Matthew Singer

Never let anyone tell you that music is only about the music. At least since the 1980s, it’s been almost equally a visual medium – just ask REO Speedwagon, Yes or any of the other blandly anonymous rock groups that got put out to pasture once MTV came around. That’s what makes music documentaries such a fruitful subgenre of cinematic nonfiction: the mix of genius and absurdity that comes along with pop stardom makes musicians a natural subject for filmmakers. With one of the music doc greats, Dig!, back in cinemas in 2025 via an extended new cut called Dig! XX, here are 25 prime examples of the genre. They run the gamut from biographies to concert films to tour diaries to more experimental explorations of sonic brilliance, but they all prove that musicians want to be seen nearly as much as heard. RECOMMENDED: 🎥 The 66 best documentaries ever made.🤘 10 unforgettable concert films to watch from home.

Ball is life, they say, which is what makes basketball such a popular conduit for movie drama. Because it’s never just about the game on the court – although the game itself is as fast and furious as any action scene – but the stories that surround it, from players desperate to transcend the situation they were born into to coaches in search of redemption to teams pulling together to pull off the ultimate upset. Or, y’know, a legendary athlete joining with famous cartoon characters to defeat some evil monsters. Sure, sports like baseball and boxing are more entrenched in the American mythos, and thus have inspired more classic Hollywood movies. But b-ball has its share of awesome films, too, whether they take place at the pro, college or street level, on the hardwood or the asphalt, in packed arenas or outer space. Here are 18 of the GOATs. Recommended: 🏆The 50 best sports movies of all-time, ranked🥊 The 10 best boxing movies of all-time⚾ The best baseball movies of all-time🥇 The best Olympic movies

It doesn’t need to be Valentine’s Day to throw a romantic movie on Netflix. Romance, after all, knows no calendar. Maybe you need some pointers on how to reel in your new crush. Maybe you’ve successfully snared them and now you’re looking to move to the next level. Or maybe your heart just got ripped out of your chest and flushed down the toilet, and you need a reminder that everything will eventually be all right. Or perhaps you just want to wallow in your heartbreak. Whichever is the case, if you’re in the mood for love, these romantic films are currently streaming on Netflix, and are sure to get you feeling twitterpated.  Recommended:  😍 The 100 best romantic films of all time🥰 The greatest romantic comedies of all time😳 The 101 best sex scenes of all time

It’s been a banner year for horror movies. In fact, it seems like all the buzziest films to come out so far aim to terrify. What’s truly great about the current horror bumper crop is that none of the standouts really resemble one another.  Cannes hit The Substance icked its way into the awards conversation on the back of Demi Moore’s staggeringly strong lead turn, Osgood Perkins’ hit Longlegs mixed ’90s serial killer procedurals with the Satanic panic of the previous decade, while I Saw the TV Glow was David Lynch directing Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Late Night with the Devil made found-footage fun again, while In a Violent Nature invented a new subgenre that people called ‘ambient slasher’. And that’s to name just a few. Below, you’ll find our best and scariest movies of 2024. 🎃 The 100 best horror films ever made 😱 The scariest movies based on a true story 🔥 The best horror films of 2025 (so far)

It was the best of times and worst of times for Hollywood in 2024. The first half of the year was marked by a string of box office disappointments, followed by blockbusters no one saw coming – if you claim to have known Inside Out 2 would become the highest-grossing animated film of all-time, show us the receipts, please. The lesson is that it’s always hard to predict what the year in movies will look like, financially, thematically and otherwise. And so, as we look forward to the cinema of 2025, we won’t try to concoct some grand narrative about what it all means. We’ll simply say, there are many reasons to be excited. In January alone, the docket includes a new American epic, a long-​awaited biopic of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, a fresh take on the wolfman and Nicole Kidman lustily drinking milk. Elsewhere, there are major legacy sequels, remakes, blockbuster spinoffs, long-awaited projects from big-name auteurs – and waiting for us at the end, Wicked: For Good and the third Avatar movie. Which of them will come to define the year? Who knows? But as always, we’ll be watching. RECOMMENDED:  🎥 The biggest family movies coming out in 2025📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2025 you need to stream🔥 The 50 best movies of 2024

Love is a funny thing. Anyone who’s ever fallen under its spell – whether reciprocal, unrequited or the classic ‘it’s complicated’ – knows the strange ways it can make you feel, and the bizarre thing it’ll make you do. No wonder, then, that romantic comedy persists as one of the most broadly appealing genres in all of film. Although frequently derided and dismissed as ‘chick flicks’, the best romcoms tap into emotional truths everyone can relate to – and some, like It Happened One Night and Annie Hall, have even been awarded Best Picture Oscars.   But love also takes many forms. And so it goes in romcoms. Some are ridiculous farces, others  are more sophisticated, while others take a colder, cynical viewpoint – because if you’ve ever been in love, chances are you’ve also had your heart shattered. Love contains multitudes, and so do romantic comedies, and we considered it all when putting together this list of the best romcoms of all time. Written by Dave Calhoun, Cath Clarke, Tom Huddleston, Kate Lloyd, Andy Kryza, Phil de Semlyen, Alim Kheraj & Matthew Singer Recommended: 😍 The 100 best romantic films of all-time🤣 The 100 best comedy movies😳 The 101 best sex scenes of all time🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time

What, exactly, is a documentary film at a time when everyone is filming everything and publishing it for the world to see? Indeed, we’re living in an era of nonfiction overload, on both social media and streaming services. But the best docs don’t just show you real life – they try to make sense of it.  They put truth into context. Sometimes, they reshape it and change our understanding of the world. They teach us about the people that surround us – and the truly successful documentaries make us rethink our ideas of ourselves.  It is true, though, that there are a lot of docs out there, whether available on Netflix or earning Oscar buzz. To make it easier for you to choose what to watch, we’ve sorted the must-sees from the glorified iPhone videos. From David Byrne in an oversized suit to Andy Warhol staring at the Empire State Building for eight hours, here are our picks for the best documentaries ever made. Written by Joshua Rothkopf, Cath Clarke, Tom Huddleston, David Fear, Dave Calhoun, Phil de Semlyen, Andy Kryza, David Ehrlich, Matthew Singer and Ava Scott-Nadal Recommended: ✅ The 20 best movies based on true stories🎸 The 19 best musical documentaries to rock out to🔎 The best true crime documentaries on Netflix🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time

Television used to be considered one of the lowest forms of entertainment. It was derided as ‘the idiot box’ and ‘the boob tube’. Edward R Murrow referred to it as ‘the opiate of the masses’, and the phrase ‘I don’t even own a TV’ was considered a major bragging right. And for a long time, it was hard to say that television’s poor reputation was undeserved.  A lot has changed. Television is now the dominant medium in basically all of entertainment, to the degree that the only thing separating movies and TV is the screen you’re watching on. Now, if you don’t own a television – or a laptop or a tablet or a phone – you’re basically left out of the cultural conversation completely. The shift in perception is widely credited to the arrival of The Sopranos, which completely reinvented the notion of what a TV show could do. But that doesn’t mean everything that came before is primordial slurry. While this list of the greatest TV shows ever is dominated by 21st century programs, there are many shows that deserve credit for laying the groundwork for this current golden age. 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.  So don’t touch that dial – these are the greatest TV shows of all-time.

Everyone has been in love, in one way or another. Maybe you’ve never said the words ‘I love you’ out loud, but you’ve definitely felt your heart race in the presence of a crush, and likely felt it fall down into your stomach when the feeling isn’t reciprocated. It is perhaps the most elemental emotion that exists, so it’s no wonder that love has inspired more movies than perhaps any other feeling.  Even if you’ve never experienced a whirlwind affair while on vacation in the Italian countryside or committed a crime alongside your loved one, the best romantic films still tap into the universal experience of being totally, hopelessly enraptured by another person, and make you sympathise with the decisions of those under love’s spell.  To curate this list of cinema’s greatest romances, we polled more than 100 filmmakers, actors and writers, including those from Time Out, all of whom know a thing or two about the language of amor. Folks like Nicholas Sparks, author of The Notebook, and Notting Hill director Roger Michell, and the ultimate hopeless romantic, Miss Piggy. Whether you prefer comedies or dramas, horror or sci-fi, we’re sure you’ll find something on this list to make your heart swell Written by Cath Clarke, Dave Calhoun, Tom Huddleston, Catherine Bray, Trevor Johnston, Andy P Kryza, Guy Lodge, Phil de Semlyen, Alim Kheraj & Matthew Singer Recommended: 😍 The 70 best romcoms of all-time😳 The 101 best sex scenes of all time🇳 The most romantic movies on Netflix right now

Have we finally reached peak streaming? With 282 million Netflix subscribers worldwide and Apple TV+ finally beginning to complement its high-calibre shows with some actual viewers, well, maybe not. And the year ahead is another feast of new and returning pop-culture powerhouses, some of which, including the finale of Stranger Things, have finally emerged after the tangle of Hollywood strikes. As ever, there’ll be some bolts from the blue – who saw Baby Reindeer coming 12 months ago? – but from this vista, there’s still plenty of good reasons to plump up those sofa cushions. Here’s 22 to kick off with.RECOMMENDED: 📺 The 40 best TV shows of 2024 you need to stream📽️ These are the must-see films for 2025 you can’t miss

Are there any true movie stars left? As long as Denzel Washington is still working, there’ll always be at least one. Whether playing civil rights icons or crooked cops, August Wilson protagonists or Shakespearean royalty, Washington has spent four decades proving he can do just about anything on screen. He proved again in 2024, utterly stealing the show as a villainous would-be emperor in Ridley Scott’s blockbuster legacy sequel Gladiator II. He is, indisputably, one of the great actors of his generation. Might he just be the GOAT, though? It’s up for debate, but this survey of his 16 best performances make a damn compelling case. Recommended: 🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time🎭 Emma Stone’s best performances, ranked😎 The 23 best Tom Cruise movies👩 The 12 best Angelina Jolie movies

In the last few years, Netflix has become a veritable romcom factory. Romantic comedies have long been one of the streamer’s tentpole genres and represents some of the studio’s best original offerings, from To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and Always Be My Maybe to A Family Affair and the more recently acquired Hit Man. But like most things Netflix produces, there’s still more content you’ll regret having spent the night with than not. So let’s sort the marriage material from the one-night stands with 25 of the best romcoms streaming right now on Netflix in the UK.  Recommended: 😍 The 100 best romantic films of all-time 🥰 The 70 best romcoms of all-time😳 The 35 steamiest erotic thrillers🤗 The best feelgood movies on Netflix UK  

Valentine’s Day is upon us, but Netflix is surprisingly short on new romantic content. (There is plenty of older stuff, though.) But there is much to love among the streamer’s newest slate of content. There’s the true story of a harrowing military operation, the ‘true-ish’ story of a wellness scammer, a comedy about a fake basketball team and a documentary about real ones, the final episodes of a beloved cult favourite series – oh, and Robert DeNiro’s TV debut.  And if you’re just really in the mood for something in the romcom vein, there’s a movie about Amy Schumer meeting the love of her life – while wearing a baby bump and pretending to be pregnant. Ah, sweet romance. Recommended: 💻 The 44 best Netflix original series to binge🦚 The best movies to watch on Peacock right now📺 The best TV shows of 2024   Image: Netflix"Kinda Pregnant" Kinda Pregnant Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions produced this romcom starring Amy Schumer as a single woman pretending to be pregnant, who must somehow keep up the ruse when she meets a guy she might want to have non-pretend kids with. Whatever you think of that premise, or Schumer, the cast also includes Will Forte, Jillian Bell and Damon Wayans Jr, who are funny in pretty much everything. And it’s rated R, which is encouraging. Premieres Feb 5 Image: Courtesy Of Netflix"Apple Cider Vinegar" Apple Cider Vinegar Another entry to the growing canon of shows inspired by real-life scam artists, this miniseries is based on Belle Gibson

The devastating wildfires that have been sweeping through suburbs of Los Angeles since Tuesday continue to threaten life and livelihoods across the city—as well as inflicting enormous destruction of property.     In a city famous as a headquarters for film and TV production, the impact has been devastating, with celebrity enclaves like Malibu and Pacific Palisades hit especially hard by the blaze. Studios have been evacuated, and TV productions and award season events deferred. Here’s what it all means for the world of pop culture and moviemaking. 1. Are L.A.’s cinemas and studios threatened by the wildfires?  As the Sunset Fire broke out in the Hollywood Hills on Wednesday evening, the TCL Chinese Theatre—popularly known as Grauman’s Chinese Theatre—and the current home of the Oscars, the Dolby Theatre, were included in the evacuation zone. The blaze was largely extinguished overnight, however, and the evacuation warning lifted.   The L.A. premieres for Pamela Anderson’s award-nominated The Last Showgirl, Unstoppable, Wolf Man and the long-awaited second season of Apple TV+’s Severance were called off. Even a New York premiere—of Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz’s Netflix action-comedy Back in Action—was cancelled too. Meanwhile, popular studio attractions were also closed during the week, due to the proximity of the fires. Universal Studios closed its gates to the public on Wednesday, before reopening today. Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal CityWalk will be

Well, here we are. America has arrived at the moment of truth – the most important presidential election in our lifetime. Sure, they seem to say that about every election, but in this case, it’s probably true, given that democracy itself is seemingly hanging in the balance. Whether or not the results actually end up confirming the country’s slide into totalitarianism, it’s a big deal regardless.   Need to prepare yourself? These movies should help put things in perspective. Not all of them are about presidential politics per se, but they are focused on the democratic process and the machinations and maneuverings that accompany it. We’d like to say they’ll calm your inevitably frazzled nerves, but the truth is, if you’re making a movie about an election in the United States, it’s probably lined with a good bit of cynicism. But as you’ll see, cynicism can be a good thing, especially if you’re hoping for the best and preparing for the worst. Recommended: 🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time😬 The best thriller movies of all-time🤔 The 24 best movies based on true stories Photograph: Warner Bros. 1. All the President’s Men (1976) Ah, the days when committing crimes could actually bring down a presidency. Watergate was barely out of the headlines when Alan Pakula turned the most famous act of reportage in American political history into the greatest journalism procedural ever made. Embellishing little, Pakula sticks to the facts – and to the newsroom of The Washington Post – and

Horror, fittingly, is the unkillable genre. Just when you think it’s peaked – the exploitation-heavy ’70s, the slasher ’80s, the post-ironic ’90s – it gets a new leash of life and lurches back at you, claw hammer in hand. Like the transmogrifying alien in The Thing, there’s something in its bloodstream that keeps its scares relevant, keeps them reflecting our fears back at us in ways that are too damn frightening to resist. Halloween, however, requires a very specific kind of horror film: it’s a time when spooks and scares, ghosts and ghouls take precedence over subtext and smarts. With that, and the genre’s recent purple patch in mind, here’s a few films from the last year or two that will scare you witless this week and enhance that gothic vibe. (If you’ve got younger viewers in the house, give this more family-friendly list a go instead.) Our pick of the top Halloween movies for 2024 Photograph: A24 1. Heretic Hands up: who had Hugh Grant down as this year’s answer to the Jigsaw Killer? The erstwhile romcom softboi shows new, darker shades in a fiendishly clever horror-thriller with big ideas and even bigger shocks. It’s not Grant’s first villainous turn – hello, Daniel Cleaver and that cannibal in Cloud Atlas – but when his seemingly hospitable would-be convert lulls a pair of guileless Mormon missionaries into a hellish labyrinthine, it’s a ride you really don’t want to miss. In theaters now Photograph: Signature Entertainment 2. Terrifier 3 Who knew there was such

You’ve carved a pumpkin – looks great, top work – you’ve stocked up on candy and decked out the front porch like it’s the set of a Tim Burton movie. But there may be one variable still lingering over your Halloween: what to watch with the little ones? What’s needed is something that offers kids a frisson of spookiness and some gentle scares, but nothing that’s going to freak them out and require you to spend three hours sitting by their bedside reassuring them that Pazuzu isn’t real. Oh, and something that’s genuinely fun for grown-ups too. Here’s our pick of ten Halloween faves that hit that ghoulish sweet spot. (Oh, and grown-ups should head for this more R-rated list.) The top Halloween movies for kids Photograph: Disney 1. Coco (Disney+) Give your Halloween a celebratory vibe with an effervescent Pixar animation that sends its young musical hero into the afterlife for a race-against-the-clock adventure featuring skeletons as far as the eyeball can see. No culture does death with as much vibrancy and joy as Mexico, and this riff on the Day of the Dead celebrations is a suitably kaleidoscopic treatment of the great beyond. The actual Día de Muerto falls on Saturday, November 2, so what better time to cue it up? Photograph: Disney+Frankenweenie 2. Frankenweenie (Disney+) Nothing’s worse than the loss of a beloved family pet. Enter Tim Burton’s stop motion animation to raise the spooky possibility of reincarnating the little guy with the help of a massive electrical cha

On Netflix, movies and TV shows come and go almost daily. Sometimes, you may not even know something is there to stream before it’s too late. In other cases, you might be halfway through a series, or planning to watch a movie at the end of the week, and then poof: gone. Don’t get caught unaware. Below, you’ll find a full list of everything leaving Netflix in November 2024, with our six picks for the flicks you must watch before they cycle off, including Tom Hanks as a grumpy old man, Tom Cruise as a live-action video game character, Ryan Gosling as a real American hero, and Keanu Reeves as Johnny Utah. Get watching, and live without regret. Recommended: 🎬 The 35 best movies on Netflix right now🇳 The 44 best Netflix original series to binge🦚 The 20 best movies to watch on Peacock right now🎥 The 25 best movies on HBO and Max right now Photograph: Dennis Mong/Sony Pictures A Man Called Otto Tom Hanks plays against type as a gravelly-voiced old grouch who just wants to be left alone long enough to hang himself and join his wife in the afterlife. Of course, his meddling neighbours won’t allow that to happen, and the movie becomes just the sort of hard-to-resist heartstring-tugger you expect to see Tom Hanks in.  Leaves Nov 5   Photograph: Warner Bros."Edge of Tomorrow" Edge of Tomorrow ‘Starship Troopers meets Groundhog Day’ is the easiest pitch for this entertaining sci-fi blockbuster. Tom Cruise is a post-apocalyptic bureaucrat conscripted to fight against the alien hord

Sports are the pinnacle of human drama, and the Olympics are the peak of sporting events. Logically, then, movies about the Olympics are some of the most stirring, thrilling and plainly inspirational you’ll find. We’re not saying they’re the best sports movies necessarily – we’ve got a whole other list for that – but when it comes to whipping viewers into a patriotic froth, the best films about the global games do it better than almost anything else. Of course, there is a dark side to the Olympics, both socially and historically, as reflected in top-shelf movies like Munich and Foxcatcher. But for the sake of this list, and stoking excitement for the upcoming Paris games, we’re sticking with the thrilling, the soul-stirring and the inspirational movies to tackle the Olympics – in both their summer and snowier guises. Here are nine of our favourites. Recommended: ⚾ The 50 best sports movies of all-time🥊 The 10 best boxing movies of all-time📹 The 66 best documentaries of all-time Zátopek (2021) Every country has its Olympics heroes. In the Czech Republic it’s Emil Zátopek, a long-distance runner who defied the odds to win triple gold at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. As charted in this stirring and colourful biopic, Zátopek (Václav Neužil) had the kind of mischievous eccentricity and drive you probably need to run endlessly in giant loops – and a romantic spirit that manifests in a touching romance with Dana, a champion javelin thrower. Well worth, ahem, tracking do

Gentlemen, rev your Aston Martins and start shaking those martinis, because a new James Bond is on the horizon. Menthol smoke has not yet started billowing out of MGM Studios – the traditional indication that the next 007 has been chosen – but the chatter suggests Daniel Craig’s replacement has been selected and a confirmation is imminent. What does this mean for the future of the iconic British spy series and its upcoming 26th instalment? Information is limited, but here’s what we know so far.  When will the next James Bond be announced? With Bond 26 not expected on our cinema screens until 2025 at the earliest, the film remains firmly in the pre-pre-production phase. ‘We’re working out where to go with him, we’re talking that through,’ said EON producer Barbara Broccoli in June 2022. ‘There isn’t a script and we can’t come up with one until we decide how we’re going to approach the next film because, really, it’s a reinvention of Bond. We’re reinventing who he is and that takes time. I’d say that filming is at least two years away.’Co-producer Michael G Wilson has also stressed that Bond 26 will be a hard reset for the franchise and for Bond himself. Don’t expect any youngsters in the running was the gist of his comments in 2022.‘We’ve tried looking at younger people in the past,’ he told Deadline. ‘But trying to visualise it doesn’t work. Remember, Bond’s already a veteran. He’s had some experience. He’s a person who has been through the wars, so to speak. He’s probably be

Rejoice, film fans – August is over! The end of summer is famously regarded as an end-of-summer dumping ground for major studios, and this year seemed particularly dismal. But with September comes slightly cooler temperatures and definitively movies as award season begins in earnest. This month’s slate is light on blockbusters or marquee releases but contains several smaller affairs you may end up hearing about come Oscar time, including Celine Song’s quietly heartbreaking modern romance ‘Past Lives’, the intensely intimate ‘Passages’ and Pedro Almodovar’s Pedro Pascal-and-Ethan Hawke-starring ‘queer Western’, Strange ‘Way of Life’. And hey, if you just want to see Denzel Washington shoot some bad guys, there’s always ‘The Equalizer 3’!     Photograph: MUBI Passages A long-tenured French couple (Franz Rogowski and Ben Whishaw) have their relationship thrown into chaos when the former has an affair with a younger woman (Adèle Exarchopoulos) in this typically small-yet-intense drama from director Ira Sachs. Having previously set his films in New York, Sachs utilises the Parisian backdrop to such a degree it becomes a character unto itself.  In cinemas Sep 1  Foto: Cortesía Konnichiwa Festival The First Slam Dunk Basketball anime style, Takehiko Inoue’s adaptation of his own mega-selling manga series ‘Slam Dunk’ is 20 years in the making and currently smashing box-office records in Japan and South Korea. It arrives on these shores as the fifth highest grossing anime e

Already a smash hit in the US, all eight episodes of ‘The Bear’ have finally arrived on Disney+ in the UK and Ireland. The FX dramedy, set in the kitchen of a blue-collar Chicago sandwich shop and starring the about-to-be-huge Jeremy Allen White, has generated a tonne of buzz since its first dropped on Hulu across the Pond.Created by Christopher Storer, it centres on an up-and-coming chef who inherits his family’s struggling greasy spoon following the sudden death of his brother. It’s earned critical raves for its breakout cast and sharply observed writing, which manages to convey a lot about grief and masculinity despite dealing with some not particularly articulate characters. And it’s already been renewed for a second season. So if you want to keep up with the zeitgeist, you’ll probably want to jump in as soon as it lands on the streamer. And if you’re wondering if it’s worth the four-hour investment, here are the five best reasons to watch. Photograph: Matt Dinerstein/FXWhite with Liza Colon-Zayas as Tina 1. Jeremy Allen White is basically a young Nicolas Cage First and foremost, ‘The Bear’ heralds the arrival of Jeremy Allen White. Okay, perhaps that’s a weird thing to say, given that he just wrapped up a ten-year stint as a lead on the US version of Shameless. But in his first true star vehicle, White shines as Carmen ‘Carmy’ Bezatto, aka Bear, a hot-shit young chef with hypnotic eyes and a wounded demeanour. White spent two weeks in culinary school to prepare for the

Damien Chazelle is returning to La La Land… But the director’s new movie is about a much different Los Angeles than that of his 2016 musical. In his upcoming Babylon, the 37-year-old filmmaker travels back to the Golden Age of Hollywood, a particularly grand and debauched time in the entertainment industry. It’s Chazelle’s first movie since 2018’s Neil Armstrong biopic First Man and the first he’s written since La La Land made him the youngest Best Director winner in Oscar history. And according to Chazelle, it’s his most ambitious project yet. ‘It was definitely the hardest thing I’ve done,’ he tells Vanity Fair. ‘Just the logistics of it, the number of characters, the scale of the set pieces, the span of time that the movie charts – it all conspired to make it particularly challenging, but it was a challenge that was pretty exciting to take on.’ Chazelle says he’s had the idea for Babylon in his head since even before his breakthrough film, 2014’s Whiplash, but didn’t yet have the clout to do something so ‘massive’. He finally started working on the script in 2018, but then the pandemic stalled production. After screening teaser footage for a convention audience earlier this year, Babylon is finally nearing release – and it looks like another Oscar contender. Here’s everything we know about Babylon.   Photo Credit: Scott Garfield| Margot Robbie plays Nellie LaRoy in Babylon from Paramount Pictures. When does Babylon come out? It hits theatres in select US cities on Decemb

It’s the kind of true crime story episodes of Dateline are made of: a mild-mannered dentist in upstate New York is accused of killing the husband of the woman he’d been having an affair with. The murder weapon? A poison highly specific to his profession.  But that’s truly just the beginning of the bizarre twists and high drama of My Dentist’s Murder Trial, an upcoming limited series from HBO based on a 2017 New Yorker article. Written by a journalist who was also one of the dentist in question’s longtime patients, the piece adds a level of meta-narrative that lifts the tale above its sordid, soap-operatic details and made it the sort of story worthy of HBO – and some top-class actors – rather than, say, the Lifetime channel.     Here’s what we know about the series so far: When is My Dentist’s Murder Trial on HBO? According to Variety, the show is in early development as of July 2022, and no release date has been set – and given the recent tumult at the ol’ Home Box Office, let’s just hope it gets released at all. Who is starring in My Dentist’s Murder Trial? So far, only two names are confirmed to be involved in the project. One is Pedro Pascal, the Chilean-born actor best known for his starring role in The Mandalorian and who’s also turned up in Game of Thrones, Narcos and HBO’s highly anticipated upcoming video-game adaptation The Last of Us. He’s slated to play the dentist of the title, Dr Gilberto Nunez, who in 2017 was accused of killing his friend. The other name is Da