5 THINGS ELF DEFENCE

THE WITCHER: BLOOD ORIGIN A prequel series that dives into the history of the Continent.

CAN WE TALK ABOUT?

LOSING INDEPENDENT CINEMAS CMI’S COLLAPSE SIGNALS A STARK FUTURE FOR UK INDEPENDENT EXHIBITION.

NEXT BIG THING

JALYN HALL HAS A DREAM...

MURDER MYSTERY

LITVINENKO George Kay takes us inside the perilous world of his new crime series...

ROYAL PEDIGREE

CORSAGE Vicky Krieps shines in Marie Kreutzer’s mischievous portrait of an Austrian empress desperate to escape her gilded cage.

CLOSE TO HOME

REBEL Batgirl directing duo Adil & Billal bounce back with a wartime musical tragedy.

EXCLUSIVE DREAM PALACE

EMPIRE OF LIGHT Sam Mendes takes on movies, mental health, and the mighty Margate…

THE STATE OF THE UNION

THE PEOPLE WE HATE AT THE WEDDING Anglo-American family nuptials go comically pear-shaped.

FAMILY VALUES

WEDNESDAY Tim Burton's TV debut explores the turbulent school days of a teenage proto-goth.

Spielberg on E.T.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of E .T. The Extra -Terrestrial, we raid our Hol lywood archives for this candid and personal interview with Steven Spielberg from the ’80s.

OLIVIA WILDE

‘YOU BETTER BE MAKING STUFF YOU REALLY WANT TO MAKE, AND NOT JUST STUFF THAT FEELS EASY’

COLLECTIVE MEMORY

After recent events in the US Supreme Court, with women’s reproductive rights curtailed, 1960s abortion drama CALL JANE has taken on an unsettling new resonance. Total Film talks with director Phyllis Nagy and her cast about one of the year’s most vital works.

DEBT TRAP

Aubrey Plaza shows off her dramatic chops in the titular role in John Patton Ford's nail-biting thriller, Emily The Criminal. Total Film meets the team behind one of the year's most compelling and stressful thrillers.

IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES

After the extremes of his earlier work, South Korea’s Park Chan-wook reins it all in to conjure one of the great films of his career: the beguiling DECISION TO LEAVE. But is it a film noir, a romantic drama or something even more cryptic? Total Film joins him to search for a decisive answer.

Educating Emma

She exploded onto the scene with Sex Education, and is breaking the biopic mould as the middle Brontë sister in EMILY, but Emma Mackey is still hungry for new experiences. Here, she tells Total Film about life lessons, Barbie, and what she's learned from working with Margot Robbie.

Pride and Prejudice

The Judd Apatow-produced BROS is the first gay romantic comedy by a major studio. It’s important and funny AF – the best romcom for years. Total Film talks to writer star Billy Eichner, co-star Luke Macfarlane and director Nicholas Stoller about bantz, butt-pics and making big-time history.

THE 25 GREATEST MOVIE ENDINGS EVER

As the Halloween series draws to a close, Total Film looks back at the finest conclusions in cinema history… Spoilers guaranteed.

Dead End

After 44 years, the blood feud between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers is coming to a killer conclusion in Halloween Ends , the “passionate” and “unexpected” climax to David Gordon Green’s latterday slasher trilogy. Ultimate final girl Jamie Lee Curtis and the ’ween team reveal the story behind a grudge match decades in the making.

SICKENINGLY RICH

TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Ruben Östlund’s queasy Cannes-winner turns on the one per cent…

BETWEEN TAKES ALAN CUMMING

THE MY OLD SCHOOL STAR ON LIP-SYNCING AND STOLEN SOFAS…

IN THE HEIGHTS

FALL Scott Mann’s vertigo-inducing thriller will flip your stomach upside down…

CAN WE TALK ABOUT? GORDY THE CHIMP

IS NOPE’S PREDATORY PRIMATE AN EXTRANEOUS SUBPLOT, OR SOMETHING DEEPER?

EATING DISORDER

FLUX GOURMET Peter Strickland’s tale of a culinary collective deserves a Michelin star…

LOOKING FOR RICHARD

THE LOST KING Sally Hawkins has a hunch there’s a king buried in a car park in Stephen Frears’ dramatisation of Richard III’s rediscovery.

BELLA RAMSEY IS FLYING HIGH…

NEXT BIG THING

CAPITAL PAIN

GANGS OF LONDON Corin Hardy returns to the mean streets of London for Season 2…

BATTLE ROYAL

Gina Prince-Bythewood follows up The Old Guard by assembling some of the world’s greatest Black actresses, led by Viola Davis and Lashana Lynch, as the mighty 19thcentury African army, the Agojie. Total Film talks to the director and stars of The Woman King about creating a new kind of historical action epic.

GENERATION KILL

JEFF BRIDGES TAKES ON THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE OF HIS CAREER FOR THE OLD MAN – THE LANDMARK CAT-AND-MOUSE THRILLER THAT CAME DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO NEVER HAPPENING. TOTAL FILM MEETS THE DUDE AND THE TEAM BEHIND HIS HITMAN SERIES.

SPECIAL K

After breaking out in comedy Booksmart, Kaitlyn Dever proved her dramatic chops with a run of heartbreaking performances. Now returning to the laughs with TICKET TO PARADISE, she tells Total Film how she wants her roles to reflect real experiences.

ROGUE WARRIOR

ROGUE ONE WAS THE END OF CASSIAN ANDOR’S STORY. NOW IT’S TIME FOR THE BEGINNING, THE MIDDLE AND MUCH MORE WITH THE GRITTY, TWISTY ANDOR ON DISNEY+. THE BAND OF REBELS BEHIND THE NEW MAXISERIES REVEAL WHY IT’S A STAR WARS SAGA LIKE NONE YOU’VE EVER SEEN…