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TO CELEBRATE 30 YEARS OF CHAOS WITH HARLEY QUINN, TOTAL FILM CHARTS THE DC STAR'S QUINTESSENTIAL ORIGINS AND STRATOSPHERIC RISE, WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THE TEAM BEHIND THE MAID OF MISCHIEF.

UPPING THE ANTIHERO

Dwayne Johnson’s journey to bring the ultimate comic-book badass to the big screen has been a long time coming, and as he and his collaborators tell Total Film, BLACK ADAM is just the start of a whole new era in the DCEU…

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.

My Super Ex Girlfriend

After the rock'n'roll rowdiness of Ragnarok, THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER promises another reinvention of all things Asgardian, with Natalie Portman getting in on the action as the hammer-wielding Mighty Thor. But, the team behind the Marvel sequel tell Total Film, amid the raucous humour, guesting Guardians, and game-changing new villain, this is a film about love, actually.

ALIA BHATT IS GOING GLOBAL…

NEXT BIG THING

LOVERS ON THE ROCKS

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

FORREST RENEWAL

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

FIRST WORD - DARK STAR

BLONDE Andrew Dominik is about to drop a bombshell…

WICKED GAMES

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

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LADY GAGA IS READY TO BE CROWNED QUINN…

JAMES CAAN (1940-2022)

The Godfather is primarily borne along by its battery of excellent performances, two of them by Coppola’s ‘regulars’ Robert Duvall and James Caan,” said the Sight And Sound review upon the film’s 1972 release, and it is as Michael Corleone’s older brother Sonny, famously obliterated in a storm of 140 squibs, that the Bronx-born actor will forever be remembered.

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.

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?

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.

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...

TEASERS - DJINN & TONIC

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

GOING ROGUE

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

CRIME TEAM

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

Jenny Agutter – 'One's own life as an actor is often very separate from the way people identify with you.'

National treasure Jenny Agutter has worked on cosy British films, Hollywood sci-fis and Marvel behemoths during her 50-year run. As she revisits her star-making role in The Railway Children Return, she tells Total Film how her career and her sex symbol status were never by design.

Between Takes Adrien Brody

The clean star on self-torture and slap-up lunches.

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AMY ADAMS HAS A FAIRYTALE FUTURE...

TERROR VISION

The suspense is building as Jordan Peele's third movie, Nope, prepares to land in cinemas, dripping dread from every inch of the screen. Total Film looks at how an aspiring puppeteer and comic actor became Hitchcock's heir apparent.

DREAM WORKS

THE SANDMAN Neil Gaiman on the long-awaited adaptation of his groundbreaking comic...

RHINESTONE COWBOY

Filmmaker Baz Luhrmann has created a glitzy genre of his own over three decades, fusing music and images into dazzling big-screen spectaculars. As he debuts opulent biopic Elvis, has he found the ultimate subject for his distinct brand of pop-culture phantasmagoria? And does he dream in diamonds?

SPEED KILLS

Deadpool 2 director David Leitch directs Brad Pitt as an assassin on a hurtling train. Sounds ace to us, but can an old-school, star-powered action-comedy full of famous faces still make a killing at the box office? Total Film fights for answers with Leitch, Pitt and the super-cool cast.

LUCASFILM PREVIEW

Want to get up to speed on all things Star Wars, Indy and Willow? TF's whip-smart roundup from the Star Wars Celebration brings those famously distant galaxies right to your doorstep.

HIT SQUAD

THE GRAY MAN Ryan Gosling's black ops badass is pursued by Chris Evans' sadistic contractor in the Russo brothers' relentless action-thriller.

Ms. Marvel – Fangirl Power

The Marvel Cinematic Universe gets a bright new star in MS. MARVEL, a groundbreaking teen superhero who is as obsessed with the Avengers as the actor who plays her. TOTAL FILM meets the team bringing KAMALA KHAN to embiggen the small screen.

Elvis – American Trilogy

Baz Luhrmann charts Elvis Presley's trajectory through three eras as he stands at the cultural/commercial crossroads of change in America with long-time manager Colonel Tom Parker. The director and his cast tell Total Film how they crafted a Shakespearean tale of "the greatest carnival act" in Elvis... and what Priscilla Presley thinks about it all.

THE LOST JEDI

Two of the biggest names in the Star Wars universe are returning for the latest Disney+ series, Obi-Wan Kenobi. As Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen prepare to draw their lightsabers once more, Total Film meets the stars and director to talk about iconic characters, crises of faith and life beyond Tatooine.