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Total Film recently got a chance to catch up with Michael Rooker to mark the release of The Walking Dead season three on DVD and Blu-ray. The actor, who made a name for himself in Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer before building up an extremely diverse CV, plays Merle …

Total Film sat down with Willem Dafoe this week to discuss his new videogame Beyond: Two Souls , and we couldn’t resist asking him what he thought of last year’s The Amazing Spider-Man . Though we discovered he’s not seen the Andrew Garfield-starring reboot, he definitely has an opinion on …

Hairspray (1988) The Teen Comedy: Ricki Lake plays chunky teen Tracy Turnblack, who lands a gig on a local TV station and promptly gets everybody’s beehives in a twist with her ideas about integration. Most Outrageous Moment: “Is your daughter mulatto?” Debbie Harry offends Divine by suggesting her daughter is …

A trio of atmospheric new banners for The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug have been unleashed online. Showing off a handful of the film’s (many) main characters, they’re variously spooky, glow-y and snowy, with the dwarves in particular all up for some blade-swinging action. Which comes as no surprise considering …

A new poster has arrived online for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire , starring Jennifer Lawrence as feisty heroine Katniss Everdeen. The new poster shows Katniss with her trusty bow in hand, looking up for the fight and accompanied by the ominous tagline, “Remember who the enemy is”. That enemy …

In our regular polarising-opinion series, Total Film writer James Mottram asks, ‘Is it just me? … or is Lost Highway David Lynch’s most underrated film?’ There’s only one thing worse than being talked about,” said Oscar Wilde, “and that is not being talked about.” Which rather applies to David Lynch’s …

Joss Whedon’s fantastic Shakespeare adaptation Much Ado About Nothing is coming to DVD and Blu-ray soon, and we’ve gotten hold of some exclusive snippets from the director’s commentary. In the following three clips, Whedon chats about why he wanted to adapt Shakespeare in the first place (it was a dream …

Demons (1985) The Movie: Gruesome horror produced by Dario Argento. When a group of people are trapped in a cinema in Berlin, they become infected by demons… The Cool Logo: Horned lettering (naturally) plus a rather brave choice of lemon-y yellow type colour. Why We Love It: As if the …

Everything is a gamble according to Justin Timberlake’s online poker whizz Richie Furst in Runner Runner – a philosophy that eludes this safely derivative, risk-averse script. Directed by The Lincoln Lawyer ’s Brad Furman, the plot centres around Furst’s descent into the corrupt world of Ivan Block (Ben Affleck), an …

Michael Roemer’s 1964 drama is an indie-cinema milestone, bringing an incisive grasp of place, period and performance to its up-close portrait of emergent black pride. Ivan Dixon is hugely affecting as Duff, an itinerant railroad worker in Alabama who marries teacher-and-preacher’s daughter Josie (Abbey Lincoln) despite disapproval on all sides. …