sequel sees the curse latch onto a pop superstar...

Parker Finn's debut horror feature Smile was originally destined for a streaming release. No one - not even the writer/director himself - expected that a late change to theatrical would create a hit horror sensation that made almost 13 times its budget at the box office. Given those figures, the swift greenlighting of a sequel came as less of a shock. But Finn didn't want to make a second movie just for the sake of it.

2 mins

Bad Romance - Timestalker Alice Lowe falls in love with the wrong man time and time again...

Her antidote to that? Timestalker a dark not-quite-romcom set over the course of centuries. Her protagonist Agnes finds herself attracted to the same man, Alex (Dunkirk's Aneurin Barnard), in every lifetime as she's reincarnated in the 1680s, 1790s, 1980s and the 22nd century. As romantic as that may sound, there's a bit of a catch: 'He's sort of a dickhead. On the surface he's appealing, but under, he's not.'

2 mins

CLOWNING GORY

TERRIFIER 3 Creator Damien Leone says Art the Clown is coming home for Christmas...

2 mins

Self Expression - Layla a non-binary, British-Palestinian drag queen navigates their expression of identity.

Rising star Bilal Hasna delivers a show-stopping turn as Layla, who we first meet in drag and on their way to a performance. Layla initially seems comfortable with their queer, trans identity, but all that changes when they fall in love with Max (Louis Greatorex). We see Layla acting differently whether they are with Max, their friendship group and their conservative parents as they struggle, notes Al-Kadhi, to 'negotiate which bit of themselves to show different people in their lives'.

2 mins

Tip of the Iceberg - Tracing Oz Cobb's spectacularly violent rise to power from the iceberg lounge owner to Gotham's kingpin,

Tracing Oz Cobb's spectacularly violent rise to power from the iceberg lounge owner to Gotham's kingpin, HBO's prestige show the Penguin knits together the Batman and the pipelined the Batman part ii. Total Film huddles with executive producer matt reeves, star Colin Farrell, showrunner Lauren Lefranc and more to explore Gotham's darkest - and deepest - chapter yet.

10+ mins

POLE POSITION

Winner of this year's prestigious Palme d'Or in Cannes, Sean Baker's Anora is a loud and lewd love story gone awry, as a Brooklyn pole dancer discovers her Prince Charming is a frog. Total Film meets the writer/director and his team to talk dreams, screams and extremes.

6 mins

REAL STEEL

HE MADE THE WORLD BELIEVE A MAN COULD FLY, BUT NEW DOC SUPER/MAN: THE CHRISTOPHER REEVE STORY REVEALS THE HERO BENEATH THE CAPE. TOTAL FILM MEETS THE TEAM IMMORTALISING AN ICON.

6 mins

A BUE ABOVE

WORLD-BUILDER EXTRAORDINAIRE RIDLEY SCOTT IS ALSO THE MASTER OF THE DIRECTOR'S CUT, RESTORING HIS MISHANDLED GEMS INTO MASTERPIECES. WITH THE EXPANSIVE DIRECTOR'S CUT OF NAPOLEON NOW AVAILABLE TO STREAM, TOTAL FILM SPEAKS TO THE GREAT SCOTT ABOUT BLOWING UP BONAPARTE HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH EDITING AND WHY BIGGER IS (USUALLY) BETTER.

6 mins

Lucky Man

He broke out in Beatles jukebox musical Yesterday and has a varied slate of juicy projects on the horizon, including a very different take on a superhero franchise. But, as the everhumble Himesh Patel tells Total Film, he puts a lot of it down to luck...

7 mins

BLODD PRESSURE

BASED ON STEPHEN KING'S MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOK AND WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY IT SCRIBE GARY DAUBERMAN, VAMPIRE MOVIE SALEM'S LOT FACED AN UNHOLY FIGHT TO GET TO OUR SCREENS. TOTAL FILM HUNTS DOWN DAUBERMAN AND STARS LEWIS PULLMAN AND MAKENZIE LEIGH TO LEARN ALL THAT WAS AT STAKE...

6 mins

'NOW NOTHING IS ABOUT LOOKS OR ABOUT BEING A LEADING LADY.AND IT'S VERY LIBERATING' EMILY WATSON

Since breaking hearts in Breaking the Waves, Emily Watson has delivered countless screen masterclasses, from Gosford Park and Punch-Drunk Love to Apple Tree Yard. Now, the English star goes toe-to-toe with Cilllan Murohy in Irish drama Smeal/ Things like hese and fronts 1V prequel Dune: Prophecy. Is it her second coming? It's elementary, my dear Watson...

10+ mins

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