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Winter is here, which for true film nerds means the most wonderful time of the year is upon us, with studios dropping their major awards contenders and buzzed-over festival hits landing. The overall film year has felt particularly end-heavy: while the first half of 2025 came with its share of critical and commercial hits, from Sinners to Weapons, the back of the calendar looks loaded, with big releases from directors like Lynne Ramsay, Chloé Zhao and Jafar Panahi a few heavily tipped Oscar contenders, a couple smaller films with the potential to surprise everyone – and even some blockbusters. Here are the movies we’re most excited about in fall 2025.  Recommended: 🎥 The best movies of 2025 (so far)🔥 The best TV and streaming shows of 2025

November 2025 update: New Emma Thompson conspiracy thriller Down Cemetery Road kicks off another chockers month in streamingland, with the first part of the finale of Stranger Things bringing things to a shadowy end on November 26. New adds to our list include the third part of the BBC’s exceptional Belfast cop show Blue Lights and a couple of notable Netflix sequels.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. More recently, HBO’s Task hit the spot with a blue-collar crime series that wasn’t afraid to get down and dirty. 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...

Updates for 2025: New monsters are made every year, so we’ve added a few modern beasties we’re sure we’ll be haunting our nightmares for decades to come, including the latest interpretation of Nosferatu, the most grotesque of many abominations in The Substance and the horrifying, multi-mouthed demon from 2022’s Smile.  The movie industry has always been crawling with monsters, and we don’t just mean predatory agents and old-school studio heads. We’re talking about the monsters borne from childhood nightmares, or the deranged imaginations of some very creative adults. We’re talking predatory aliens. We’re talking vampires and werewolves. We’re talking skyscraper-sized apes, sentient globs of carnivorous space goo, interdimensional leather daddies and razor-toothed sewer clowns. In some cases, the monsters of cinema have become as famous as any actor – movie stars unto themselves.  It’s those most iconic beasts, demons and kaiju we’re saluting in this list of the greatest movie monsters of all-time. A few caveats: this list largely follows the same parameters as our monster movies list, meaning that it steers away from non-mutated 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? Brundleflies? You’ll find them all below.  Quick picks: 📍 Best vampire: Nosferatu (Nosferatu, 1922)📍 Best kaiju: Godzilla (Godzilla, 1954)📍 Best zombie: Bub (Day of the Dead, 1985) 📍...

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, from monster movies to zombie flicks to slashers. Here are the best horror movies currently streaming on Netflix right now.

It’s easy to forget that Halloween is primarily a holiday tailored to children, but Netflix hasn't. While it’s fun to fill the movie queue with adult-level scares, it’s important for parents to reserve some time for more entry-level frights, and the streamer has tons of Halloween-themed content that’s spookily entertaining for the wee ones but won’t have them hiding behind the couch. This October, grab a bowl of candy corn and throw on one of these great not-too-scary but oh-so-fun flicks for a family movie night aimed at the little ghouls in your house.   

As the nights draw in and the chill sets through the air, there’s no denying it: spooky season has officially arrived. The pumpkins are carved, the costume’s nailed and now there’s just one thing left to summon… a Halloween playlist wicked enough to get even the undead on their feet. Sure, the classic Halloween songs still reign supreme – we’re talking ‘Thriller’, ‘Ghostbusters’ and all the usual heavy-hitters. But lately, a new wave of pop phantoms has emerged to soundtrack your October nights. From Olivia Rodrigo’s ex-boyfriend bleeding her dry, to the enchanting spellwork of Lady Gaga a.k.a Mother Monster herself, with a detour through the slick, otherworldly beats of K-Pop’s most stylish demons – Halloween playlists have, quite literally, come back to life. Our favourite Halloween playlist songs for 2025 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

Disney itself may not have produced as many great Christmas movies as you might assume, but at this point, the House of Mouse’s corporate umbrella is wide enough that Disney+ is positively exploding with cinematic holiday treats. Scroll through its library, and you’ll find everything from seasonal classics to original specials to cartoon shorts. Of course, as with any streamer, the sheer volume of content can be overwhelming – and there are quite a few lumps of coal mixed in there.  Thankfully, we’re in a giving mood – ’tis the season, after all. To make it easier to find the platform’s best holiday offerings, we’ve scoured Disney’s vast vault and separated the gingerbread from the fruitcake. Here are the 20 best Christmas movies sure to satisfy the entire family.  Recommended: 🎅 The 50 best Christmas movies of all-time🎄 The best kids Christmas movies to watch this year✍ The best animated Christmas movies for the whole family🐭 The best Disney Christmas movies to stream for the holidays

Update for 2025: It’s been a great year-and-change for horror, so we’ve gone ahead and added some instant-Halloween classics, including the Michael B Jordan vampire blockbuster Sinners, the latest (and perhaps greatest) addition to the Final Destination series and the immensely creepy yet underseen Irish chiller Oddity. Halloween happens only one day every year, but the holiday’s most dedicated devotees always manage to make a month out of it. One way to do that is with movies. And that’s easy to do, considering there’s an entire film genre dedicated to scaring the crap out of audiences.  But contrary to popular wisdom, there’s a difference between the greatest horror movies and the best Halloween movies. A film like, say, Don’t Look Now might be among the most emotionally devastating entries to the horror canon, but it’s perhaps a little too cerebral for spooky season. But zombie apocalypses? Ghost stories? Chainsaw murders? Monster mash-ups? All up for grabs.  So, to help you put together your October queue, we’ve sorted the king-size Snickers from the circus peanuts to make the ultimate Halloween movie watchlist. It’s a list that keeps on growing: we revise every season with yearly standouts, and always find top-flight new additions. These 50 are guaranteed to scare you senseless – in the most fun sense of the phrase. Quick picks: 📍 Best old-school horror: Eyes Without a Face (1960)📍 Best ghost story: Poltergeist (1982)📍 Best found footage horror: The Blair Witch...

Updated for 2025: After a banner few years for the horror genre, several recent films have managed to claw their way into our latest update: 2023’s Talk To Me, which remixes genre tropes into something fresh, frightening and zeitgeisty; 2024’s The Substance, easily the most disgusting movie ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar; and 2025’s Sinners, a blockbuster smash that’s far from being just a ‘vampire movie’, while being an extremely awesome vampire movie at the same time. We have also moved Ari Aster's disturbing supernatural drama Hereditary into the top 12, owing to the influence it has exerted on several films to come after exploring grief and buried family secrets. Cinemagoers love a good scare. That much is evident these days from the commercial and critical success of the horror genre: in 2025 alone, the latest instalments of The Conjuring, Final Destination and The Black Phone franchises are among the highest-grossing movies of the year, while wholly original stories like Sinners and Weapons are legitimate box-office phenoms. And that’s not even to mention leftfield Halloween-friendly smashes over the last decade, like A Quiet Place, Hereditary and basically everything Jordan Peele has done.   It’s crazy to think, then, that not long ago, horror was thought of as a euphemism for ‘schlock’. If you were alive at the height of the VHS era, you know it wasn’t totally unfounded. Churning out formulaic slashers and monster movies became a way for hacks and...

November is an underrated time of year to go travelling. Being sandwiched between the busier autumn periods and the festive season, it’s often a more affordable window to head away. You might be looking for one last vacation before the year’s out, or you might be yearning for somewhere properly snowy and festive to get in the Christmas mood. Luckily, we’ve got just the list for you. From the wintry landscapes of Finnish Lapland to the spirited storytelling and good craic of European pubs, there are loads of great places to travel in November. We’ve handpicked 11 of our favourite spots to head to at this time of year – here’s exactly what makes them so good. RECOMMENDED:☀️The best places to travel throughout the year🗺️The best places to travel in the world in December🎭The best things to do in the world🏔️The best hikes in the world🏖️The best beaches in the world 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.