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This issue 54 jurassic world: Fallen kingdom The beasts are back in the most dark and dangerous dino-pic in the franchise. 66 solo: A STAR WARS STORY It’s been a bumpy flight to our screens, but never bet against Han. Or Chewie. 74 ian mckellen Gandalf wizards us – sorry, whizzes us – through the highlights of his career.
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80 hereditary Ari Aster’s debut is the horror sensation of 2018. Be afraid, be very afraid. 84 FIRST REFORMED Paul Schrader’s companion piece to Taxi Driver stars a never-better Ethan Hawke as a grieving priest.
every issue 3 editor’s letter Find out the movie theme park rides we want to see – and learn more about the DVD extras of magazine publishing. 7 dialogue The only kind of cinema chatter we gladly condone. Quiet at the back! 88 Total Film interview Bill Pullman talks us through his 30-year career, from Lynch to ID4 to his stellar slate.
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teasers 11 ocean’s 8 Anything boys can do… 16 YOU TALKIN’ TO ME? Owen Wilson answers our film-quote posers. 18 deadpool 2 Comic guru Rob Liefeld loves Josh Brolin as Cable… 25 can we talk about... Cannes versus Netflix. The gloves are off.
54 raptor return J.A. Bayona, Chris Pratt, Jeff Goldblum… the whole dino gang tell TF about Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
30 incredibles 2 The family’s back to tackle the humdrum and heroic. 32 IT SHOULDn’T HAPPEN TO A FILM jOURNALIST Deep breath time: Jamie meets his heroes. 35 TF hero Fighting talk from Furiosa: Charlize Theron.
total film buff 116 Is it bollocks? Could a train really push a car to 88mph, like in Back To The Future Part III? 118 decades This time: the ’40s. 125 Is it just me? Or is social media taking the shine off movie stars? 126 BIG SHOT Leering Jack Nicholson axes the door in The Shining. 130 60-second screenplay Ready Player One gets the treatment. This is no game.
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38 rampage Size does matter as The Rock fights CG beasts. 40 on chesil beach Cringe at Saoirse Ronan’s fateful wedding night… 41 how to talk to girls at parties An alien falls to Croydon in this Neil Gaiman adap. 43 the cured Ellen Page in an Irish zombie movie?
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44 the breadwinner Oscar-nommed animation tackling poverty, misogyny and more. 46 i feel pretty Amy Schumer lets loose on societal conventions. 47 anon Clive Owen in Andrew Niccol’s latest sci-fi.
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small screen 98 coco Pixar’s Oscar-winner is worth dying for. 100 darkest hour/ three billboards Best Actor vs Best Actress.
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101 the greatest showman We sing the praises of this year’s surprise hit. 104 extras Han Solo toys, Stranger Things Monopoly, more! 106 king lear On set with a stellar cast led by Sir Anthony Hopkins. 108 a very english scandal Stephen Frears talks up Hugh Grant’s best role yet. 113 games What’s twiddling our thumbs?
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Finally, an easy question that doesn’t require the Wingman to be up all night skimming Halliwell’s Film Guide, pitching a tent inside the BFI late at night or trying to Facebook his old media-studies lecturer. Yes, it’s perfectly acceptable for Mr. Hannah to call Shaun a ‘rom-zom-com’; the phrase is so legit it’s even in the dictionary. The Urban Dictionary, admittedly, which can be something of a rabbit hole (not a phrase you should look up on there, just to warn you). Frankly, Wingman thinks every film should have its own ‘romcom’ variant: favourites include Theron-com (Tully); Tom-com (Jerry Maguire); ram‑com (Shaun The Sheep); Dom-com (Fast & Furious – or Fifty Shades).
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As a fan of Wes Anderson, I had an idea of what to expect from Isle Of Dogs. But I’m guessing the three mums who took their children along to my screening did not, as all left after 15 minutes (by this time one dog had lost an ear in a bloody scrap; another had been left to starve to death). This got me thinking, maybe we should have more certificates to avoid films like that being PG. Maybe another one too for films like Marley & Me. PG? That should’ve been a 21. I couldn’t stop crying for weeks. Can you think of other examples where certificates have felt wrong? CHRIS GOODALL, WEST BOLDON It still astonishes that the horrific Bambi is only a U. Preying on the unsuspecting, the current BBFC advice is “infrequent very mild threat”. Infrequent! Yeah, the hero’s mum
does get blown to bits – but just the once, it’s fine. E.T. The ExtraTerrestrial’s the same: rated U for “very mild language and threat”. Parents, never mind the anvil of separation anxiety the film drops on your child’s heart at the end – someone says “penis breath”! Chris and everyone with a letter printed here will receive a copy of the award-hoovering Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, on Digital Download 7 May and Blu-ray/DVD 21 May, via Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Didn’t send an address? Email it! Or send a billboard. Just the one mind, the postage’ll be crazy.
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INGRID GOES YASSS!
Being a royal can make you feel institutionalised…
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’m worried that Claire Foy is in danger of being typecast. She’s just played someone trapped in an institutionalised system surrounded by oddballs and fruitcakes… and now she’s taken on something similar to The Crown in Unsane! I feel an acting stretch/career injection is now required and she needs to look at the possibility of remaking One Flew Over Cuckoo’s Nest or Shutter Island? RACHAEL WARWICK, VIA EMAIL 08
Well, Foy is playing Lisbeth Salander in the upcoming The Girl In The Spider’s Web – you can’t really get much further from HRH than that. Unless one does like to dabble in a little hardcore cyber-hacking between one’s Commonwealth commitments.
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n response to your Star Letter in issue 271, it’s all very well imploring readers to “watch films as they should be seen” in the cinema – but as a family of four, it costs us around £50 to watch a film at our local cinema, not including the mandatory snacks and drinks for the kids. It costs a small fraction of that to stream a film at home. I’m perfectly content
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enjoyed reading your Star Letter, and I know that the whole cinema vs streaming thing is a hot topic right now, but I think it’s a bit of a pointless debate – surely the cinema is a medium that is going the way of the dodo? These days nearly everyone has a 50-inch TV on their wall equipped with the very latest surround sound. Added to which, you can watch the film in total comfort and without people blocking your view when they walk past to head to the toilets, or talk loudly and make you miss important parts of the movie. To me, cinema is set to go the way of Betamax and VHS tapes! OWEN HOLLIFIELD, BARGOED Looks like this one is set to run and run (unlike half of our videotapes, which to borrow Rob’s phrase, would tend to slurp and crunch after about three viewings). So, new question: what could/should cinemas do to lure doubters away from their living rooms and 50-inchers? Speaking of which – Owen, if you hear the sound of a beanbag being dragged to your front
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bit.ly/2HHBtva We used up more emojis than The Emoji Movie when this carefully curated package arrived for the DVD release of Ingrid Goes West. Once that avocado tree grows it’ll be avo on toast for every meal.
WONDER(OUS) EASTER EGG bit.ly/2qEZKtF Weeks since Easter and we’re still getting through this beast, which has outlasted both the book and film of Wonder it came with. Seriously, the choc’s so thick in places we’re thinking of contacting a tree surgeon.
VISITOR OF THE MONTH CENTURY bit.ly/2qEbhu8 Mr. Stay-Puft, The Alien, Aaron Eckhart… none can hold a candle to our greatest-ever guest, military dog Lola, who popped in with her ace handler Sgt. Donna Smith to promote Rex on home-ent. Lola, la la la Lola…
BUTT-CHUG KIT OF THE MONTH bit.ly/2HKxJco We thought we’d spare Twitter’s blushes by not doing a full John-Cena-in-Blockers bumguzzling performance; you’ll just have to picture it for yourself. Then un-picture it, if you can.
TF ON THE RAMPAGE bit.ly/2H6H1SH Getting this vintage machine through the door was nearly a disaster movie in itself, but it was worth it for a whole morning of vintage buttonpummelling. Winners got Rampage premiere tickets!
INFINITY WAR POSTER POLL bit.ly/2qDFSrC Choose your fave character poster, we said. You said… “I like the one where the hero is looking intently over his/her shoulder” (@GivenToFly44); “The one where I can rest my pint on Cap’s bum” (@frontierwoman).
A QUIET PLACE: YOU SOUND OFF bit.ly/2HHooSr “We brought crisps, and instantly regretted it” (David Thornton); “One chew every two minutes for me” (Stevie Hill); “Everyone quiet except four teens who arrived late and started Snapchatting” (Azat Bay).
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The bling sting OCEAN’s 8 I Move over Clooney and Pitt. Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett lead a new wave in sharp-dressed, smartly executed crime…
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ven the best-laid confidence trick in the world would not have secured 2007’s Ocean’s Thirteen high returns on the Bechdel test. Right up-front, George Clooney’s Danny and Brad Pitt’s Rusty offered only the flimsiest of excuses (“Not their fight…”) for the absences of Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta-Jones from the stag do of a trilogy-closer. Ellen Barkin, meanwhile, had to endure those thumpingly naff seduction scenes with Matt Damon and his false conk.
Happily, the tables are turning for Ocean’s 8, a female-fronted refreshment of the caper-flick franchise. And if your brain aches at the notion of a reboot of a reboot (Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven rebooted 1960’s Rat Pack original), take comfort in the alternative description
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Sandra Bullock gave EW: “We’re not a reboot… It’s not even a passing of the torch. It’s a parallel story of another family member that was raised in the same family Danny Ocean was.” Bullock leads the Ocean’s line-up as Danny’s sister Debbie, who emerges from “five years, eight months and 12
days” in prison with the declared intent to, “Hold down a job, make some friends, y’know – pay my bills.” All of which is true, though perhaps not in the way her interlocutors hoped. Concocting a major heist at New York’s Met Gala, Debbie needs the best friends going for the job of cracking “the most sophisticated security system in the world”. The hoped-for pay-offs? Plenty of high-stakes dough for Deb’s bills. And plenty of high-risk variables for director Gary Ross’ film. Enter Cate Blanchett as Pitt-style sidekick Lou and Helena Bonham Carter as stylist Rose, fronting a crew
heist school Sarah Paulson’s Tammy and Rihanna’s Nine Ball both sign up to join Debbie Ocean’s (Sandra Bullock) eight.
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whose skill set runs to the impressively diverse, on and off-screen: R&B stadium-filler Rihanna plays hacker Nine Ball, stage/TV/film star Sarah Paulson is fence Tammy, TV rapper/ comic Awkwafina is street con Constance and A Wrinkle In Time’s Mindy Kaling is jeweller Amita. Also on-hand is Anne Hathaway as movie star Daphne Kluger, whose eye-watering $150m diamond necklace waters Debbie’s eyes more than most. The Ocean’s formula doesn’t appear to have altered much, but nor should it. Instead, the trailers foreground the intent to revive series starter Eleven’s slick, quick pleasures, from the echo of Danny’s prison release in Debbie’s parole hearing onwards. And lingering ambiguities boost the interest levels. How does Damian Lewis’ villain figure in Debbie’s plan? What’s with that gravestone shot? Who will be numero eight in Deb’s as-yet sevenstrong team? And who’s Dakota Fanning playing? This much is certain: up front, 8 offers a tantalisingly welcome entry in the femalefronted franchise makeover market. While 2016’s Ghostbusters didn’t bust the desired blocks, 8’s trailers offer all the displays of unruffled professionalism an Ocean’s viewing requires, right down to that image of the leads looking cool enough to get away with crime on the subway. Or, at least, to get away with wearing shades on a train. And if the setup of a gang of women united on a job seems doubly welcome and timely in the #timesup climate, Bullock doesn’t dismiss the resonances. “I don’t even want to touch on that other subject,” she told EW. “But women are now taking care of each other. We all were like, ‘OK, let’s just take care of each other for these six months and relish this opportunity we’re being given.’” As Awkwafina says, “When you have a group of strong women like that together, it’s empowering.” And, going by the trailers, it’s also a chance to have a ball. A Nine Ball in the case of Rihanna, whose deadpan trailer
presence suggests she’ll fare better than in Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets. Hathaway plays her seemingly dizzy celeb with relish, while Paulson looks well cast as a stay-at-home mother eager to rediscover hidden talents for “mommy’s very special work”. For Kaling, it’s an opportunity to speak a script made of something sharper than quotes after her Mrs. Who in A Wrinkle In Time. And for Bullock, it’s a chance to flex her comic smarts and reinforce her Clooney connections after Our Brand Is Crisis, in which she played a role originally intended for big George. While Clooney and Soderbergh are co-producing this time, Ross seems a better-than-sturdy choice of helmer after his work with The Hunger Games. Ross also co-wrote the script with Olivia Milch, whose on-point previous includes (as writer and director) female-fronted graduation comedy Dude, writing duties on a new adaptation of Little Women and a rewrite gig on Queen & Country, a graphic novel adaptation about a female spy; Ridley Scott and Ellen Page are linked. Besides co-stars Lewis, James Corden and Richard Armitage, Matt Damon has teased “very small” cameos from himself and a few others from the previous Ocean’s films. As for Clooney, we wouldn’t bet against a glimpse, despite that trailer shot of Danny’s grave – being dead hardly stopped him from visiting Bullock in Gravity, did it? Games of spot-the-celebrity will also up the glitz factor, with rumoured cameos from – among others – Anna Wintour, Kim Kardashian West, Olivia Munn, Zayn Malik and Katie Holmes. As for Fanning’s role, keep guessing. “I don’t think I can say too much,” she’s said. Might she be Ocean’s eighth player, or a tease for an Ocean’s 9 if Hathaway turns out to be an inside player? Either way, here’s hoping the fun and figures add up for some sequel action on this one. KH
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ETA | 22 June / Ocean’s 8 opens next month.
team player Cate Blanchett plays Lou, Ocean’s Brad Pitt-style right-hand woman (above). MYSTERY WOMAN Awkwafina (far right) completes the as-yet-announced seven. But who’ll be number eight?
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