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The horror movie kicked off with Robert Eggers’ vampire smash hit Nosferatu and the fanged fraternity returned in a big way with Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, a Southern gothic with Michael B Jordan that sunk its teeth into the box office in a big way in April. And that’s just the start for a horror resurgence: 28 Years Later, M3GAN 2.0, The Conjuring: Last Rites, SAW XI, The Black Phone 2.0 and a new Insidious movie are all adding new shocks to smash-hit franchises. Talk To Me pair Danny and Michael Philippou return with Bring Her Back and the Jordan Peele-produced Him hits in September. This list will be updated as the frights arrive, so keep checking back to see what’s worth shelling out for.RECOMMENDED: 🎃 The 100 best horror films ever made😱 The scariest movies based on a true story 🔥 The best horror films of 2024

More women than ever before are heading off on solo jaunts to far-flung destinations – in fact, a recent survey found that more than half of Gen Z women would consider travelling abroad by themselves. Why? Well, solo travel is a brilliant way to seek out memorable experiences, different cultures and new friends, all on your own schedule.  But, where should they be going? That’s where we come in. Below is a round-up of 12 top-tier solo travel destinations which are safe and easy places to navigate if you’re a woman going it alone. Expect recommendations of friendly cities, well-trodden backpacker routes and plenty of chances to meet some new faces along the way (or prioritise some quality alone time – it’s up to you). So, without further ado, these are the best places across the planet for women travelling solo, plus some advice on how to stay safe. RECOMMENDED:🏝️The best places in the world to travel alone🗺️ The best places in Europe for women to travel alone🏘️ The most beautiful small towns in the world🏙️ The best cities in the world India-Jayne Trainor is a British-Australian travel writer 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 and check out our latest travel guides written by local experts. This guide includes affiliate links, which have no influence on our editorial content. For more information, see our affiliate guidelines. 

Ever since the first TV flickered into life, networks have been making ‘pilots’ – single episodes that may nor may not be ordered to full series. ‘A pilot is open-ended,’ says David Lynch, who arguably created the most famous un-picked-up television pilot of all time (see below), ‘and, when it’s over, you feel all these threads going out into the infinite which, to me, is a beautiful thing’. The practice began because production companies used what became known as ‘pilot season’ to show regional network affiliates across the U.S. the shows they proposed to make for the following year’s TV schedule, with the most successful shows being ‘picked up’, i.e. ordered to air.  Although many hugely successful shows, including Game of Thrones, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sherlock, Desperate Housewives and The Big Bang Theory, famously had shelved pilots that never made it to air, others were not so lucky – like Parker Posey’s serial killer thriller Frankenstein, How I Met Your Dad (starring Greta Gerwig and Meg Ryan) and Ryan Murphy’s trans drama Pretty/Handsome with Joseph Fiennes.  Those didn’t make the cut – damn, that’s twice now! – but here is Time Out’s selection of those that got away. RECOMMENDED: 📺 The 100 greatest ever TV shows you need to binge🔥 The best TV and streaming shows of 2025 (so far)

It costs a lot to be entertained these days. Just a few years ago ‘cord-cutting’ seemed like a life hack that’d save TV watchers a tonne of cash. Once the streaming revolution truly kicked in, though, the subscriptions piled up, and with recent price increases and crackdowns on password sharing – not to mention sheer overload of choice – it’s making some of us gaze at our old cable bills with wistful longing.   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? It’s called YouTube. Yes, the site known primarily for instructional videos about how to install a new sink and use an air fryer is hiding an impressive library of classic 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 for true movie buffs looking to fill some knowledge gaps, check out the 35 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 50 best foreign films of all-time

July 2025 update: In this update, we've added two recent Oscar winners for Best Documentary Feature: Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson's Summer of Soul, a stirring act of musical rediscovery covering the long-forgotten 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, and 2024's No Other Land, a remarkably powerful piece of activist filmmaking documenting one Palestinian village's fight against forced displacement by the Israeli military.     Everyone’s a documentarian these days, but the best documentary films go beyond simply filming real life and uploading it to the internet. They put real life into context. Sometimes, they reshape it and change our understanding of the world. They teach us about the people that surround us – and the truly successful documentaries make us rethink our ideas of ourselves.  It is true, though, that there are a lot of docs out there, whether streaming on Netflix or earning Oscar buzz. To make it easier for you to choose what to watch, we’ve sorted the must-sees from the glorified iPhone videos. From David Byrne in an oversized suit to Andy Warhol staring at the Empire State Building for eight hours, here are our picks for the best documentaries ever made. Written by Joshua Rothkopf, Cath Clarke, Tom Huddleston, David Fear, Dave Calhoun, Phil de Semlyen, Andy Kryza, David Ehrlich, Matthew Singer and Ava Scott-Nadal Recommended: ✅ The 20 best movies based on true stories🎸 The 19 best musical documentaries to rock out to🔎 The best true crime documentaries on...

Of all the many things that have been upended since 2020, office life is one of the biggest. While some 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 copped themselves a visa that enables them to live and work remotely. While there are downsides to the digital nomad lifestyle, we’re still living in an era of profound  digital nomadism. 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. 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.

There’s few more glorious summer activities than lying back in the great outdoors and soaking up a movie. The sun dropping beneath the horizon, the prosecco flowing, Hugh Jackman about to start singing in a top hat – let’s face it, you’re statistically likely to be watching The Greatest Showman – and a deckchair to sink into. What could be more perfect? You even get to use that comfy blanket your nan gave you. But if there’s one thing that ups the ante on the experience, it’s doing it in an eye-poppingly beautiful location – like one of the 30 starlit screens on this list. From a screen that emerges from Sydney harbour like a kind of cinematic Botticelli, to a vertiginous Colorado amphitheatre, to Cannes’s iconic Cinéma de la Plage, they cover all bases and the entire globe. Take a tour of the most spectacular screens on the planet. RECOMMENDED: 📽️ The 50 most beautiful cinemas in the world🌎 100 places every movie lover should visit

July 2025 update: Brad Pitt racing drama F1: The Movie, a gold-plated slab of Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster entertainment, and 28 Years Later, a very different kind of action movie, overseen with customary skill and heft by Danny Boyle, are the summer’s newest additions to our best-of-2025 pantheon. Halfway through 2025, Hollywood must be breathing a sigh of relief. At this point last year, the studios were scratching their heads at several major unexpected flops, and many analysts were left to wonder if the post-pandemic bounce-back of 2023 was simply an outlier. Now, with films like A Minecraft Movie, Sinners, Final Destination: Bloodlines and Lilo & Stitch outperforming expectations, it might be safe to say that the movies are finally, really, truly… back? Maybe we shouldn’t get ahead of ourselves. But there are reasons for cinephiles to celebrate beyond the industry’s financial health, whether it’s the blockbuster success of the aforementioned Sinners, Ryan Coogler’s ambitious and wholly original horror epic, or several smaller-scale achievements, from the formal invention of Nickel Boys to the animated underdog (undercat?) story of Flow to a pair of home runs from Steven Soderbergh. And there’s plenty more to come. Here are the films that have had us cheering loudest in 2025 so far.  RECOMMENDED: 📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2025 (so far)🔥 The best horror movies of 2025🎥 The 101 greatest films ever made

July 2025 update: The third and final season of Squid Game – the Korean version, at least – is a highly-placed new addition to our best of the year list, with FX’s shouty chef drama The Bear returning to form with its fourth run and also slotting into Time Out’s top 20.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 and The Last of Us all look like building on incredibly satisfying first runs with equally masterful second runs (even more masterful, in Severance’s case). 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. Stranger Things is coming to an end, there’s a second run of Tim Burton’s Wednesday, and about a zillion other things still come. Here’s everything you need to see... so far.  RECOMMENDED: 🎥 The best movies of 2025 (so far)🔥 The 100 best movies ever made📺 The 100 greatest ever TV shows you need to binge

Movies are back. Not that they ever really went anywhere. For a few years, though, particularly during and after the pandemic, it felt like film culture was in the dumps. But with the rise of outlets like Letterboxd, the booming popularity of repertory theatres and the social media omnipresence of the Criterion Closet, it seems like cinema is nudging back toward the centre of culture again, especially among younger generations.  With interest in movie history rising, now’s a perfect time to make use of our list of the 100 greatest movies of all-time. It’s a broad survey of the highlights of film’s first century-plus, covering over 100 years, multiple countries, and just about every genre imaginable, from massive blockbusters to intimate cult films, silly comedies to bloody horror, action-packed thrillers to thrilling action flicks. We’re not so high-minded to consider it the definitive canon – but as a road map, it’s a great place to start.  Jump to list: 100-91 |  90-81 | 80-71 | 70-61 | 60-51 | 50-41 | 40-31 | 30-21 | 20-11 | 10-1 How we chose our 100 best movies of all time Admittedly, the process is not an exact science. Mostly, it involves a bunch of arguing, whittling and deal-making amongst Time Out’s most movie-obsessed writers, and then voila: a top 100 everyone is kinda sorta happy about! In terms of why we chose what we chose, that’s just as messy and multivarious. Mostly, it comes down to timelessness. Is a movie among the rare films that will play as fresh...