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Free Guy may be a video game movie, but it’s not just a movie for people who play video games. As director Shawn Levy tells GamesRadar+, it’s bigger than that.  “I confess I was a casual gamer at best before I made Free Guy,” Levy says. “In fact, in my …

Long thought impossible to adapt to the screen, What If…? is finally getting its moment to shine. Introduced by Jeffrey Wright’s Watcher, this animated series sees the intergalactic interloper visit all manner of alternative worlds in which things happen just that little bit different for our heroes. Hayley Atwell’s Peggy …

All right, don’t everybody, ahem, scream at once. Clearly, Wes Craven’s 1996 slasher send-up is a masterpiece that challenged and changed the rules of the horror movie. But 25 years on, the Scream film I go back to most often isn’t the original. It’s the reboot. For me, the tagline …

Of all the Disney+ MCU shows so far, Loki has really blown things wide open for the franchise. Major spoilers will follow, so please stop reading now and bookmark this page until you’re all caught up with the show. The show picked up from the moment in Avengers: Endgame where …

Vin Diesel’s career is fascinating. The actor was once a struggling New York artist, trying to find his way in the movie industry. With little success, Diesel decided to write, direct, produce, score, and star in a short film about a struggling actor. The result was Multi-Facial, a 20-minute semi-autobiographical …

Horror franchises have a rich history of being remade and rebooted. The most successful have been soft-reboots that acknowledge their past and move forward – for instance, the recent Halloween retconned every other Halloween movie apart from the original to rave reviews. Saw, though, has been going since 2004 and …

This feature first appeared in the March 2021 issue of Total Film magazine, featuring Godzilla vs. Kong on the cover. Pick up a hard issue here (opens in new tab). When Total Film catches up with Godzilla vs. Kong director Adam Wingard in February 2021, his long-awaited crossover grudge-match movie …

The Snyder Cut – once a dream, now a reality. The director’s cut of the superhero team-up, now titled Zack Snyder’s Justice League, arrives on HBO Max, and there’s a lot to untangle if you’re not already submerged in the Snyder Cut movement.  Zack Snyder’s Justice League is a reinvention …

There are few Mortal Kombat characters as iconic as Shang Tsung.  The main villain in the very first Mortal Kombat game, the soul-stealing powerhouse was famously brought to life by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa in the 1995 movie adaptation, arguably still one of the best video game movies ever created. Tagawa’s performance …

Viggo Mortensen is a man of many talents. Best known for playing Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, his latest project, Falling, sees him on quadruple duty as writer, director, composer, and actor. Add to that just how personal the script is, written after his mother’s funeral and …