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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. Netflix has announced the finale of Squid Game this summer, along with the end of Stranger Things, a second run of Tim Burton’s Wednesday and about a zillion other things, while HBO is offering up a second season for Nathan Fielder’s genius/awkward comedy docuseries The Rehearsal. Here’s everything you need to see... so far.  RECOMMENDED: 🎥 The best movies of 2025 (so far)🔥 The best TV and streaming shows to watch in 2025📺 The 100 greatest ever TV shows you need to binge

Television has been around for 70 years, but only in the last two decades has it earned true respect as an artistic medium. Up to that point, elitists referred to TV as ‘the idiot box’ or ‘the boob tube,’ and if you worked in it, you were either a hack or an upstart hoping to make the leap into the more dignified world of movies. Was its poor reputation deserved? Sure, there were blips of brilliance between The Ed Sullivan Show and The Sopranos, but by and large, the garbage outweighed the gold. Maybe it’s unfair, but the fact that it was all being beamed directly into our living rooms made the dreck more noticeable.  That’s all changed. Television has nudged film out from the center of popular culture, to the point that some of cinema’s truest believers – Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Steven Soderbergh – are making movies specifically for the small screen. The shift may have started with HBO and The Sopranos, but the advent of streaming has made it so that hundreds of new shows are now continually flipping the script every few years, if not months. But that doesn’t mean everything before 1999 is pure dross. While this list is dominated by 21st century programs, there are hundreds of shows that deserve credit for pushing TV forward into its current golden age, and chiseling them down to a neat top 100 is difficult. So we elected to leave off talk shows, variety shows and sketch comedy, focusing on scripted, episodic dramas, comedies and miniseries. Even then, it proved...

There’s no season more welcome than the start of summer. Brighter days, warmer temperatures and more time outdoors results in an uplifted mood and a general lust for life. It also helps when you have a stellar summer playlist – the kind that draws on golden classics and modern hits alike to really add a healthy dose of that feel-good feeling we all love. Here at Time Out, our team of writers and editors have you covered when it comes to the most essential summer anthems. From a Bill Withers staple to some Sabrina Carpenter sparkle, our playlist of the best summer songs captures all the fun, warmth and mood-lifting magic you want when it comes to soundtracking your summer months. RECOMMENDED: 🎤 The best karaoke songs ❤️ The best love songs🎉 The best party songs🕺 The best albums of 2025 so far

I accidentally blew up a WhatsApp chat this week with one question: what’s your favourite foreign supermarket? My friends, some who have spent more than a decade away from the UK in locations as diverse as Singapore and Australia, all have their favourites – and fifty messages later, we’re still talking about it. While we all might loathe doing ‘the big shop’ at home, why do we get starry-eyed when doing it on our holidays? Supermarket shopping abroad is a phenomenon on social media – there are over 50 million posts related to ‘grocery store travel’ on TikTok, full of travellers showing off their finds and celebrating the typically humdrum activity as a ‘cultural experience’. But the behaviour has been around for much longer than TikTok, gaining in popularity following the rise of the holiday rental – it’s Airbnb’s ‘live like a local’ slogan IRL. @jonnyarnott if you don’t go to the grocery store in a new place you’re missing out! #cambodia #food #groceryshopping #travel #travelfoodie #southeastasia ♬ original sound - Jonny Arnott These days, you’re far more likely to find me in a foreign supermarket on holiday than on a big red bus tour. I’d rather snoop around supermarket aisles, basket in hand, than listen to anyone tell me anything from a pre-prepared script. In Iceland, I’ve been fascinated by the licorice-studded chocolate bars and plastic-wrapped packs of dried and flaky white fish, eaten like crisps, that hang at the end of the aisle. In New...

For a holiday celebrating a miracle, Easter gets short shrift in the movies. Sure, there are plenty of faith-based flicks covering the reason for the season, but for those who celebrate the day in a more non-secular fashion, there’s really no It’s a Wonderful Life or Planes, Trains and Automobiles – an instant go-to to put you in the mood for a day of hunting for painted eggs and inhaling jellybeans. If you want to find a film the whole family can enjoy, you have to hunt. But that’s what we’re here for. On this list, we’ve turned over every proverbial rock, log and couch cushion to uncover the Easter movies most worth streaming this year – and, in lieu of actually having anything to do with the holiday, at least heavily involve candy and/or rabbits. Recommended: 👪 The best family movies of all-time🤣 The best funny family movies🧒 The best movies for toddlers🐶 The best animal movies for kids

Stunt professionals put their bodies, and sometimes even their lives, on the line daily to pull off the coolest action beats in blockbusters. They’re the lifeblood of many of our favourite movies – and if you sell ice packs, they’re probably your number one customers. And guess what? The Academy has finally decided that it’s time to recognise their derring-do with an Oscar: Achievement in Stunt Design. ‘Since the early days of cinema, stunt design has been an integral part of filmmaking,’ Academy CEO Bill Kramer and president Janet Yang said in a statement. ‘We are proud to honour the innovative work of these technical and creative artists, and we congratulate them for their commitment and dedication in reaching this momentous occasion.’ We couldn’t agree more, which is why we’ve asked a few of the top stunt people in cinema to help celebrate the profession by picking one stunt that blows them away.  So which death-defying deeds most impress stunt legends like Chad Stahelski, Vic Armstrong, Simon Crane and Melissa Stubbs? Read on to find out. RECOMMENDED: 💥 The 101 greatest action movies ever made👊 The 30 best fight scenes ever filmed

Science fiction isn’t just for nerds anymore. In truth, it never really was. The best sci-fi film does what any good movie should do, and that’s tell us something about ourselves and the world around us. The only difference is that it might invent an entirely different world to do so. Sure, there may also be some convoluted time-travel involved, or fantastical technology, or odd-looking creatures. In the end, though, the sci-fis that stick out are the ones that deal with themes and issues anyone can relate to, not just the geeks writing 4000-word theoretical treatises on fan forums. To that end, in order to put together our list of the 100 best sci-fi movies ever made, we asked a wide-ranging panel of experts, from Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse, to Oscar-decorated film director Guillermo del Toro, to Game of Thrones writer George RR Martin and Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker, along with a few regular old Time Out writers. As a result, it’s a list that crisscrosses the sci-fi universe, from Tatooine to Arrakis, Metropolis to Los Angeles circa, uh, 2019. Recommended:🚀 Charlie Brooker’s ten favourite sci-fi movies👽 The best sci-fi shows streaming on Netflix🦄 The 50 best fantasy movies of all-time

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

Ah, September. In the northern hemisphere, summer is drawing to a close, but in the south, spring is only just beginning. It’s a time between the mid-year travel peak and the busy festive season, and that means it’s a solid time to get away.  It’s also cheaper, the weather is more temperate and there’s a cracking roster of festivals and local traditions scheduled for this time of year, from region-wide book fairs and rock music festivals to scenic annual wine tours and massive flea markets. So, no matter the vibe you’re after this September, our list of the best places to travel will have something for you. RECOMMENDED:✈️The best places to travel in October🗺️Full guide to the best places to travel🛍️The world’s coolest neighbourhoods🎭The best cities for culture right now 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. 

In the days when Max was known as HBO Max, the streaming service was known as the place to go to rewatch The Sopranos, Sex and the City and The Wire and stream recent blockbusters. After the merger that formed Warner Bros. Discovery in 2022, much has changed. Yes, it’s still the platform to use if you want to spend time with Tony, Carrie or Stringer, but the selection of awesome movies has blown up, thanks to licensing deals with the likes of Turner Classic Movies, Criterion Collection and Studio Ghibli. Need help navigating its considerable catalogue? Here are the 25 newer and older movies on Max you absolutely need to stream ASAP. Recommended: 💻 The best movies on Netflix right now🍏 The best movies on Apple TV+🇭 The best movies on Hulu 🗓 The best movies of 2025 so far