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October update: Halloween season delivers a monster month of new genre offerings, with doggy horror Good Boy, Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and landline-sploitation sequel The Black Phone 2 all here to scare us semi-witless. Unlike many of its monsters, vampires and virus-y Alphas, the horror genre is alive and well. It is, you might even say, well-endowed. Because anyone who loves that shivery sensation of being spooked witless in a cinema is being a lot better served than anyone searching for big laughs. The biggest stories in horror this year – Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, Zach Cregger’s Weapons – have packed in audiences and birthed a million memes along the way, but don’t sleep on the following flicks either. Best horrors of 2025 at a glance: 📍 28 Years Later – Netflix (US); also on Prime Video/Apple TV+📍 Nosferatu - US: streaming on Prime Video; US & UK: rent/buy on PVOD📍 Sinners – US: streaming on Max; UK: rent/buy on PVOD📍 Weapons – Rent/buy now on Prime Video/Apple TV (PVOD); still in some cinemas📍 Final Destination: Bloodlines – Max (US); US & UK: rent/buy on PVOD

If you were lucky enough to grow up pre-Y2K, you would have likely known little about Korea beyond the conflict in the back pages of your school history book. But that all changed when, in the aftermath of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the country doubled down on funding exportable pop culture in an attempt to rebrand the country on the world stage. The gambit, part designed to attract big business and tourism, was a wild success – and now we have K-Pop, K-dramas and kimchi pouring out of our ears. One of the biggest proponents of the ‘hallyu’ wave, though, has always been filmmaking – with Hollywood-style action blockbuster Shiri; brutal revenge thriller Oldboy; and Academy Awards triumph Parasite among the most resounding victories of a national cinema revitalised from the brink of anonymity. We simply can’t get enough of it today. And for good reason: South Korea is a goldmine of original ideas and storytelling talents who show no signs of taking their feet off the gas as the industry thrives. So why not huff on the metaphorical fumes? Our list of the best Korean movies of all time billows below.Recommended:🇫🇷 The 100 best French movies of all-time🇯🇵 The 50 best Japanese movies of all-time🇭🇰 The 100 best Hong Kong movies of all-time🇮🇹 The best Italian movies of all time: from Bicycle Thieves to The Great Beauty

If you’re a child, chances are you’ve had your Halloween costume planned out for months, and it’s probably not particularly unique. Let us guess: a ghost? Vampire? One of the Avengers? All right, short-stack, you’re new to this, so we’ll give you a pass. But if you’re an adult going through all the trouble of dressing up and leaving the house, something generic isn’t going to cut it. And if you’re not going to go ironic or overly clever, you might as well be relevant. Thankfully, this year’s crop of movies provides a ton of inspiration. If you’re a bit behind, here are seven films to watch before making up your mind. Recommended: 🧟 The 100 best horror movies of all-time😱 The best horror movies of 2025 (so far)🎃 The best Halloween movies of all-time

Updated October 2025: From summer blockbusters to festival sleepers, these are the 25 movies our critics think define 2025 so far. Expect prestige dramas, horror gems, wild indies and some surprise streaming hits - all watched and ranked by Time Out’s film team. Quick Picks: 2025’s best films by genre: 😂 Best comedy: The Naked Gun 😱 Best horror movie: Weapons 🥋 Best action movie: One Battle After Another🎭 Best drama: Nickel Boys🪆 Best family film: Flow September brought Splitsville, a whip-smart indie screwball about two couples testing open marriages, The Lost Bus, Paul Greengrass’s tense wildfire epic starring an on-form Matthew McConaughey, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. With three quarters of the year gone, a few trends are starting to emerge. Superhero movies aren’t dead, but they’re no longer the guaranteed juggernauts they once were. Family films are booming. Gen Z is generating its own IP. Audiences still crave horror. And China’s home-grown hits are driving the global box office without Hollywood’s help. After years of post-pandemic hand-wringing, the film industry looks to be in better health than anyone expected. Sure, awards season could still change everything, but so far 2025 has given us plenty to celebrate – from genre-smashing auteur vehicles like Sinners and Weapons, to daring experiments such as The Nickel Boys, Flow and Better Man, and welcome returns from directors like Steven Soderbergh and Danny Boyle. In short, it’s...

Science fiction isn’t just for nerds anymore. In truth, it never really was. While often marginalised as a niche interest, the best sci-fi films do what every good movie strives to do: tell us something about ourselves and the world around us. The only difference is that it might invent an entirely different world – if not an entire universe – to do so. Ultimately, the sci-fis that stick out are the ones that deal with themes and issues anyone can relate to, not just the geeks writing 4000-word theoretical treatises on fan forums – and that was true even before it became one of entertainment’s most bankable genres. To that end, in order to put together our list of the 100 best sci-fi movies ever made, we asked a wide-ranging panel of experts, from Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse, to Oscar-decorated film director Guillermo del Toro, to Game of Thrones creator George RR Martin, along with a few regular old Time Out writers. As a result, it’s a list that crisscrosses the sci-fi universe, from Tatooine to Arrakis, Metropolis to Los Angeles circa, uh, 2019.   Recommended: 🚀 Charlie Brooker’s ten favourite sci-fi movies👽 The best sci-fi shows streaming on Netflix🦄 The 50 best fantasy movies of all-time

October 2025 update: With the 2025 Emmy Awards winners crowning Adolescence and The Pitt as must-watch series, we’ve updated our list of the best new TV Shows and streaming series of 2025 so far.We’ve all heard the phrase ‘TV’s golden age’ enough times over the past couple of decades to get wary of the hyperbole, but this year does seem to be shaping up to be a kind of mini golden age for the TV follow-up. Severance, Andor, Wednesday and Poker Face have all built on incredibly satisfying first seasons with equally masterful second runs. The third season of The White Lotus has proved that, whether you love it or find it a touch too languorous, there’s no escaping Mike White’s transgressive privilege-in-paradise satire. Likewise for season 7 of Charlie Brooker’s dystopian-flavoured sci-fi Black Mirror. Watercooler viewing is everywhere at the moment, and that’s not going to change anytime soon, with Stranger Things coming to an end and about a zillion other things still come. Here’s everything you need to see... so far.  Best TV and streaming shows at a glance: 📍 The Pitt (Emmy Best Drama winner) – watch on HBO Max in the US📍 Adolescence (Best Limited Series winner) – watch on Netflix worldwide📍 Severance season 2 (multiple acting wins) – watch on Apple TV+ worldwide📍 The Studio (Best Comedy winner) – watch on Apple TV+ worldwide📍 Andor season 2 (Emmy-winning writing) – watch on Disney+ worldwide 

If you’re going on a trip to Copenhagen next year, forget about sending a postcard. From the end of 2025, Denmark’s national postal service, PostNord, has announced the removal of all 1,500 postboxes across the country and a total cessation of letter deliveries. Edged out of the market by parcel delivery services and digital communications, postal services can no longer see a business case for these frivolous rectangles of card.  We’re all digital these days, and so the once-beloved holiday postcard is dead, it seems to say. But is it? I’ve spent the last couple of weeks looking into the history and fate of the postcard. Is it a relic of holidays past, or does it have a place – besides being relegated to a collectible souvenir – in today’s digitised world? It turns out that the humble postcard, since the very start, has been the master of reinvention. From its beginnings as a communications innovator to its popularity in niche communities today, it’s moved with the times and flexed to suit our needs for over 200 years. Whatever PostNord and Royal Mail say, it isn’t about to stop now. An early Austrian postcard from 1872 | Photograph: The Postal Museum When postcards arrived in Britain in 1870, they were seen as the fastest and cheapest way to send a message, Georgina Tomlinson, curator at The Postal Museum in London, told me.  ‘It cost half the price of a letter when it came in, and was seen as a postal innovation,’ she said. ‘They looked quite different then – one side...

It’s beginning to feel a lot like spooky season. The days are gradually getting darker, the air is ever-so-slightly crisper and the smell of pumpkin spice is already wafting through the air. So you know what’s right around the corner: a month-long marathon of horror movies. Depending on when you read this, it might all seem a bit premature. But it’s never too early to start planning your Halloween viewing. Thankfully, Netflix is a veritable pillowcase full of treats, and not just scary movies – though they’ve got a few of those. If you’re looking for something to binge, the streamer has several horror-themed series as well, ranging from the lightly spooky to the downright terrifying. Whatever kind of frights you’re in the mood for, it’s available, and here are the best of them. Recommended: 😱 The best horror movies streaming on Netflix😨 The 100 best horror movies of all-time👹 The 50 best monster movies ever made🔪 The best serial killer movies of all-time

Halloween is for the children. And so, in the run-up to the costuming and candy-gathering festivities, when planning your month-long scary movie marathon, don’t ignore the little ones. If you’re looking for gentle scares that won’t have you washing wet pajamas every night, Disney+ has you covered. You might not link horror with Disney, but even their seemingly placid animated classics contain some unsettling moments. (Think ‘Pink Elephants on Parade’ from Dumbo, or the donkey transformations in Pinocchio.) Here, we’ve compiled 19 of the spookiest movies currently streaming on the platform. Don’t worry: true to the House of Mouse, they’re more fun than frightening overall. Recommended: 🎃 The best Halloween movies for kids of all-ages👻 The best scary movies for kids of all-ages 🐭The best movies to watch on Disney+ right now

As the nights turn darker and the air feels cooler, it can only mean one thing: spooky season is upon us. The pumpkins are carved, the costume is finalised, and there’s only one thing left to sort out… a Halloween playlist that goes hard enough to have the afterlife dancing along too. When it comes to Halloween anthems, there are some stone cold classics that have soundtracked the spooky season for decades – we’re looking at you, ‘Thriller’ and ‘Ghostbusters’. But in recent years a new generation of pop ghouls have served up anthems befitting of All Hallows’ Eve. From Olivia Rodrigo’s ex-boyfriend bleeding her dry, to the bewitching melodies of Mother Monster, via the smooth tones of some immaculately styled K-Pop demons. Ironically, Halloween playlists have never felt more alive. Our favourite Halloween songs at a glance: Most iconic Halloween track: ‘Thriller’ by Michael Jackson Best new Halloween anthem: ‘Abracadabra’ by Lady Gaga Most dramatic Halloween song: ‘There Will Be Blood’ by Kim Petras Best Halloween anthem with a K-Pop twist: ‘Your Idol’ by Saja Boys Best Halloween track to dance to: ‘Monster Mash’ by Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers RECOMMENDED: 👻 The best Halloween movies of all time 🎤 The best karaoke songs 🎵 The best songs of 2025 so far 🕺 The best albums of 2025 so far