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Is it safe to laugh again? Over the last decade, comedy movie from all but disappeared from cinemas – and those that emerged on streaming weren’t exactly keeping us in hysterics. But so far, 2026 is looking like something of a rebound for both big- and small-screen comedies. Granted, nothing is breaking the box office like back in the aughts, but surprise hits like The Drama and under-the-radar gems like Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie have cracked us up harder than anything we’ve seen in a few years – and there’s more on the way. For now, here are funniest movies we’ve seen in 2026 so far. RECOMMENDED: 📽️ The best movies of 2026 (so far)🔥 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026😂 The 100 greatest comedy movies ever made

It’s that time again. The lights are going up, the first Mariah memes are doing the rounds and someone in the group chat has already floated a Christmas market weekend. Before you know it the big day will be here, so now’s the moment to work out where in the world you want to wake up on the 25th. Christmas looks wildly different depending on where you spend it. In Copenhagen it’s glögg and candlelit windows, in Reykjavik it’s 13 mischievous Yule Lads leaving gifts in children’s shoes, and in Sydney it’s a barbecue on the beach in the sunshine. So whether you’re after a full-blown winter wonderland or a festive break that comes with a tan, we’ve rounded up the very best places to spend Christmas around the world. The best places to go for Christmas, at a glance 🗽 Best for an iconic Christmas: New York City 🦌 Best for meeting the big man himself: Lapland 🏖️ Best for Christmas on the beach: Sydney 🎄 Best for Christmas markets: Nuremberg 🐪 Best for skipping Christmas altogether: Marrakech This article includes affiliate links. These links have no influence on our editorial content. For more information, see our affiliate guidelines.

Updated for 2026: The scares just keep on coming these days, and making big bucks at the box office, so we’ve added a pair of the year’s biggest horror hits to the list: Obsession, a story of ‘romance’ gone terribly wrong, and Backrooms, the movie that went from viral creepypasta to big-screen megahit. Not every horror movie is meant to be watched at Halloween. That might seem counterintuitive, but let us explain. Yes, the holiday is all about confronting whatever fears haunt us in order to be a little less afraid of them. But there’s a sizable difference between ‘fun scary’ and ‘disturbing scary’. A movie like, say, Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now? An excellent film, but not exactly fun. But Creepshow? Get Out? Any random Final Destination entry? All scary, but all fun, too. So let’s celebrate the subset of the horror genre that is most appropriate for this season of spookiness. Here are the best Halloween movies to watch this year, from cult classics to video nasties to modern masterpieces of the macabre. Quick picks: 📍 Best old-school horror: Eyes Without a Face (1960)📍 Best ghost story: Poltergeist (1982)📍 Best found footage horror: The Blair Witch Project (1999) 📍 Best anthology horror: Creepshow (1982)📍 Best cult classic slasher: Sleepaway Camp (1983)

If World War II made America the hero of the world, the Vietnam War is where the country’s global reputation began to turn. Entered with questionable intent and ending with little to show for the thousands of lives lost, it left a scar on an entire generation – including many filmmakers. Unsurprisingly, the films about ‘Nam are full of much less flag-waving patriotism than other war movies up to that point. Many of them, in fact, are basically horror movies – and some of them actually are horror movies. Capturing a mood is different from historical accuracy, though. More than five decades after the fall of Saigon, we asked military historian Professor Geoffrey Wawro, author of acclaimed account The Vietnam War, to help rank the best Vietnam War movies, not necessarily by quality – though many of them are exceptional – but by just how reflective they are of the reality of what happened. Here’s how they stacked up. Recommended:  📽️ The 50 best war movies ever made🪖 The 50 best World War II movies🎖️ World War I films ranked by historical accuracy

Updated for 2026: Are we moving too fast to anoint The Furious? Anyone who thinks so clearly hasn’t seen this absolute wall-smasher of a martial arts extravaganza – and needs to rectify that as soon as humanly possible. Everyone loves a good action movie, even if some won’t admit it. Film school snobs may pretend to turn up their noses, but no matter how cultured you’d like to think you are, there’s a part of your lizard brain that loves explosions and shootouts and badass one-liners – and it needs to be satisfied.  But action flicks needn’t be dumb, loud or graphic to succeed. Some find beauty in orchestrated violence. Others might crane-kick you right in the heart. Some even have – gasp! – character development. And so, to help put together this definitive list of the greatest action movies ever made, we reached out to some of the people who understand the action genre better than anyone, from Die Hard director John McTiernan to Machete himself, Danny Trejo. Pull the pin, light the fuse and batten down the hatches – these are the most pulse-pounding, edge-of-your-seat thrill rides ever put to film.  Recommended: 🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time💥 The 18 greatest stunts in cinema (as picked by the greatest stunt people)🥋 The 25 best martial arts movies of all-time🌊 The 33 best disaster movies of all-time

Stuck with that tricky ‘What should I watch next on Netflix?’ decision? Already seen everything the algorithm is throwing your way? Tired of low-key disappointment every time you watch something that’s a bit rubbish? Fortunately, help is at hand, as we’ve rounded up ten of the best under-the-radar hidden gems on Netflix that you (probably) haven’t seen. Each of these films is a guaranteed winner, whether you’re looking for acclaimed animated features, indie dramas, laugh-out-loud comedies, sci-fi thrillers or trans coming-of-age movies. RECOMMENDED: 📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far).🎞️ The 50 best movies on Netflix.

Most movie years post-pandemic have felt like rollercoasters, but 2026 so far has been particularly up-and-down – and at its highest points, especially exciting. Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day disappointed while Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey took on one of the oldest epics in literature and surpassed even the loftiest expectations. Several titanic franchises flopped hard, while smaller films like Obsession and Backrooms, made by total unknowns,  have come bursting through the box-office glass ceiling. The likes of Project Hail Mary and Toy Story 5 may not qualify as ‘original stories’, but both displayed an intelligence, emotionality and sense of crowd-pleasing fun missing from many of the IP-flogging blockbusters of the recent past. All in all, a pretty good year – and we haven’t even hit awards season yet. For now, though, here’s the best of what we’ve seen to date. 📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2026 (so far)😂 The best comedy movies of 2026🔥 The 100 greatest movies ever made

One of the great joys of having kids is family movie night – a time when the whole brood can unite around the couch and laugh, thrill and maybe even cry a bit together. But if you’re not careful, it can also be a night full of stress. After all, finding a movie to satisfy every generation gathered on that sofa isn’t easy. Choose the wrong flick and it can lead to insults, eyerolls and tears that have nothing to do with the emotional power of cinema.  Never fear, though: we’re here to help. Of the movies listed here, you’ll truly find something for everyone, whether it’s an animated classic, something from the Golden Age of Hollywood, live action adventures from the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, inspirational true-life tales, comedies with jokes that work for every age group and movies that underscore the importance of family. Throw on one of these flicks, and feel safe in the knowledge that everyone in your house will make a memory they’ll keep forever – or at least all stay on the couch until the credits roll. RECOMMENDED: ✍ The 100 best animated films of all-time👪 The 50 best kids movies to watch as a family💻 The best family movies on Netflix for all-ages🤣 The best family comedy movies🧒 The best kids’ movies from the ’90s

With Obsession and Backrooms the latest smash hits at the box office, 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. It’s shaping up to be another blue-ribbon year for the genre, with 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, entertaining killer monkey ripper Primate, Sam Raimi’s Send Help and, of course, Curry Barker’s Obsession scoring big with critics and audiences alike. 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

As the August sun sets on the river in front of us, heavy bass is reverberating off the 330-year-old limestone walls of the Old Royal Naval College in southeast London. Formerly Greenwich Palace, this UNESCO Heritage Site witnessed the births of King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I, Lord Nelson’s lying-in-state and William Shakespeare’s theatrical performances. Today, tens of thousands of revellers have swarmed the grounds to see it-girl DJ Peggy Gou headline the second annual edition of Labyrinth on the Thames. RECOMMENDED: Europe’s best music festivals Photography by Sienna Lorraine Gray | Labyrinth EventsPeggy Gou at the Old Royal Naval College, London The Naval College is one of the latest (and youngest) in an ever-growing lineup of heritage and protected sites around the world hosting dance music festivals. The concept isn’t entirely new, but there has been a notable surge over the past five years. This summer, Italian party organisers Aura launched a festival at the Parco Archeologico di Segesta, a protected archaeological park near Castellammare del Golfo in Sicily. There’s also been Stone Techno Festival at the nineteenth-century Zollverein coal mine industrial complex in Essen, Germany; the BSH Festival inside the 2,000-year-old Pula Arena in Croatia; Black Coffee at the 700-year-old Buda Castle, Hungary; Fort X Festival at the fifteenth-century Mokrice Castle and Qixi festival inside the 466-year-old Yu Garden.  In many cases, these historic venues in all...