THE ART OF FILM: DESIGNING JAMES BOND, BATMAN, ALIENS AND MORE

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RUTH WILSON

She’s played oddballs and enigmas in a career spanning film, TV and theatre, but now Ruth Wilson is carving her own path, starring in and producing the provocative and punchy True Things. Embracing challenges on all fronts, she tells Total Film, “the nervousness makes me work… If I don’t have that feeling, then that’s probably when I’ll give up.”

Dialogue

Mail, rants, theories etc

GROWING PAINS

TURNING RED Pixar’s teenage body-swap feature is set to break new ground with an adorkable shape-shifting protagonist

HOT RIGHT NOW

JOSH HARTNETT IS BACK IN THE BIG TIME

IRISH SCREAM

UNWELCOME Jon Wright dives into Celtic mythology and finds murderous goblins…

NORSE CODE

THE NORTHMAN Alexander Skarsgård stars in a roaring rampage of revenge…

YOU TALKIN’ TO ME?

FILM QUOTES POSE AS QUESTIONS. FILM STARS TRY TO COPE

FORTUNES OF WARD

THIS IS GOING TO HURT Lots of fluids and plenty of stress for Ben Whishaw’s NHS worker…

CAN WE TALK A BOUT?

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME’S GARGANTUAN BOX OFFICE?

FRENCH FANCIES

PARIS, 13TH DISTRICT Jacques Audiard finds love in the City of Light…

SOUND BYTES

The month in dialogue and digits

SPECS APPEAL

THE IPCRESS FILE Trainspotting’s John Hodge on the return of Harry Palmer…

Q&A

Joe Cole Caine’s performance is iconic. How did

PLAYING IT COOL

THE BAD GUYS DreamWorks takes on Tarantino in the slickest animation of the year

BETWEEN TAKES

THE I WANT YOU BACK STAR ON SUNNY, SOCKS AND SPICY SAUCE …

SPLITTING HEADACHE

SEVERANCE Ben Stiller dissects a sci-fi comedy thriller that is your new water-cooler show…

LIFE AFTER DEATH

HIVE Sundance winner tracks journey into light…

NEXT BIG THING

JESSICA ALEXANDER IS A WOMAN POSSESSED

CRIME TRAVEL

MAGPIE MURDERS Lesley Manville’s out to solve a meta-mystery within a mystery…

IT SHOULDN ’T HAPPEN TO A FILM JOURNALIST

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

CAUGHT IN AN APP

CHLOE The Crown’s Erin Doherty heads up a social-media thriller…

VALHALLA RISING

VIKINGS: VALHALLA The Norsemen set sail for England in this Vikings spin-off…

THE HERO

THE CUDDLY HARDMAN ON ANGER, CLASS AND HIS DIRECTORIAL DEBUT

BAT WITH A VENGENGE

Director Matt Reeves’ all-new take on THE BATMAN finds the Caped Crusader during that difficult second year in his crime-fighting career. Total Film journeys into Gotham’s shadows to meet the city’s reinvented inhabitants

KNIGHT MOVES

After the Twilight saga made him one of the biggest stars on the planet, Robert Pattinson steered clear of blockbusters to carve his own path with interesting indies and uncompromising auteurs. As he returns to filmmaking on a grand scale, Pattinson tells Total Film why he has to “really love something” to take it on

GRAND DESIGNS

You may not know Terry Ackland-Snow’s name, but you know his creations. For more than 40 years he’s been one of the British film industry’s most respected art directors, cooking up sets, effects and vehicles for some of the biggest films ever shot on these shores. Over to you, Terry…

WOMEN ON THE VERGE

From storming Cannes to wowing Obama, twentysomething drama The Worst Person In The World has been winning plaudits all over. Total Film meets the director and the rising star behind this potent Norwegian tale of life and love, time and tripping

HIGHER, FURTHER, PLAZA

While she’s best known for her deadpan humour in Parks And Recreation, Aubrey Plaza is blasting into action-movie mode in Guy Ritchie’s Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre. Here she tells Total Film about playing in that boys’ club, joining The White Lotus S2 and the comic-book character she’d love to play next

THE COMFORT ZONE

If you’re struggling in the depths of the winter gloom,  reclaim the warm fuzzies  with a personal guide to our  go-to favourite feelgood  films to get you through  tough times

BELLE 12A TBC

The wonder of U…

THE EYES OF TAM MY FAYE TBC

Rising from the lashes…

THE DUKE 12A

About a Goya…

THE REAL CHARLIE CHAPLIN TBC

In and out of the limelight…

THE SOUVENIR PART II 15

Graduating with Honor…

WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY 15

Round triptych…

BLACK FRIDAY 15

★★☆☆☆ OUT 11 FEB DIGITAL Straight from the

SING A BIT OF HARMONY TBC

★★★★ ☆ OUT NOW CINEMAS Mixing fairytale

CYRANO 12A

★★★☆☆ OUT 25 FEB CINEMAS There’s no ‘De

NEVER TOO LATE TBC

★★☆☆☆ OUT 4 FEB CINEMAS A high saccharine

LINGUI, THE SACRED BONDS 15 TBC

Female solidarity…

FLEE TBC

Flight of passage…

PETROV’S FLU 18

Fever pitch…

SCREAM 18

Wes-sized story…

STREET GANG: HOW WE GOT TO SESAME STREET TBC

Big Bird energy…

SEE FOR ME 15

★★★★☆ OUT NOW DIGITAL A familiar home-invasion set-up

LA MIF TBC

★★★★☆ OUT 25 FEBRUARY CINEMAS Blurring the line

BRIAN WILSON: LONG PROMISED ROAD 12A

★★★★☆ OUT NOW CINEMAS With tender care, Brent

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA U TBC

UNIVERSAL, SIGNATURE, BFI, AMAZON, DAZZLER MEDIA, BULLDOG ★★★☆☆

MY SON 15

★★★☆☆ OUT NOW PRIME VIDEO Taken takes to

MAX RELOAD AND THE NETHER BLASTERS 15

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

THE WANTING MARE TBC

★★★☆☆ OUT 7 FEB DIGITAL This directorial debut

GLASSHOUSE TBC

★★★★☆ OUT 7 FEB DIGITAL Folksy horror meets

THE 355 12A

Mission unaccomplished…

THE GODFATHER 18

The Corleone show in town…

THE KARATE KID: 3-MOVIE COLLECTION 15

Not quite a clean sweep…

WRITTEN ON THE WIND PG

1956 ★★★★★ OUT 21 FEB BD EXTRAS ★★★★★

SESSION 9 15

2001 ★★★★☆ OUT NOW BD EXTRAS ★★★★★ Commentaries,

STAGEFRIGHT 18

Murder most owl…

HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR PG

1959 ★★★★☆ OUT NOW BD 1959 EXTRAS ★★★★☆

JULESET JIM 12A

1962 ★★★★★ OUT NOW 4 FEBRUARY CINEMAS Celebrating

TECH PREVIEW

What screens may come…

EXTRAS

TOYS/COLLECTIBLES DOCTOR STRANGE LEGO OUT NOW This Multiverse

24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE

VARIOUS ARTISTS LONDON

THE MATRIX AWAKENS

Why Epic’s tech demo is a true game-changer…

AUDIENCE-OLOGY: HOW MOVIE- GOERS SHAPE THE FILMS WE LOVE

★★★★★ KEVIN GOETZ SIMON & SCHUSTER T est

SPIDER-MAN VOL. 1 1962-1964

★★★★★ STAN LEE, STEVE DITKO TASCHEN Spidey gets

ALIENS: ARTBOOK

★★★★☆ VARIOUS TITAN BOOKS TASCHEN, THE HISTORY PRESS,

FILM BUFF

CINEMA CELEBRATED AND DEBATED. BOOSTING YOUR MOVIE GENIUS TO SUPERHERO LEVELS…

IS IT BOLLOCKS?

Film Buff investigates the facts behind outlandish movie plots

ON LOCATION

REEL SPOTS BEHIND THE CAMERA

HORROR JOURNEYS

1 WARNER BROS, PARAMOUNT, ENTERTAINMENT, 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS,

FLOP CULTURE

Ten years ago, Disney’s space opera jumped high and fell hard. Was Andrew Stanton’s botched Barsoom-shot lost in a perfect storm of bad decisions?

IS IT JUST ME OR DO SUPERSUITS NEED TO GET BACK TO BASICS?

Is Tom Holland’s Spidey finally gonna have to

SIDNEY POITIER

GETTY The first Black man to win an

PETER BOGDANOVICH

GETTY Success is very hard,” said film director

MY MOVIE LIFE

The films that tickle, terrify and calm comedian Ed Gamble…

BATMAN RETURNS

As Tim Burton’s superior Bat-sequel turns 30, Buff delves into the archive to find out what the director and his cast had to say at the time about following up an era-defining hit…

THE SQUARE’S MONKEY BUSINESS

ALAMY In Ruben Östlund’s satire on the art

INTERMISSION

A WRITER TAKES PAUSE TO CONSIDER… Why failure is so inspiring

ROGER CORMAN

Bargain hunter…

DANCE MOVIES

There may be troublesome questions ahead… Test your movie knowledge!

NAME THE FRAME

Can you guess the car films?