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Now that the festive season is well and truly over, we can’t be the only ones who have stopped and suddenly felt the urge to type ‘symptoms of vitamin D deficiency’ into Google. There are a good couple of months of dark evenings and chilly temperatures ahead for those residing in the northern hemisphere, after all, so why not beat the January blues and look over your options for some sun? Plenty of places bask in warmer temperatures at this time of year. But rather than fight for beach space in Tenerife, why not think outside the box? From a black sand beach town in Madeira to an off-grid Brazilian island, these are some of our favourite beyond-the-obvious destinations for a hit of winter sun, all with temperatures above the mid-teens (Celsius, obvs).  RECOMMENDED:🏰 The most underrated travel destinations in the world🗺️ Time Out editors on where you should travel in 2026🌍 The best new things to do in the world this yearLiv Kelly is Time Out’s travel writer. 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. This guide includes affiliate links, which have no influence on our editorial content. For more information, see our affiliate guidelines.

Let’s clear this up right away: no, ‘family comedy’ is not code for ‘kids movie’. At least, it doesn’t have to be. Sure, some movies described as ‘fun for the whole family’ are really just fun for the youngest ones in the household. But as these 37 films attest, it is possible for a movie to make every generation laugh in unison.  Each of the following hits just the right notes to send everyone on the couch into hysterics without making parents sweat over explaining the meaning of a few choice words, situations and possibly body parts to the littlest members of the audience. Next time the whole brood is corralled in front of the television, throw on one of these classics, and a good time is guaranteed. After all, the family that laughs together, stays together. Written by Hannah Doolin, Danielle Valente, Alim Kheraj, Oliver Strand, Andy Kryza & Matthew Singer Recommended: 👪 The 50 best family movies to stream on movie night👶 The best family movies on Netflix for all-ages🤣 The 100 best comedy movies✍ The 100 best animated movies of all-time

Updated for 2026: A year ago, hardly anyone would imagine a Paul Thomas Anderson movie making this list. Now, it’s undeniable: One Battle After Another is absolutely elite, exhilarating filmmaking that slams on the gas and never lets up for close to three hours. Action movies get a bad rap. Not necessarily from the general public, of course. Audiences love ’em, for the most part. But for hardcore cinephiles, action is too often regarded as cinematic junk food, replacing all story and substance with eardrum-shattering explosions and mindless violence. Sure, you can enjoy one every now and then, but a steady diet of loud noises, death-defying stunts and one-liners? That’s for the normies. Here’s the thing, though: if the main point of any film is to make you feel something, what produces more visceral feeling than a good action flick? Anyone who’s ever had their senses rattled by a truly great action movie knows that there are few moviegoing experiences that can compare. Another thing: not all action movies are loud and dumb. Some are nearly operatic in scope and balletic in their grace – and sometimes, you might even actually care about the person dodging bullets and delivering throat chops. This list of the greatest action films ever made is proof that the genre is more versatile than it appears. Recommended: 🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time💥 The 18 greatest stunts in cinema (as picked by the greatest stunt people)🥋 The 25 best martial arts movies of all-time🌊 The 33...

A new year is upon us. Many will be locking in on a new gym routine. Others will be embarking on Dry January. But you? You’re setting your sights on seeing more of the world in 2026. And we’re right there with you – there’s no better time than now to start dreaming and planning some big adventures for the year ahead. So, where to go? Our Time Out editors, from South Africa to Sydney, have a few ideas up their sleeves. After all, this lucky lot make a living from exploring their corners of the world, discovering the next best cities, cool neighbourhoods and emerging travel destinations. Our recommended 2026 travel hotspots include Unesco’s next World Book Capital in Morocco, a new thermal wellness destination in the Canadian Rockies, unspoiled beach towns in Brazil – and many, many more where that came from. This is Time Out’s rundown of the best places to travel in 2026 – and how to plan the perfect trip in each.RECOMMENDED:🤩 The 26 best new things to do in the world in 2026🎵 The biggest and best music festivals to go to this year🖼️ 19 exhibitions worth travelling for in 2026 Grace Beard is Time Out’s travel editor. At Time Out, all of our travel guides are written by local writers who know their cities inside out. This guide includes affiliate links, which have no influence on our editorial content. For more information, see our affiliate guidelines. 

Update for 2026: Disaster movies aren’t quite as en vogue as they once were, but every once in a while, a new one comes along that deserves inclusion in the pantheon. In 2025, that was The Lost Bus, a true-life tale of survival set during California’s devastating Camp Fire of 2018. Will the upcoming Greenland 2: Migration also make the cut? Watch this space! Like the greater action genre to which they belong, disaster movies speak to something primal in all of us: the fear that our lives rest in the hands of unknown forces that care nothing about who we are or what we’ve done. For decades, filmmakers have seized upon the human anxiety that the universe could, at any moment, decide to squish us like bugs. Sometimes, the disaster itself is a backdrop to stories about human survival. Other times, wanton destruction is the whole point – and hey, there’s nothing wrong with a director flexing their effects budget, if it’s eye-popping, ear-busting and senses-overloading enough.  You’ll find both represented on this list of the greatest disaster movies ever made. In putting together this list, we left out rampaging monsters and invading aliens and kept to the more common definition of ‘disasters’ – earthquakes, asteroids, tidal waves, geostorms, etc. Here are 35 classics of the genre that register 11 on the cinematic Richter Scale. Recommended: 💣 The 101 best action movies of all-time😱 The 100 best horror movies of all-time😬 The 100 best thrillers of all-time👹 The 50 best...

Horror has become Hollywood’s most bankable genre, both artistically and at the box office. Last year proved it once again, with movies like Sinners and Weapons becoming cultural phenomenons and franchise entries such as The Conjuring: Last Rites and Final Destination Bloodlines raking in the receipts. At a glance, there doesn’t seem to be another surefire blockbuster on the 2026 slate. Sure, the Insidious juggernaut will likely roll on, there’s yet another Scream sequel incoming, and Zach Cregger is already following up Weapons with a Resident Evil reboot. But is there another wholly original story likely to (ahem) scare up audiences in droves? Hard to say. Then again, that’s the thing with horror: the movies most likely to make us scream the loudest – out of both fear and joy – are those we never see coming. We’ve done our best, however, to identify the upcoming movies all true horror-heads need to have on their watchlist. 26 massive movies you need to see in 2026.15 book-to-movie adaptations to get (very) excited about in 2026.

2020 feels like a lifetime ago. In fact, as we enter 2026, we’re officially closer to the end of the decade than the start. Although life has (sort of) gone back to normal, one thing that changed forever during the pandemic was office life. Remember the days before working from home on a Friday? Us neither. While most of us have settled into a half-office, half-home working hybrid set-up, others have taken the opportunity to untether themselves entirely from the workplace and signed up to fully remote jobs. No longer tied to one place, some of this lucky lot have copped themselves visas enabling them to work in a different country every few years (or months). Enter: the digital nomad.  While there are downsides to the digital nomad lifestyle, it’s still easy to see why so many are choosing to uproot and move across the world. Many destinations are selling themselves as idyllic remote-working spots, with visas that allow you to live and work there for up to a year – or sometimes even longer. The only catch is that you usually need to meet a minimum salary threshold. Here’s a guide to the countries offering digital nomad visas right now, and how you can qualify. And here’s what it’s actually like to be a digital nomad – and how to become one yourself. RECOMMENDED:🌃 The world’s best cities🏘️ The world’s coolest neighbourhoods

Netflix currently holds an ignomious place in the film industry, but subscription numbers show it’s still the king of the streamers – and, frankly, for good reason. In recent years, the platform has seriously picked up its film output, with everyone from Martin Scorsese to Rian Johnson producing original content for the studio, while it also pumps out cultural phenomenons like Kpop Demon Hunters and gorgeous critical favorites like Train Dreams.  At this point, though, every user knows the deal: while there are large, gleaming gems in the catalogue, they’re often obscured by piles of lineup-filling dross. So let’s help you dig out the quality watches. Here are the 50 best movies currently available on the platform. Recommended: 💻 The 40 best Netflix original series to binge👪 The best family movies on Netflix for all ages😬 The 20 best thriller movies on Netflix

After a few up and down years, 2026 is shaping up to be the Big One in terms of measuring the true health of the movie industry. This is 12 months loaded with can’t-miss hits – or rather, better-not-miss hits. That includes everything from a fifth Toy Story movie to a long-awaited Devil Wears Prada sequel, another close encounter from Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan bringing damn near every A-lister to ancient Greece. The Dune trilogy will end, while the Marvel Cinematic Universe attempts to reinvigorate itself with the biggest superhero movie since Endgame. Plus: more Frankenstein, more 28 Years Later, and more Superman (or at least, Superman’s cousin).  Like we said: it’s big. But if you don’t have much investment in the future of the Hollywood blockbuster and just want to see some good cinema, there’s plenty of small-to-medium-sized films worth getting excited about, too. Here are the 26 movies we’re anticipating the most.📕 15 book-to-movie adaptations to get excited about in 2026🔥 The 40 best movies of 2025

Updated December 2025: From winter blockbusters to festival sleepers, these are the 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 What even was the year in movies? A roller coaster is the most obvious cliche, full of exhilarating successes, puzzling disappointments and news stories that’ve left us wondering if there’s even going to be much of a movie industry left in the next few years. Artistically, it was a top-heavy 12 months, producing one surefire Best of the Decade candidate, with a few others not far behind, then a vast middle-class of films that max out at ‘very good’. As always, though, if you’re willing to do the work, you’ll find dozens of small and medium-sized gems to fill you with hope for the future of moviemaking as an artform, no matter what happens to the business itself. Here are the movies that made us gasp, swoon and shout the loudest in 2025.