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The new issue also sees the launch of our dedicated Blu-ray section, the Blu-room, with all the must-have upcoming titles reviewed and hardware info. Plus Mel Gibson talks resurrection, Mark Wahlberg discusses rollercoasters and Daniel Day Lewis is this month's TF Interview. Also in Issue 164:
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We also have an interview with Guy Ritchie about Sherlock Holmes and working with Downey Jr. Plus there's an exclusive 36-page James Cameron supplement, looking back at the complete works of the maverick director, with new reviews of all his films, interviews with his stars and the inside stories behind his greatest hits. Also in Issue 162: * The A-Team * Meet The Wild Things * An update on the Wolfman * Michael Caine Interview |
We also have a TV Special, tracing the often rocky relationship between the box and the big screen. Plus, there's info on Robert Rodriguez's Predators movie, Abbie Cornish shines bright and we bring you a retrospective on the life and times of Patrick Swayze, RIP. Also in Issue 161:
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As part of our annual 10 Coolest Movies Being Made Right Now feature, the cast and crew sit down and chat to us about bringing the Victorian sleuth into the 21st Century. We also speak to Quentin Tarantino about Inglourious Basterds, and Judd Apatow talks us through his CV. Also in Issue 158: Hayden Panettiere Joseph Gordon-Levitt The Hurt Locker American Psycho Penelope Cruz Viral marketing The Matrix |
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Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen - 6 pages of interviews and photos with Shia Labeouf and Michael Bay. Megan Fox - 4 page interview and photos to promote Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen The Hangover - 4 pages of interviews and photos with Justin Bartha, Zack Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper and Heather Graham The Wire - 2 page feature looking at 12 actors from the acclaimed TV series as they pursue movie careers Nick Moran - Interview and photos to promote Telstar 2010 Preview featuring Iron Man 2, The Rum Diary, Twilight Eclipse, The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Salt John Lasseter of Pixar - 6 page career spanning interview to promote Up 6 page feature on the wider Star Wars universe Movie dreams analysed - 3 page feature Channing Tatum - 3 page interview and photos to promote Fighting and Public Enemies Shutter Island - 5 page production diary on the set of Martin Scorsese's new movie Paul Dano - Interview and photos to promote Gigantic Blake Lively - Interview and photos to promote The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee Movie Cencorship - 20 of the strangest movies to fall foul to the censors Common - Interview and photos to promote Terminator Salvation Bryan Singer - 3 page interview and photos to promote Valkyrie on DVD The Top 10 Movie Transformers DVD reviews include Slumdog Millionaire, Bride Wars, Julia, The Spirit, Milk, The Reader, Anvil, Vicky Christina Barcelona, Valkyrie, Seven Pounds, Rachel Getting Married, Push and more |
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BUZZBuzz Movie news and more Jackson, Spielberg and a small Belgian boy. World exclusive: Piracy is A BAD THING! John Rambo returns! Bandanas are, like, just sooo 'in' for 2008. TRANSFORMERS: Transformers!/Robots in Disguise... Bay and Spielberg wreak cars-torobots metal mayhem. YOUTUBE LUNACY: Feature fabricated to purely to justify hours of going 'Look at this!' in the office. 100 DIRECTORS: Well, 50 actually. The other 50 are next month. All good, mind. AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 MOVIES: Encompassing the globe in 20 less than 100 celluloid entertainments. MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL: Maggie, not Jake. She's in The Dark Knight. And Sherrybaby. And we got the exclusive. Ha. LOUNGELounge Home entertainment Marvel make money. Clint Eastwood goes to war. Twice! If.... It's Fight Club! For public school boys! Be an Instant Expert... on Video Nasties. ALSO SHOWING ELISHA CUTHBERT: The 24 totty is in Captivity. But was still harder to track down than Lord Lucan riding Nessie. MARLON BRANDO: 1,800 words on a fat, dead genius. Next month: the editor! We have plans... STEVE CARELL: Inside the mighty mind of Evan Almighty. MR MCDOWELL: Will kick your head in. |
BUZZBuzz Movie news and more Jason Bourne is back! And he's got a new duffel bag. Cannes 2007. The full story. Pics, parties, prizes. Miserable? We ask the experts which films will make you feel better. FEATURESSubscribe Now! - Click here... BRUCE WILLIS: We met him, he called us. He smoked, he swore. He didn't explain what 'smashmouth' means... THE SIMPSONS: Creator Matt Groening on how h e made the movie. Plus: live life, Homer style. HOT OR NOT?: They might look good, but are they any good? At acting... HARRY POTTER 5: Now with added sex! Well, snogging... How the boy wizard got grown-up. TOP OF THE COPS: Badge-flashing. Bullet-dodging. Caffeine abuse... Cinema's most rollicking rozzers. LOUNGELounge Re-caught by the Fuzz. Classic road-trip Two Lane Blacktop hits DVD. Forbidden Planet. It's Star Wars. In the '50s. Be an Instant Expert...on French New Wave. ALSO SHOWING RIDLEY SCOTT: On Alien, Crowe, critics, and why shooting Blade Runner was a breeze. RICHARD KELLY: TF tours LA with the Donnie Darko director, in search of his critically mauled Southland Tales. TIMBERLAKE: Shrek The Third's pop star prince charming. CANNES AT 60: The best of the fest. |
BUZZBuzz The best monthly movie preview section in the world! With some immensely tortuous wordplay as an introduction! DIE!: Hard 4.0, that is. Bruce Willis is back and he's sporting a fetching green pullover. My, how he's aged. MARY!: Elizabeth Winstead that is, Hollywood's Most Wanted catching eyes in Grindhouse, Die Hard 4.0 and a lovely polka dot 'dress'... FANTASTIC!: Four 2 that is, as Buzz has a daft idea about superheroes and pays a bloke to draw them. DON'T!: Go back to the water, that is, as a new, bigger and far more scary Jaws gets prepped for cinemas. In a few years. Perhaps. Maybe. PIRATES 3: Screenwriter Terry Rossio and screen actor Johnny Depp (you may have heard of him) talk us through the three-quel to rule 'em all. They know stuff. KEIRA & ORLANDO: Blighty's bright young things sit in a room and chat to Total Film. A lot. About all sorts of interesting things. And look reaaaaaally good doing it. TRANSFORMERS: We meet the human stars: Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf. HOSTEL: PART II: Nov 2006: Total Film visits the Prague set. May 2007: the scars won't heal. NATALIE PORTMAN: Chatty Natty bangs on about torture. Maybe she wants to be in Hostel III... GRINDHOUSE: QT and RR hook up to furiously shoot the shit about their grubby opus. WALLPAPER: Live in a shit-hole with plaster falling out of the walls? Then call the landlord. Or... cover over those nasty holes with our spanking new posters (sorry, 'wallpaper'). This month we've gone Tarantino crazy, alright? CAMERON DIAZ: She's Princess Fiona in Shrek The Third and she's also the Total Film Interview. In between sunny smiles and girly giggles, she actually answers some serious, searching, insightful questions. And then she giggles some more. LOUNGELounge So called because most people put their TV there so it's where they watch DVDs. NEW: Rocky comes out swinging, Dreamgirls crooning and The Fountain gushing. Smokin' Aces, unfortunately, is a bit iffy. ARCHIVE: Herzog, Hawks, Wayne, Sayles, Raimi, Hitchcock... so many giants of cinema, plus Jerry Paris, the man responsible for Police Academy 2. LOVES: Everyone loves Back To The Future, so we champion Michael J Fox's 'other' movie from 1985, Teen Wolf. Trust us, it's the dog's danglies. LEGENDS: Quentin Tarantino. Say no more. STUFF: Loads of TV, books, games and shit. ALSO SHOWING The best of the rest... LETTERS: The postbag bulged, we answered. ALSO RELEASED... but no blighter screened 'em. THE TOTAL FILM QUIZ: No cheating allowed. THE ABRIDGED SCRIPT: Lots of muscular men, loads of oil, even more CG and waaay too much slo-mo. Yep, we flex our pecs and go into battle with 300. There was only ever gonna be one winner. |
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 BUZZ: The best monthly movie preview section in the world... Amazing pics, hot gossip, cold facts. News Editor leaving soon, so send cash gifts without delay. GRINDHOUSE: Eye-scorching imagery from the upcoming Tarantino-Rodriguez adreno-pumper. HOSTEL 2: Eli Roth explains why the sequel to his 2006 arse-chewer will mess you up - but good. RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION : Milla Jovovich spices up the last in the zombie trilogy with home-made outfits! BEST-KEPT SECRETS: David Cronenberg, the Coens, Takashi Miike and sci-fi from the director of Old Boy. Blimey, 2007 is looking good already... FEATURES HANNIBAL RISING: What, no Tony Hopkins? Total Film reports from the Prague set of the Lecter prequel everyone's talking about. HOLLYWEIRD: They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky - our rundown of the 23 strangest movies ever made and what the hell they're all about. GALAXY QUEST: Thirty years on, one extra shares his memories of being a hired hand on Star Wars. Take that, Andy Millman! THE GOOD SHEPHERD: Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie air the CIA's dirty laundry in De Niro's hotly-tipped spy yarn. Can you keep a secret? ROBERT DE NIRO: Back in the director's chair for Oscar contender The Good Shepherd, the master of Method breaks his silence for the Total Film Interview. THE FOUNTAIN: Everything you need to know about Darren Requiem For A Dream Aronofsky's time-hopping sci-fi romance. Apart from what it means, of course... GONG LI: The Chinese stunner continues her conquest of Hollywood by playing Lecter's auntie in Hannibal Rising. We get the Miami Vice star to spill the fava beans. THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND: Director Kevin Macdonald reveals exclusively to Total Film how he separated man from myth to get beneath the skin of African despot Idi Amin. TEEN FLICKS: How do gritty British teen movies match up against their glossy US counterparts? We dust down our old school uniforms and find out. HOODIES FROM HELL!: Why spooky Gallic shocker Them is already shaping up to be the year's most chilling horror. SEX ON THE COUCH: Psychologist Dr Rachel Andrew reveals the hidden meanings behind Hollywood humping. LEONARDO DICAPRIO: How the former boy wonder toughened up to play a ruthless South African mercenary in Blood Diamond. CARICE VAN HOUTEN: Sex, spies and Nazis! We go Dutch with the statuesque star of Paul Verhoeven's WW2 espionage yarn Black Book. RUNNING WITH SCISSORS: Ever wondered how you'd feel if your life was turned into a film? Author Augusten Burroughs doesn't have to. JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT: We know what she did last summer. TV's Ghost Whisperer on Brit rom-com The Truth About Love.. LOUNGE: Point and press. Point and press. It couldn't be easier, or more fun... NEW: From Severance and Dirty Sanchez to The Great Ecstasy Of Robert Carmichael, this is a messed-up bunch and no mistake. ARCHIVE: Rocky, The Maltese Falcon and a dash of Southern Comfort. It's classics a-go-go. LOVES: Thought Rocky IV was absolute cack? We think otherwise - and soon, so will you. LEGENDS: Matt Damon's Top 10. He's not just a pretty face, you know... STUFF: Games, books, TV and soundtracks. Go on, we know you want to... ALSO SHOWING The best of the rest... LETTERS: We didn't write this section. You did. ALSO RELEASED: We'd review them if we could... THE TOTAL FILM QUIZ: Four pages of mind-benders. UP FOR GRABS: Loads of incredible stuff to be won. THE ABRIDGED SCRIPT: Total Film turns back the clock for Dej? Vu. Don't blame us if you think you've read it before... |
Films. Lots of films. We sort, sift and star rate 'em... Apocalypto Babel Black Book Black Christmas Blood Diamond The Covenant Deck The Halls Deja Vu Employee Of The Month Fragments Of Iraq Ghosts Grounded Happy Feet The Heart Of The Game The Holiday Infamous Into Great Silence It's A Boy Girl Thing The Last King Of Scotland Miss Potter The Nativity Story Night At The Museum Play A Prairie Home Companion The Pursuit Of Happyness The Return Rocky Balboa Santa Clause 3 Suburban Mayhem Smokin' Aces BUZZ The best monthly movie preview section in the world... Amazing pics, hot gossip, cold facts. News editor welcomes all praise, thanks and daughters/sisters. IS THAT PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 3? Aye. Now... must... resist... typing... Jack's back!! (Oh, sod it.) WILL PETER JACKSON DIRECT THE HOBBIT? Elijah Wood reveals the inside word on the in crisis Lord Of The Rings prequel. (Plus, see Scarlett's boobs.) IS TOM CRUISE GROWING? And other vital issues relating to the Cruiser's wedding. (Plus, his and Scorsese's lust for Hollywood power.) ARE THOSE LADIES NAKED? Pretty much. And one of them is Sophia Loren. (Plus, she's in her 70s.) FEATURES BLOCKBUSTERS From Jaws to Spidey 3, Die Hard to, er, Die Hard 4: Total Film puts together all the busted blocks. It's the biggest, boldest, ballistic-est feature ever! MEL GIBSON The cover star of our first ever issue is back to usher in our 10th year. We relax in the sanity of his pristine LA office to discuss the jungle madness of Apocalypto. JENNIFER CONNELLY Bettany's missus tells us that she's really good looking... But still didn't get to snog DiCaprio. DREAMGIRLS A big Hollywood musical about three little songstresses being moulded into a hit-factory Motown band. Not based on The Supremes, obviously. SYLVESTER STALLONE Back in the ring and still a contender with Rocky Balboa, Sly comes out swinging, punches his weight, etc, etc in the Total Film Interview. DOUBLE ACT Two thesps, one role. We call in a RADA acting coach to tell us which Hitler, Dracula, whatever, is best. BOBBY Emilio Estevez brings us the death of RFK, Altman-style. Well, it was this or Mighty Ducks 4. REVIEW OF THE YEAR All you need to know about 2006. Like why Snakes On A Plane tanked. Like why we put it on the cover... PERFUME How a German director adapted the book that beat Kubrick. He wrote a script, hired actors, pointed a camera... FOREST WHITAKER No more Mr Nice Guy: Forest plays a monster in The Last King Of Scotland and looks set to take home Oscar. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE It's 35 years young and more relevant (read: dangerous) than ever. Malcolm McDowell looks back in anger. . . LOUNGE Can't be arsed to leave the house? Then say hello to these leetle friends... NEW We got funny (Talladega Nights), furious (Crank), feelgood (Little Miss Sunshine), frantic (Keane), fucked-up (A Scanner Darkly) and more! ARCHIVE Kurosawa, Bergman and, just to lighten the mood, Gaspar Noe's Irreversible. Enjoy. LOVES Funny looking man Stephen Merchant casts a skewed eye over Scorsese's After Hours. LEGENDS Brad Pitt's 10-pack. It's worth ooh-ing and aah-ing over. STUFF Games, books, TV and soundtracks, plus all the flash tech to splash that Christmas cash on... ALSO SHOWING The best of the rest... LETTERS Two pages of you! God, you're fabulous. ALSO RELEASED Curse you, inflexible deadlines! SUBSCRIBE Total Film without the middle man. THE TOTAL FILM QUIZ Four pages of brain taxers. UP FOR GRABS Crazy loads of stuff to be won. THE ABRIDGED SCRIPT The guns! The girls! The gadgets! Total Film goes back to basics with Casino Royale. |
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 GEORGE CLOONEY: Gorgeous George Clooney? Whatever. He's gone all fat (Syriana) and, like, political (Syriana, Good Night, And Good Luck). Yep, the man who flutters female hearts has decided to put his balls to good use. Look out 'The Right', your days are numbered... MUNICH: If you really can't get enough trauma in your life, we offer you Steven Spielberg's staggering terrorism movie Munich... Kevin Macdonald, he of One Day In September, talks us through the murk... THE TOTAL FILM INTERVIEW: ROB REINER: Your sides split during This Is Spinal Tap, your heart broke in The Sure Thing and then grew bolder thanks to Stand By Me, before falling in love with When Harry Met Sally... and going mad in Misery. A director of our lifetime speaks... THE MOVIES GET SEXY!: Sharon Stone back for Basic Instinct 2... Casanova's Brit bombshell Sienna Miller reveals all... The real Hollywood Casanovas (Nicholson, Beatty, Flynn, Dietrich) and their naughty secrets... The 10 Most Shocking Sex Scenes Ever, by the people in them... Hollywood films remade by the porn industry, plus Paris, Pammy and Tom Sizemore... lots of tits and ass. Plus some old cock. THE PROPOSITION: Guy Pearce returns to Australia, but it's got absolutely nothing to do with Neighbours or cross-dressing. Nope, it's Nick Cave's gloomy, grimy Outback Western instead. Champion. GRIZZLY MAN: Werner Herzog, for whom the phrase 'a few sandwiches short of a picnic' may have been coined, has made a film about a man a couple of cards shy of a full deck, who was killed by bears. Grrrrr. CHARLIZE THERON: Aeon Flux. What a name. What hateful parents Mr and Mrs Flux were. Thankfully, she's sex in PVC legs. Oh, she's also in North Country. In which she's called Josey Aimes. Better film, better name. LADY VENGEANCE: It's Park Chan-wook's follow-up to Oldboy and is a little less 'Oh, please, no. Don't do that, you sicko!' than its predecessor. It's revenge again, but this time it's a dish served cool. THE ICE HARVEST: John Cusack. Billy Bob Thornton. Darkly funny. And, hot on the heels of Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang it all points to a film noir comeback. A fad we've been quick to latch onto with our warts'n'all idiots... THE A-Z OF FILM NOIR ...guide to a genre almost ruined by Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. From 'Alienation' to 'Zither', you'll be able to spot the is-it-a-noir-or-not Lucky Number Slevin's credentials next month. CAPOTE: To mark Philip Seymour Hoffman's coronation as acting champ, we've bashed together a piece of literary excellence in which our finest newshound finds out the truth behind Truman... ACCESS: The busiest movie buzz.Bandidas: Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz naked in the Wild West! A Scanner Darkly: Robert Downey Jr on drugs again! Plus: Ed Norton makes magic in The Illusionist, while Superman lifts weights in Superman Returns... ROUGH CUT: News-flashers. Stallone talks Rocky VI, exclusive first pic of the most exciting movie of 2006, we meet X-Men 3's new mutants, Reese Witherspoon: pretty and clever, Richard Pryor's greatest gob-offs, Jim Carrey talks to YOU... |
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