Issue September 2018 - Total Film (2024)

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Total Film is the world’s best movie magazine, a monthly digest of what's hot in the empire of movie culture. Each issue offers in-depth features on the biggest movies - both mainstream and arthouse. You'll find the latest movie news, reviews of all the new releases, star interviews, on-set reports and an extensive home entertainment guide that rates all the new releases in dvd, blu-ray, videogames, books and soundtracks. If you love movies, then Total Film Magazine is your unmissable monthly companion.

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EVERY ISSUEWELCOME TO TOTAL FILM THE SMARTER MOVIE MAGAZINEIt’s that time of year again. When the TF team return thrilled and excited (and also knackered and sweaty) from a long weekend spent in the queues and throngs of San Diego Comic-Con. We stand in line in the blazing heat, leg it between interviews (scarfing down unwholesome Hall H hotdogs on the way) and scare ourselves with the cosplayers so that we can grab all the details you need to know about upcoming comic-book goodness, kicking off with our exclusive Venom access. Luckily, no-one got licked or eaten during that. Admittedly, we don’t all go. While half of us were in California, half of us were getting on board Nicolas Cage’s most berserk movie yet, quizzing Jack Black, chatting Top Gun (and Tin Cup) with Glen Powell (don’t know…1 min

EVERY ISSUETOTAL FILM WINGMANDEAR WINGMAN, Just like Thanos, my glass has always been half full. For one thing, I thought I’d got the balance right in my marriage. OK, I occasionally snapped my fingers at my other half, and only listened with half an ear. Anyway, all I said was that Zoe Saldana wasn‘t’ arf bad, and now I’ve ended up with half the house! Do you think a glove and some Iced Gems might get her back?DECLAN M, VIA EMAILWINGMAN SAYS… Declan, you just need to give it some time. And each other some space. Take a moment for a reality check: relationships aren’t about power; you need to tell your beloved, “This is about our souls.” Only, perhaps mind how you say that last bit. And for goodness’ sake, don’t try…1 min

EVERY ISSUEDialogueSTAR LETTERAlthough I found Skyscraper a tad predictable and quite silly, I can’t deny I enjoyed it. And I think I know why: IMAX (or equivalent) definitely improves the quality of a film. For example, I saw Ghost In The Shell in IMAX 3D and thought it was amazing; I later watched it on Blu-ray and I’m not sure I hold the same opinion. Likewise with Batman V Superman. IMAX = great; DVD = less so. “The cinema experience improves everything,” I hear you say. Not so – I didn’t enjoy Avatar as much in 2D on a non-IMAX screen. What do readers think?TOM, VIA EMAILCertainly IMAX heightens spectacle and the sense of occasion; the IMAX ident alone makes you feel like you’re being vacuumed up some Tron-style wormhole that’ll…6 min

EVERY ISSUETOTAL FILM ONLINE@TOTALFILMHAMMER TIME 1twitter.com/totalfilm/status/1017366991966031872Now that Thor’s lost Mjölnir, someone’s got to take up the mallet mantle… us! First target, this Grinch-promoting green chocolate egg. Looked great; tasted like Fairy Liquid.HAMMER TIME 2twitter.com/totalfilm/status/1020297761886031872Next target: a treat-filled miniature Mom & Dad pool table, inviting us to exercise some Cage rage (in slow motion). We’re still picking up splinters of chocolate.ANT-MAN AND THE WTFtwitter.com/totalfilm/status/1025000699854315521We’ve included our mini-mag for scale, but this picture simply doesn’t do justice to the enormity of the creamy beast we received for Ant-Man And The Wasp’s IMAX release.DIE HARD WITH A CONTROVERSYtwitter.com/totalfilm/status/1018876935714287616Bruce Willis says Die Hard isn’t a Christmas movie. You say… “Nice trolling Bruce” (@teqekeeler); “What about Die Hard 2?” (@00cinema91); “He’s allowed to be wrong” (@s8n_claus).SHAZAM! TRAILER: DISCUSSwww.facebook.com/totalfilm/videos/10156861992132214/“It looks like DC has finally learnt how to have fun……1 min

TEASERSHUNTING SEASONIt’s mid-April 2017, and inside a Vancouver soundstage the Predator is on the prowl. Not the Predator, we’ll come to him later. But a Predator. And he’s not really prowling either. He’s actually quite lovely. “It feels ridiculous!” says Brian Prince, the man in the suit (minus a mandibled head) “I’m sweating and I can’t breathe through my nose. But I’ll be walking through set, and people will look up and freak out. And you think, ‘OK, cool!’”Practical Predator suits were a priority for Shane Black, the wünderkind screenwriter turned blockbuster director behind Iron Man 3, and now the sequel to a film he himself was in more than 30 years ago – Black played bespectacled soldier Hawkins in Predator, the first of Arnie’s squad to be bumped off. “Even…5 min

TEASERSJAMES MCAVOY IS HAVING A BEAST OF A YEAR…On the cusp of turning 40, James McAvoy is having his best year yet. We don’t mean voicing the garden ornament in Sherlock Gnomes or his uncredited cameo in Deadpool 2. No, it’s the movies and TV shows he has clogging up the pipeline that quicken the heart, with M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable/Split sequel Glass and Simon Kinberg’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix both in post-production.But that’s just two of the reasons McAvoy is set for an, ahem, first-class future. Currently filming are It: Chapter Two and miniseries Watership Down, the former seeing our man play Losers leader Bill Denbrough and the latter lending his voice to rabbit Hazel. Then he’ll step into the shoes of Lord Asriel in a BBC miniseries of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy – and hopefully…2 min

Issue September 2018 - Total Film (2024)

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