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THIS ISSUE’S EXTRAS

‘I DON’T THINK MY IMPOSTER SYNDROME HAS EVER GONE AWAY.’

EDGAR WRIGHT

Dialogue

Mail, rants, theories etc

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

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…

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…

AMULET 15

Bat’s entertainment…

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

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

Are you a viewer of good… taste? Test your movie knowledge!

NAME THE FRAME

Can you guess the snowy films?