ON YOUR FREE DVD

Treat it as a third disc of extras for your newly purchased Mission: Impossible III DVD. Exclusive to Total Film (sorry world, it’s only available with UK issues), you won’t see the bonuses on this disc anywhere else!

It packs four astonishing docs – Designing The Mission, The Countdown Begins, Evolution Of A Blockbuster, The Hunt Is On – with behind-the-scenes revelations from Tom Cruise, JJ Abrams, Michelle Monaghan, Ving Rhames, Laurence Fishburne and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

You would be the envy of your mates, except we expect them to buy this issue, too...

SCREEN

Films. Loads of ‘em. All at cinemas soon. We tell you if they’re any good or not...

• The Asphalt Jungle
• Bad Spelling
• Barnyard
• Big Nothing
• Borat
• Breaking And Entering
• Candy
• Deep Water
• Jackass Number Two
• Joy Division
• Gabrielle
• Gone
• Grudge 2
• Hollywoodland
• Little Children
• Middletown
• Mischief Night
• The Page Turner
• Pan’s Labyrinth
• The Prestige
• Requiem
• Romanzo Criminale
• Scenes Of A Sexual Nature
• Special
• Starter For Ten
• Stick It
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
• We Shall Overcome

BUZZ

The best film news section in the world ever... Amazing new pictures, insider previews, sizzling movie news. What a bargain.

LONELY HEARTS
Jared Leto wears a bald cap. Salma Hayek doesn’t. They’re in love. And they kill people. First-look at Travolta’s new true-life thriller. 

NAKED NATALIE?
Portman says she’ll strip down for Milos Forman’s new film. Then changes her mind.

RAGING BOLL
Mad B-movie director Uwe Boll repeatedly punches his critics in the face. Buzz scoops one of them off the mat to relive the agony.

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
Ricky Gervais dishes out the latest word on his Chris Guest super-satire.

FEATURES

CASINO ROYALE
Bond’s back... to basics in the hard-edged, emotionally-wrenching, balls-to-the-wall Casino Royale. We speak to Daniel Craig and everyone who matters.

HOLLYWOODLAND
Original Superman George Reeves comes crashing down to earth in a bleak biopic. Ironic, then, that Reeves’ death gives Ben Affleck a new lease of life.

THE DARK SIDE OF HOLLYWOOD
Drugs, booze, suicide, murder... and some poor bloke choked to death on a replica of his own penis. We go behind the glitter of Tinseltown...

FUR
Nicole Kidman stars in a biopic of the late, great snapper Diane Arbus. The guy – ahem – behind office favourite Secretary directs.

RUSSELL CROWE
The heavyweight actor lightens up in Ridley Scott’s win(e)some comedy A Good Year. Total Film finds him at home.

JULIETTE BINOCHE
The sublime French actress explains why she agreed to expose body and soul in Breaking And Entering.

MISCHIEF NIGHT
Titters and terrorism: the comedy-drama that’s being labelled the best Brit flick since Fat Slags.

JUDE LAW...
... isn’t a smug git but a genuine bloke and a bona fide movie star. Who says so? Oscar-snaffling director Anthony Minghella, writing exclusively for Total Film on their third teaming, Breaking And Entering.

JAMES MCAVOY
Imagine Brando spliced with Welles. Yuk. Anyway, McAvoy... the Brit thesp confirms he’s a star in Starter For Ten.

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
We round up lots and lots of horror guff to doff our pointy witches’ hats to 31 October. Original, eh?

PAN’S LABYRINTH
Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy.Which is really part of the Halloween Special but we need to fill this space.

LOUNGE

We show you how to spend the next month on the sofa. Clean pants are optional.

NEW
M:I:3 locks’n’loads; The Omen goes straight to hell; Vince and Jen Break-Up.

ARCHIVE
Is it a bird? Nah, it’s Superman I-IV in a box; plus Don’t Look Now, Big Boss, Grease Sing-Along Edition and lots of subtitled neo-realist films. 

LOVES
Neil Smith laces his Reeboks to go on-the-lam with De Niro and Grodin. Yes, it’s the criminally underrated Midnight Run.

LEGENDS
If you absolutely must own eight Wes Craven movies... (don’t buy Swamp Thing).

STUFF
Games, books, Blu-Rays... It’s enough to make you blind. Well, that and copious tossing.

ALSO SHOWING

The best of the rest...

LETTERS
Two pages of your brilliant brain-blips!

ALSO RELEASED
Movies that swerved our deadline.

SUBSCRIBE
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THE TOTAL FILM QUIZ
Fiendish headscratchers for readers who don’t suffer from dandruff.

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THE ABRIDGED SCRIPT
Never one to avoid an easy target, Total Film torches The Wicker Man. It feels gooood.