Twenty years on from its original release, nothing feels remotely extinct about Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster take on Michael Crichton’s bestselling novel. Not the Oscar-winning FX that brought the dinosaurs back to life. Not John Williams’ timeless score. Not even Richard Attenborough’s hokey-but-wholesome turn as John Hammond, the eccentric billionaire who …
Read More »Call Girl review
Director Mikael Marcimain makes an auspicious debut with this chilly drama based on a real-life prostitution-ring scandal that nearly brought down Sweden’s government. An indomitable madam with a high-class clientele, Dagmar (Pernilla August) lures in girls’-home escapees Iris (Sofia Karemyr) and Sonja (Josefin Asplund) with easy money and glam perks …
Read More »Introducing Total Films Shiny New YouTube Channel
(opens in new tab) Say hello to your brand new Total Film YouTube (opens in new tab) channel. Over the last few months, we’ve been sourcing more exclusives and creating more original video content than ever before, and with our YouTube subscriber number now nudging over 10k (hoorah!), there’s no …
Read More »PURE GOLDER Theres Nothing Cartoony About Cartoon Scripts Any More
(opens in new tab) Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters is an okay film. If you can forgive female characters so thinly characterised the actresses should be able to sue for sexual discrimination, the end-of-level bad guy finale and the shameless Harry Potter ripping-off, it’s a decent enough kids’ fantasy adventure. …
Read More »Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons review
Don’t judge Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (opens in new tab) by its overly dramatic opening moments, which awkwardly depict a tragedy on a lake that leaves a young boy motherless and imbued with a healthy fear of water. Gauge its effectiveness instead by the memorable hours of adventure …
Read More »SimCity hits Mac on August 29
(opens in new tab) SimCity will launch on Mac on August 29, EA has announced. The title will be cross-platform compatible, so Mac and PC users will be able to play together in the game’s online world and jump back and forth into their cities regardless of which platform they’re …
Read More »Elysium review
When Total Film saw Neill Blomkamp’s dystopian mindfuck District 9 (2009), we were blown away. A “stunning debut,” we called the epic fantasy that wrangled hot-button issues of racism, subjugation and segregation, “heralding the arrival of an exciting new action-cinema voice”. Neo-realist, gritty, innovative and boasting a gut-punch of an …
Read More »Peter Capaldi: Doctor Who Fanzine Writer
Peter Capaldi’s Doctor Who fanzine article . We hope Peter Capaldi is prepared for anything his Doctor Who -mad teenage self wrote about the series to hit the internet, because it looks like his 1973 letter to the Radio Times is only the tip of the iceberg. For starters, here’s …
Read More »RadioRadar podcast 049: Sexy, sexy Pikmin
This week’s RadioRadar is brought to you by the letter “S,” for sex, because we talk about sex a lot. But don’t expect some hot and bothered discussions of our favorite sexy characters–instead, we recap the Top 7, which focused on the reasons video games will never, ever be sexy. …
Read More »Bryan Singer posts an image of a full-size Sentinel
Bryan Singer has posted a new image from the set of X-Men: Days Of Future Past , revealing a first look at a full-scale Sentinel in all its glory. While we were treated to a glimpse of a Sentinel in the recent viral video promoting Trask Industries , it was …
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