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Domestic Disturbance

The Nest is Sean Durkin’s first film since Martha Marcy May Marlene and it’s well worth the decade-long wait. The director and stars Jude Law and Carrie Coon tell Total Film about a family’s fracturing in the shadow of the Overlook Hotel…

Knives Out

DUNE I Denis Villeneuve and a fighting-fit Timothée Chalamet bring Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi classic back to the screen.

GOYA GOYA GONE

THE DUKE - Roger Michell’s Ealing-Esque true story paints a pretty picture…

THE NEXT BIG THING EMILIA JONES IS ON SONG…

I love a challenge,” says Emilia Jones. “I welcome pressure.” Just as well. The 19-year-old Brit (Locke & Key) had to learn American Sign Language, trawler fishing and public singing for Sundance smash CODA, in which she plays Ruby, a would-be songstress with Deaf parents. At least being the daughter of The Snowman cherub Aled Jones might help, right?

Wonder Hall

REBECCA HALL has had a very good year – professionally and personally – despite lockdown. As she stars in psychological horror The Night House, she tells Total Film about reckoning with her own past, realising a long-awaited dream, and haunted bread…

GAEL FORCE

GAEL GARCÍA BERNAL returns to Hollywood for M. Night Shyamalan’s high-concept thriller Old, in which his character starts to age rapidly. It’s got him thinking about his two decades as a globally celebrated actor, and how he’s always done it his way…

CHANNING TATUM IS PUMPED FOR A COMEBACK…

I promise you I would not look like this,” said Channing Tatum recently, “unless I had to be naked in most of my movies, mostly.” After four years of animation voicework and time spent (possibly) bench-pressing buses, Tatum will be reminding us just what he looks like on-screen soon, clothed or otherwise.

JOHN CARPENTER: CELEBRATING THE MASTER OF HORROR

On the eve of Halloween Kills, Total Film meets the man behind Michael Myers, R.J. MacReady and most of your favourite ’80s movies to discuss his tumultuous career, and how he’s happier than ever making music…

GUESS WHO'S BACK

PRODUCER JORDAN PEELE AND DIRECTOR NIA DACOSTA HAVE ETCHED A NEW CHAPTER IN THE TERRIFYING LEGEND OF CANDYMAN. TOTAL FILM FINDS OUT HOW THE FILM USES BLOOD AND BRAINS TO EXPLORE THE BLACK EXPERIENCE…

'FIELD OF SCREAMS'

Michael Myers is back for blood in Halloween Kills, but this time Haddonfield is taking the fight to The Shape. Ahead of the savage middle chapter in the new fright night trilogy, Total Film speaks to the film’s director David Gordon Green and star Jamie Lee Curtis about tapping into real-life fears and sticking the knife in the big screen’s ultimate boogeyman.

FLOP CULTURE - JONAH HEX

Subject to infamous reshoots, Warner Bros’ adaptation of the DC comic book needed a clearer push at the outset…

Gripping Yarn

NIGHT OF THE KINGS I Fact and fantasy collide in a prison movie like no other

MAX MADS

RIDERS OF JUSTICE I Mikkelsen re-teams with his gang for an unpredictable genre-defier.

Cena evil

DIESEL-POWERED SEQUEL PUTS FAST BACK IN FIFTH GEAR…

IS IT JUST ME…OR IS THE LAST BOY SCOUT BRUCE WILLIS' BEST FILM?

If Bruce Willis had been a star in the ’40s and ’50s, he’d have been a staple of film noirs – the tough, smart-mouthed gumshoe with a code of honour hidden beneath corrosive cynicism.

Drive - VARIOUS/CLIFF MARTINEZ | LAKESHORE

When a film isn’t overburdened with idle natter, the music can step in and take over the emotional satnav. Still fresh a decade on, the soundtrack to Nicolas Winding Refn’s existential romantic thriller nails the job without once losing its cool.

FELICITY JONES

The Last Letter From Your Lover star talks puddings and Rogue One boots.

ROMEO + JULIET'S POOL SCENE

THE BIG SHOT

IS IT BOLLOCKS?

Film Buff investigates the facts behind outlandish movie plots.

The RIDE Stuff

A crumby-looking passenger boat, La Quila, bobs up and down by the side of a wooden dock that has seen better days.

Attitude adjustment

AS WRESTLING SUPERSTAR JOHN CENA FOLLOWS FELLOW WWE GRADUATE DWAYNE JOHNSON INTO THE FAST & FURIOUS FRANCHISE, HE TELLS THE TOTAL FILM THAT HE'S A "STORYTELLER AT HEART". WITH TWO MAJOR BLOCKBUSTERS ON THE HORIZON, THIS PROMISES TO BE THE SUMMER OF CENA.

Stabby Road

FEAR STREET I R.L. Stine’s pulp horror series gets a multi-movie Netflix adaptation…

ROSE BYRNE

The Australian shapeshifter who can master all accents and vacillates between bawdy comedy, high-wire drama and heartfelt family feels returns to TV with jet-black humour as she explores the interior monologue of women in ’80s-set Physical. She tells Total Film about self-doubt, success and ensuring she has ‘a seat at the table’.

Street Dance

Taken from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway smash musical, IN THE HEIGHTS was designed as a riotous celebration of Latin culture. Now, post-pandemic, it’s become a vital look at our need for community. Total Film visits the set of the year’s most vibrant movie.

TIME BANDIT

Marvel’s mercurial trickster is back and burdened with a glorious new purpose – to fix the timeline he broke in Avengers: Endgame. Tom Hiddleston and the Loki team discuss time, crime, and a fan favorite’s unexpected decade-long run in the MCU.

Personal touch

WHY LISEY’S STORY IS STEPHEN KING’S ULTIMATE PASSION PROJECT…

RED TAPE

SET IN THE 1980S DURING THE MORAL PANIC OF THE VIDEO NASTIES, CENSOR INTERROGATES IF HOR RORS REAL OR IMAGINED CAUSE NIGHTMARES IN A DAMAGED BRAIN. TF BRAVES AN UNCENSORED CHAT WITH WRITER DIRECTOR PRANO BAILEY-BOND AND STAR NIAMH ALGAR…

MURDER RAP

LAST MAN STANDING I Nick Broomfield revisits the deaths of Biggie and Tupac…

GHETTO BLASTERS

SHORTA I A ripped-from-the-headlines thriller that shreds the nerves…

From RUSSIA With LOVE

After her noble death in Avengers: Endgame, Natasha Romanoff was left without the one thing fans wanted: a standalone solo movie. As that’s finally put to rights in Black Widow, Total Film joins Scarlett Johansson and the team for MCU’s action-packed Phase 4 lift-off.