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Madeline's Madeline

Performance art…

Sunset

O brother, where art thou…

Life and Limb

A childhood story that features grief, darkness and Liam Nesson as a hulking tree, A Monstor Calls is not your average family film. Total Film ventures on set of the fantasy tearjerker...

Angelina Jolie - Reflective State

Ten years on from Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Angelina Jolie again stars with – and this time directs – Brad Pitt. She tells Total Film why marital-drama By The Sea is her most personal and exposing film… 

The Danish Girl: Woman on the Verge

Triumph-over-adversary true story. Transformative turn from Eddie Redmayne. Last year’s Oscar winner might just drive The Danish Girl from troubled inception to awards glory...

Will Leo Finally Win An Oscar With The Revenant?

More injuries. Lower quality of play. Fewer dunks, for crying out loud! Slogging through 82 games is anything but faaaantastic.

Captain America Civil War: Are You Ready to Rumble?

Pick a side...Captain America and Iron Man are going head-to-head in a superhero-stuffed face-off that could change the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we know it. Just don't go calling it Avengers 2.5.

The Big League

Justice League | dc’s supers assemble in the make or break team-up movie.

Rage Against The Machine

More than 20 years after the epochal anime influenced a generation of American filmmakers, Ghost In the shell is back to teach modern Hollywood a thing or two about dark, adult cyberpunk. Total Film meets Scarlett Johansson and director Rupert Sanders to discuss philosophy, casting controversies and an uncompromising reimagining of a genre classic.

Making Of Ape-Ocalypse Now

A Vietnam War movie with a 100ft gorilla? Total Film sits down with stars Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson, and director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, to discover the crazed vision that is Kong: Skull Island…

On The Road Again

SUPER TROOPERS 2 I Broken Lizard’s cult comedy gets a crowdfunded sequel…

Nocturnal Affairs

NIGHTSHOOTERS I Colin director Marc Price follows up his £45 zombie movie with a thrifty martial arts epic…

Interior Life

BERLIN SYNDROME I An abduction thriller that dares to break free of genre conventions…

Lean And Mean

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES Matt Reeves channels David Lean for the latest entry in the simian saga.

All Dolled Up

ANNABELLE: CREATION  Lights Out director reanimates the Conjuring spin-off…

Different Strokes

Featuring an artist you’ve probably never heard of and the kind of relationship that’s rarely depicted on the big screen, why is intimate biopic Maudie one of the most affecting films you’ll see this year? Total Film talks to Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke about a quietly revolutionary drama that’s looking like an early awards favourite.

Cold Case

Jane Campion on Top of the Lake’s Relocated Return…

Ice Rage

Seven things you need to know about Game of thrones season 7…

Squeals On wheels

The Hitman’s Bodyguard | Reynolds. Jackson. Wtf?!

Josh Brolin

TAKING OVER THE (MARVEL) UNIVERSE…

Smooth Criminals

Edgar Wright rounds up one of the year’s coolest casts for a heist movie set to music. TF unplugs its iPod to talk to the director plus stars Ansel Elgort, Lily James and Jon Hamm about pulling off scores to a score.

When Irish Eyes Are Smiling

After a meteoric rise then crash, followed by a recovery to mediocracy, Colin Farrell is on fire again – intriguing in The Lobster, crowdpleasing in Fantastic Beasts and with an upcoming slate of edgy-cool projects that demand attention. With Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled up next, the Dubliner reflects on the importance of happiness on and off screen.

Pulpit Fiction

BEHIND THE SCENES OF PREACHER SEASON 2…

Singles

Various / Sony/ Legacy

Sister Act

Melissa Mccarthy Plays A Fortysomething Mum Who’s Reborn To Be Wild When She Goes Back To College In Life Of The Party. Total Film Parties On Set As The Comedy Queen Reverses The Age-old Trend Of Guys Sleeping With Women Half Their Age…

Self-Love, Actually

Amy Schumer turns the body-swap movie – and the romcom – on its head in I Feel Pretty, a high-concept comedy aiming to flip conventions both on and off-screen. Total Film meets the star and filmmakers to talk self-confidence, internet backlashes and inclusion riders.

Double Vision

Behind the scenes of sci-thriller the city And the city…

Breaking Free

THE ESCAPE I Gemma Arterton tackles taboos in a hard-hitting marital drama…

You Talkin' To Me?

Film quotes pose as questions. Film stars try to cope.

Bjorn Yesterday Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Ol Parker on directing this year’s most tuneful sequel…