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Total Film
January 2022
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EVERY ISSUE
Welcome to TOTAL FILM
THE SMARTER HOVIE MAGAZINE
CALL SHEET
THIS ISSUE’S EXTRAS
‘I DON’T THINK MY IMPOSTER SYNDROME HAS EVER GONE AWAY.’
EDGAR WRIGHT
Dialogue
Mail, rants, theories etc
TEASERS
UTTER LUNA(R)CY
MOONFALL Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson and John Bradley embark on a mission to the moon in Roland Emmerich’s interstellar disaster movie
HOT RIGHT NOW
TOM BURKE IS FUELLED UP FOR HIS NEXT STRIKE…
MIXED MESSAGES
THE AFTERPARTY Lord and Miller make their live-action comeback with a meta murder mystery
RISKY BUSINESS
JACKASS FOREVER The Jackasses are back, a bit older, but no wiser…
YOU TALKIN’ TO ME?
FILM QUOTES POSE AS QUESTIONS. FILM STARS TRY TO COPE
UNEASY RIDER
JOCKEY Character-actor favourite Clifton Collins Jr. excels as an athlete on his last legs
Clifton Collins Jr.
Q&A
BACK TO SCHOOL
THE SOUVENIR PART II Joanna Hogg returns with more angst-ridden autobiography…
Honor Swinton Byrne
Q&A
NANNY STATE
SERVANT S3 Shyamalan brings the house down
BROTHERS IN ARMS
AMBULANCE Michael Bay turns to a life of crime for his electric LA heist movie…
SUPER VAMP
MORBIUS Jared Leto returns to the comicbook world as Marvel’s conflicted bloodsucker
NEXT BIG THING
ALAN RITCHSON… IS REACHING FOR THE STARS
NO MAN’S LAND
LINGUI, THE SACRED BONDS Mahamat-Saleh Haroun returns with a female-centric story
SHORT CUTS
WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY Japan’s best kept movie secret just went global…
BETWEEN TAKES
CAITRIONA BALFE
TRAVELLING FRIGHT
THE TOURIST An amnesiac Jamie Dornan takes on the Outback…
GREAT BEAUTY
BELLE Mamoru Hosoda updates a tale as old as time…
IT SHOU LDN ’T H A PPEN TO A FILM JOU RNA LIST
Editor-at-Large JAMIE GRAHAM lifts the lid on film journalism
POPULATION IMPLOSION
STATION ELEVEN Himesh Patel and Mackenzie Davis mask up for a topical tale…
FLIGHT RISK
Flee tracks the story of an Afghan refugee
THE HERO
MARTHA PLIMPTON
THIS ISSUE
OFF THE CHART
Tom Holland takes adventuring to the next level in videogame adaptation Uncharted, which has had a long and arduous journey to the screen. Total Film meets the film’s cast and director to find out how a pitch for a young James Bond evolved into an unexpected origin story
SOMETHING WICKED
Roll u p, roll up! Guillermo del Toro’s darkest film dares us to ogle human monsters as it travels from a carnival to the freaks and geeks of New York’s high society. The director is joined by his old friend Ron Perlman , who urged him to make the movie, to lead Total Film down Nightmare Alley
DOCTOR, WHO?
Cate Blanchett analyses Dr. Lilith Ritter, her darkest role…
“IT SEEMS A BIT OF A WASTE TO PUT ONESELF IN A BOX”
Unclassifiable and unique, Tilda Swinton has effortlessly gone from arthouse to Narnia and the MCU and back again. As she prepares to launch new movies Memoria and The Souvenir Part II, Total Film meets the Scottish star you simply can’t pin down
JAMES CAMERON
BUILDING BETTER WORLDS
Let’s talk about SEX
As onscreen sex mounts a comeback, Total Film examines the sensual renaissance, and finds out from those in the know how to respectfully and comfortably stage a sex scene in the modern era
NORTHERN SOUL
Clio Barnard returns to Bradford for her fourth film set in the area, this time focusing on the beauty found in the city and a halting romance between starcrossed lovers. Award-winning Adeel Akhtar, Claire Rushbrook and Barnard tell Total Film how Ali & Ava disputes the adage that it’s grim up North…
TASTE TEST
Dubbed the ‘Doctor of Audience-ology’, Kevin Goetz has been the most influential figure in the test-screening business for years. As he delves into his work in a new book, Total Film discovers the ins and outs of a much-misunderstood filmmaking process
Portrait of an artist
The Duke pairs Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren in a terrific stranger-than-fiction crime caper that’s since accrued added poignancy. Total Film looks for a stolen Goya painting and hidden truths on set of what turned out to be director Roger Michell’s final film…
SCREEN
LICORICE PIZZA TBC
The slice is right…
THE KING’S MAN TBC
Dawn of a new agency…
MASS 12 (TBC)
Performance piece…
PARALLEL MOTHERS 15
Labour gains…
NIGHTMARE ALLEY TBC
Geek love…
BELFAST 12A
Starter for Ken…
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH TBC
Coen it alone…
A HERO TBC
No good deed goes unpunished…
SING 2 TBC
★★★★★ OUT 28 JAN CINEMAS The musical menagerie established
MINYAN TBC
★★★★★ OUT 7 JAN CINEMAS Samuel H. Levine
COW TBC
How the udder half live…
TORN TBC
★★★★★ OUT 21 JAN CINEMAS Climbing legend Alex
TAMING THE GARDEN TBC
★★★★★ OUT 28 JAN CINEMAS MUBI , UNIVERSAL
THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS 15
A whole Neo world…
DON’T LOOK UP 15
Streep impact…
A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN TBC
A man of many words…
CYRANO TBC
Hit and missive…
MUNICH – THE EDGE OF WAR TBC
★★★★★ OUT 7 JAN CINEMAS 21 JAN NETFLIX
AILEY TBC
★★★★★ OUT 7 JAN CINEMAS Choreographer Alvin Ailey
MEMORIA TBC
Fear the noise…
MEMORY BOX 15
★★★★★ OUT 21 JAN CINEMAS The past haunts
FLAG DAY TBC
SOVEREIGN, NETFLIX, DOGWOOF, MODERN FILMS, VERTIGO, DISNEY/20TH CENTURY
WEST SIDE STORY 12A
Doesn’t quite click…
SAVE THE CINEMA TBC
Trial by foyer…
SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME 12A
Thwip down memory lane…
BEING THE RICARDOS 15
Strife with Lucy…
RESIDENT EVIL: WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY 15
★★★★★ OUT NOW CINEMAS Johannes Roberts (47 Meters
CICADA 15
★★★★★ OUT 21 JAN CINEMAS Gay New Yorker
CASTLE FALLS 15 TBC
★★★★★ OUT NOW CINEMAS 10 JAN DVD, BD
NO TIME TO DIE 12
★★★★★ OUT NOW DVD, BD, 4K UHD, DIGITAL
DOWN BY LAW 15
Get out of jail three…
CHAMPION PG
1949 ★★★★★ OUT NOW BD EXTRAS ★★★★★ Commentary,
THE 400 BLOWS PG
1959 ★★★★★ OUT 7 JAN CINEMAS A huge
DILLINGER 18
1973 ★★★★★ OUT NOW BD EXTRAS ★★★★★ Commentary,
WILD STRAWBERRIES 15
SONY/CRITERION, EUREKA, BFI, ARROW 1957 ★★★★★ OUT 17
EXTRAS
TOY/COLLECTIBLE THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS POP! FIGURES
CLASSIC SOUNDTRACK BOOGIE NIGHTS
Ten great musical moments from the adult-biz epic…
HALO INFINITE
Microsoft finally puts a ring on it…
BOOKS TECH NOIR: THE ART OF JAMES CAMERON
★★★★★ EDITED BY CHRIS PRINCE TITAN 3 MORE
TOTAL FILM BUFF
FILM BUFF
CINEMA CELEBRATED AND DEBATED. BOOSTING YOUR MOVIE GENIUS TO SUPERHERO LEVELS…
10 OF THE BEST MONKEYS IN MOVIES
1 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK Having seemingly
FLOP CULTURE
Moral shades and toothy castration, 3D carnage and lethal chin acting. With so much in its favour, how did 2012’s 2000 AD adap misfire with audiences?
IS IT JUST ME OR IS BOND BETTER OFF WITHOUT DANIEL CRAIG?
Not even a burning helicopter could out-smoulder Daniel.
Wayne's World
If cult films often create worlds bent to slanted rules of their own, Wayne’s World proclaims its candidacy upfront. With the cult qualities of vivid outsider characters and quotable dialogue factored in, this party was on. Thirty years on, Buff looks back on a fan favourite that no one saw coming
GIVING CREDIT
Saluting the behind-the-scenes talent making movie magic
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN’S BACHELOR PARTY HORROR
SPOILER ALERT! THE BIG SHOT Emerald Fennell’s fierce
VAMPIRES
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NAME THE FRAME
Can you guess the snowy films?
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