REBEL RISING: A MEMOIR

Welcome

T wister was a pivotal big-screen experience

VICKY KRIEPS

‘I REALLY BELIEVE IF I’M HERE ON THIS PLANET, I MIGHT AS WELL TRY AND CONTRIBUTE TO SOMETHING THAT IS ALIVE.’

NAME THE FRAME

Can you guess these eight disaster-movie scenes?

Dialogue

Mail, rants, theories etc.

60 SECOND SCREENPLAY

TF SAVES YOU THE COST OF A MOVIE EVERY MONTH. THIS ISSUE: GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE…

FOLEY GRAIL

BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F After 30 years, Axel Foley returns to the screen to deliver quips and chaos in Mark Molloy’s fourquel...

HOT RIGHT NOW

JULIA GARNER IS RIDING A WAVE

REST IN PIECES

SLEEP The South Korean mystery thriller that’s keeping everyone up at night…

PRIMAL FEAR

ALIEN: ROMULUS The iconic sci-fi horror series goes back to terrifying basics. Be afraid…

YOU TALKIN’ TO ME?

FILM QUOTES POSE AS QUESTIONS. FILM STARS TRY TO COPE.

RUNNING MEN

BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are fugitives in the summer’s biggest action comedy…

PEEP SHOW

THE WATCHED A stranded young artist is observed by a sinister presence in Ishana Night Shyamalan’s feature directorial debut...

SOUND BYTES

The month in dialogue and digits.

THE LL WORD

Contributing editor LEILA LATIF has something to say…

ORIGIN STORY

BYE BYE TIBERIAS Lina Soualem takes her actor-mother Hiam Abbass back to her roots…

THE XXX FACTOR

MAXXXINE After surviving the Texas massacre in X, Mia Goth’s Maxine heads to LA…

NEXT BHING

EWAN MITCHELL IS ON FIRE…

MAKING THE HEADLINES

DOUGLAS IS CANCELLED News anchors navigate trial by social media in Steven Moffat’s comedy drama...

CASINO ROYALE

CINEMACON The Las Vegas convention has provided sneak peeks of upcoming movies in a slew of star-studded presentations. Here are Teaser’s top picks from this year’s event in Sin City…

BETWEEN TAKES

THE STAR OF THE BOY IN THE WOODS ON CPR AND STOLEN SWORDS…

BADDIE DAYCARE

DESPICABLE ME 4 Gru and Minions return, and there’s anew addition to the family…

RESERVATION ROAD

FANCY DANCE Lily Gladstone embarks on a dangerous journey to seek justice in Erica Tremblay’s riveting debut.

THE HERO

DJIMON HOUNSOU THE BENINESE-BORN ACTOR ON MAKING NOISE, MAKING MOVIES AND MAKING YOUR OWN LUCK…

SECOND WIND

AN UNLIKELY DIRECTOR AND A SEARINGLY HOT CAST UNITE TO PUT A FRESH SPIN ON ONE OF THE BIGGEST DISASTER MOVIES OF THE 90S. TOTAL FILM GOES STORM CHASING WITH LEE ISAAC CHUNG, GLEN POWELL, DAISY EDGAR-JONES AND ANTHONY RAMOS TO FIND OUT HOW TWISTERS IS HONOURING THE ORIGINAL WHILE FORGING ITS OWN PATH OF DESTRUCTION…

ONCE MORE, WiTH FEELiNGS

Total Film heads to Pixar Animation Studios to get inside the heads of the filmmaking team behind Inside Out 2, the sequel to one of the most acclaimed animated movies of the past decade. With new emotions, bigger locations and the onset of teenage angst to explore, this promises to be another mind-expanding, deeply felt interior adventure.

THE WILD ONES

Austin Butler and Jodie Comer let Total Film ride pillion as they talk smoking, stealing wardrobe and sexual chemistry on The Bikeriders.

HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN

As the film widely regarded as The Best Harry Potter Movie hits its two-decade anniversary, Total Film chats to visionary director Alfonso Cuarón and franchise producer David Heyman about rolling the dice to take the series in a deeper, darker direction…

BIG BUSINESS

FROM OPPENHEIMER TO DUNE: PART TWO, IMAX CONTINUES TO DRAW MOVIEGOERS TO ITS SCREENS, NOTCHING UP SUPERSIZED TICKET SALES. AS INCREASING NUMBERS OF FILMMAKERS LINE UP FOR ‘THE IMAX EXPERIENCE’ IN 2024 AND 2025, TOTAL FILM ASKS: IS IMAX THE FUTURE OF EVENT CINEMA AS WE KNOW IT?

SCREEN

THE WORLD’S MOST TRUSTED MOVIE

HIT MAN 15

Loaded with charm…

STING 15 TBC

Dark web…

THE DEAD DON’T HURT 15

Viggo west…

THE BEAST 15

Wild times…

WILLIAM SHATNER: YOU CAN CALL ME BILL 12

Kirk experience…

KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 12A

Hair to the throne…

POOLMAN 15

Water mess…

ENTER THE CLONES OF BRUCE 15

Game of life after death…

THE MATRIX 15

One of a kind…

THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN

Local legends…

EXTRAS

CONDIMENT BARBIECUE SAUCE OUT NOW Because the internet

ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

‘Did you just crack your knuckles, or was

LORELEI AND THE LASER EYES

Will give you quite a sight…

MICHAEL MANN: A CONTEMPORARY RETROSPECTIVE

‘You know all this blue light could negatively

RETURN OF THE JEDI: A VISUAL ARCHIVE

★★★★☆ KELLY KNOX CLAYTON SANDELL TITAN There’s perhaps

THE WORLD IS YOURS: THE STORY OF SCARFACE

★★★★★ GLENN KENNY HARPERCOLLINS How did Howard Hawks’

FILM BUFF

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

PLASTER CASTS IN MOVIES

We’ll always have Paris.

FLOP CULTURE

Alex Garland’s bravura sci-fi horror failed to draw in viewers in 2018. Did audiences and execs fight shy of its ambition?

IS IT JUST ME OR DO BOXING MOVIES HIT HARDER THAN THE SPORT?

Rolling with the punches Million Dollar

GREMLiNS

As the most enduring monster movie of the 80s turns 40, director Joe Dante and producer Michael Finnell tell Buff how ignoring the rules helped them to create a nostalgic classic...

CITIZEN KANE’S MIRROR IMAGE

ALAMY THE BIG SHOT One of the most

OCTAVIA SPENCER

Top of the world, Ma…

GOLDEN GRAHAMS

THIS MONTH The Horrible Dr. Hichcock and The Perfume of the Lady in Black

INTERMISSION

A WRITER TAKES PAUSE TO CONSIDER....

VIRTUAL REALITY

The questions are about simulation… but the struggle is real!