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When Ridley Scott started work on the visuals for ‘Blade Runner’s dystopian future, he drew inspiration from the chemical plants in Hartlepool near where he grew up.  The Kitchen’s directors Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya followed the same path when they began building their version of London for their new Netflix sci-fi. Set in a not-too-distant future where social housing has been all but eliminated, it sees Izi (‘Top Boy’s Kane Robinson) and Benji (Jedaiah Bannerman) navigating life in a tight-knit urban community known as ‘the Kitchen’. The police start throwing people out, but many who live there refuse to leave their homes – and start to fight back.  Even though they’re from different sides of the Thames – Kaluuya was raised near Caledonian Road, while Tavares hails from Streatham and Brixton – the filmmaking pair knew they wanted to make a movie that explored their relationship with a fast-evolving London. ‘And we started to build out from there,’ says Taveres. The director talks us through his approach to world-building his dystopian London – and shares some exclusive concept art...

Everyone raves about summer, but we’ve got a special place in our hearts for fall. After all the wild holidays and the parties, the fall weather is a welcome change. And as soon as the greenery begins to change color, Pennsylvania becomes a cozy haven, just waiting to be explored.  In Pennsylvania, there’s a whole load of picturesque towns to discover, and long, scenic nature hikes to take. The best part is it’s not on everyone’s radar, so it won’t be overrun by day-trippers (unlike the likes of New York and New England). We’ve rounded up the best fall getaways in Pennsylvania to experience the state in all its natural beauty. Enjoy.  RECOMMENDED:🍎 The best fall getaways from NYC📍  The best things to do in Philadelphia🍝 The best restaurants in Pittsburgh Monica Weymouth is a writer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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.

If HBO’s upcoming crime drama Task feels like Heat mixed with Mare Of Easttown, that makes sense, as it comes from the mind of Brad Ingelsby, who created the latter. Over the course of seven episodes, Task unleashes twists, turns and betrayals, combined with thrilling action, engrossing tension and powerful performances from Mark Ruffalo, Ozark’s Tom Pelphrey and CODA’s Emilia Jones. The story unfolds in and around Philadelphia, and Ingelsby was determined that Task was shot there, too. Where, exactly? Take a look below to find out.  Photograph: Peter Kramer/HBOEmilia Jones in ‘Task’ What happens in Task? Tom Brandis (Ruffalo) is a former priest turned FBI agent struggling in the aftermath of his wife’s death. She was the reason Tom left the priesthood, and in the wake of her passing he’s turned to drinking, to the concern of his daughter Sara (Phoebe Fox) and two adopted children. Despite his issues, Tom is called in by his bureau chief, Kathleen (Martha Plimpton), to organise and lead a task force following a number of robberies in Delaware County’s drug houses. These are being committed by Robbie Prendergrast (Pelphrey) and Cliff Broward (Raul Castillo), two garbage men who are robbing the money from the notorious Dark Hearts motorcycle gang.  While Tom and Robbie’s professions couldn’t be more different, they both are struggling with their home lives, and to build a better life for the people around them. Following the departure of his wife and the murder of his brothe

Heads of State is a buddy action comedy where the feuding US President and British Prime Minister travel across Europe to thwart a global conspiracy.  Think Midnight Run meets Air Force One, with director Ilya Naishuller (Nobody) promising ‘a throwback to the buddy movies of the 1980s and ’90s… shot through a modern lens’. Heads of State is made all the more enjoyable by its bickering comic duo: Idris Elba’s ex-SAS-trained Prime Minister Sam Clarke, and John Cena’s US President and action movie star Will Derringer. It’s co-written by Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol pair Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec. To give the film a global scale, Naishuller and his crew shot in four European countries. ‘This is a true road movie where we actually travel the world to capture an eclectic cross section of backdrops,’ explains producer John Rickard.  But where exactly was Heads of State shot? Take a look below to find out.  Photograph: Chiabella James/Prime What happens in Heads of State? Clarke and Derringer have a very public rivalry. As an SAS-trained veteran, Clarke looks down on Hollywood action star Derringer. Clarke is particularly frustrated because, while he’s a career politician who struggled his way up to become Prime Minister, Derringer is hugely popular across the world after recently being elected. With tensions simmering between the pair, the countries’ special relationship is at risk.  Derringer and Clarke are forced to fly to a NATO summit in Italy together to show tha

Netflix’s The Waterfront mixes Ozark with Succession – and it all unfolds by the water in North Carolina.  The show is the handiwork of Scream creator Kevin Williamson and boasts of an intriguing cast, including chiselled character actor Holt McCallany, Mario Bello, and actor-singer Melissa Benoist. The dynastic drama, which should also appeal to fans of Netflix’s Florida Keys thriller Bloodline (2015-2017), is set in the coastal town of Havenport, North Carolina. Here’s where you can find its seaside setting in real life. Photograph: Dana Hawley/Netflix © 2025Holt McCallany as Harlan Buckley and Maria Bello as Belle Buckley What happens in The Waterfront? After suffering not just one, but two heart attacks, Harlan Buckley (Black Bag’s Holt McCallany) is struggling to keep his family afloat as the controlling destiny in the fictional coastal town of Havenport, North Carolina. For decades, the Buckley family have controlled the local fishing industry and the town’s picturesque restaurant scene.  Following Harlan’s brushes with death, it’s up to his long-suffering wife Belle (A History of Violence’s Maria Bello) and their son Cane (Jake Weary) to make sure that the Buckley family maintains its dominance and reputation. Unfortunately for Harlan, that approach soon gets the family into even more trouble. Despite his ill-health, Harlan is forced to take back control – all while trying to keep an eye on his daughter Bree (Melissa Benoist), who lost custody of her son after her is

When screenwriter Paul William Davies was given Kate Andersen Brower’s in-depth book The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House, he was instructed to create whatever kind of Shondaland show he fancied from the material.  ‘It was super interesting, but I didn’t know what the story was,’ Davies tells Time Out. The 2015 book, by a former White House correspondent, had focused on the everyday lives of the building’s staff under US presidents from JFK to Barack Obama. ‘I didn’t quite know what I was going to do with it,’ says Davies. Then the penny dropped. Netflix’s The Residence: Release date, plot and cast Photograph: NetflixUzo Aduba play quirky crime-solver Cordelia Cupp in ‘The Residence’ What is The Residence about? After briefly considering a farcical comedy based on stories from the book, Davies was struck by the idea of a murder-mystery set inside the White House. In The Residence, eccentric detective Cordelia Cupp (Uzo Aduba, aka Crazy Eyes from Orange Is the New Black) sets about solving a murder that took place during a state dinner. During the investigation, rivalries and conflict emerge among the residence’s 157 staff.  The Residence cast Those staffers include Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad) as The White House’s chief usher A. B. Wynter; ambitious assistant usher Jasmine Haney (This Is Us’s Susan Kelechi Watson); butler Sheila Cannon (Edwina Findley); White House engineer Bruce Geller (Mel Rodriguez); Harry Hollinger (High Potential’s Ken Marin

Zero Day is a fast-paced political thriller in the mold of The Parallax View and The Manchurian Candidate. The new Netflix six-part series dares to wonder how the American people, and even more pertinently its politicians, would handle a huge cyber attack across the country.  It launches in mid-February and promises to trigger anyone who still remembers their panicky Y2K projects or generally worries about not owning a transistor radio. Here’s what you need to know about it – and its real-world setting.  Photograph: Courtesy of NetflixScenes featuring the Zero Day commission were filmed on a Brooklyn soundstage What is Zero Day about?  After every piece of technology in America is turned off for a minute, thousands of people die, as planes fall out of the sky, trains collide, and cars crash. Former President George Mullen (Robert De Niro) is pulled out of retirement by current POTUS Evelyn Mitchell (Angela Bassett) to oversee the so-called Zero Day commission. With unprecedented access to technology and given free rein to break civil liberties, Mullen tries to find the people or even country responsible.  But as he dives deeper into the search, Mullen finds a vast web of lies and conspiracies, while he also struggles mentally with the pressure, especially as another cyber attack could result in the deaths of thousands more.   While Zero Day unfolds in a thought-provoking fashion – covering topics such as government oversight, the rise of conspiracy theorists, and how much w

You new guilty pleasure is wheel-spinning onto streaming platform Prime Video just in time for Valentine’s Day. For the silly name because big-city romance My Fault: London, a UK-set redo of a smash-hit 2023 Spanish film called My Fault, is full of Fight Club-style brawling, Fast 5-esque drag races and a smouldering central love story that’s anything but smooth. It could be this year’s answer to Red, White & Royal Blue: beautiful people in a timeless cultural-clash romance – only with more smoking tyres. What is My Fault: London? ‘There was just this fun, adventurous, alluring, sexy, thrilling and romantic feeling that drew us in,’ Charlotte Fassler, the film’s co-director with Dani Girdwood, tells Time Out.  And the plot? Teenage girl Noah (Asha Banks) is forced to move from Florida to London, when her mother Ella (Eve Macklin) marries William (Ray Fearon). Arriving in the English capital, she meets, and quickly falls for, her new stepbrother Nick (The Buccaneers’ Matthew Broome). Over the course of the summer they become closer and closer… until a figure from Noah’s past arrives in London to threaten their future. Photograph: Prime Video Where was My Fault: London filmed?   The filmmakers wanted to show a ‘high-octane and sexier’ London that still felt real. ‘We wanted the city to feel like a character,’ says Girdwood. ‘It has to have a sense of wish-fulfilment and excitement. There are so many films that shoot in very generic or vague locations. We wanted ours to feel

Robert Eggers has been dreaming about making a movie adaptation of Nosferatu since he was a child. This was when Eggers first saw and fell in love with FW Murnau’s seminal 1922 silent film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror. As he grew older, and set his sights on becoming a filmmaker, Eggers constantly fantasised about his own take on the character and story. In high-school, he even oversaw a theatrical production of Nosferatu so impressive that the artistic director for New Hampshire’s Edwin Booth Theatre asked for it to be performed there, too.  After the success of The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman, Eggers was finally ready to give Nosferatu the big-screen treatment. In the gothic horror film, naive estate agent Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) travels from Germany to Transylvania to meet with Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård). When the ancient vampire attacks Thomas, his wife Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp) begins to have visions of Orlok. Soon her increasing sense of dread becomes a reality.  One of the most atmospheric and haunting stories ever created, Eggers knew that Nosferatu wouldn’t work if he picked the wrong shooting locations. So where was Nosferatu shot? Which locations were reminiscent of the original story, but also allowed him to make the movie in his own distinct style and vision? Take a look below to find out. Where was the new Nosferatu shot? Photograph: Aidan Monaghan/Universal Pictures The doomed town of Wisborg was built at Barrandov Studios, Prague

In Netflix’s seriously bingeable new thriller Black Doves, London is as much of a character as Keira Knightley’s spy Helen Webb (not her real name) or her old friend, Ben Whishaw’s espionage enforcer Sam Young.  The pair play so-called ‘Black Doves’, agents for hire who retrieve and sell industrial, political, and diplomatic secrets to the highest bidder. To muddy the waters, Webb is married to the UK’s Secretary of State For Defence. Her secret identity is suddenly in danger of being revealed when her lover is murdered by a mystery sniper.  Celebrating the feel of London during the Christmas period was a key goal for a show created by Giri/Haji’s Joe Barton. ‘There’s a London Christmas aesthetic that everyone thinks they know really well,’ producer Harry Munday tells Time Out. ‘We also wanted to show assassins and gangs getting mixed up in that.’ In order to achieve that distinctly London atmosphere, Black Doves filmed in a mind-blowing 85 different locations over 93 days, with the first three episodes shot between the middle of October and late December 2023. Production on the final three episodes took place between January and March 2024.  But where exactly did Black Doves film in London? Read on to find out.  Photograph: Netflix Jason’s bloody death was shot on the South Bank  The South Bank takes on a key role in Black Doves. It’s here that Helen’s lover, Jason (Andrew Koji), is shot in the opening moments of the first episode. According to Munday, filming took place i

Wicked’s magical performances, stunning songs, and eye-catching locations have all combined to transfix movie fans.  The adaptation of Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s hit Broadway musical, twists The Wizard Of Oz story on its head. Told from the perspective of Galinda (Ariana Grande) and Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), the story depicts their topsy-turvy time as roommates at Shiz University, while teasing how the pair became Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West, respectively.  Since Wicked is based on one of the most popular stories in American history, with L Frank Baum’s original novel released all the way back in 1900, it might be surprising to film fans that the musical fantasy was shot entirely in the United Kingdom. What’s impressive, though, is that director Jon M Chu, production designer Nathan Crowley, and their teams were still able to recreate the Americana aesthetic so perfectly.   But where did Wicked actually film? Take a look below at Wicked’s filming locations. Photograph: Universal PicturesJon M Chu on set with Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande Oz was partly created at home of Harry Potter Wicked was primarily filmed at Sky Studios Elstree in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, just over 14 miles north of London.  In order to have as much control of production as possible, they took full advantage of the state-of-the-art film studio’s 12 soundstages. In fact, production on Wicked was so humongous that they even had to use stages at the nearby Elstree Studi

Gladiator II has been over 24 years in the making.  After Gladiator grossed over $465 million at the box office and picked up five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, there were many reports about the potential follow-up. There were rumours that one script explored the resurrection of Russell Crowe’s Maximus. In another, Maximus was cursed to live forever and fought in the Crusades, World War II and Vietnam.  Ultimately, writer David Scarpa and returning director Ridley Scott decided to set the second Gladiator 16 years after the events of the original. The sequel revolves around Lucius Verus (Paul Mescal), who lives with his wife in Numidia. When Roman soldiers invade the province, Lucius is forced into slavery and taken to Rome, where he becomes a gladiator. After being bought by Marcinus (Denzel Washington), Lucius is made to confront his true parentage, all while his owner plots to overthrow the young emperors Caracalla (Fred Hechinger) and Geta (Joseph Quinn). Photograph: Paramount PicturesRidley Scott and Paul Mescal on the set of ‘Gladiator II’ Where was Gladiator 2 filmed? In order to make Gladiator II look and feel as similar to its predecessor as possible, Scott decided to return to some familiar locations for production. But where exactly was it shot? Read on to find out.  Photograph: Paramount Pictures Fort Ricasoli, Malta – Rome’s Colosseum where Mescal fights on a Roman ship  When Scott shot the original Gladiator, he used the tiny Medit

One of the most beloved New York movies ever made, The Warriors, will be find a whole new fanbase on October 18, courtesy of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis’ concept album based on the novel and Walter Hill’s iconic 1979 movie.  While Broadway fans are still waiting for news on Miranda’s long-rumored stage musical, Davis has confirmed that they’ve “spent the last three years musicalizing the Warriors’ journey home, from the South Bronx to Coney Island.  The Warriors tells the story of the titular New York City street gang: leader Cleon (Dorsey Wright), second-in-command Swan (Michael Beck), and enforcer Fox (James Remar). They have to travel 25 miles from the Bronx to their home turf on Coney Island when they’re framed for the murder of a legendary gang leader—a man striving to reunion the city’s rival criminal factions. Along the way, they travel through various New York locations, seeking refuge and avoiding the gangs that want retribution. With The Warriors reaching cult status over the past 45 years, fans now trek to these spots to pay tribute to the film. But where should fans go to see where the crime thriller was shot? Here are the six New York locations that turned The Warriors into a cult classic. Where was The Warriors filmed? Photograph: Shutterstock 1. Wonder Wheel, Coney Island The 150-foot Coney Island Ferris wheel that gave Deno’s Wonder Wheel Amusement Park its name is so iconic that The Warriors’ co-writer and director Walter Hill used it in the film’s o

Creating Gotham is an integral part of any Batman story.  It’s arguably even more important that The Penguin gets it right, though, as showrunner Lauren LeFranc’s crime drama miniseries won’t include Bruce Wayne or his crime-fighting alter ego.  Instead, Colin Farrell reprises his role as Oswald ‘Oz’ Cobb – aka The Penguin – for the show’s eight episodes. Set one week after the events of The Batman, The Penguin will depict the villain’s further rise to power in Gotham City’s criminal underworld.  LeFranc and production designer Kalina Ivanov travelled across New York to scout and shoot The Penguin, channelling the city’s real history, and a few New York movie references, into their new Gotham. ‘Our mandate from was The French Connection meets Scarface. I would always think of Goodfellas too,’ Ivanov tells Time Out. ‘The approach was cinematic from the beginning.’ But where exactly did The Penguin film in New York? Ivanov talks us through The Penguin’s locations and reveals why they were picked.  Photograph: Macall Polay/HBOCristin Milioti in episode 1 of ‘The Penguin’ La Selva, Long Island Located in Upper Brookville on Long Island, La Selva is a Mediterranean-style villa dating back to 1918. As soon as Ivanov saw it, she knew that it was the perfect home for Sofia Falcone (Palm Springs’ Cristin Milioti), the daughter of the recently deceased crime boss Carmine (Mark Strong), who fights Penguin for control of Gotham’s criminal underworld.  ‘Carmine was a third-generation ga