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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

September 2025 update: This month’s additions include Splitsville, a winning indie screwball about two couples stumbling into open marriages, and The Lost Bus, Paul Greengrass's thrilling wildfires epic, starring an on-form Matthew McConaughey. At this point in 2025, it’s possible to look at the year in movies and draw a few conclusions. Superhero movies aren’t ‘out’ but they’re no longer guaranteed juggernauts. Kiddie flicks do big business. Gen Z is starting to generate its own IP. Audiences love horror. China doesn’t need the rest of the world to blow up the international box office. And, lo and behold, there is still a place at the multiplex for original stories. Overall, after much hangwringing post-pandemic, the film industry looks to be in decent health. Of course, many of those takeaways could still get blown up – after all, there are still four months left on the calendar, and awards season is just getting underway. But if you look at the year so far, one thing that can be said for sure is there are plenty of reasons to feel hopeful about cinema as an artform, whether it’s the blockbuster success of genre-smashing auteur vehicles like Sinners and Weapons, daring formal experiments such as Nickel Boys, Flow and Better Man and heartening returns to form for masters like Steven Soderbergh and Danny Boyle. While there’s much more to come, there’s much to celebrate already. Here are the movies we’ve loved the most so far.   2025’s best movies at a glance: 😂 Best...

Sure, winter has its perks. Cosying up by the fire with a cup of hot chocolate in hand is lovely. Big woolen jumpers are ever-chic. But there’s no warm, fuzzy feeling that comes close to feeling actual warmth. In our eyes, you just can’t beat the sunshine: sitting on a rooftop terrace, ice-cold cocktail in hand… bonus points if everyone back home is stuck with endless grey drizzle. There are plenty of places across the world still basking in glorious sunshine from October to February. Our list of the best winter sun destinations this year spans six continents and five months, giving you 20 recommendations for the very best places you can visit during the winter months. Whether it’s Thai beaches, African safaris or sunny city breaks in Europe, we’ve got you covered. The best winter sun destinations at a glance: 🏖️ Best for beaches: Thailand 🏙️ Best for a city break: Cape Town, South Africa 🌡️ Warmest in Europe: Tenerife, Spain 🐘 Best for wildlife: Namibia 🎭 Best for an arty break: Cartagena, Colombia 🍜 Best for food: Vietnam 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 and check out our latest travel guides written by local experts. RECOMMENDED:☀️ Europe’s 10 best winter sun destinations

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

Here at Time Out, we really believe locals know best. It’s easy to find out about a city’s biggest attractions, but if you want to really get to know somewhere, you’re going to want to know its secrets; the hidden bars, the tiny galleries, the family-run restaurants that don’t take bookings. The stuff you’ll brag to your pals about for years to come. So that’s where we come in. We have a huge network of writers based all over the world, and every one of them is obsessed with finding and trying out the latest in food and drink, culture and more in their cities. When a local has just worked on one of our city guides, that’s when it’s at its absolute freshest. And that’s what you’ll find here on this page. These guides are brand-new, fresh-off-the-press, and stuffed full of new openings in our favourite cities, all over the world. If you’re looking for holiday inspo, start here. Enjoy! 🔥 We update this list every time a local adds some brand-new hotspots to one of our travel guides, so make sure to come back for more! RECOMMENDED:🧳 Where to travel this October🌎 The best cities to visit in the world🏘️ The coolest neighbourhoods in the world🍲 The world’s best cities for food

When people think of 1990s movies, the first images that come to mind are usually John Travolta and Uma Thurman twisting the night away, or Keanu Reeves contorting his body to dodge a slew of slow-moving bullets. But please, save a little mental space for Michael Douglas’s ass. It was the golden age of the erotic thriller, when it seemed like you couldn’t go to the multiplex without having the option of watching a woman have sex with a man – usually Douglas, sometimes Tom Berenger or a random Baldwin – and then try to ruin and/or end their life.  Yes, erotic thrillers were often ‘problematic’ and almost always self-consciously campy, but damn, they could be fun – and fun, sexy movies are precisely what’s missing from cinemas today. But there are signs of a comeback, hot-and-bothered movies like Challengers, Love Lies Bleeding and the meme-launching Babygirl were among the most buzzed-about films of 2024. Even if a revival never comes to fruition, the 1980s and ’90s alone provide us with a rich back catalogue of steamy violence to revisit. Here are 40 of cinema’s best erotic thrillers to get your blood pumping. Recommended: 🍆 The 101 best sex scenes in movies😬 The 100 best thriller movies of all-time😍 The 100 best romantic films of all-time 🕵️ 40 murder mystery movies to test your sleuthing skills to the max🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time

Movie monsters are a many-splendoured thing, with a strong emphasis on ‘thing’. Some may take the form of giant irradiated lizards or skyscraper-sized apes, others amphibious swamp creatures or slow-creeping mounds of gelatin. Some represent the biggest fears of society at large, others are manifestations of their creator’s personal hang-ups. Others, meanwhile, are more instinctual, killing either for food or just for the sheer fun of it. If you’ve read this far, you may be experiencing some déjà vu. Didn’t we already write a list of the best monster movies of all-time? Indeed we did! But not all of cinema’s greatest monsters inhabit great movies. Sure, there’s a good deal of crossover. But as with actual human actors, some of the most memorable creatures in film history can be found slumming it in subpar productions – and they deserve to have their moment in the spotlight. A few caveats: this list largely follows the same parameters as our monster movies list, meaning that it steers away from animals – sorry, Bruce the Shark and the spiders from Arachnophobia – as well as slasher villains such as Freddy Krueger or Michael Myers. But zombies? Trolls? Brundlefly? You’ll find them all below. Recommended: 👹 The 50 best monster movies ever made💀 The 100 best horror movies of all-time🧟 The best zombie movies of all-time👹 Cinema’s creepiest anthology horror movies🩸 The 15 scariest horror movies based on true stories

Horror knows no calendar. Sure, for casual fright fans, October might be considered Spooky Season. But for the genre’s true aficionados, any month, any day – shoot, any hour – is a good time for a scary movie. Be forewarned, though: series like Stranger Things and Midnight Mass notwithstanding, Netflix hasn’t churned out too many of its own upstanding horror flicks, but the platform does have a surprisingly decent amount of terrifying classics, new-school scares and hidden gems that’ll raise both eyebrows and goosebumps. Here are the best horror movies currently streaming on Netflix right now. Recommended: 🎃 The best Halloween movies and TV shows on Netflix UK😱 The 100 best horror movies of all-time🔪 The 31 best serial killer movies👹 The 50 best monster movies ever made🧟 The best zombie movies of all-time