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DJINN & TONIC

THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING George Miller serves up the anti-Mad Max…

HOT RIGHT NOW

LADY GAGA IS READY TO BE CROWNED QUINN…

WICKED GAMES

BODIES BODIES BODIES A24’s acclaimed horror takes a sly look at dysfunctional friendship.

DARK STAR

BLONDE Andrew Dominik is about to drop a bombshell…

YOU TALKIN’ TO ME?

FILM QUOTES POSE AS QUESTIONS. FILM STARS TRY TO COPE

BEING HUMAN

AFTER YANG Kogonada returns with the most understated sci-fi movie of the year.

STANDARDS OF LIVING

MR. MALCOLM’S LIST Dìrísù searches for the perfect match in a playful period romance.

Sopé Dirisü

VERTIGO, GETTY How did you get involved? They

SOUND BYTES

The month in dialogue and digits.

BY THE BOOK

QUEEN OF GLORY A grieving woman inherits a Christian bookstore in a deft indie debut.

LAST SUPPER

THE FEAST A rare Welsh-language horror film, with plenty of bite…

NEXT BIG THING

ALIA BHATT IS GOING GLOBAL…

ROAR MATERIAL

BEAST Big ’Dris enters the lion’s den…

CAN WE TALK ABOUT?

BODY AUGMENTATION AS EMMA THOMPSON COMES UNDER FIRE FOR MATILDA, PERHAPS WE SHOULD WE RECONSIDER ‘FAT SUITS’.

SUSPICIOUS MIND

THE SUSPECT Aidan Turner plays a shifty psychologist with a hero complex in a new thriller…

CRIME TEAM

SEE HOW THEY RUN Saoirse Ronan and Sam Rockwell are a pair of 1950s coppers investigating a theatreland murder…

NOT THAT INNOCENT

ORPHAN: FIRST KILL An even younger Esther inveigles her way into another unsuspecting family.

BETWEEN TAKES

GUGU MBATHA-RAW THE SURFACE STAR TALKS PAINTING AND POWER-NAPS.

IT SHOULDN’T HAPPEN TO A FILM JOURNALIST

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

LOVERS ON THE ROCKS

BOTH SIDES OF THE BLADE Claire Denis’ latest is not – repeat, not – alove triangle…

Vincent Lindon

What did you make of Jean when you

FORREST RENEWAL

LAAL SINGH CHADDHA | Life is like… a golgappa in the Hindi remake of Forrest Gump.

THE HERO

SIMON PEGG THE BRIT STAR TALKS QT’S STAR TREK AND RE-TEAMING WITH EDGAR WRIGHT…

RETURN OF THE RINGS

As the line between movies and TV becomes ever more blurred, along comes small-screen epic THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER. The team behind the most expensive TV show ever made take Total Film on an journey into the outer reaches of Middle-earth, featuring new faces, terrifying Orcs, and Galadriel as you’ve never seen her before. And this is only the beginning…

GOING ROGUE

ANDOR Digging into the backstory of Diego Luna’s Cassian…

THE MANDALORIAN SEASON 3

I cannot tell you anything,” Katee Sackhoff, the

POWER OF ATTORNEY

It’s not easy being green. Just ask Jennifer Walters, the reluctant hero in Marvel’s new legal comedy SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW. Total Film speaks to the show’s dream team about feminism, Fleabag and finding the MCU’s funny bone

JAMEELA JAMIL

You’d worked with Kat Coiro on Marry Me.

THE FLAME GAME

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON George R.R. Martin reopens the doors on House Targaryen…

STEVE TOUSSAINT

Meet the Sea Snake… Who is your character,

DREAM ALITTLE BIGGER

For 30 years, filmmakers have tried and failed to adapt Neil Gaiman’s revered comic THE SANDMAN. As the longawaited Netflix adaptation launches, Total Film speaks to Gaiman, showrunner Allan Heinberg and the stars to ask: is this the stuff of fans’ dreams?

MIDNIGHT OIL

THE RIG Writer David Macpherson on his offshore thriller.

TIME BOMB

THE DEVIL’S HOUR Writer Tom Moran on his middle-of-the-night horror story starring Peter Capaldi.

THIS ENGLAND

Branagh does Boris…

WRECK

There will be blood…

BAD SISTERS

Family misfortunes…

WATCH LIST

More for your radar…

FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL

Emergency services…

SAS: ROGUE HEROES

Men on a mission…

The Invisible Man

A chameleonic character actor who can do it all, George MacKay has rarely hewn a predictable path through the film industry. And now he’s taking one of his biggest swings yet, as a crusading graffiti artist in Babak Anvari’s volatile Brit thriller I CAME BY. Total Film meets a restless performer who can’t be pinned down.

IF IT BLEEDS. SHE CAN KILL IT IF

The ugliest motherf***er in movies is back for a stripped-down prequel pitting a new breed of Predator against a resourceful Comanche warrior in the early 18th century. Director Dan Trachtenberg and star Amber Midthunder tell Total Film about Prey, their quietly groundbreaking, franchisereviving David and Goliath story.

FAREWELL TO THE FLESH

Featuring livingbeds, mutating organs and avant-garde surgeries, twisted body horror Crimes Of The Future marks a welcome return to screens for David Cronenberg. Total Film dives into one of his most provocative films to date, as he prophesies the shape of things to come.

JUST DESERTS

Writer/director John Michael McDonagh turns his misanthropic lens on wealthy westerners forced into atonement for their fatal nonchalance amid Morocco’s sand dunes in The Forgiven. McDonagh and his stars, Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain, tell Total Film why we’re still fascinated by cinema’s terrible people.

THE GRAY MAN 15

Cap me if you can…

BLIND AMBITION TBC

Grape expectations…

MAISIE 15

★★☆☆☆ OUT 5 AUGUST CINEMAS “He’s a drag

KURT VONNEGUT: UNSTUCK IN TIME TBC

★★★★☆ OUT NOW CINEMAS, DIGITAL Robert B. Weide

NIGHTCLUBBING: THE BIRTH OF PUNK ROCK IN NYC TBC

★★★★☆ OUT 5 AUGUST CINEMAS A lively, loving

ITHAKA 12A

CURZON, BOHEMIA MEDIA, ALTITUDE, MUSIC FILM NETWORK, DARTMOUTH

FRUITS BASKET: PRELUDE TBC

★★★☆☆ OUT NOW CINEMAS Adding context to popular

NOTRE-DAME ON FIRE 12A

★★★☆☆ OUT NOW CINEMAS A disaster movie with

FIRE OF LOVE TBC

★★★☆☆ OUT 29 JULY CINEMAS French geologists Maurice

DEATH OF A LADIES’ MAN 15

★★★☆☆ OUT NOW DIGITAL Leonard Cohen’s songbook inspired

SHE WILL 15

Slash and burn…

THIRTEEN LIVES TBC

The cave and the bold…

A BIRD FLEW IN TBC

★★☆☆☆ OUT TBC CINEMAS Handsome monochrome drone shots

JOYRIDE TBC

★★★☆☆ OUT 29 JULY CINEMAS Olivia Colman plays

ON THE 3RD DAY TBC

★★★☆☆ OUT NOW SHUDDER After losing her son

FADIA’S TREE TBC

★★★☆☆ OUT 5 AUGUST CINEMAS Born into a

PAWS OF FURY: THE LEGEND OF HANK TBC

The arf samurai…

FAYA DAYI 12A

★★★★☆ OUT NOW CINEMAS Those who insist that

GREEN LANTERN: BEWARE MY POWER 15

★★☆☆☆ OUT NOW DVD, BD 26 JULY DIGITAL EXTRAS

PERSUASION PG

Austen under-powered…

RUBIKON 15

★★☆☆☆ OUT NOW DVD, DIGITAL The end of

EIFFEL 15

★★★☆☆ OUT 12 AUGUST CINEMAS The titular French

MONSTROUS TBC

★★★☆☆ OUT NOW DIGITAL Fleeing an abusive past,

WAYFINDER PG

★★★☆☆ OUT NOW CINEMAS British-Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong

DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS 12A

★★★☆☆ OUT NOW DVD, BD, 4K, DIGITAL

CORRECTIVE MEASURES 15

★★☆☆☆ OUT NOW DVD, BD, DIGITAL The news

MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU U

Almost infamous…

THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER 12A

The god couple…

THE RAILWAY CHILDREN RETURN PG

Loco heroes…

THIS IS GWAR TBC

★★★★ ☆ OUT NOW SHUDDER Juggling archive

CLEAN 15

★★☆☆☆ OUT NOW DIGITAL Adrien Brody doesn’t just

EXECUTIVE ORDER 15

★★☆☆☆ OUT NOW DIGITAL This Brazilian dystopian satire

THE BALANCE 12A

STUDIOCANAL, SHUDDER, 101 FILMS, SIGNATURE, RED FACE FILMS,

ALL LIGHT, EVERYWHERE TBC

★★★★★ OUT NOW CINEMAS All-seeing and all-recording -

PRIZEFIGHTER TBC

★★★★★ OUT NOW PRIME VIDEO In 1800, aged

THE DEER KING 15

Cervid pass…

ROBUST TBC

★★★★★ OUT NOW CINEMAS Gérard Depardieu is Georges,

HIT THE ROAD 12A

★★★★★ OUT 29 JULY CINEMAS Iranian writer/director Panah

PARIS, TEXAS 12A

Far from home…

PINK FLAMINGOS 18

Trash hit…

OUTSIDE THE LAW 12

1920 ★★★★★ OUT NOW BD EXTRAS ★★★★★ Featurette,

ROCK ’N’ ROLL HIGH

SCHOOL 15 1979 ★★★★★ OUT NOW, BD EXTRAS

BLACK GIRL 15

Out of Africa…

THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE 15

1972 ★★★★★ OUT NOW DVD, BD, 4K UHD,

SUMMERTIME PG 1955

★★★★★ OUT NOW BD EXTRAS ★★★★★ Featurettes,

NEXT STOP, GREENWICH VILLAGE 18

1976 ★★★★★ OUT NOW BD EXTRAS ★★★★★ Commentary,

THE BIG CITY (MAHANAGAR) PG

1963 ★★★★★ OUT NOW CINEMAS A welcome reissue

OKJA 15 2017

★★★★★ OUT NOW BD EXTRAS ★★★★★ Featurettes, Web

RED SONJA 15 1985

★★★★★ OUT NOW DVD, BD, 4K EXTRAS

THE UNTOUCHABLES 15

Begun, the Capone wars have…

CLASSIC TV BATMAN : THE ANIMATED SERIES

The ‘Dark Deco’ Knight rises…

A VERYS PECIALE PISODE

HEART OF ICE S1, 1992

CLASSIC SOUNDTRACK THE FLY

HOWARD SHORE, VARESE SARABANDE

FRESH SPINS

From The King to cartoon underlings… ELVIS ★★★★★

EXTRAS

BOARD GAME REAR WINDOW OUT NOW No broken

GAMES PREVIEW

The top titles heading button-bashers’ way, this year and next… WORDS CHRIS SCHILLING

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Cute lil’ critters special!

BOOKS ROCK ON FILM

★★★★★ FRED GOODMAN RUNNING PRESS What do movies

ALL OF THE MARVELS

★★★★★ DOUGLAS WOLK PROFILE BOOKS Paperback edition of

THE AVENGERS VOL.1 1963-1965

★★★★★ STAN LEE ET AL TASCHEN Taschen’s Marvel

THE ART OF LIGHTYEAR

★★★★★ VARIOUS CHRONICLE The formula for Pixar’s Art

IS IT BOLLOCKS?

Film Buff investigates the facts behind outlandish movie plots.

ON LOCATION REEL SPOTS BEHIND THE CAMERA

BFI FILMS, NETFLIX, SONY, 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS WHAT?

ALTERNATIVE

BOX OFFICE

GRAPHIC MATCH CUTS

One of those things is just like the other…

CAR FOR SALE

FILM: CHRISTINE VEHICLE: PLYMOUTH FURY YEAR: 1958 1958

HINDSIGHT CORNER

JAVIER BARDEM THE LAST FACE May 2016 “We

FLOP CULTURE

In 1985, Ridley Scott’s fluttery fantasy died a death. Was it because he couldn’t see the wooden actors for the trees?

IS IT JUST ME OR IS STREAMING NO BIG-SCREEN SUBSTITUTE?

Is The Power Of The Movies diminished on

LAST TIME IS PACINO THE DEFINITIVE DEVIL?

WARNER BROS, NETFLIX Darren Nicholls You clearly haven’t

JAMES CAAN

The Godfather is primarily borne along by its

GIVING CREDIT

Saluting the behind-the-scenes talent making movie magic.

VANGELIS The running man…

CHILD PRODIGY Born Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, in Agria,

INTERMISSION

A WRITER TAKES PAUSE TO CONSIDER… How Ms. Marvel finally represents her inner superhero on screen

BIG CATS

Feline confident? Test your movie knowledge!

NAME THE FRAME

Can you guess these eight zoo scenes? 1

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