Tag Archives: Total Film

Oz: The Great And Powerful has released another batch of images online (following on from the fresh bunch unveiled earlier this week ). Playing up the darker side of Sam Raimi’s Wizard Of Oz prequel, the stills show no sign of the gaudy colour palette evidenced on the posters . …

With Gone Baby Gone and The Town , Ben Affleck silenced his critics, joining Clint Eastwood and George Clooney in the elite club of A-list actors turned credible directors. Not content with resting on his laurels, Affleck’s third feature sees him stepping out of his comfort zone. Leaving behind the …

Matthew Vaughn is rumoured to be in talks with Lucasfilm to direct Star Wars: Episode VII . The brand new installment in the space-opera saga is going to be the centre of some pretty intense rumour speculation right up until its May 2015 release, so take this with a handful …

Leonardo DiCaprio has been trying to get a Twilight Zone movie up and running for years now, only for a succession of directors to drop out of the production. DiCaprio’s production company put the project into development back in 2007, with the script having been written and rewritten several times …

Anyone walking into Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest expecting a thinly veiled biopic of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard as played by Philip Seymour Hoffman – a sweeping, savage character study in the vein of, say, Daniel Plainview – won’t take long to realise their error. A sliver of Joaquin Phoenix’s …

Another day, another Stephen King update, with new details emerging concerning the adaptation of the prolific author’s apocalyptic novel, Cell . John Cusack has signed on to star in the movie as comic-book writer Clayton Riddell, a man who finds himself at the heart of a disastrous event known as …

Aussie PJ Hogan’s first local feature in nearly two decades is his most subversive and personal since Muriel’s Wedding . Toni Collette again headlines as hitchhiker Shaz, hired to take over a household of adolescent girls by an absent philandering father (Anthony LaPaglia) who has sent his Sound Of Music …

Quentin Tarantino is named Director Of Our Lifetime in the 200th issue of Total Film magazine : a cinematic extravaganza celebrating the last 15 years in movies. Inside, we talk at length with QT about his incredibly influential career, and during the course of our chat he dropped an intriguing …

Seismic superhero news this morning, as Matthew Vaughn has reportedly dropped out of directing X-Men: Days Of Future Past , the sequel to his well-received series reboot, X-Men: First Class . At present, no reason has been given for Vaughn’s departure, although he will still remain involved with the project …

Torrents of claret. Ghost girls. “Heeeere’s Johnny.” The key scares of Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 art-horror are such staples of Scary Moments schedule-filler, it’s tempting to think we know the Overlook inside out. This bang-up reissue says otherwise. Seen in its rightful place on the big screen, it’s clear to see …