Packed with massive new releases like Alien: Romulus and Dune: Part 2, star interviews with Viggo Mortensen and Natalie Portman, and anniversary classics like E.T. and Harry Potter.
Total Film Annual
WELCOME TO THE TOTAL FILM ANNUAL 2025
THE 100 GREATEST HORROR MOVIES OF THE 21ST CENTURY • THE HORROR GENRE IS KILLING IT AT THE BOX OFFICE AND PENETRATING MORE EYEBALLS THAN EVER BEFORE THANKS TO THE KISE OF STREAMING PLATFORMS. THE GENRE THAT DEALS IN DEATH IS, YOU MIGHT SAY, IN THE RUDEST HEALTH OF ITS LIFE. DON'T BELIBVE US? THEN CHECK OUT THIS LIST OF …
50 MORE OF THE GREATEST HORROR FLMS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • SEEN THE TOP 50? NOW IT'S TIME TO COMPLETE THE 100 …
FEATURES
UNSAFE SPACE • SET BETWEEN ALIEN AND ALIENS, BACK-TO-BASICS INTERQUEL ALIEN: ROMULUS IS SYNTHESISING TWO SCI-FI HORROR MASTERPIECES INTO ONE PERFECT ORGANISM, WHILE BRINGING FRESH BLOOD TO THE SERIES. TOTAL FILM TAKES AN EXPRESS ELEVATOR TO HELL WITH DIRECTOR FEDE ALVAREZ, ALONGSIDE STARS CAILEE SPAENY, DAVID JONSSON AND ISABELA MERCED, TO DISCUSS THE NEXT CHAPTER FOR THE MOTHER OF ALL CREATURE FEATURES.
GREAT EGG-SPECTATIONS • PRIOR TO PRODUCTION, ALVAREZ SPOKE AT LENGTH WITH JAMES CAMERON. HERE’S WHAT WENT DOWN…
ALIEN EVOLUTION • TRACKING THE XENOMORPH’S LIFE CYCLE, FILM BY FILM.
DESERT POWER • LIKE A COLOSSAL SANDWORM RACING TOWARDS THE RHYTHMIC BEAT OF A THUMPER, DUNE: PART TWO IS UPON US. AND THIS TIME, IT’S WAR. TOTAL FILM RETURNS TO ARRAKIS WITH WRITER/DIRECTOR DENIS VILLENEUVE AND HIS (INTER)STELLAR CAST TO SPILL THE SPICE ON THE SCI-FI EVENT OF THE YEAR.
FEYD TO BLACK • Austin Butler on Dune: Part Two’s deadly, charismatic Harkonnen assassin…
FIT FOR A PRINCESS • Florence Pugh is Dune royalty
RIDE OR DIE • Production visual effects supervisor Paul Lambert on bringing worm-riding to the screen.
LOVE MATCH • Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist play tennis and wicked games in Challengers, Luca Guadagnino’s sensual study of fierce friendship, competition and messy love triangles. Total Film sits down with the three champs as they serve up on sex scenes, tennis camp and Ratatouille.
COURT JESTERS • Quiet, please, for these tennis tales…
THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR • SHE EXPLODED INTO THE ACTION MOVIE HALL OF FAME IN FURY ROAD. NOW, A PRE-IMPERATOR FURIOSA IS SEIZING THE WHEEL OF THE MAD MAX SAGA FOR A 16-YEAR ODYSSEY THROUGH THE WASTELAND. TOTAL FILM HITS THE ROAD WITH THE NEW, GREASE-PAINTED FACE OF STUDIO OZPLOITATION ANYA TAYLOR-JOY, CO-STAR CHRIS HEMSWORTH AND MAD GENIUS GEORGE MILLER FOR A GASOLINE AND RAGE-FUELLED PREQUEL ABOUT TO RIDE ETERNAL…
NATURE OF THE BEAST • CHRIS HEMSWORTH ON HOW HE BUILT HIS STRANGEST CHARACTER YET.
MAD WORLD • TF DARES TO LOOK AT THE MOST BONKERS BADDIES TO TAKE ON MAX…
ACT OF CREATION • WHILE TEAMING UP ON THE FAVOURITE, STAR EMMA STONE AND DIRECTOR YORGOS LANTHIMOS FORGED AN ELECTRIC CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP THAT SHOWS NO SIGNS OF SLOWING DOWN. WITH ECCENTRIC FEMINIST FRANKENSTEIN FABLE POOR THINGS UP NEXT, THE DUO TALK TO TOTAL FILM ABOUT THEIR ‘ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME CONNECTION’.
THE SUPER-ODD COUPLE • DEADPOOL IS BACK AND HE’S NOW A BONA FIDE MEMBER OF THE MCU WITH WOLVERINE ALONG FOR THE RIDE. TOTAL FILM SPEAKS TO FRIENDS FROM WORK RYAN REYNOLDS, HUGH JACKMAN AND DIRECTOR SHAWN LEVY ABOUT JOINING THE BIG LEAGUES, RESURRECTING WOLVERINE, AND HOW DEADPOOL MAY BE MARVEL’S MESSIAH BUT HE’S STILL A VERY NAUGHTY BOY…
DREAM TEAM-UP • WHO SHOULD DEADPOOL BUDDY UP WITH NEXT?
ONCE MORE, WITH FEELINGS • Total Film heads to Pixar Animation Studios to get inside the heads of the filmmaking team behind Inside Out 2, the sequel to one of the most acclaimed animated movies of the past decade. With new emotions, bigger locations and the onset of teenage angst...