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42 NEW FILMS REVIEWED AND RATED IN THIS ISSUE, INCLUDING:
16 Blocks, American Dreamz, Brick, The Devil And Daniel Johnston, Down In The Valley, Lemming, The Magician and The Moguls

BUZZ:

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES! INSIDER PREVIEWS! HOT MOVIE NEWS! KNEEL AND BE THANKFUL FOR TOTAL FILM'S MASSIVE FRONT SECTION...

LICENCE TO KILL!
On-set with Daniel Craig for Casino Royale. He’s still got all his teeth. He knows how to drive. And he’s getting rich!

SUPERHEROES A-GO-GO!
Lex Luthor makes his Buzz debut, Superman Returns’ writers spill exclusive secrets and Uma “G-Girl” Thurman gets special, man-beating powers...

APOCALYPSE MEL!
First look at epic action-adventure Apocalypto, Mel Gibson’s gargantuan follow-up to The Passion Of The Christ...

PLUS!
Snakes On A Plane, Michel Gondry’s dreams, Borat’s big cock.

FEATURES:

X-MEN 3
A new team of mutants... bigger, better, louder and – sorry, geeks – more emotional. Total Film hits the set of the final chapter and interviews all moving things. We also go for a slash with Wolverine.

THE DA VINCI CODE
Jesus Christ! It’s Tom (the other one) and Ron (yeah, that one) and – sigh – Audrey. We chat to the stars and director about Dan Brown’s ubiqui-novel and its on-screen resurrection. Hallelujah!

BRICK
Never heard of it? You have now. We nail the year’s coolest movie. Huge hit at Sundance, made for half a mill, and with a knotty, noir-styled plot to, um, drive you up the wall.

MOVIES WE LOVE
You watch it at least once a week. If your house was on fire, the DVD would be first on your grab-list... We asked a shrink to analyse just what that obsession with Battlefield Earth says about your head.

SUMMER OF SUBTEXT
It’s that time again. Big, orange explosions. Cartoonish bad guys. Aliens, robots, ghosts, mermaids... Keep that brain switched on, though. We’re about to reveal the hidden meaning beneath the popcorn fluff.

MANDY MOORE
Hollywood’s hottest hottie is the excitingly trashy Southern girl out for Hugh Grant’s pants in American Dreamz. Soon, she’ll be in Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales and you’ll have all forgotten about Lindsay Lohan.

THE KING
Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Monster’s Ball Milo Addica writes exclusively for Total Film, about his Cannes-lauded, controversy-baiting, incest-and-murder drama The King.

WILLEM DAFOE
Bobby Peru... the loony from Speed 2... Jesus... and now, the President’s adviser in American Dreamz – on his craft, his versatility and scaring kids with his leeriest Green Goblin face.

JAMES FRANCO
...And speaking of the Green Goblin, we try to steer his screen son towards a chat about comicbook revenge. But, instead, have a good old chinwag about medieval romance Tristan & Isolde.

LOUNGE:

THE BEST, MOST EXTENSIVE, EXHAUSTIVE DVD, BOOKS, GAMES AND, ON OCCASION, PROMOTIONAL FIGURINES SECTION IN THE WESTERN WORLD...

NEW
Big guns: Walk The Line, Jarhead, Match Point, Grizzly Man, Night Watch... Small, perfectly formed pistol-things: Just Like Heaven, Tzameti, Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, A Bittersweet Life... And, because we love you, a peculiar thing with hedgehogs in it.

ARCHIVE
How they made Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, plus The Game, Patton, The Big Lebowski, a Lounge Loves on Tremors and a Da Vinci Code-nodding round-up of the finest Tom Hanks DVDs.

TV
American Dad!’s Roger The Alien interviewed. Fry & Laurie reviewed.

STUFF
Guitar Hero! Guitar Hero!

ALSO SHOWING:

THE BEST OF THE REST...

LETTERS Your brains speak, ours respectfully reply.
ALSO RELEASED Couldn’t see ’em in time. Soz.
SUBSCRIBE How to have TF sent to your house.
QUIZ All-new puzzles with extra-crispy, cryptic picture bits.
THE ABRIDGED SCRIPT Crash gets it...