CATEGORIES
GAME NIGHT
Level up the fun this Christmas...
REMEMBER ME
THE TOURIST S2 Jamie Dornan returns for a second series of memory-addled mayhem...
STREET FIGHTER
ECHO Marvel Studios' new television series starring Alaqua Cox packs a powerful punch.
FLOODS OF TEARS
THE END WE START FROM Eco-crisis meets maternal strength in Jodie Comer's latest.
THE OUTSIDERS
EXPATS Lulu Wang follows up The Farewell with a thorny drama about Americans abroad.
VIOLET DELIGHT
Alice Walker's classic novel gets a joyous cinematic remix.
RETURN FLIGHT
THE BOY AND THE HERON Animation legend Hayao Miyazaki finally takes wing once more...
HOT RIGHT NOW
There is such a thing as a meteoric rise, and then there is Ayo Edebiri’s 2023, which feels carefully designed as a scientific experiment to test the possibility of omnipresence.
FALSE IDOLS
THE BOOK OF CLARENCE The Messiah is reimagined and ripped off in Jeymes Samuel's audacious new Bible story.
'When you've not come through the education system of film, you have an imposter syndrome' - shane meadows
Self-doubts begone – with work like TwentyFourSeven, This is England and The Virtues, Shane Meadows is one of the finest British directors working today. So to mark the rerelease of his 2004 drama Dead Man’s Shoes, Total Film sits down with Meadows to discuss how his troubled youth infuses the personal and political nature of his work, and how he’s now entering a new chapter. ‘A full stop got put on something,’ he says.
RESIDENTS EVIL
R.M.N. Cristian Mungiu gives his home country Romania a cinematic brain scan...
CAN WE TALK ABOUT? - BARBENHEIMER
THE DOUBLE BILL THAT MIGHT JUST SAVE CINEMA.
NEXT BIG THING
WOODY NORMAN IS SAILING TO SUCCESS
LAST ORDERS
THE OLD OAK Ken Loach's final film - the tale of a Syrian refugee's bond with a pub landlord...
GUITAR HEROES
FLORA AND SON John Carney scores another low-key hit as a single mum learns the guitar...
CHRIS ALMIGHTY
THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER David Gordon Green gets original star Ellen Burstyn to take a leap of faith...
JANE BIRKIN
From Gallic songs to Euro-cinema, activism to fashion, Jane Birkin brought style, daring and charm to all she did. The French Ministry of Culture called her a ‘timeless Francophone icon’, Emmanuel Macron a ‘complete artist’. When Birkin died aged 76 on 16 July 2023, stars from Brigitte Bardot to Iggy Pop paid reverential tribute: testimonies all to the cross-Channel multi-hyphenates multi-stranded talents.
OPPENHEIMER
Fission quest...
BARBIE
All Mattel breaks loose...
GRAN TURISMO
Wheel-life drama...
PAST LIVES
Childhood (bitter)sweethearts...
GAME OF PHONES
In the early 2000s, one smartphone dominated the market as high-flying executives craved instant communication. But as new movie BlackBerry shows, the creators flew too close to the sun. Total Film meets director Matt Johnson and his cast to talk gadgets, gangsters and Gordon Gekko.
MACHO LIBRE
The ultimate underdog tale, Cassandro tells the story of the real-life Mexican wrestler who both dominated the ring and changed attitudes towards homosexuality. Total Film meets director Roger Ross Williams and star Gael García Bernal to pay homage to one of the Spanish-speaking world's most iconic athletes.
ACT OF CREATION
WHILE TEAMING UP ON THE FAVOURITE, STAR EMMA STONE AND DIRECTOR YORGOS LANTHIMOS FORGED AN ELECTRIC CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP THAT SHOWS NO SIGNS OF SLOWING DOWN. WITH ECCENTRIC FEMINIST FRANKENSTEIN FABLE POOR THINGS UP NEXT, THE DUO TALK TO TOTAL FILM ABOUT THEIR 'ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME CONNECTION'.
LOVE MATCH
Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist play tennis and wicked games in Challengers, Luca Guadagnino's sensual study of fierce friendship, competition and messy love triangles. Total Film sits down with the three champs as they serve up on sex scenes, tennis camp and Ratatouille.
YOU TALKIN' TO ME?
FILM QUOTES POSE AS QUESTIONS. FILM STARS TRY TO COPE.
HOT RIGHT NOW
FRAN DRESCHER IS SENDING OUT A WAKE-UP CALL...
BEYOND OUR KEN
A HAUNTING IN VENICE The 'tec with the 'tash grapples with the ghostly in Kenneth Branagh's third Poirot outing.
THE POWER OF THREE
A triple threat of the MCU’s most powerful women unite in The Marvels. Total Film meets the filmmakers to find out how Carol Danvers, Monica Rambeau, and Kamala Khan will contend with a formidable new foe, unexpected power-swaps and flerkens galore.
A Bug's Life
Blue Beetle Director Angel Manuel Soto burrows into the DCU.