Total Film Magazine - December 2022

In this issue

No strings attached – Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

The filmmaking team on giving life to the classic fable and creating poetry in stop-motion.

5 mins

Lily-Rose Depp – Hot Right Now

Lily-Rose Depp is sinking her teeth into the good stuff…

2 mins

FAMILY VALUES

WEDNESDAY Tim Burton's TV debut explores the turbulent school days of a teenage proto-goth.

2 mins

THE STATE OF THE UNION

THE PEOPLE WE HATE AT THE WEDDING Anglo-American family nuptials go comically pear-shaped.

2 mins

EXCLUSIVE DREAM PALACE

EMPIRE OF LIGHT Sam Mendes takes on movies, mental health, and the mighty Margate…

2 mins

CLOSE TO HOME

REBEL Batgirl directing duo Adil & Billal bounce back with a wartime musical tragedy.

2 mins

ROYAL PEDIGREE

CORSAGE Vicky Krieps shines in Marie Kreutzer’s mischievous portrait of an Austrian empress desperate to escape her gilded cage.

2 mins

MURDER MYSTERY

LITVINENKO George Kay takes us inside the perilous world of his new crime series...

1 min

NEXT BIG THING

JALYN HALL HAS A DREAM...

1 min

CAN WE TALK ABOUT?

LOSING INDEPENDENT CINEMAS CMI’S COLLAPSE SIGNALS A STARK FUTURE FOR UK INDEPENDENT EXHIBITION.

1 min

5 THINGS ELF DEFENCE

THE WITCHER: BLOOD ORIGIN A prequel series that dives into the history of the Continent.

2 mins

STRAIGHT SHOOTER

COPENHAGEN COWBOY Nicolas Winding Refn rides in for the strangest horse opera…

2 mins

BETWEEN TAKES

GUY PEARCE THE STAR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDS ON ROUTINE AND MEMENTOS

3 mins

FOOL FOR LOVE

MAMMALS James Corden makes a dramatic comeback for a TV comedy of crisis and romance.

2 mins

MIND GAMES

NOCEBO Vivarium director Lorcan Finnegan is back noodling noggins…

2 mins

IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN TO A FILM JOURNALIST

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

3 mins

BAD ROBOT

CHRISTMAS BLOODY CHRISTMAS Grindhouse guru Joe Begos gifts viewers a crazed robo-Santa swinging a bloody great axe...

2 mins

THE HERO

MARK RYLANCE THE STAGE AND SCREEN THESP TALKS METHOD AND MITCHUM

3 mins

Avatar – A Bigger Splash

The long-awaited sequel to the highest-grossing film of all time and the opening chapter in a fully conceived four-film saga, Avatar: The Way Of Water is a 13-years-in-the-making return trip to cinema's most immersive world. Total Film plunges back into Pandora with James Cameron, the film's cast and its crew to uncover the bigger, bolder, even bluer sequel.

10+ mins

'dunit again

After the unexpectedly huge success of Knives Out, Benoit Blane is back on another case. Total Film meets writer/ director Rian Johnson, returning star Daniel Craig and a new line-up of potential suspects/victims for clues on how to crack the murder mystery follow-up.

10+ mins

QUEST IN SHOW

Thirty-four years after the original movie, the dry spell finally ends with Willow, an eight-part continuation on Disney+.Warwick Davis and his fellow adventureThirty-four years after the original movie, the dry spell finally ends with Willow, an eight-part continuation on Disney+.Warwick Davis and his fellow adventurers reveal why it's time for a new kind of magic...rs reveal why it's time for a new kind of magic...

10 mins

RED ALERT

AFTER ESCAPING RUSSIAN PRISONS AS RED GUARDIAN IN BLACK WIDOW AND BATTLING THE UPSIDE DOWN AS CHIEF JIM HOPPER IN STRANGER THINGS, DAVID HARBOUR IS NOW SUITED AND BOOTED AS SANTA CLAUS IN COMEDY ACTION-THRILLER VIOLENT NIGHT. TOTAL FILM TALKS TO THE STAR WHOSE HALTING CAREER BECAME ALL GREEN LIGHTS WHEN HE STARTED SEEING RED IN HIS FORTIES...

7 mins

PASSION PROJECT

Nearly a century after Chatterley's Lover first made readers clutch their pearls, a new adaptation promises to sizzle with as much sexual politics as sauce.

10 mins

HUNGER GAMES

Florence Pugh continues her patriarchy-smashing form with pertinent period drama THE WONDER. She and her filmmaking team tell Total Film how a Victorian tale of fasting and fables reflects the conflicts of a modern audience.

10 mins

TOXIC SHOCK

FROM HITLER ACADEMICS TO MEDICATED MUMS, WHITE NOISE IS AN EPIC SATIRE ON AMERICA. ADAPTING DON DELILLO'S UNFILMABLE' NOVEL, IT'S ALSO DIRECTOR NOAH BAUMBACH'S MOST AMBITIOUS MOVIE YET. TOTAL FILM MEETS HIM AND HIS CAST TO DISCUSS DEATH, DRUGS, AND DANCING.

7 mins

Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Awarded four Oscars for Birdman and The Revenant, Alejandro González Iñárritu is at the top of the Hollywood food chain. So what does he do? Make the most personal - and divisive - film of his career: Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths. Total Film meets the Mexican rule-breaker who wants to change the boundaries of cinema.

10+ mins

AFTERSUN 12A Halcyon daze...

OUT 18 NOVEMBER CINEMAS

3 mins

Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio

Accept nose substitutes…

2 mins

THE WONDER

Fast friends...

2 mins

Angela Lansbury 1925-2022

From Cukor to criminology, Broadway to broomsticks, Mame to Mrs. Potts, Angela Lansbury brought a stamp of effortlessly adaptable quality to her work across film, theatre and TV.

3 mins

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