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Happy Pride Month, one and all! It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and to celebrate, we asked Time Out’s LGBTQ+-identifying writers and editors to tell us all about their favourite city on the planet. The resulting list covers all four corners of the globe, from the beaches of Brazil to the creative hub of Glasgow’s Southside. These are cities with a vibrant queer community, cities that support and protect LGBTQ+ citizens and visitors, and cities that are notable hubs for LGBTQ+ life in their respective countries and regions. So, what are the world’s most LGBTQ+-friendly cities? While we couldn’t possibly name them all, these are some of our favourites. RECOMMENDED:🗻 The world’s best places to travel alone🗺 The world’s most underrated travel destinations😎 The coolest neighbourhoods in the world  

Do our sofas need to see more of us? Probably not after the past few years, but such is the calibre of small-screen (and let’s face it, iPhone) entertainment these days, they’ll just need to lump it. Because the so-called golden age of television and streaming continues to produce nuggets with indecent and almost impossible-to-keep-up-with regularity, bingeing options are almost limitless. Some older viewers may even find themselves pining for the days where the remote control was a passport to three or max, four, channels, and it all felt manageable.   The tyranny of choice can be overwhelming, so to help, we’re narrowing things down... a long way down. We’re ranking the must-see series of the year to date to pare things down to telly’s must-watch elite.  And there’s loads of potential bingeable fare ahead too, with another season of Netflix’s warm and fuzzy Heartstopper and Hulu’s massively ace The Bear, a long-awaited return for Charlie Brooker’s bleakly brilliant dystopian visions in Black Mirror season 6, more regal shenanigans with The Crown, the thrilling climax of Stranger Things and an emotional finale for Henry Cavill in The Witcher. Keep an eye out for more hits to come, in other words. They’ll all be here. RECOMMENDED: 🔥 The best movies of 2023 (so far).🎞️ The best movies to catch at the cinema this month. 📺 From House of Cards to Beef: the greatest Netflix originals,

The year is young but the films already have a vintage sheen to them. Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans has invited us to ride shotgun through the filmmaking great’s boyhood, the true-life drama Till showcased the virtuoso brilliance of Danielle Deadwyler, queer British gem Blue Jean introduced a bold new talent in Georgia Oakley, and French courtroom drama Saint Omer evoked just comparisons with Carl Theodor Dreyer. And at the lighter end of the spectrum, Oscar-nominated animation Marcel The Shell With Shoes On has warmed our cockles, while Hirokazu Koreeda’s Broker turns out to be surprisingly life-affirming for a movie about trafficking babies. Donkey odyssey EO, meanwhile, has a hoof in both camps. Then there’s the meme-fest that is A.I. horror-comedy M3GAN, a sure-fire franchise starter that’s given us all a new creepy doll to fixate on.  For the purposes of this list, we’re sticking with films that came out in the UK during 2023, but whatever your taste, there’s already been plenty of winners worth a trip to your local kino. Cinema is healing, people.  RECOMMENDED: 📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2023 (so far)🔥 The 35 best films of 2022🎥 The 100 greatest movies ever made😬 The best thriller films of all-time

It’s safe to say that the murder-mystery is back. After decades of being woefully out of fashion, the classic whodunnit has returned to cultural prominence, thanks in large part to the leftfield success of 2019’s Knives Out and its even bigger follow-up, Glass Onion. Now, it seems like you can’t look through a magnifying glass without seeing a dead body that’s turned up under suspicious circumstances, either in cinemas (the recent remakes of Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile) or on television (Only Murders in the Building, Poker Face).  It’s a welcome return for many reasons. For one thing, murder-mystery movies are one of cinema’s foundational genres, and having them back in style has a way of reconnecting viewers with film history. Also, in the age of streaming, when most of us struggle to pay full attention to whatever’s on television while doomscrolling on Twitter, movies that force us to engage, follow clues and essentially become a participation serve as an ideal antidote to distracted viewing. With a renaissance now in full swing, we felt it was time to round up some of the genre’s classics, along with its hidden gems. Here are 40 of the best. Contributors: Phil de Semlyen, Matthew Singer, Annette Richardson, Ashanti Omkar Recommended:🕵️ The 100 best thriller films of all time🔪 The best true crime documentaries on Netflix in the US🔥 The 100 greatest films ever made

Let’s face it: making it through an entire movie isn’t always easy, especially when you’re curled up on the couch underneath four blankets and nursing a cup of tea. Sometimes, it’s simply a matter of finding a film that’ll force you to stay awake by frying your nerves and jacking your heart rate up. Netflix contains plenty of movies that fit the mould, but finding them requires wading through endless catalogue filler advertised with a preview photo of some anonymous dude sprinting from an explosion. If you want a thriller that actually thrills, we’ve dug out these 22 flicks that’ll truly take you for a wild ride. Here are the best thrillers streaming on Netflix right now. Recommended: 😬 The best thriller films of all-time💣 The 101 best action movies ever made🔎 The best murder-mystery movies of all-time🍆 The 35 steamiest erotic thrillers

Snobby cineastes may insist otherwise, but the movies cannot survive on mannered costume dramas and four-hour experimental art films alone. Sometimes, all audiences want is to sit down in a theatre with a high-tech sound system and get their senses blown to bits by loud explosions, pulse-pounding car chases and well-detonated one liners – and in those instances, only an action movie will do. In many ways, action flicks are cinema’s pressure relief valve, the thing you throw on to relieve your mind of the stresses of the modern world and massage that part of your brain that just wants to see some stuff get blowed up real good. But the truth is that action needn’t be dumb to succeed. Many are beautiful and almost operatic in their orchestration of violence. Some can karate chop you right in the heart. And even those that aim for nothing more than visceral thrills can stick with you in a way more subdued and subtle films cannot. To put together this list of the best action movies ever made, we polled over 50 experts in the field, from Die Hard director John McTiernan to Machete himself, Danny Trejo, along with our Time Out writers, and the results show a genre as versatile as any other – and in many cases, way more fun. Written by Eddy Frankel, Eddy Frankel, Joshua Rothkopf, Trevor Johnston, Ashley Clark, Grady Hendrix, Tom Huddleston, Keith Uhlich, Dave Calhoun, Phil de Semlyen,  Dave Calhoun & Matthew Singer Recommended: 🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time😬 The 100 best thrill

The movies are full of monsters, representing the entire range of human fears and weaknesses. None, however, is more frightening than the serial killer. That’s because the idea of somebody who murders simply for the thrill of taking a life isn’t a cinematic invention – it’s not a giant lizard symbolising Cold War anxiety, or a demonic force feeding off our deepest insecurities. It’s just a fellow person who, through either nature or nurture, has had their moral compass completely, irreparably shattered. And they don’t go away when the screen shuts off. They live among us. Maybe even next door. Maybe in your own house. Why, then, would anyone voluntarily watch a movie about something that’s not just terrifying, but terrifyingly real? For one thing, the best movies about serial killers aren’t about delivering transgressive shocks – at least, that’s not their only function. They also question the role society plays in making a murderer, and interrogate how a culture can devalue life to such a degree that some deeply damaged folks feel comfortable taking one. But there’s also something to be said for art that forces audiences to confront the worst of humanity, rather than pretending it doesn’t exist. These movies dare to root around in the darkest corners of the human psyche – and they’re guaranteed to leave you shaken. Recommended: 🔪 The best true-crime documentaries on Netflix in the US👹 Cinema’s creepiest anthology horror movies🩸 The 15 scariest horror movies based on true

Beaches have a very simple sort of a appeal. Picture-perfect definitions of paradise, these stunning spots of land demand one thing and one thing only: to lie down and chill out (whilst, obvs, slathered in a healthy dose of sunscreen). But while many beaches are unified by sun, sea and sand, no two beaches are truly alike. Nature just doesn’t work that way. Stretches of volcanic black sand couldn’t be further from tropical coves or vibe-heavy city beaches. But they’re all magnificent – and the ones below are the absolute best that this planet has to offer. RECOMMENDED: ✅ Our full guide to the best things to do in the world in 2023🌊 The most spectacular places to swim in the world🤿 The most beautiful wild swimming spots in the UK

Summer’s here and that means bigger movies – and more of them – to keep us heading back to the theater. There’s something for everyone, too, including a new Pixar animation, a hero’s return for Indiana Jones, another burst of vehicular mayhem from the Fast & Furious franchise, a superhero movie or two (because… obviously), a new Christopher Nolan joint, some giant smashy robots and a dose or two of road-trip mayhem Oh, and a small character drama called Barbie. Here are summer viewing options. Recommended:🔥 The best movies of 2023 (so far)📺 The best TV shows of 2023 (so far) you need to stream

So 2023 is in full swing, and podcast releases are showing no sign of slowing down. And us? We're keeping up the demand. BBC Three’s April 2023 release, the fascinating ‘A Very British Cult’, has taken the world by storm (and made it to our top ten), while 2022’s ‘Unreal’ has claimed our fourth spot for being equal parts fun and nostalgic. But hey, there’s got to be room for the golden oldies, too – as we await its fourth series, notorious investigative podcast ‘Serial’ is our number one.  In our list of the best podcasts right now, we've got political podcasts that look behind the news, comedy podcasts with your favourite funny people, and plenty of those all-important investigative whodunnits to keep you up at night. Whatever you’re into, it’s all here. And if you’re looking to dig deeper into one genre, try our specialist lists on for size (you’ll find them below). Happy listening.  Contributors: Anna Rahmanan, Eddy Frankel, Andy Kryza, Phil de Semlyen, Alex Plim, Dave Calhoun, Andrzej Lukowski, Cass Knowlton, Dalia Barth, Isabelle Aron, Alexandra Sims and Matthew Singer, Joe Mackertich, Huw Oliver, Ella Doyle, Rose Johnstone, Jess Phillips, Charlie Liddington. RECOMMENDED:🎧 The best podcasts on Spotify🔪 The best true crime podcasts🎶 The best music podcasts