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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.

THE SMARTER MOVIE MAGAZINE

CALL SHEET THIS ISSUE'S EXTRAS

SMOKIN' RACES • ON-SET EXCLUSIVE GRAN TURISMO Pedal to the metal as Teasers hits the high-speed set of the unlikeliest video-game adaptation of the year.

HOT RIGHT NOW • DAVID CORENSWET AND RACHEL BROSNAHAN ARE READY TO GO UP, UP AND AWAY…

YOU TALKIN' TO ME? • FILM QUOTES POSE AS QUESTIONS. FILM STARS TRY TO COPE.

SPINNING OUT • COBWEB Director Samuel Bodin peers into the dark worlds of Poe, Kubrick and Argento…

WEIRD SCIENCE • POOR THINGS Emma Stone reunites with Yorgos Lanthimos for a fantastical Frankenstein-esque fancy.

THE LL WORD • Contributing editor LEILA LATIF has something to say…

BAD HABIT • THE NUN II Sister Irene is back. And so is demon Valak. Director Michael Chaves conjures pure terror in 50s France…

DEAD FUNNY • THE BLACKENING Tim Story terrorises a group of Black friends in a cabin in the woods…

TRIANGLE OF SADNESS • PASSAGES Ira Sachs' three-way love story spirits us back to when movies were intimate…

Ben Whishaw

SUPER TROUPERS • THEATER CAMP Kooky teachers try to save a youth programme in this mockumentary…

SOUND BYTES • The month in dialogue and digits.

BODY POLITICS • L'IMMENSITÀ Emanuele Crialese mines his monsters in this Rome-set melodrama…

SHORT CUTS • The latest happenings in movieland…

NEXT BIG THING • MELISSA BARRERA IS DANCING ON AIR

GIRLS' TRIP • DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS Expect sharp turns in Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke's funny, thrilling road movie…

CAN WE TALK ABOUT? • DIAL OF DESTINY'S THIRD ACT.

POST APOCALYPSE • GOOD OMENS The heavenly and hellish creations of Gaiman and Pratchett ride again…

BETWEEN TAKES • DAKOTA FANNING THE YOUNG STAR ON SLEEP, SWIMMING AND BEING A HERO…

STATE OF THE HEART • T.I.M. An al helper causes trouble at home in a smart update of the cuckoo-in-nest thriller…

Georgina Campbell

MOTHER LODE • THE INNOCENT Louis Garrel steals from his family history for a tense, funny heist movie…

THE HERO

KID AI • Rogue One director Gareth Edwards returns with The Creator, an original IP blockbuster in which a future war rages between humans and AI. Edwards and star John David Washington tell Total Film how this huge spectacle was shot guerrilla-style, and concentrates on characters, emotions and ideas as much as large-scale action.

MR. ROBOT • Visual effects supervisor Jay Cooper on creating the simulants…

FUTURE WORLDS • The Creator is original IP, and proudly so. But might there be sequels? Over to Gareth Edwards…

INTELLIGENT DESIGN • WITH THE CREATOR ARRIVING JUST AS THE CONVERSATION AROUND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BECOMES MORE FEVERED THAN EVER. TOTAL FILM TALKS TO EXPERTS TO FIND OUT JUST HOW REALISTIC ON-SCREEN SCI-FI IS. SHOULD WE BE WORRIED ABOUT SKYNET YET?

SUPER BUG • IN A CHANGING DC UNIVERSE, A NEW CHARACTER WITH TONS OF INSECT APPEAL IS ABOUT TO MAKE HIS DEBUT. TOTAL FILM GETS THE SCOOP FROM THE TEAM BEHIND BLUE BEETLE. THE FIRST STANDALONE SUPERHERO MOVIE WITH A LATINO LEAD, AS THEY PREPARE TO DROP A BUG IN THE SYSTEM.

CASTING SPELL • How Xolo Maridueña landed the Blue Beetle...