A Bug's Life

Blue Beetle Director Angel Manuel Soto burrows into the DCU.

SUPER TROUPERS

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

BAD HABIT

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

SPINNING OUT

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

HOT RIGHT NOW

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

ALAN ARKIN

Alan Arkin enjoyed such success in his later years playing cantankerous curmudgeons, you could be forgiven for assuming that was all he was capable of. Yet while parts such as the coarse-tongued grandad Edwin Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine and Argo’s tough-talking producer Lester Siegel fit him like a glove, earning him an Oscar in the first instance and an Oscar nomination in the second, he was in truth a far more versatile talent, as capable of projecting sinister menace and comedic desperation as he was at dispensing worldly wisdom or conveying world-weary resignation

CLASSIC TV QUATERMASS

An experiment in small-screen terror...

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE

Mission accomplished. Mostly...

JOY RIDE

Great trawl of China...

TALK TO ME

The hand that shocks...

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

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

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

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

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?

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

'One thing I can say about all these movies... They've all been like an adventure.'-Jason Schwartzman

He may belong to one of cinema's greatest filmmaking dynasties, but Jason Schwartzman has found his niche in iconic US indies like Rushmore, I Heart Huckabees and Marie Antoinette. As the actor reunites with his beloved Wes Anderson for Asteroid City, Total Film meets him to talk Converse, Coppolas and careers.....

G Force

Gal Gadot proved female-led blockbusters could make money and win hearts with Wonder Woman. Now she's driving a potential new spy franchise with Heart of Stone, which puts kick-ass women and stunts front and centre. Can she repeat the trick?

THE FLASH 12A

Can The Flash outpace its problems? After long delays, the Scarlet Speedster arrives laden with off-screen controversies at a time when the DCEU, multiverses (Spidey aside) and superhero movies seem to be losing some traction.

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE PG

Worlds-wide web...

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TEARS OF THE KINGDOM

One game to Hyrule them all..

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE

Danny Elfman had his work cut out when he accepted his Mission. Sure, he arrived with one clear steer: he knew what not  to do, given that his predecessor Alan Silvestri’s score for the 1996 film had been rejected.

VIDEODROME'S ORGANIC TV

I felt kind of stupid when I was doing it,’ said star James Woods of the scenes where Max Renn, the protagonist of Videodrome, gets up close and personal with his TeleRANGER TV screen.

CLASSIC TV HEROES

Save the cheerleader, save the world...

ASTEROID CITY 12A

Once upon a time in the Wes...

RETURN OF THE EX-JEDI

The Star Wars galaxy continues to expand on the small screen with AHSOKA. Rosario Dawson tells Total Film about her former Jedi's standalone journey, which features familiar faces, dangerous enemies and plenty of lightsaber action.

ACHIEVING THE IMPOSSIBLE

An elite team, comprising people with their own unique set of skills, guided by a charismatic leader on a quest of seemingly insurmountable odds... Sound familiar? Total Film meets the key creative powerhouses crafting Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One into a tour de force of tension and suspense.

25 GREATEST STUNTS

With Gal Gadot, Tom Cruise, Rosario Dawson, Chris Hemsworth and more putting life and limb in great danger and pushing fight scenes to the limit in high-octane entertainment this summer, Total Film hails the most cunning stunts of all time.

AIDE MEMOIRE

PARIS MEMORIES A terrorist attack survivor tries to move on in a drama based on real events.

HOME ALONE

SCRAPPER Charlotte Regan's debut feature has plenty of fighting spirit...