Total Film
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Total Film, published by Future Publishing, is the United Kingdom's second best-selling film magazine, after the longer-established Empire from Emap. It offers film and DVD news, reviews, and features. Total Film launched in 1996 and published its 100th issue for April 2005.
Total Film picture editor Sarah Tully has been immortalised in song by The Various Assortments. Their song MST (Ms Sarah Tully) describes the band's experience watching The Godfather in unusual circumstances at a young Sarah's house.
Current features
- Letters Page: Send letters to totalfilm@futurenet.co.uk or write to
Letters Total Film 99 Baker Street London W1U 6FP
TF offer a DVD or other film-related prize to each published letter.
- Access: Details on upcoming films including ETAs, vital stats, buzz and interesting trivia. Also includes Rumours - keeping tabs possible future projects; new posters; new trailers; Greenlight - films entering preproduction.
- Rough Cut: A medley of details on upcoming films, new releases, film events, new talent, interviews and fun stuff including The Abridged Script and How To...s
- New Films: Review section that always gives director, release date, certificate, running time, synopsis/review and a verdict out of five stars. Larger releases also get cast details (main cast revealed in review for smaller releases), writers, distributor, seperate synopsis, pictures and the Predicted Interest Curve that marks key points in the film and recommends that you 'see this if you liked...'. At the end there are summaries of unreviewed new releases, the best films still on release and UK and US box office.
- Main section: Articles on upcoming films, people in films, retrospectives, The Total Film Interview
- Total Film Spin: DVD guide including news, Q and As, reviews of new films, retro films, TV, books, hardware, games and soundtracks.
- The Total Film Quiz: varies from week to week but generally includes rounds on spot the difference, recent films, superimposed pictures, connecting people and hard questions at the end. Marks are out of 50 and answers are readable with a mirror.
- The magazine always finishes with questions from readers at a film personality in a section called You've Got Mail.
