SEX EDUCATION

FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE Jesse Eisenberg speed-shags his way across New York.

HIDDEN LIFE

BLUE JEAN Georgia Oakley’s debut tackles a grim piece of recent British history…

ASSASSIN'S NEED

THE HANGING SUN A hitman has a crisis of conscience in Jo Nesbø’s Nordic noir…

TRUE CRIME

SAINT OMER Alice Diop's stunning drama tackles motherhood's greatest taboo...

TEAM PLAYERS

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Game Night’s directing duo put the fun back into fantasy…

OUT OF THE PAST

THE STRAYS A woman’s secret history surfaces to splinter her present in an accomplished debut thriller…

HOT RIGHT NOW

SCARLETT JOHANSSON IS ON THE CASE...

LIFE ON FILM

THE FABELMANS How Steven Spielberg brought his cine-memoir to the screen.

Lily-Rose Depp – Hot Right Now

Lily-Rose Depp is sinking her teeth into the good stuff…

'dunit again

After the unexpectedly huge success of Knives Out, Benoit Blane is back on another case. Total Film meets writer/ director Rian Johnson, returning star Daniel Craig and a new line-up of potential suspects/victims for clues on how to crack the murder mystery follow-up.

Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio

Accept nose substitutes…

No strings attached – Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

The filmmaking team on giving life to the classic fable and creating poetry in stop-motion.

Angela Lansbury 1925-2022

From Cukor to criminology, Broadway to broomsticks, Mame to Mrs. Potts, Angela Lansbury brought a stamp of effortlessly adaptable quality to her work across film, theatre and TV.

Avatar – A Bigger Splash

The long-awaited sequel to the highest-grossing film of all time and the opening chapter in a fully conceived four-film saga, Avatar: The Way Of Water is a 13-years-in-the-making return trip to cinema's most immersive world. Total Film plunges back into Pandora with James Cameron, the film's cast and its crew to uncover the bigger, bolder, even bluer sequel.

Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Awarded four Oscars for Birdman and The Revenant, Alejandro González Iñárritu is at the top of the Hollywood food chain. So what does he do? Make the most personal - and divisive - film of his career: Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths. Total Film meets the Mexican rule-breaker who wants to change the boundaries of cinema.

ROBBIE COLTRANE

Born Anthony Robert McMillan in the Glaswegian suburb of Rutherglen, Robbie Coltrane’s career took in Bond movies, Cracker and the Harry Potter series before he died last month at the age of 72.

THE WONDER

Fast friends...

AFTERSUN 12A Halcyon daze...

OUT 18 NOVEMBER CINEMAS

TOXIC SHOCK

FROM HITLER ACADEMICS TO MEDICATED MUMS, WHITE NOISE IS AN EPIC SATIRE ON AMERICA. ADAPTING DON DELILLO'S UNFILMABLE' NOVEL, IT'S ALSO DIRECTOR NOAH BAUMBACH'S MOST AMBITIOUS MOVIE YET. TOTAL FILM MEETS HIM AND HIS CAST TO DISCUSS DEATH, DRUGS, AND DANCING.

HUNGER GAMES

Florence Pugh continues her patriarchy-smashing form with pertinent period drama THE WONDER. She and her filmmaking team tell Total Film how a Victorian tale of fasting and fables reflects the conflicts of a modern audience.

PASSION PROJECT

Nearly a century after Chatterley's Lover first made readers clutch their pearls, a new adaptation promises to sizzle with as much sexual politics as sauce.

RED ALERT

AFTER ESCAPING RUSSIAN PRISONS AS RED GUARDIAN IN BLACK WIDOW AND BATTLING THE UPSIDE DOWN AS CHIEF JIM HOPPER IN STRANGER THINGS, DAVID HARBOUR IS NOW SUITED AND BOOTED AS SANTA CLAUS IN COMEDY ACTION-THRILLER VIOLENT NIGHT. TOTAL FILM TALKS TO THE STAR WHOSE HALTING CAREER BECAME ALL GREEN LIGHTS WHEN HE STARTED SEEING RED IN HIS FORTIES...

QUEST IN SHOW

Thirty-four years after the original movie, the dry spell finally ends with Willow, an eight-part continuation on Disney+.Warwick Davis and his fellow adventureThirty-four years after the original movie, the dry spell finally ends with Willow, an eight-part continuation on Disney+.Warwick Davis and his fellow adventurers reveal why it's time for a new kind of magic...rs reveal why it's time for a new kind of magic...

THE HERO

MARK RYLANCE THE STAGE AND SCREEN THESP TALKS METHOD AND MITCHUM

BAD ROBOT

CHRISTMAS BLOODY CHRISTMAS Grindhouse guru Joe Begos gifts viewers a crazed robo-Santa swinging a bloody great axe...

IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN TO A FILM JOURNALIST

Editor-at-Large JAMIE GRAHAM lifts the lid on film journalism.

MIND GAMES

NOCEBO Vivarium director Lorcan Finnegan is back noodling noggins…

FOOL FOR LOVE

MAMMALS James Corden makes a dramatic comeback for a TV comedy of crisis and romance.

BETWEEN TAKES

GUY PEARCE THE STAR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDS ON ROUTINE AND MEMENTOS

STRAIGHT SHOOTER

COPENHAGEN COWBOY Nicolas Winding Refn rides in for the strangest horse opera…