Phil de Semlyen

Cutting cable isn’t as cost-effective as it used to be. New streaming platforms seem to arrive with the wind while the old ones continually raise their rates, and by the time you’re done subscribing you may realise you have spent more money than you’ll ever have time to watch all the stuff you want – or you find out there’s not that much you want to even watch in the first place. 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? This obscure gem of a site is called… YouTube. That’s right: the site known primarily as the go-to repository for cat videos and instructions for fixing your toilet is hiding an impressive catalogue of classic public domain 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 if you’re looking to bone up on your movie history, check out the 30 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 best foreign films of all-time

There’s never been a better – or more important – time to celebrate cinemas. They’re the places we go to dream, focal points of our communities, and an all-round great escape. Yet movie theatres are faced with challenges that even lovelty popcorn holders can’t help with. But they’ve survived the advent of TV, Hollywood strikes, a couple of pandemics, and so far, they’re holding firm against streaming and surging costs – and there’s reasons for optimism, too: younger, Letterboxd-savvy audiences are embracing the big-screen experience like never before, and filmmakers like Ryan Coogler, Christopher Nolan and Chloé Zhao are championing it at every opportunity. Just try booking an IMAX ticket for The Odyssey. With that in mind, Time Out’s local experts have collaborated on a celebration of the best cinemas from across the globe. From cult Tokyo cinemas and grand Parisian film temples to beloved Sydney picturehouses and LA film dream palaces, from a Berlin kino with its own nuclear bunker to a Canadian cinema with only 12 seats, we’ve pointed the spotlight on a hundred magnificent movie palaces that all movie lovers should know about – and visit.  NB We’ve gone almost entirely with single-use cinemas rather than venues that double up as theatres or gig venues.  Greatest cinemas at a glance: 🍿 The greatest cinema in the world: TCL Chinese Theatre, LA 🌔 The world’s best outdoor cinema: Cine Paris, Athens 📽️ The coolest cult cinema in the world: The New Beverly, LA Jump to list

Great movies were made to be debated. All right, maybe that’s not their primary function, but all art deserves to be argued over. If you’re passionate about something, you’re going to feel compelled to fiercely defend your favourites and shout down whatever you think is undeserving. Inflaming public discussion is one of the reasons we’ve put together this list of the greatest films ever made. It gets you thinking, and, when reasoned and civil enough, perhaps rethinking your own opinion.   It seems like a particularly good time to get the discussion going, too, given that movies are, slowly but surely, inching back toward the center of popular culture. Young people are going to cinemas again, particularly for repertory screenings, and making hits of original movies from fresh filmmakers like Ryan Coogler's Oscar-record-breaking Sinners. Letterboxd is growing in usage, and the Criterion closet is all over social media. New cinephiles are being made every day, and we’ve always thought of this list mostly as an educational tool for burgeoning film buffs. It covers a lot of ground: over 100 years, multiple countries, and just about every genre imaginable. So let’s get talking – and most importantly, watching.   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 mo

What makes a great cinema? For some, it’s cheap tickets and a friendly vibe, while others are happy to pay extra for a sense of indulgence that comes with posh snacks, sofa seating and tiny tables to plonk a cocktail on. There are purists who will always make the case for 35mm projectors and surround-sound powerful enough to shake their insides loose. Film buffs might get an extra buzz from knowing their local picture palace once screened Chaplin movies back when the Little Tramp was the biggest thing at the box office.Whatever you love in a cinema, there are loads across England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland to provide it. And despite a tough year-and-a-bit, they’re still out there providing that unique big-screen experience. What better time, then, to celebrate them in all their variety? We sent our local experts out across the British Isles to find 50 of the very best kinos – and share what makes them special.  Written by Chris Waywell, Isabelle Aron, David Hughes, Huw Oliver, Katie McCabe, Phil de Semlyen, Alim Kheraj, Rosie Hewitson, Joe Mackertich & Chiara WilkinsonRECOMMENDED:  The 50 most beautiful cinemas in the world

With the return of The Night Manager, Industry and Hulu’s A Thousand Blows, the home viewing year has kicked off in head-spinning style. And with HBO’s Game of Thrones spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and Netflix’s How to Get To Heaven From Belfast, the latest from the creator of Derry Girls, the array of small-screen offerings are landing at dizzying speeds well into the spring. We have stopped at nothing – not sleep, not family responsibilities – to watch all of it and curate this list of the best shows to give your limited spare time over to. You don’t have forever to spend on the sofa so make it count with something from our list of the best of the year so far. Recommended: 📽️ The best movies of 2026 (so far)🔥 The best TV and streaming shows of 2025📺 The 100 greatest TV shows of all time

March 2026: It’s spring, which means London’s arts and culture scene is in full swing with plenty of major openings across the capital’s biggest museums. Heading to the National Gallery, the Science Museum, Young V&A or the Tate Modern? There are new shows to check out on such disparate subjects as the studio behind ‘Wallace and Gromit’, legendary artist Tracey Emin, Pantanal – the world’s biggest wetland, Samurai, groundbreaking fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli and photographer Catherine Opie. Or find out more great things to see this year with our pick of 2026's cultural highlights. Museums are one of the things that London does best. This city boasts grand institutions housing ancient treasures, modern monoliths packed with intriguing exhibits, and tiny rooms containing deeply niche collections – and lots of them are totally free to anyone who wants to come in and take a gander. And with more than 170 London museums to choose from, there's bound to be one to pique your interest, whatever you're in to.  Want to explore the history of TfL? We’ve got a museum for that. Rather learn about advertising? We’ve got a museum for that too. History? Check. Science? Check. 1940s cinema memorabilia, grotesque eighteenth-century surgical instruments, or perhaps a wall of 4,000 mouse skeletons? Check, check and check! Being the cultured metropolitans that we are, Time Out’s editors love nothing more than a wholesome afternoon spent gawping at Churchill’s baby rattle or some ancient Egy

Updates for 2026: Behold: 30 more of the best romantic comedies ever made! We’ve expanded this list of the all-time greatest romcoms to 100 in order to include recent hits like The Idea of You, Rye Lane and The Worst Person in the World and previously overlooked gems like Crazy, Stupid, Love and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Love hurts. Love scars. Love also makes us act like total imbeciles. Indeed, love can be the most painful of emotions, but it’s also often the funniest. If you’ve ever found yourself in its grip, then you know the strange ways it can make you feel, and the weird things it’ll make you do. And even if you haven’t, well, there’s a whole genre dedicated to letting you know how silly it can be.  No wonder romantic comedy persists as one of the most broadly accessible genres in all of film. So why, then, has Hollywood seemingly stopped making them? At one point in time, romcoms filled cinema calendars. Now, they’re largely relegated to streaming – or, in the case of something like Celine Song’s Materialists, miscategorized. It’s perplexing, because not only are romcoms some of the most you can have with a room full of strangers, but isn’t love one of the most universal human experiences? Of course, not all love stories are the same. Some are farcical, others more sophisticated, some cynical, others straight-up crazy. Love contains multitudes, and so do romantic comedies, and we considered it all when putting together this list of the 100 best romcoms of all tim

Updates for 2026: Indisputably, the two most talked-about movies of 2025 were also among the best of the century. Ryan Coogler’s gangster-vampire-blues-musical-period-piece Sinners proved that original stories can still draw huge audiences, while One Battle After Another confirmed Paul Thomas Anderson as the brightest filmmaking mind of his generation. Movies were born in the 20th century, and the 21st century has nearly killed them. At least, that’s the common narrative. And it hasn’t seemed far from the truth: between internet piracy, the pandemic, the rise of television as the go-to storytelling medium, and ongoing corporate consolidation, the film industry has often felt imperilled throughout the first two decades of the new millennium.  But even among all the doom and gloom – or perhaps even because of it – film itself has continued to thrive. Genres have been mixed, matched and completely exploded. More diverse stories are being told than ever before. Blockbusters have reached unfathomable hugeness, while the smallest, strangest indies have won awards and reached vast audiences. If cinema in the 21st century has been defined by tumult, it’s also exemplified the ability of filmmakers to rise to the moment. These 100 movies represent the best of the last quarter-century so far. Written by David Fear, Joshua Rothkopf, Keith Uhlich, Stephen Garrett, Andrew Grant, Aaron Hillis, Tom Huddleston, Alim Kheraj, Tomris Laffly, Kevin B. Lee, Karina Longworth, Maitland McDonagh, Tro

These stuck-at-home times have us all pining for the freedoms of the big city: to hang out, see the sights, or just sip a pint and watch the world go by. We can’t do it – at least, for the moment – so why not experience the big city vicariously and take a trip to its most glamorous nooks and seediest crannies as captured by some great filmmakers? From the silent era right up to the present day, Time Out’s list of the best London movies covers comedy, horror, sci-fi, romance, disaster movies, political dramas and psychedelic thrillers. But they’re all united by one thing – they’re set and shot in the greatest city in the known universe… RECOMMENDED: The 100 best British films of all time

From winter blockbusters to festival sleepers, these are the movies our critics think define 2025. Expect prestige dramas, horror gems, wild indies and some surprise streaming hits – all watched and ranked by Time Out’s film team. What even was last year in movies? A rollercoaster 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. 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

The horror business is booming right now. Over the last few years, it’s become one of the movie industry’s most bankable genres, financially and creatively. Ryan Coogler has already made Oscar-nomination history with a vampire flick of all things, while the combination of Barbarian and Weapons has made director Zach Cregger one of Hollywood’s most exciting new voices – and that’s to say nothing of the huge box-office success of franchise entries like The Conjuring: Last Rites, Final Destination Bloodlines and Five Nights at Freddy’s 2.Only a few months into 2026, and the year in horror is already off to another good start, between 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, entertaining killer monkey ripper Primate and Sam Raimi’s return-to-form, Send Help. Nothing on the docket for the rest of the year immediately screams ‘blockbuster,’ but that’s the great thing about horror: like a bump in the night, the hits often come from unexpected places. Here’s what has stood out like a bloody knife so far. 📽️ The best movies of 2026 (so far)🔥 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far)🧟 The 100 greatest horror movies ever made

War has long fascinated filmmakers, no conflict more so than World War II. No wonder: the sheer scale of the destruction, the atrocities associated with it and its place in human history make it a natural framework for stories of resistance, survival and unimaginable loss. So many movies have been made about the war, it’s almost a genre unto itself.  For that reason, choosing the best World War II movies is a challenge. That’s why, along with polling our well-studied Time Out writers, we also called in an outside expert: Quentin Tarantino, a man who knows a thing or two about making a great WW2 film. Among the selections, you’ll find towering epics, intimate character studies, intense documentaries, historical revisions and even a few comedies. War is hell, and World War II was particularly hellish – but at least we have these films to help make some sense of it. Written by Tom Huddleston, Adam Lee Davies, Paul Fairclough, Anna Smith, David Jenkins, Dan Jolin, Phil de Semlyen, Alim Kheraj & Matthew Singer Recommended: ⚔️ The 50 best war movies of all-time🎖️ The best World War I movies, ranked by historical accuracy🇺🇸 The 20 best Memorial Day movies

Being a big old film geek, I’m always excited to visit a place with an on-screen past. And Brighton’s luxe but affordable Grand Hotel has so many pasts, it’s almost inevitable that it has one of these too. That iconic Victorian façade, which stands sentry over Brighton beach like a grand old dame gazing watchfully out to sea, is much changed since the days of cult ’70s Brit flick Quadrophenia, but it’s still a buzz to stand in the doorway and think of Sting et al.  Much has changed at The Grand since 1979: bellboys in brimless hats are a thing of the past and the hotel welcomes the Mods inside these days. There’s even an annual Quadrophonia celebration at the hotel. Like much at this welcoming and unfussy yet ever-elegant escape, past and present mingle effortlessly – sometimes in Fred Perry, sometimes in tweed. What are the rooms like at The Grand Brighton Hotel? Once you’re through the entranceway once policed by Sting, and past the expansive Victoria Lounge & Bar – part conservatory-with-a-view, part salon – the seven-story Victorian cantilevered staircase will take you up the seven floors to the hotel’s 205 rooms. At the time of writing, all but a handful are freshly tzuzjed in a £16.2 million refurb. My suite is one of the 81 rooms with a sea view. Even on a dismal south coast day, it’s an incredible vista over the famous pebble beach and out into the slate-grey beyond. There’s a roll top bath by the window for anyone who wants to gaze out towards France for an hour or t

‘By order of the Peaky Blinders’ is the catchphrase of Steven Knight’s blockbuster Netflix crime saga show. And the order in this sturdy movie-length sequel is: ‘gaze into a whisky glass while ruminating on the past’.  Because there’s a lot of brooding in this feature-length, 1940-set Peaky Blinders expansion, as Cillian Murphy’s Birmingham crime boss, Tommy Shelby, mulls over 25 years of trauma and loss over opium binges. If only you could bootleg therapy, eh? The Immortal Man finds the Nazi Blitz in full swing and Tommy in self-imposed exile in an eerie country pile, a Brummie King Lear contemplating a lost kingdom. Director Tom Harper (Wild Rose) sticks to the sombre, muted tones of a ghost story as the gangster is confronted by the spectres of his past, including the daughter he lost to TB. His efforts to translate the pain into a memoir bring amusement to his loyal factotum Johnny Dogs (Packy Lee). Only upstanding MP sister Ada (Sophie Rundle) and son Duke (Barry Keoghan, currently cornering the market in wild-eyed tearaways) survive the winnowing of season six. Duke’s erratic attempts to run the empire in his dad’s absence soon have Tommy saddling back up to take the reins in the city. Literally, in one horseback ride through Luftwaffe-blasted Birmingham.  It’s often enthralling, though rarely explosive Knight, the show’s creator and the screenwriter, seems to have taken inspiration from Jack Higgins’ The Eagle Has Landed in a fun, inspired-by-real-history plot involvi

Being a big old film geek, I’m always excited to visit a place with an on-screen past. And Brighton’s luxe but affordable Grand Hotel has so many pasts, it’s almost inevitable that it has one of these too. That iconic Victorian façade, which stands sentry over Brighton beach like a grand old dame gazing watchfully out to sea, is much changed since the days of cult ’70s Brit flick Quadrophenia, but it’s still a buzz to stand in the doorway and think of Sting et al.  Much has changed at The Grand since 1979: bellboys in brimless hats are a thing of the past and the hotel welcomes the Mods inside these days. There’s even an annual Quadrophonia celebration at the hotel. Like much at this welcoming and unfussy yet ever-elegant escape, past and present mingle effortlessly – sometimes in Fred Perry, sometimes in tweed. What are the rooms like at The Grand Brighton Hotel? Once you’re through the entranceway once policed by Sting, and past the expansive Victoria Lounge & Bar – part conservatory-with-a-view, part salon – the seven-story Victorian cantilevered staircase will take you up the seven floors to the hotel’s 205 rooms. At the time of writing, all but a handful are freshly tzuzjed in a £16.2 million refurb. My suite is one of the 81 rooms with a sea view. Even on a dismal south coast day, it’s an incredible vista over the famous pebble beach and out into the slate-grey beyond. There’s a roll top bath by the window for anyone who wants to gaze out towards France for an hour or t

Pixar loves a furry body-swap adventure – see Brave, Turning Red, Soul – but the animation house has really gone full David Attenborough with its latest in which a young woman turns into a beaver to save her verdant corner of the America burbs. The results are like Avatar meets Life on Earth with bits of Mission: Impossible, The Birds, Sharknado and John Carpenter thrown in. Somehow from that eccentric array of ingredients, the studio has cooked up its funniest and most exciting effort since 2017’s Coco.  Ex-Pixar storyboard artist Daniel Chong, directing his first feature for the studio, and writer Jesse Andrews (Luca) get ahead of those Avatar comparisons early: ‘This is nothing like Avatar!’’ protests its heroine, spiky 19-year-old Mabel (Piper Curda), when someone makes the parallel. But actually it is a lot like Avatar – and there’s nothing wrong with that! Not when the conceit is executed this well.  Using a secret sci-fi gizmo pioneered by her college professor, Mabel transplants her consciousness into a robot beaver and heads off to galvanise the local wildlife to repopulate her beloved local pond and stop Beavertown’s preening mayor Jerry Generazzo (Jon Hamm) building a freeway straight over it.  Introducing herself to the local fauna, beaver Mabel quickly falls under the patronage of Beaver King George (less mad than his namesake, but only slightly), learns about ‘Pond Rules’ (‘When you gotta eat, eat’), and discovers a cabal of monarchs from across the branches of

‘You were lucky to sit out New York. It was brutal.’ Yes, Scream queen Neve Campbell is back after passing on 2023’s Manhattan slasher Scream VI and not even the franchise thinks she missed much.  If it’s not reading too much into that one knowing aside, series creator Kevin Williamson has been wrestling with how Scream VI turned out too. The fallout was pretty brutal: star Melissa Barrera was fired over remarks the studio deemed antisemitic, Jenna Ortega left and director Christopher Landon also departed, dealing with an online doxxing. It’s a relief, then, to get back to the fictional kind of death threats. But for all the best efforts of Campbell and Williamson, who directs the series he created for the first time, the bar is not much raised. The seventh outing offers fleeting gory thrills for fans but dissolves in a messy second half that prioritises fan-service casting (the presence of Courtney Cox’s Gale Weathers has minimal impact) and brutal kills over meta cleverness.  Campbell’s jaded final girl is now a final mum to daughter Tatum (Isabel May), living in a new generic suburb after fleeing Woodsboro with her cop husband (Joel McHale). There’s some mother-daughter tension: Tatum wants to know why she’s named after someone who was brutally murdered (see: Scream); mum, gnarled up by past trauma, wants to shield her from all that. But when Ghostface returns to haunt her and her family afresh, Tatum needs to step up to survive. Neve Campbell’s jaded final girl is now a f

If, like Alan Partridge, you believe that Wings were ‘the band The Beatles could have been’, Morgan Neville’s propulsively upbeat music doc is a total treat. And, honestly, even if the merest waft of bagpipe on ‘Mull of Kintyre’ brings you out in hives, Man on the Run is still full of treasures. Piecing together a snappy collage of ’70s home video, unseen archive and gig footage, plus some insightful voiceover interviews, the Piece By Piece and 20 Feet From Stardom director revisits Paul McCartney as he tries to figure out what it is to be an ex-Beatle – and, ideally, how to graduate from it.  For Macca, the immediate post-Beatles era was a confounding time: the band hadn’t yet officially split and rumours that they’d reform for a big pay day would dog him, John, George and Ringo throughout the 1970s. A fugitive from his own life, Neville’s doc finds a glum McCartney, wife Linda and family in a ramshackle farmhouse on Scotland’s Kintyre peninsula. It’s a billion miles from the glare of his mop-top days but he’s still dealing with the odd intrepid journalist. In one case, using a lobbed bucket.But, as Man on the Run shows so enjoyably, McCartney’s urge to make music conquered even his love of serenity and sheep shearing. In a jiffy, he was recruiting Linda, Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine and a revolving cast of bandmates to form experimental rock band Wings, recording among the chickens at a jerry-built studio at the farm.The songs initially reflected those surrounds, and n

We’ve had the ‘McConaissance’; now comes the ‘Glenlightenment’. Like his fellow Texan, albeit a couple of decades younger, Glen Powell is a gifted and charismatic comic performer with proper dramatic chops too. What he isn’t, to the detriment of this watered-down comedy-thriller, is a miracle worker.  Remaking Ealing comedies is a fool’s errand, even when it’s done unofficially. But writer-director John Patton Ford’s serial-killer yarn is inspired by Kind Hearts and Coronets and it has nothing of that 1949 classic’s bite and crackle. (That the story credit has gone to Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal, the 1907 book that inspired Kind Hearts, should fool no one.) Here, it’s Powell in the Alec Guinness role and a variety of watchable actors in the roles Dennis Price played so memorably. Powell is Becket Redfellow, an heir to a tycoon’s fortune who is tossed aside as a boy and hatches a plan to claw his way back into the old man’s will. The only thing standing in his path to those billions is his seven relatives. We meet him on Death Row wearing a silk eye mask, fussing over his last meal with the calmness of a man who clearly plans to eat further meals. He’s the narrator of his own story but in keeping with this meat-and-two-veg murder-athon, his tale isn’t especially full of tricks and feints. Giving away (most of) the ending is unwise.  And therein lies the issue: How To Make a Killing is not a Grand Guignol bloodbath – with the exception of the first offing, invo

From Thor and Hulk to (basically) McCauley and Hanna. The reunion of two of Marvel’s mightiest heroes, Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo, as a meticulous but troubled thief and the schlebby, Columbo-alike detective on his case across LA evokes unenviable Heat comparisons. They’re overblown but not outrageous.  Crime 101 doesn’t have quite the operatic sweep of Michael Mann’s 1995 crime masterpiece or its army of supporting characters, but it’s a serious and satisfying throwback to the golden days of the crime thriller, full of crackling dialogue, noirish LA locations and adrenalised car chases, all briskly overseen by talented British writer-director Bart Layton (The Imposter). The title, of course, has a double meaning: Hemsworth’s hangdog jewel thief Mike Davis has a simple code – he’s courteous, avoids violence and his back story is a blank – and targets marks along LA’s 101 freeway. The road, which runs along the Pacific coast, represents something spiritual for Mike, who carries scars from a former life in the city. His spartan oceanside apartment offers more common ground with De Niro’s thief in Heat. When he falls out with his growly fence and mentor (Nick Nolte), who replaces him with Barry Keoghan’s loose-cannon biker, the stakes ramp up. Mike needs to pull off one last job. Ruffalo’s detective and his loyal but wary partner (Corey Hawkins) are hot on his heels. You know the drill. The Heat comparisons are overblown but not outrageous  Caught up with them both is a mi

Once again, this boutique west London indie film is gathering and supporting underrepresented voices, with a focus on inclusive storytelling and accessibility. Highlights at the the 2026 Little Venice Film Festival (LVFF) include The Reckoning of Erin Morrigan, directed Gabrielle Russell and telling the story of an ex IRA operative; Alan Walsh’s short One Last Show in Taghmon about three stuntmen who are preparing for their final stunt show; and paralympian documentary by Sheridan O’Donnell Rising Phoenix: A New Revolution. There are also screenings dedicated to female stories, girls in film, disability films, LGBTQ+ voices and youth-focused films. Venues are still TBC, but expect screenings to be staged around Maida Vale and Little Venice. 

‘I’m getting a divorce. What tipped me off is that I’m living in an apartment on my own and my wife and kids don’t live there.’ With that droll line, delivered in the spotlight of a hushed Manhattan comedy club after half a space cake, Will Arnett’s jaded executive stumbles upon the best – and cheapest – form of therapy available to a broken-up dad struggling amid the ruins of his marriage. Yes, it looks horrifying from a distance, but Alex, it turns out, is built differently. Based loosely on the experiences of arena-filling UK comic John Bishop, a divorcee-to-be who once walked on stage at a stand-up club to swerve paying the cover charge and never looked back, it shifts the story from Liverpool to Manhattan and the New York ’burbs. Arnett is Bishop surrogate Alex Novak and the Arrested Development actor is a revelation. Opposite is Laura Dern, who has previous in this terrain via a turn as Marriage Story’s hotshot divorce lawyer. She brings her A-game to a very different vision of marital ruin.  Obviously, divorce sucks at levels that are dizzying – especially when, like Alex and Tess (Dern), there are kids to shelter from the fallout. Props, then, to director and co-writer Bradley Cooper for finding a sense of renewal from this often painful snapshot of marital breakdown, with its forced smiles in front of friends, wrestling over the dogs and the children asking if ‘you’re fighting again’. ‘We need to call this, right?’ Alex asks Tess before moving out of the family home

Aside from 2009’s Drag Me to Hell (one of the horror movies of the century so far,) and a stint spicing up the Marvelverse with some dark and freaky touches, Sam Raimi has been largely AWOL from the genre that made his name.  Happily, Send Help is both a return to the world of horror and a major return to form for the Evil Dead man, who’s been waylaid with bland franchise fare in recent years. There’s nothing bland in his queasy funhouse ride, a table-turning death match set on a remote island. Or in the wild performances of Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien. The pair plugs into Raimi’s wavelength with increasingly unhinged commitment.  McAdams, a comic actress gifted enough to count as Canada’s Olivia Colman, plays hard-working, unsung professional Linda Liddle. She’s been overlooked for promotion at her anycorp employer because she isn’t one of the boys, doesn’t ‘golf’, and in a case of especially bad timing, meets the company’s disgusted new nepo-baby CEO, Bradley (O’Brien), with her lunch on her face.  But when the company’s private jet flight to Bangkok goes down in a tropical storm, boss and underling are forced to team up on a remote island. Except, she’s a Survivor superfan able to whip up a shelter and handy enough with a knife to turn the local marine life into a sashimi platter – and he’s injured and next to useless. Being a sexist dinosaur, he believes that office hierarchies still apply, even on a desert island. It plays out like a violent mix of Cast Away, Lord o

Kangaroos have had a rough time in Australian cinema. But if the likes of Snowtown and Wake in Fright showed the perils of being pouched and hoppy in God’s own country, here’s a feel-warm-inside family roo-mance to finally celebrate the humble marsupial. Kangaroo is based on the true story of Chris Barns, an Aussie who discovered his purpose setting up a kangaroo sanctuary in Alice Springs. He found fame via social media and earned the nickname ‘Kangaroo Dundee’. The fact that his journey began with him running over a roo and adopting the surviving joey gave the story the kind of twist that’s absolute bait for screenwriters.  House of the Dragon’s Ryan Corr plays ambitious TV weatherman Chris Masterman, a very loose version of Barns, who boasts all the urbanite traits that get right up the noses of rural Australians. He’s conceited, he’s on the telly, he drives a fancy car and he uses moisturiser.Disgraced and sacked when a career-enhancing attempt to save a dolphin at Bondi ends in disaster, he’s on his way to Broome when he runs over a roo and is left cradling her joey. The locals in the local Northern Territory community don’t want to know – kangaroos are a dime a dozen here – except for Charlie (Lily Whiteley), a young roo-loving loner channelling her grief for her dad into nurturing young joeys. She’s even willing to overlook his ‘fish killer’ rep. It’s not doing anything wildly different, but it’ll put a smile on your face Will the pair bond? Obviously, yes. But not be

Gun battles, secret passageways, revolutionary Paris barricades, exploding Oxford colleges, dastardly plots. Yes, Sherlock Holmes is back. The Guy Ritchie version. Ritchie is exec-producer and one of the directors on Prime Video’s action-packed new period caper Young Sherlock – adapted from Andrew Lane’s book series – and it’s a show hopped-up on the Lock, Stock man’s trademark verve and punky energy. This is not the tweedy, cerebral Holmes of Jeremy Brett and Basil Rathbone, or even the studious teenage sleuth of Barry Levinson’s ’80s adventure movie Young Sherlock Holmes. Like a 19-year-old version of Robert Downey Jr’s version of the great detective in Ritchie’s two Sherlock Holmes movies, this Holmes is socking it to the villains – literally.  ‘We wanted to take the energy of those original films and bring it into a younger version,’ Young Sherlock production designer Tom Burton tells Time Out. ‘I looked at them as a spring-off point for the design. Guy's kinetic energy is present in both. We wanted it to feel like the same world, even if it's a completely different story.’ Burton talks us through how – and where – Sherlock Holmes’s posh-but-perilous Victorian world came together in the new eight-part show.  Photograph: Daniel Smith/Prime What is Young Sherlock about? After a spell in London’s Newgate Prison for pickpocketing, the young Sherlock Holmes is packed off to Oxford – not as an undergrad but as a dogsbody for the porters at Magdalene College. There he encounte

First he did Sherlock Holmes; now Guy Ritchie is back with the undergraduate-aged version. Prime Video’s new eight-parter Young Sherlock is a breezy, inventive original story for Conan-Doyle’s great sleuth, packed with nefarious plots, foul deeds, secret passages and hairpin twists. It’s all backdropped by Oxford’s ancient colleges, revolutionary Paris, bustling Constantinople and, of course, Baker Street.  Ritchie directs a couple of episodes and executive-produces the show and his stamp is all over an anachronistic soundtrack that needle-drops Black Sabbath, Radiohead, The Damned and Steeleye Span as Sherlock (Tiffin Fiennes) and his new pal Moriarty (Dónal Finn) set to work unpicking several devilish, interlocking mysteries. Here’s the soundtrack in full: Episode 1 The Rocky Road To Dublin – LankumI'm A Man – Smoove & Turrell Neat Neat Neat – The Damned Magpie – The Unthanks Don't Forget Who You Are – Miles Kane  Episode 2 Wild Rover – Lankum Devil’s Dance Floor – Flogging Molly Let It Burn – GOAT Twa Corbies – Steeleye Span Episode 3 Zadok The Priest (from The Madness of King George) – The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra Brahms’ Violin Concerto Op 77 – Takako Nishizaki, Slovenská filharmónia, Stephen Gunzenhauser Lightning's Girl – Nancy Sinatra Dark Side – Bishop Briggs Episode 4  The Wizard – Black Sabbath The Man Comes Around – Johnny Cash Episode 5 A Forest – The Cure  Episode 6 Young Men Dead – The Black Angels La Coeur Au Bout Des Doigts – Jacqueline TaiebThes

Nunca ha habido un momento mejor (ni más importante) para reivindicar las salas de cine. Lugares a los que ir a soñar, puntos de reunión de comunidades y barrios y vía de escape para muchos, actualmente, los cines se enfrentan a una serie de retos y desafíos que ni siquiera los cubos de palomitas más originales e ingeniosos pueden solucionar. Tras sobrevivir la llegada de la televisión a los hogares, las huelgas de Hollywood, el auge de las plataformas de 'streaming', que muchas veces apuestan por lanzar sus nuevos largometrajes directamente en la pequeña pantalla, o las subidas de precios, parece que, de momento, los cines se mantienen firmes ante estos retos. Además, también hay motivos para ser optimistas: las audiencias jóvenes, expertas en plataformas como Letterboxd, abrazan cada vez más las experiencias en la gran pantalla, y conocidos cineastas como Ryan Coogler, Christopher Nolan y Chloé Zhao las defienden siempre que pueden.  Teniendo en cuenta todos estos criterios, los expertos locales de Time Out han colaborado para la elaboración de este gran listado, celebrando algunos de los mejores cines del mundo, que van desde algunas de las salas de culto de Tokio hasta los majestuosos templos parisinos dedicados al cine, los palacios cinematográficos de Los Ángeles o un cine canadiense con tan solo 12 butacas. Así, hemos puesto el foco en un centenar de magníficos cines que todo amante del séptimo arte debería conocer… y visitar. Esta sala de cine de Madrid, entre las mej

Sirât is finally upon us. Like its small convoy of nomadic ravers traversing the north African desert, the year’s most startling slice of cinema is rolling into cinemas with a cargo of traumatic twists and spiritual enlightenment – all set to a techno score that will reverberate in your skull for weeks. It is, put simply, like nothing else you’ll see this year: think Vanishing Point (literally) on acid, or William Friedkin’s Sorcerer with the handbrake ripped out and lobbed out of the window.  Spanish-French filmmaker Óliver Laxe has called it ‘Mad Max Zero’, which gives some sense of its apocalyptic world-building and vehicular mayhem. Since winning a jury prize at Cannes, Sirât has picked up two Oscar nominations and shaken up audiences in its wake. We asked the writer-director to take us behind the scenes on his sun-baked opus. Strap in. Contains minor Sirât plot spoilers   Photograph: Altitude Films The set-up Sirât opens with a desert rave, its citadel-shaped speaker stacks backdropped by north Africa’s Atlas Mountains. A man, Luis, with his young son Esteban in tow, hands out flyers to ravers with a photograph of his missing daughter, last seen taking part in the nomadic rave scene. When the rave is shut down and a handful of ravers escape in their two camper vans, Luis and Esteban follow behind, hoping they’ll lead to the missing girl. ‘We were shooting at the same time they were organising the real rave,’ says Laxe. ‘We organised it in Teruel in Aragon because we w

British cinema’s night of nights threw up some big surprises and the odd difficult one, too. Overall, though, the BAFTA voters played roughly the tunes everyone expected – with only Marty Supreme and Timothée Chalamet’s loss to Robert Aramayo for I Swear in the Best Actor category counting as the one major surprise. Elsewhere, Paul Thomas Anderson’s revolutionary caper picked up one award after another and Jessie Buckley’s heart-rending performance in Hamnet earned the Irish actress the gong everyone predicted.  But, hey, art isn’t a competition – it’s really about sharing the good word on excellent films (and Marty Supreme is definitely one of those) and this year has thrown up more than a handful of them. And better yet, almost all of them are available to stream right now. Here’s where to do it.  One Battle After Another – Best Film, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actor, Cinematography and Editing The night’s biggest winner was Paul Thomas Anderson’s counter-culture thriller, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a burnt-out revolutionary, Chase Infiniti as his firebrand daughter, and Sean Penn as a military type with issues. The film, surely a hot Oscar favourite, won six BAFTAs, including Best Film, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actor for Penn, Cinematography and Editing. Where to stream One Battle After Another: it’s available to rent on all the main PVOD platforms, including Curzon, Prime Video and Apple TV, for a fiver. Agata Grzybowska/Focus FeaturesHam

Earthy yet transcendent, brooding but full of sensitivity and spirit, Nigerian-set family drama My Father’s Shadow has been busy earning comparisons with two recent classics – including a certain Best Picture winner. The man who made it, Akinola Davies Jr, knows this because he’s been stealthily logging onto Letterboxd to find out what people are saying about the film he co-wrote with his brother. ‘People are like, “It’s the Black Aftersun” or ”it feels a bit like Moonlight”,’ he says, referring to Barry Jenkins’ Oscar-winner and emotionally ruining Paul Mescal sad-dad drama. Not bad company to be in? ‘Just to be mentioned in the same breath as those two films is completely outrageous,’ he laughs. ‘To be talked about alongside those two films is fantastic,’ adds the film’s star, Gangs of London’s Sopé Dirisu. ‘I hope audiences share ours in the same way.’ Photograph: MUBI Into the shadows ‘Supernatural drama’ is the tag Davies uses for My Father’s Shadow’s rare blend of realism and rapture. Set in Lagos over one tumultuous day of political upheaval in 1993, it’s the story of an absentee dad, Folarin (Dirisu), who returns home to collect his two sons, Akin and Remi (played by real brothers Godwin and Chibuike Egbo), and take them on an unpredictable, revelatory journey into the Nigerian capital. The boys swim with Folarin in the Gulf of Guinea, Moonlight-style, bump into intimidating associates and gradually fill in some of the blanks relating to their dad’s life. It’s a ten

London’s popular Catford Mews cinema is getting a new lease of life, thanks to another independent cinema eight miles across the city. Hackney’s The Castle Cinema has taken ownership of Catford Mews, which closed in November 2024 after the previous operator was evicted over rent arrears. Lewisham borough’s only cinema, Catford Mews will reopen later in 2026 as The Castle Catford, with three screens as well as a community space, bar and café, bringing independent cinema back to this corner of south east London.  ‘In Catford, [The Castle] will take on the operation of the cinema and bar, with a strong focus on independent and foreign language films as well as more mainstream titles, ensuring there is something for everyone,’ says Lewisham Council in a statement. ‘They will also take on operation of the main foyer space accessible from Winslade Way, maintaining it as a cafe/food court space which has proven to be popular with the local community in recent years, as well as offering an opportunity for food start-ups to build their business from.’ Great news, in other words, for locals who came to love Catford Mews as a community hub and seed bed for local businesses – as well as local movie fans. ‘We’re building more than just a cinema,’ says The Castle’s co-founder Asher Charman, ‘we’re creating a space for culture and connection, for everyone. From Parent & Baby screenings and LGBTQ+ events to curated strands celebrating Black cinema and local heritage, we want our programme to

ถ้าคุณคิดว่า Wuthering Heights คือวรรณกรรมรักคลาสสิกที่มีแต่หมอก ทุ่งมัวร์ และความโศกเศร้าแบบผู้ดีอังกฤษ ขอต้อนรับสู่ปี 2026 ที่ เอเมอรัลด์ เฟนเนลล์ กำลังจะพานิยายกอธิคของ เอมิลี บรอนเต กลับมามีชีวิตอีกครั้งในเวอร์ชันที่จัดจ้านและเข็ดฟัน สมกับลายเซ็นผู้กำกับ Saltburn แบบไม่ต้องทำเป็นสุภาพ ครั้งนี้ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่าง แคทธี (มาร์โกต์ ร็อบบี) และ ฮีทคลิฟฟ์ (เจค็อบ เอลอร์ดี) ไม่ได้ถูกเล่าด้วยความโรแมนติกแบบนุ่มนวล แต่ถูกขับเคลื่อนด้วยแรงปรารถนา ความแค้น และพลังทำลายล้างที่เหมือนพายุในยอร์กเชียร์ พายุที่เฟนเนลล์ตั้งใจจะถ่ายให้เห็นเป็นตัวละคร อีกตัวหนึ่งของเรื่อง และถึงแม้ผู้กำกับจะตีความเรื่องนี้ผ่านสายตาวัยรุ่นที่ร้อนแรงกว่าเดิม แต่สิ่งหนึ่งที่เธอไม่ยอมละทิ้งคือภูมิทัศน์ อันเป็นหัวใจของนิยายต้นฉบับ เพราะในโลกของบรอนเต ทุ่งมัวร์ไม่ได้เป็นแค่ฉากหลัง แต่มันคืออารมณ์ คือบาดแผล และคือความทรงจำที่กัดกินคนได้พอๆ กับความรัก ตัวผู้เขียนอย่างเอมิลี บรอนเต เกิดและเสียชีวิตที่เวสต์ยอร์กเชียร์ในวัยเพียง 30 ปี และ วูเธอริง ไฮต์ส คือผลงานเพียงเล่มเดียวที่เธอฝากไว้ แต่กลับดังพอจะกลายเป็นหนึ่งในตำนานรักที่ถูกหยิบมาดัดแปลงซ้ำแล้วซ้ำเล่าในประวัติศาสตร์ภาพยนตร์อังกฤษ เวอร์ชันของเฟนเนลล์เลือกใช้ทุ่งมัวร์ เนินเขา และหุบเขาแถบยอร์กเชียร์ (โดยเฉพาะนอร์ทยอร์กเชียร์) เป็นพื้นที่หลักในการจำลองโลกชนบทระหว่างบ้านในวัยเด็กของแคทธี และคฤหาสน์ทรัชครอส แกรนจ์ที่เธอแต่งงานเข้าไปอยู่ แม้จะไม่ใช่ฮาเวิร์ธ บ้านเกิดของบรอนเตแบบเป๊ะๆ แต่ก็ใกล้พอจะทำให้สายลมบนจอมีน้ำหนักแบบที่คนอ่านนิยายจำได้ทันที และมันสมจริงกว่าเวอร์ชันปี 1939 ของ ลอเรนซ์ โอลิวิเยร์ ที่ฉากหลังดันเหมือนหลุดมาจากแคลิฟอร์เนียอยู่พอสมควร (แม้ว่าเวอร์ชันปี

Derry Girls fans rejoice because the hit comedy’s creator, Lisa McGee, is back with another show that simultaneously touches the heart, whacks the funny bone and gives the nervous system a jolt.  How To Get To Heaven From Belfast branches out beyond – far beyond – Derry, though. The new Netflix eight-parter spans almost the entirety of the Emerald Isle, as well as a corner of London, as it spins a dark, complex and often wildly funny story of three 38-year-old women trying to find out what happened to an old school friend. If Scooby-Doo’s Mystery Machine was an increasingly battered Land Rover Discovery and its sleuths were fuelled up on a diet of shots, white wines and noughties bangers, it might look a bit like this intoxicating, offbeat mystery-thriller.  Photograph: Chris Barr/NetflixSinead Keenan, Caoilfhionn Dunne and Roisin Gallagher in ’How to Get to Heaven from Belfast’ What is How to Get To Heaven From Belfast about? Our sisters-in-sleuthing are successful TV writer Saoirse (Roisin Gallagher), stressed-out mum Robyn (Sinéad Keenan) and carer Dara (Caoilfhionn Dunne). The trio are reunited when they’re invited to the wake of the fourth member of their old schoolgirl gang, Greta (Natasha O'Keeffe). Except that it isn’t Greta in the coffin. Cue a chaotic investigation from three bickering buddies. ‘I wanted a shit, female, Northern Irish A-Team!’ McGee tells The Guardian of the inspiration behind her road-trip-mystery-crime-thriller-black-comedy (yes, it really is al

Love murder-mysteries? Love Derry Girls? Love the work of noughties pop legends like Black Eyed Peas and Girls Aloud? If the answer to literally any of those questions is ‘hell yes’, you’ll be needing to settle in for a hearty binge of Derry Girls’ creator Lisa McGee new Netflix comedy-thriller How To Get To Heaven From Belfast. The show follows old school friends, TV writer Saoirse (Roisin Gallagher), stressed-out mum Robyn (Sinéad Keenan) and carer Dara (Caoilfhionn Dunne), as they cross Ireland trying to undercover them mysterious fate of the fourth member of their old schoolgirl gang Greta (Natasha O'Keeffe).  Photograph: Netflix/Christopher Barr Between their encounters with dangerous, charming and eccentric character amid glorious Irish landscapes, the sisters-in-sleuthing find time for some old school discos, boozy pub sessions and a whole mess of squabbling. The soundtrack is worth the binge alone, with McGee piling coins into the jukebox and teeing up Gaelic folk staples and some landmark noughties cheese featuring the likes of Atomic Kitten, S Club 7, All Saints, Daniel Bedingfield and, yes, Vengaboys. Trust it, it just works. ‘I really loved creating a soundtrack that reflected what these three women would have been dancing to when they were teenagers in 2003,’ McGee tells Time Out. ‘And the time of tunes they still whack on to dance to in the kitchen with a glass of wine. Not necessary cool – but bright and upbeat and nostalgic.’ Here’s the soundtrack in full: 

Emerald Fennell’s new adaption of Wuthering Heights is supercharging Emily Brontë’s classic gothic romance with all the spicy, Saltburn-y bits that the novelist neglected to include in her 1847 tale of doomed love. There’s carriage humping, moorland masturbation and heaving bosoms aplenty as Cathy (Margot Robbie) and Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) verbally joust and get jiggy in the wilds of Yorkshire. We’re pretty sure that Brontë was just getting round to all that when she hit deadline.  But if, by her own admission, Fennell’s hot and heavy take on Wuthering Heights is her teenage interpretation of its forbidden romance, the filmmaker’s vision does cleave closely to the Yorkshire landscapes evoked by Brontë.  The author was born in West Yorkshire and died there, aged only 30, and her only novel echoes with the howl of the wind on its moors and the splosh of peat bogs. Fennell’s Wuthering Heights used the nearby moors, hills and valleys of – mostly – North Yorkshire, to stand in for the countryside between Cathy’s childhood home and her marital one, the grander pile of Thrushcross Grange.It’s not quite Brontë’s Haworth but only locals and geologists could spot the difference, and it’s a world closer than the Californian backdrops of the 1939 Laurence Olivier version (albeit, Andrea Arnold’s 2011 version went with North Yorkshire locations too). Here’s where Wuthering Heights was filmed. Photograph: Warner Bros. The rock Cathy waits for Heathcliff on is Healaugh Crag, North Yo

The great murder-mystery revival is continuing with Agatha Christie’s 1929 novel The Seven Dials Mystery bringing its twisty, knotty thrills to a new three-part adaptation on Netflix. Expect dark conspiracies, secret societies, espionage and political intrigue as a group of Edwardian bright young things are torn apart by murder and foul play.   Step aside The Thursday Murder Club, Knives Out and co. It’s time to yield the stage to the OG of the genre.  Adapted by Broadchurch writer-creator Chris Chibnall, The Seven Dials Mystery is set in 1920s where aristocrats are recovering from the Great War and London’s now-well-heeled Seven Dials is a slum in which shady goings-on impact national security. Once a TV film starring John Gielgud and Harry Andrews in 1981, Netflix’s three-part adaptation paints on a more widescreen canvas with southern Spain and western England lending sun-kissed settings, Edwardian elegance and stately grandeur to all the bloodshed. We asked location managers Dee Gregson and Enrique Martin Guadamuro to talk through how and where the sweeping new crime mystery came together.  Photograph: Simon Ridgway/NetflixHelena Bonham Carter as Lady Caterham What is Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials about? How To Have Sex’s Mia McKenna-Bruce is Lady Eileen ‘Bundle’ Brent, a sparky young aristocrat thrust into the reluctant role of amateur investigator when her dead brother’s bestie Gerry Wade (My Oxford Year’s Corey Mylchreest) is found dead in mysterious circumstances.