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Sun Sea AND Secrets

Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley and Dakota Johnson star in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s searing directorial debut, which explores the lesser-told story of motherhood when a beach holiday takes a dark turn. The trio tell Total Film how mutual admiration and Mai Tais helped make The Lost Daughter an awards contender.

CELEBRATING CINEMA'S GREATEST WORLD-BUILDER: RIDLEY SCOTT

Across a 45-year big-screen career, Ridley Scott has proved himself a visualist without equal. With House Of Gucci releasing in cinemas soon, Total Film catches up with a filmmaker who’s seen things you wouldn’t believe.

FIGHT OF FANTASY

After its hit first season, fantasy series The Witcher and ‘grumpy snowman’ Geralt of Rivia return for some more magic and moody monster-slaying. As the franchise expands, Total Film gets enchanted by star Henry Cavill and the team.

HUMAN RESOURCES

HAWKEYE You don’t need superpowers to make a high-impact TV series…

THIRD-PERSON SUITOR

CYRANO Joe Wright and Peter Dinklage make a song and dance about de Bergerac…

Ghostbusters – Spiritual Reawakening

The ’busters are back in long-awaited legacy sequel Ghostbusters: Afterlife, a film that’s keeping it in the family both on and off screen. Jason Reitman and the next generation of spook-catchers answer Total Film’s call and reveal how their radical new take is keeping the spirit of a comedy classic alive.

Kenneth Branagh

Actor, director, writer and Knight Bachelor Kenneth Branagh has been telling stories on stage and screen for four decades. His latest project, the autobiographical Belfast, is his most personal yet, and – as he tells Total Film – makes him marvel at how far he has come from movie-mad Duncairn kid to Hollywood dream maker…

Dirty harry

LALO SCHIFRIN/ADA GLOBAL

Live and let bye

NOBODY’S HAD A BETTER SEND-OFF…

RIDE WITH THE DEVIL

JANE CAMPION RETURNS WITH HER FIRST MOVIE IN 12 YEARS, THE POWER OF THE DOG, A HEART-WRENCHING – AND POTENTIALLY OSCAR-WINNING – 1920S TALE OF SIBLING RIVALRY. JOINING HER AND THE CAST, TOTAL FILM SADDLES UP TO TALK RANCHING, RAGE AND REPRESSION.

A GRADE

AFTER KEEPING A LOW PROFILE FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS, ALICIA VIKANDER IS BACK IN A BIG WAY. THE SWEDISH OSCAR WINNER TELLS TOTAL FILM ABOUT TAPPING INTO HER WORKING-CLASS ROOTS FOR DEPORTATION DRAMA BLUE BAYOU, AND HER HOPES FOR THE UPCOMING TOMB RAIDER SEQUEL.

HOT SHOTS

AS JIM ABRAHAMS’ SLAPSTICK CLASSIC TURNS 30 – AND BEFORE TOP GUN TAKES TO THE SKY AGAIN SOON – BUFF JUMPS INTO THE COCKPIT AND FLIES BACK TO 1991 TO FIND OUT HOW TOPPER HARLEY RESTORED THE AIRPLANE! DIRECTOR’S CONFIDENCE…

HIGH STAKES

Following his first-ever Oscar nomination for First Reformed, Paul Schrader returns with The Card Counter, casting Oscar Isaac as a pro gambler with a dark, military past. Total Film puts all its chips on a chat with the director and his cast.

Myers' market

RE-PAINTING THE TOWN RED…

RISE UP

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA CONQUERED THE WORLD WITH MUSICAL PHENOMENON HAMILTON, AND NOW HE’S STEPPING UP TO ADD MOVIE DIRECTOR TO HIS LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS. TOTAL FILM MEETS THE MULTI-AWARD-WINNING MULTI-HYPHENATE TO FIND OUT WHY HE STILL RELATES TO THE STORY OF A STRUGGLING SONGWRITER IN HIS SURPRISINGLY PERSONAL ADAPTATION OF STAGE SHOW TICK, TICK…BOOM!

Michael Winterbottom On Why The UK Isn't Making More Indie Films

Michael Winterbottom is one of Britain’s most prolific film directors, but in his new book he lifts the lid on why it’s so hard to get films made in the UK. Having used the first covid lockdown to interview a who’s who of the country’s auteurs, winterbottom tells total film why the industry often fails to nurture its most promising talent.

ANDREW GARFIELD

He has worked with titans like Fincher and Scorsese, and played Spider-Man. Yet nothing in Andrew Garfield’s remarkable career so far can prepare us for the range of talent displayed in three upcoming movies: Mainstream, tick, tick…BOOM! and The Eyes Of Tammy Faye…

ROMEO + JULIET

Back in October 1996, Baz Luhrmann presented his latest film to journalists – an audacious, modern take on Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. Filmed in Mexico during extreme weather (and with crew kidnappings!), it starred 22-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio and a teenage Claire Danes as the titular star-crossed lovers, and had yet to be seen, let alone embraced, by audiences. As it celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, Total Film looks back to the eve of its premiere (just as DiCaprio began work on Titanic) when the trio discussed language, love and lots of water...

GANGSTER'S PARADIGM

With prequel movie The Many Saints Of Newark about to hit cinemas, Total Film pays respect to modern TV classic THE SOPRANOS, and how a hit show changed the mob genre, long-form storytelling and audience expectations forever.

THE BITE STUFF

DRACULA has been terrifying readers ever since Bram Stoker first created the ultimate vampire. As Bela Lugosi’s screen turn as the bloodsucker celebrates its 90th birthday, Total Film examines the appeal of one of horror’s most enduring icons.

Riding High

THE HARDER THEY FALL. Jeymes Samuel spotlights the forgotten faces of the American West…

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

Two young women with big dreams discover that London can be the stuff of nightmares in Edgar Wright’s disturbing, dazzling Last Night In Soho. Total Film cowers on set as Wright terrorises Thomasin McKenzie and Anya Taylor-Joy in the horror event of the year.

FINE PRINT

SET AROUND A FICTIONAL MAGAZINE, WES ANDERSON’S COMIC ANTHOLOGY THE FRENCH DISPATCH IS A TRIBUTE TO BOTH A BYGONE ERA AND THE WRITTEN WORD. TOTAL FILM LISTENS UP AS THE CAST AND CREW GIVE THE LOW-DOWN ON THE DIRECTOR’S MOST AMBITIOUS MOVIE YET.

MAJORS' LEAGUE

AFTER CONSISTENTLY IMPRESSING IN POWERHOUSE DRAMAS, JONATHAN MAJORS IS GEARING UP FOR WORLD DOMINATION IN THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE AND CREED III. AHEAD OF THE RELEASE OF REVISIONIST WESTERN THE HARDER THEY FALL, TOTAL FILM MEETS THE EFFORTLESS CHARISMATIC MEGASTAR-IN-WAITING.

10 IMMORTAL HEROES 7,000 YEARS ONE OSCAR WINNING DIRECTOR MARVEL'S BOLDEST MOVIE YET

THE NEXT MOVIE IN MARVEL’S PHASE 4, ETERNALS IS SET TO BE MARVEL’S BIGGEST S W I N G Y E T . COMBINING MILLENNIA-SPANNING SWEEP WITH INDIE SENSIBILITIES AND ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING ENSEMBLES YET ASSEMBLED FOR A SUPERHERO FILM, CHLOÉ ZHAO’S SUPER-FAMILY EPIC COULD CHANGE THE COMIC-BOOK MOVIE LANDSCAPE FOREVER.

CREATIVE SPARKS

ANNETTE I The American pop duo meet French auteur Leos Carax for a movie musical like no other…

MICHAELA COEL

IS HEADING TO WAKANDA…

OR IS MARGE GUNDERSON THE COEN BROS' GREATEST CHARACTER?

IS IT JUST ME…

FLOP CULTURE - SPEED RACER

With their “live-action anime”, the Wachowskis hurtled off-road. Did it spend too much time grinding its gears for a kids’ movie?

Robin Hood - PRINCE OF THIEVES

Buff looks back at how one American Kevin teamed up with another to give Nottingham’s legendary outlaw a new lease of life in Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves. But it wasn’t all plain sailing: production problems, casting issues and on-set difficulties proving almost as dastardly as the scene-stealing Sheriff…