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In issue 213 of Total Film magazine – the Winter Preview Issue out now!– we bring you some amazing exclusives from the biggest, mightiest movies coming your way over the next few months . Inside the issue – which is available for just £1.99 on your iPad (opens in new …

Great social-realist cinema has to do a lot more than just throw in the kitchen sink. Following her 2010 docu-drama breakout The Arbor , Clio Barnard’s first fiction feature is just about as good as it gets. A beautiful, heartfelt, devastating fable about Broken Britain, The Selfish Giant was a …

The first image has arrived online from Stephen Frears’ currently untitled portrait of disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong, giving us a first glimpse of Ben Foster in the leading role. The new image shows Foster donning the yellow jersey and bearing more than a passing resemblance to Armstrong, complete with straining …

Eighty-something auteur Andrzej Wajda’s ( Ashes And Diamonds ) latest is an admiring biopic of Lech Wałęsa: trade unionist, Nobel Prize winner and Polish president 1990-95. It’s a surprisingly punchy rendition. Archive footage meshes with jostling strike scenes, while Wałęsa’s tense family life is juxtaposed with his dangerous career with …

Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom has released a new trailer, in which Idris Elba portrays the South African leader on his road to the presidency. The new trailer covers much of the same footage that we’ve already seen in the other trailers, with a few new snippets thrown in for …

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has released a new piece of viral marketing online that appears to tease the presence of a whole new raft of villains that our hero may have to face. The info can be found in a faux news article on the Daily Bugle website that reads …

Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake has released a first clip online, featuring Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen in an extremely tense confrontation. The clip shows Olsen’s character rifling through some of Brolin’s personal letters, only for him to catch her in the act. And guess what? He isn’t best pleased at …

Having been responsible for a trio of memorable scores for the Dark Knight series, before repeating the trick on Man Of Steel , one would imagine that Hans Zimmer would be the most likely candidate to play composer for Batman Vs. Superman . However, the addition of Batman to the …

Having recently added Simon Kinberg to rewrite the script , Fox’s Fantastic Four reboot looks to be moving ahead with casting, with a whole host of names set to test for the leading roles. According to Variety (opens in new tab) , Game Of Thrones star Kit Harington is set …

Showing subtlety the door almost the minute it starts, David E Talbert’s romcom is the filmic equivalent of a frying pan to the skull. The impossibly gorgeous Paula Patton ( Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol ) plays impossibly single flight attendant Montana Moore, who has 30 days to get engaged before …