Issue April 2016 - 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 issuedialogueTripping the light fantasticHorrible weather, bleak news, diets gone awry... the start of the year is a bummer. Which is why TF wants to escape down a rabbit hole to the joys of massive costumes, OTT tales and epic vistas in our celebration of all things fantasy. We hiked on-set of The Huntsman: Winter’s War and discussed vagin*s with Charlize (yep, really), revisited Wonderland, gassed with Luke Evans and Wonder Woman and checked out Fantastic Beasts, Warcraft Orcs and King Kong’s latest stompfest. Plenty of delightful diversions from the discussion over who’ll stack the dishwasher.Enjoy the issue.Drop us a line: totalfilm@futurenet.comThe ups and downs of making this issue…STAR LETTER⋆ What’s with the issue 241 cover, folks? Really. My colleagues and I had a bet on which exciting upcoming flick would…7 min

Every issueTOTALFILMONLINEgamesradar.com/totalfilmTOTALFILM ONLINEON OUR WEBSITE…FIVE STAR WARS CARTOONS THAT WILL RUIN YOUR DAYhttp://www.gamesradar.com/sad-starwars-cartoons/Traumatising ’toon takes on the space saga, mostly involving Kylo Ren. Rife with spoilers and packing a punch akin to being shot in the heart by the Death Star.THE ULTIMATE CHARACTER GUIDE TO THE NETFLIX-MARVEL UNIVERSEhttp://www.gamesradar.com/netflixmarvel-character-guide-daredevil-jessicajones/Netflix’s take on the Marvel universe is gritty, grimy and a bit knotty – so here’s your essential guide to the main players.THE EIGHT BEST CRIME DOCUMENTARIEShttp://www.gamesradar.com/best-crimedocumentaries/The problem: what to do now that Making A Murderer is over. The solution: seek out other great crime docs. Maybe not all at once, they’re pretty disturbing.@TOTALFILMBATMAN V SUPERMAN: WHO GETS YOUR VOTE?https://twitter.com/totalfilm/status/691761726803558400“Wonder Woman” (@hawtwyre); “Condor Man” (@Twosips316); “I’m waiting until I hear their approaches to fiscal responsibility and who their running mates will be” (@DjskinnyLATTE)SOLAR SYSTEM…1 min

Buzz NewsStrange fascinationAs someone once said, what doesn’t kill you simply makes you… stranger. Lately, chinks in Marvel’s geek-plated front have included Ant-Man’s undeservedly diminished box-office haul and faint grumbles about Age Of Ultron’s tight-squeezed plot. But worry not: after Civil War’s screen-packing ruck, a Doctor will be here to help.Building on sci-fi and Quantum Realm detours, Marvel will extend itself again with Doctor Strange, the mighty magician with the arrogance/ability to reshape the MCU. And the word is that the perfectly cast Benedict Cumberbatch will have plenty of multidimensional, universe-bending tricks (and sparklers, going by the profile pic) up those capacious cloak sleeves.Much ambiguity surrounds how this portrait of the Sorcerer Supreme (aka Stephen) will unfold, but this much we know. Strange is a surgeon who, having wrecked his hands in…2 min

Buzz NewsOh brotherIf there was a moment in Grimsby where Mark Strong realised what a perfectionist his co-star was, it was when Sacha Baron Cohen gave him a wedgie.The story of two brothers reunited, the scene saw Baron Cohen’s footie lout, Nobby, affectionately yank on super-spy Sebastian’s undies. “As he went to do it, he noticed I had my own underpants on – Calvin Kleins,” reports Strong. “He said to me, ‘Oh I don’t know if a super-spy will be wearing those!’”While he’s played spooks in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Kingsman: The Secret Service, the Brit actor has never done comedy like Baron Cohen, the creator of Borat and Ali G, who is famous for going deep into character. “He wanted us to call him Nobby,” remembers Strong, who was also…2 min

Buzz NewsListen up HOLLYWOODANISEEDAdonis Johnson wins the world title over the opening credits then concentrates on erecting a business empire, controlling all imports of Anise from the eastern Mediterranean and Southwest Asia. Jelly beans, aniseed balls, liquorice, ouzo… Johnson, aka Creed, owns it all, and even exploits the plant’s carminative effect to aid his mentor Rocky. Yes, it sticks a plug in the Italian Stallion’s trumpeting arse.(T)WEEDA parallel-plotted prequel set in the Outer Hebrides of the 18th century and LA of the late ’60s, this charts the rise of everyone’s favourite coarse cloth and the prevalence of ganja in counter-cultural times. Directed by fashionista filmmaker Guy Ritchie (who chucks in some bare-knuckle fights to keep franchise fans happy), and Cheech and Chong.SQUEEGEEThis sequel sees Adonis cleaning windows to make ends meet while he…1 min

Buzz NewsBetween takes‘I’d do a Mad Men movie. We could wear prosthetic wrinkles’Dark Places is very heavy. Did it leave you in, ahem, a dark place?It did! I had three films in a row that summer that were tough. I did Lost River, God’s Pocket and this was the third one. I said, after I finished those, I had no tears left in my body! I just wanted to go home and laugh!Was Patty the character you were immediately drawn to when you read the script?I’d actually agreed to play another character – Krissi, the drug addict-stripper. And I thought, “That’s interesting. I’ve never done anything like that.” And then I got there and someone else dropped out of the film, and then they offered me this other role entirely. So no…2 min

Issue April 2016 - Total Film (2024)

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