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No./1 Wonder Woman swings into the ’80s • Director PATTY JENKINS on setting Diana Prince loose in the era of excess
No./2 The teen film that breaks the rules • Director Sarah Gavron helps teenage girls tell their own story in London coming-of-age drama ROCKS
Archie Yates • THE TEN-YEAR-OLD HAS WON RAVES FOR HIS SCENE-STEALING TURN AS YORKI IN JOJO RABBIT, AND WILL STAR IN THE HOME ALONE REBOOT
No./3 How I convinced Nicolas Cage to play Nicolas Cage • The writer-director behind the Cage meta-movie speaks exclusively about his insane, high-concept gamble
No./4 ALL THE PRESIDENTS’ FILMS • President Trump watched Joker, a film about an anarchist, in the White House. We look at three Presidential film screenings with a personal link to a POTUS
No./5 The women blowing up action movies • Margot Robbie and screenwriter Christina Hodson speak for the first time on their female-driven action-movie script programme that could shake up the industry
No./6 Tackling the greatest storyteller • How do you even begin to tell the story of one of the most towering writers of modern times?
No./8 The Tom Hanks niceness graph • Mathematically tracking the relative virtue of cinema’s ultimate good guy, across an extremely agreeable career
No./7 The Wire: The Prequel • Jimmy McNulty himself, Dominic West, on the prequel to the all-time great TV show that just might happen
No./9 The Man Who Was Nearly Killed By Don Quixote • After a torturous 30-year journey, director TERRY GILLIAM is finally able to show The Man Who Killed Don Quixote to British audiences — and even then, only just
No./10 The big mysteries around Ghostbusters: Afterlife • The first trailer for Jason Reitman’s reboot arrived this month — leaving us with more questions than answers
No./11 GOLDEN SNUBS • Once again, the Golden Globes seem to have forgotten female filmmakers in their nominations — here are three films they might want to check out
No./12 Mark Ruffalo’s guide to saving the world • Hollywood’s most active activist on being the change you want to see in the world
No./13 How Scorsese plans to out-epic The Irishman • Four reasons to get excited by Martin Scorsese’s next crime masterpiece-in-the-making, Killers Of The Flower Moon
SORRY, BUT... • Specialists on what the movies get wrong
No./14 “This was a chance to go a little more theatrical” • After breaking through in God’s Own Country and stealing the show inThe Crown, JOSH O’CONNORshows a very different side inEmma
No./15 Why I took on my darkest, weirdest role yet • Imogen Poots, star of Green Room and 28 Weeks Later , on making her sci-fi debut in creepy suburban horror Vivarium
No./16 BELLIGERENT BIRDS • Our avian friends have been stealing the cinematic limelight of late. And getting a tad hostile with it
No./17 Forget the Justice League. Meet the Justice Society • DC’s next superhero ensemble? A lesser-known team from the 1940s — who’ll soon be rubbing shoulders with Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam
PILLARS OF SOCIETY • Three Justice Society Of America comic runs to read ahead of Black Adam
Black Widow • Unfiltered,...