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The horror business is booming right now. Over the last few years, it’s become one of the movie industry’s most bankable genres, financially and creatively. Ryan Coogler has already made Oscar-nomination history with a vampire flick of all things, while the combination of Barbarian and Weapons has made director Zach Cregger one of Hollywood’s most exciting new voices – and that’s to say nothing of the huge box-office success of franchise entries like The Conjuring: Last Rites, Final Destination Bloodlines and Five Nights at Freddy’s 2.Only a few months into 2026, and the year in horror is already off to another good start, between 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, entertaining killer monkey ripper Primate and Sam Raimi’s return-to-form, Send Help. Nothing on the docket for the rest of the year immediately screams ‘blockbuster,’ but that’s the great thing about horror: like a bump in the night, the hits often come from unexpected places. Here’s what has stood out like a bloody knife so far. 📽️ The best movies of 2026 (so far)🔥 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far)🧟 The 100 greatest horror movies ever made

A red sandstone amphitheatre. An ancient woodland on the English coast. A teeny tiny island with a black sand beach. Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes – luckily, the world isn’t held to the same rigid beauty standards as humans are – and we’ve curated this list to celebrate that.  It goes without saying that Time Out’s ranking of the world’s most beautiful places is entirely subjective and by no means exhaustive, but what we can guarantee is real-life experience. Every single beach, lake, city and valley on this list has been visited and vetted by our globetrotting network of travel writers. In short, they’re all well worth making the journey to see for yourself (no social media fakery here).We update this list regularly, ensuring we’re including the big-hitters while considering the impact of overtourism and spotlighting lesser-known beauty spots. So here it is: Time Out’s guide to the most beautiful places on planet Earth. Happy travels!Updated March 2026: There are seven new additions to the list this year, including a terracotta-coloured Old Town in Italy, an opulent Renaissance-style library in New York and a compact mountain range in northern Spain.Grace Beard is Time Out’s travel editor, based in London. At Time Out, all of our travel guides are written by local writers who know their cities inside out. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines. RECOMMENDED:⛰️ The most beautiful UNESCO World Heritage Sites🗺 The most underrated travel...

And we’re off. In most years, it takes a few months to assemble a list of the best movies of the year so far where the bar for quality isn’t lowered into the Earth’s core. The first quarter of the release calendar is typically where studios toss their tax writeoffs, but to this point, 2026 has outstripped expectations. In how many other years have we gotten a killer horror sequel like 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, a sharp, gross Sam Raimi return-to-form, a Gus Van Sant thriller and one of the best actor-to-director transitions in recent memory, all before April? And that’s to mention some of the smaller gems that have already popped up. As usual, this post will be updated throughout the year as highlights arrive – and there is bound to be a lot of them, between Project Hail Mary, Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, all arriving in the first half of 2026 alone. As you’ll see below, though, we’re already off to a good start. May we say that movies are… so back? 📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far)📕 15 book-to-movie adaptations to get excited about in 2026🔥 The 40 best movies of 2025

Is there anyone out there that doesn’t love Ryan Gosling? If so, that’s on them because the Canadian is currently one of the most amiable, ego-free superstars in the Hollywood firmament. Even right now, he’s probably out there goofing about with Elmo, winking at a The Notebook superfan on a red carpet or turning a shade of crimson while someone brandishes a Gosling tea towel at him in an interview. He may quail in the face of all this attention but he’s too damn likeable to let on. Leaving aside his semi-reluctant public persona and easy charm – honestly, we are – he’s also a don at piloting his career in all sorts of bold and interesting ways. Now in his mid-forties, that 20-year filmography is packed full of unexpected choices and performances. Taking in comedies, indie dramas, action flicks and at least one buddy cop masterpiece, he’s got a great eye for material and the range to make the most of it. Who else could play a neo-Nazi and Ken? His latest movie role is one of his best yet: teacher turned reluctant astronaut Ryland Grace in Lord and Miller sci-fi adventure epic Project Hail Mary. Here’s where it ranks on his filmography to date.

Right now, it feels like a great time to celebrate our cities. What cities do best is bring people together – everything we love about urban life, from the galleries and bars to the neighbourhood parks, exists thanks to the communities that make it all happen.  That’s why, every year, we raise a toast to the city with our definitive annual ranking, created on the back of a comprehensive survey of city-dwellers worldwide. Our survey asks not only what people love about their cities – the food scene and nightlife, the shops and museums, the parks and people – but also how it feels to live there. We asked you about happiness, affordability and quality of life, among a variety of other criteria. And, in order to dig deeper into the everyday lives of locals, this year we expanded our survey to cover aspects like love, romance and community feel. Time Out’s Best Cities with Intrepid Travel spotlights the destinations that offer the best of both worlds: an endlessly exciting catalogue of reasons to visit, as well as all the good stuff that makes a place feel like home. The 50 cities that made the list this year did so thanks to the insights of more than 24,000 people across 150 cities worldwide. To determine the final Best Cities ranking for 2026, we combined their thousands of responses with the votes of more than 100 Time Out city experts. Then we tapped up our network of local writers to tell us exactly what makes their city worth a visit right now. The result? A rundown of...

Updates for 2026: One of the best movies of 2025, Pillion mixes tender emotions and kinky sex into a BDSM romcom that’s funny, hot and heartbreaking all at once. In the past few decades, queer cinema has made major strides – not just in reaching mainstream audiences, but in redefining what ‘queer cinema’ actually looks like. In the past, if gay lives and issues were ever allowed to be addressed on screen at all, the viewpoint was often limited to that of white, cisgender men. But the LGBTQ+ experience is not a monolith, and recent years have seen the scope of queer film expand to include the voices of the trans community and people of colour. That’s not to mention the kind of stories being told, from the dom-com of Pillion to the atmospheric horror of I Saw the TV Glow to the romantic ghost story All Of Us Strangers. Obviously, there are still many barriers left to breach, but the progress of the last half-century or so deserves to be celebrated. To that end, we enlisted some LGBTQ+ cultural pioneers, as well as Time Out writers, to assist in assembling a list of the greatest gay films ever made.  Written by Cath Clarke, Dave Calhoun, Stephen A Russell, Tom Huddleston, Alim Kheraj, Guy Lodge, Ben Walters and Matthew Singer. RECOMMENDED: 🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time🎥 The 65 best documentaries of all-time😍 The 100 best romantic films of all-time🤣 The 100 best comedies of all-time

For a long time, Irish movies played predominantly to Irish audiences. Before the 2000s, it was for a movie from the Emerald Isle to reach a global audience. It still is. But whenever one does make it off the island, it’s going to hit you hard. Think of the quietly poignant romantic musical Once, or Daniel Day-Lewis’s breakthrough in Jim Sheridan’s My Left Foot, or Martin McDonagh’s Oscar-nominated study of friendship in peril The Banshees of Inisherin. Whether the genre, the best Irish movies breathe with a soul reflective of the country’s centuries of history and the idiosyncrasies of its people. There’s no reason to wait until St Patrick’s Day to watch these classics – but if you need an excuse to crack into these 20 selections, we can’t think of a better one. Recommended: 🗼 The best films set in Paris💂‍♀️ The best London movies☘ The best Irish songs for St. Patrick’s Day

There’s never been a better – or more important – time to celebrate cinemas. They’re the places we go to dream, focal points of our communities, and an all-round great escape. Yet movie theatres are faced with challenges that even lovelty popcorn holders can’t help with. But they’ve survived the advent of TV, Hollywood strikes, a couple of pandemics, and so far, they’re holding firm against streaming and surging costs – and there’s reasons for optimism, too: younger, Letterboxd-savvy audiences are embracing the big-screen experience like never before, and filmmakers like Ryan Coogler, Christopher Nolan and Chloé Zhao are championing it at every opportunity. Just try booking an IMAX ticket for The Odyssey. With that in mind, Time Out’s local experts have collaborated on a celebration of the best cinemas from across the globe. From cult Tokyo cinemas and grand Parisian film temples to beloved Sydney picturehouses and LA film dream palaces, from a Berlin kino with its own nuclear bunker to a Canadian cinema with only 12 seats, we’ve pointed the spotlight on a hundred magnificent movie palaces that all movie lovers should know about – and visit.  NB We’ve gone almost entirely with single-use cinemas rather than venues that double up as theatres or gig venues.  Greatest cinemas at a glance: 🍿 The greatest cinema in the world: TCL Chinese Theatre, LA 🌔 The world’s best outdoor cinema: Cine Paris, Athens 📽️ The coolest cult cinema in the world: The New Beverly, LA Jump to...

Cutting cable isn’t as cost-effective as it used to be. New streaming platforms seem to arrive with the wind while the old ones continually raise their rates, and by the time you’re done subscribing you may realise you have spent more money than you’ll ever have time to watch all the stuff you want – or you find out there’s not that much you want to even watch in the first place. But what if we told you there was an easily accessible website out there with a trove of legitimately awesome movies available to stream 24/7, and entirely for free? This obscure gem of a site is called… YouTube. That’s right: the site known primarily as the go-to repository for cat videos and instructions for fixing your toilet is hiding an impressive catalogue of classic public domain cinema of the sort many other streamers don’t bother with, from silent era milestones to essential deep-cuts.  If you don’t mind sitting through a bunch of commercials, YouTube has a full channel of ad-supported modern films as well. But if you’re looking to bone up on your movie history, check out the 30 flicks below, with links included. Recommended: 🎬 100 best movies of all time💣 The greatest thrillers ever made🤘 The best cult classic movies of all-time🌍 The best foreign films of all-time

With the return of The Night Manager, Industry and Hulu’s A Thousand Blows, the home viewing year has kicked off in head-spinning style. And with HBO’s Game of Thrones spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and Netflix’s How to Get To Heaven From Belfast, the latest from the creator of Derry Girls, the array of small-screen offerings are landing at dizzying speeds well into the spring. We have stopped at nothing – not sleep, not family responsibilities – to watch all of it and curate this list of the best shows to give your limited spare time over to. You don’t have forever to spend on the sofa so make it count with something from our list of the best of the year so far. Recommended: 📽️ The best movies of 2026 (so far)🔥 The best TV and streaming shows of 2025📺 The 100 greatest TV shows of all time