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Total Film Magazine - Issue 171

Features
By Dan Goodswen published 5 August 2010

The blockbuster movie preview...

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Cover

Cover

No, this isn’t some weird alternative Avengers – it’s a super-montage heading up our Blockbuster Movie Preview, giving you the lowdown on 39 upcoming biggies.

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Buzz

Buzz

Five things you need to know about new Spidey, Andrew Garfield – plus Christina Aguilera shakes her moneymaker in Burlesque and Toby Kebbell gets his hands on a big gun.

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Classic Scene

Classic Scene

This month’s Classic Scene unmasks the secrets of The Dark Knight ’s killer bank-heist opener. How DO you get a bus inside a building?

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Reviews

Reviews

She was last month’s cover star and now she’s this month’s lead review – find out whether superspy flick Salt is really worth its um, you know, what’s the word…

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That Ain't A Knife...

That Ain't A Knife...

Breaking the seal on our Hot Ticket preview, it’s grindhouse gob-smacker Machete, including exclusive chats with Danny Trejo and Jessica Alba. Whom he’s kissed. Eight times.

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Harry potty

Harry potty

More sizzling preview action: this time it’s the beginning of the end of the biggest franchise in cine-history. We quiz Master Potter himself about upping the ante…

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Evil in residence

Evil in residence

It’s never going to excite Oscar voters, yet Resident Evil is one of the most enduring action/horror franchises of the past decade. We chinwag exclusively with Milla Jovovich and Paul WS Anderson on the set of part four, Afterlife …

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Raider, uninterrupted

Raider, uninterrupted

Angelina Jolie: My Life In Pictures. And words too, all chosen by the lady herself. “I’d love to do a sequel,” she says. But to which film? Buy it! Read it!

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Genie without bottle

Genie without bottle

The Total Film Interview this month is Robin Williams. You will cry with laughter until your body is a dehydrated husk on the ground.

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Lounge

Lounge

Profane, hilarious, taboo-busting: and that’s just our review of Kick-Ass , teeing off this month’s home entertainment bible.

Also on the menu: Clint, Arnie, Ricky Gervais and the sequel to This Is England .

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