King Kong Monster Issue
Guest-Edited By Peter Jackson!
Plus Exclusive Limited Edition Film Cells To Collect (click here for more info)

FEATURES:

KING KONG
Bring out the chimp! Hang on, we used that one last issue. The 70-year-old ape is great again, thanks to Total Film Guest Ed Peter Jackson...

THE DEFINITIVE REVIEW OF 2005!
It hardly seems like a year since our last Review Of The Year, but for all non-attention-payers and monastery-dwellers, here’s the shape of movie things just gone...

WOODY ALLEN IS MISERABLE FOR FOUR WHOLE PAGES!
Total Film flies to the writer/director’s beloved New York and spends an hour of despair with the man who has made some great comedies and is now venturing into thriller territory.

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Our feature about Ang Lee’s forbidden-love Western is called The Outsiders. Ill-advised rejected headlines include: Pet Shop Cowboys, Grazing Saddles and... some others that our publisher has just told us not to print.

THE TOTAL FILM INTERVIEW - JOHN CUSACK
We prise open the famously clammy actor-everyone-loves and scoop out some unusually nutritious innards on movies, family, love and ladies.

RISE OF THE MACHINES
Videogames are the future. Soon, you’ll be able to ‘holo-step’ inside the big screen, fl y a real spaceship back in time and cruelly pound your old school bully until his brains come out of his nose. Ish.

LEDGER AND GYLLENHAAL SADDLE uP
The lover and the fighter: Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal on their characters’ mano-a-mano cowboy action and rodeo romps.

WHO THE HELL IS TERRENCE MALICK?
Y’know. Did Badlands. And The Thin Red Line. And, er... With his first film in seven years (The New World) almost here, we unveil the mystery wrapped up in an enigma that is... thingy.

MARCH OF THE PENGUINS
This summer, a gaggle of wobbly, nun-resembling birds toppled War Of The Worlds in the US box-office charts. Here’s why...

REGULARS:

ACCESS
The busiest movie buzz. First look at the Clark/Lois/Lois Boyfriend Superman Returns love triangle. Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder in A Scanner Darkly. And – shocker – Thomas Haden Church IS... Mysterio! Sorry, Sandman!

ROUGH CUT
News-flashers. World exclusive from Neil Marshall on new sci-fi epic Doomsday. Movies get political, ’70s-style. Downey Jr says he’s off the gak and back for good. Uma talks about her feet. Tom Sizemore has a plastic willy.

ALSO SHOWING
The best of the rest...
LETTERS You say what YOU think.
ALSO RELEASED The films they wouldn’t show us.
UP FOR GRABS Stuff to win.
THE TOTAL FILM QUIZ Test yer movie knowingness.
YOU'VE GOT MAIL “Crazy” Patrick Swayze, as interviewed by YOU.

LOUNGE
The all-new Total Film home entertainment section that George Lucas personally thinks is ace.

NEW The latest DVD reviews including The Island, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Crash, Fantastic Four, Land Of The Dead and Valiant.

ARCHIVE Older stuff new to DVD – in which David Lynch tells us about his new Wild At Heart extra-special edition and we tell the sorry story of the last time they tried to remake King Kong, with Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange. Plus: all the typical Kong cash-in cobblers reviewed.

TV Seinfeld, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Willo The Wisp and the Beeb’s ’80s attempt at Narnia.

STUFF Videogames, books, soundtracks... But only the ones you should care about.