Matthew Singer

It took a few months, but 2025 turned into a pretty great year for onscreen comedy – relative to recent years, anyway. How can anyone look askance at Tim Robinson starring in his first movie? Or Seth Rogen doing a high-anxiety Hollywood satire? Or low-key, leftfield gems like Splitsville and One of Them Days? Or how about the fact that we got a remake of The Naked Gun, and it turned out to be awesome? Like we said: it’s been a good year for laughs. Here are the movies and shows that busted our guts the hardest. RECOMMENDED: 🎥 The best movies of 2025🔥 The best TV and streaming shows of 2025📺 The 100 greatest ever TV shows you need to binge

After a few up and down years, 2026 is shaping up to be the Big One in terms of measuring the true health of the movie industry. This is 12 months loaded with can’t-miss hits – or rather, better-not-miss hits. That includes everything from a fifth Toy Story movie to a long-awaited Devil Wears Prada sequel, another close encounter from Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan bringing damn near every A-lister to ancient Greece. The Dune trilogy will end, while the Marvel Cinematic Universe attempts to reinvigorate itself with the biggest superhero movie since Endgame. Plus: more Frankenstein, more 28 Years Later, and more Superman (or at least, Superman’s cousin).  Like we said: it’s big. But if you don’t have much investment in the future of the Hollywood blockbuster and just want to see some good cinema, there’s plenty of small-to-medium-sized films worth getting excited about, too. Here are the 26 movies we’re anticipating the most.📕 15 book-to-movie adaptations to get excited about in 2026🔥 The 40 best movies of 2025

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

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, Wednesday and Poker Face have all built on incredibly satisfying first seasons with equally masterful second runs. 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. More recently, HBO’s Task hit the spot with a blue-collar crime series that wasn’t afraid to get down and dirty. Watercooler viewing is everywhere at the moment, and that’s not going to change anytime soon, with Stranger Things coming to an end and about a zillion other things still come. Here’s everything you need to see... so far.  Best TV and streaming shows at a glance: 📍 The Pitt (Emmy Best Drama winner) – watch on HBO Max in the US📍 Adolescence (Best Limited Series winner) – watch on Netflix worldwide📍 Severance season 2 (multiple acting wins) – watch on Apple TV worldwide📍 The Studio (Best Comedy winner) – watch on Apple TV worldwide📍 Andor season 2 (Emmy-winning writing) – watch on Disney+ worldwide 

2025 update: In this update, we've added one of the best blockbusters of the last decade, Top Gun: Maverick, the movie that finally brought audiences back to theaters post-pandemic and which firmly outclasses the 1986 original with some of the most thrilling flight sequences ever put on film.  Everyone loves a good action movie. Sure, film school snobs may turn up their noses, but even hardcore cineastes cannot live on indie dramas and experimental art flicks alone. No matter how cultured 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. And the only thing that will scratch the itch is watching something get blowed up real good.  The truth is, action is a deeply misunderstood genre. Action flicks needn’t be dumb or epic or even particularly loud to succeed. Some find beauty in violence. Others might dropkick you right in the heart. Heck, some even have character development. So light that fuse, clip that wire and batten down the hatches – these are the most pulse-pounding, heart-racing, edge of your seat action movies of all-time.  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

We know what you’re thinking: ‘Best kids Christmas movies? Aren’t all Christmas movies basically for kids?’ Oh sure, plenty are. But assuming every film with a yuletide theme is good for the young ones is where parents can get in trouble. You may end up streaming a movie where Santa Claus is a serial killer, or a Hallmark romcom that’ll bore them silly.  So, no, the phrase ‘Christmas movies for kids’ is not as redundant as it might sound. And clearly, picking the right movie to get the smallest members of the household into the holiday spirit requires both care and wisdom. These 30 movies, though, are like hot cocoa for the little ones’ souls. Want to get on your child’s nice list? Stream one of these, and your stocking will runneth over. Recommended: 🎅 The 50 best Christmas movies of all-time🎁 The best Christmas specials of all-time🎄 The best animated Christmas movies for the whole family🤣 The 35 best family comedies for your next movie night👶 The best movies for toddlers👪 The 50 greatest animated movies to watch as a family

Updates for 2025: With Lindsay Lohan experiencing something of a mainstream career renaissance, Alicia Silverstone is stepping up as the ‘beloved actor who’s sort of disappeared who’s now back to find love at Christmastime’ in Netflix’s highlight holiday offering, A Merry Little Ex-Mas. But its streaming numbers have so far been eclipsed by the romantic holiday heist comedy, Jingle Bell Heist, about two desperate criminals who unite to rob a London department store.  Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the glow of the television is so delightful. When the air gets crisp and the jingle bells become inescapable white noise, that means it’s Christmas movie season. And thankfully, there is a lot of content out there. Over the last few years, Netflix, in particular, has given the Hallmark Channel a run for its money, churning out a veritable snowfall of yuletide content every season.  Sifting through the avalanche can be daunting. You might think all Christmas movies are more or less the same, but the quality can vary wildly, from boring and clichéd to clichéd and ridiculously entertaining – and sometimes, you might even get something with a genuinely unique perspective on the holiday. To keep your likely already frostbitten fingers from endless scrolling, we’ve sorted the proverbial shiny new bikes from the lumps of coal. Here are the best Christmas movies to stream on Netflix this year. Recommended: 🎅 The 50 best Christmas movies of all-time🎄 The best kids Christmas movi

Televised Christmas specials have been around almost as long as TV itself. It’s a seasonal signifier on a par with snow, tinsel and department store stampedes. If you live in a part of the world without well-defined seasons, you could always figure out what time of the year it is by flipping on the telly, and if you found your favourite sitcom suddenly strewn with garlands and twinkling lights, you’d know Santa would be making a housecall pretty soon. Not much has changed. Even in the streaming era, many platforms have made a tradition of throwing back to the good, old-fashioned holiday variety show, recruiting a bunch of big-name movie stars or pop singers to get together on a soundstage and croon a few yuletide classics. Most of them come and go, melting from memory like old Frosty when the sun comes out. Some, however, are so good they become holiday perennials. Here are 19 Christmas specials we make a point of watching every single year. Recommended: 🎅 The 50 best Christmas movies of all-time🎄 The best kids Christmas movies to watch this year✍ The best animated Christmas movies the whole family will enjoy

For some film fans, the transition out of spooky season and into the most wonderful time of the year can be jarring. One month you’re bathing in blood, then the next thing you know it’s nothing but candy canes and hot cocoa and family togetherness. Sure, many of us have a soft spot for at least one classic Christmas movie. But there’s an equally sizeable demographic for which consuming sickeningly sweet holiday cheer just leads to a stomach ache. So we thought we’d spread some good ol’ holiday fear instead. The subgenre of Christmas-themed horror movies isn’t exactly broad, but if you search deep enough, you’ll find enough peppermint-scented scares to break up all the holly-jolliness and get you through the season. These 24 scary Christmas movies are a gift for the bloodlusting Scrooge in all of us. Recommended: 😱 The 100 best horror movies of all-time🎅 The 50 best Christmas movies🎄 The best Christmas specials of all time💩 The 40 best bad movies ever made

It’s been an up-and-down year for film, with some heartening success stories, several saddening failures and a few world-conquering blockbusters that make you wonder if the future of movies is just video game adaptations aimed at tweens. But 2025 isn’t over yet. As we push into the chilliest months, Hollywood has saved some of the best – or, at least, biggest – for last, with the second half of one of 2024’s most dominant box-office phenomenons and the latest instalment of a billion-dollar franchise. In between, there’s also 18th century musicals about convulsing religious zealots, a sci-fi action satire featuring Glen Powell running for his life, and Timothée Chalamet making yet another Oscar push, portraying a champion 1950s ping-pong player. Here are the 20 movies we’re most excited to see this winter. Recommended: 🎥 The best movies of 2025 (so far)🔥 The best TV and streaming shows of 2025

It’s easy to be a Scrooge about Christmas movies, especially these days. Streaming platforms have shamelessly muscled into the Hallmark market, churning out quick, cheap holiday romcoms with C-list casts every year, hoping to land on something so irresistibly cheesy it briefly becomes a seasonal phenomenon. Put that cynicism aside, however, and most of us can admit that we all have at least one movie we return to every December – the one that allows us to embrace nostalgia unapologetically and lets us know that the most wonderful time of the year has arrived.  It doesn’t have to be schmaltzy and saccharine, either. Maybe it’s a golden era classic like It’s a Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th Street. Maybe it’s something more modern and goofy, like Elf or Home Alone. Maybe it’s raunchy and rude, like Bad Santa or Christmas Vacation, or just plain dark, like Black Christmas. That full range of yuletide cheer can be found on this list of the best holiday movies ever made. No matter what kind of Christmas movie you prefer, you’ll find one that warms your core like a cup of hot cocoa. RECOMMENDED: 🎅 The best new Christmas movies to stream this year🎶 The 50 best Christmas songs to listen to this month🎄 The best animated Christmas movies for the whole family🧝 The best Christmas movies on Netflix in the UK

You know the feeling when you step out of a film screening and, for a brief moment, it seems like you’re stepping out of a fictional world and into real life? What if you could prolong that magical feeling for just a little bit longer? Cinemas don’t always need to be another part of the grey fabric of a city, they can also be in some genuinely cinematic – and properly remote – locations. Don’t believe us? Here are the world’s most isolated picture houses for film buffs and adventurers alike.  RECOMMENDED:📽️ The 50 most beautiful cinemas in the world.

Book lovers have a year to savour in store for them at the movie theatre and on streaming. Among the literary giants having their work adapted are Emily Brontë, Margaret Atwood, Enid Blyton, Albert Camus and Don Winslow. Most excitingly, the big dog of epic storytelling, Homer, is getting the IMAX-enhanced Christopher Nolan treatment with this summer’s adaption of The Odyssey. BookTokers, this is your moment. Photograph: Penguin Classics Wuthering Heights Emerald Fennell’s literary adaptation is sure to lob a Molotov cocktail in the general direction of early 2026’s cultural discourse. Emily Brontë’s toxic love story is getting a proper Fennelling, with Charlie XCX songs, a buzz-worthy cast (Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi) and provocative quote marks around the title on the poster like you’re supposed to say it in a sarcastic way. Wuthering Heights may be a landmark Romantic novel but it’s not exactly small ’r’ romantic, so that ‘the greatest love story of all time’ tagline may mystify literary types. In cinemas worldwide Feb 13 Photograph: HarperCollins Cold Storage David Koepp adapted Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, but the writer-director has his own Crichton-esque monster tale in the shape of his 2019 novel. It delivers a Cold War-era sci-fi premise in a modern setting, with a military facility breach unleashing a parasitic fungus on employees at a self-storage facility. Liam Neeson, Stranger Things’ Joe Keery and Sosie Bacon will be hoping to swerve the blob. The lat

Streaming ain’t easy. Sure, if you’re a cinephile, practically every movie you could ever want to watch is at your fingertips. But therein lies the problem: knowing what’s out there, and where to find it, can become overwhelming. Here, we’re doing the hard work for you, by cutting through the clutter and getting straight to the best new movies available to watch right now. Here are the five must-watch movies hitting streaming services this weekend.  Recommended: 🏆 The best movies of 2025 so far🆕 What’s new on Netflix in December 2025 1. Die My Love (MUBI) In her first new film in eight years, the great Lynne Ramsay delves into a  postpartum character study, with Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson as new parents who relocate from New York to Montana and begin to experience a kind of shared psychosis. It’s a dark but wild depiction of a mental breakdown with a powerful, uninhibited performance from Lawrence at its center. Read Time Out’s review. Watch Die My Love now on MUBI  2. Bugonia (Peacock) After the justifiably overlooked Kinds of Kindness, director Yorgos Lanthimos gets back to the good stuff, remaking the 2003 South Korean dark comedy Save the Green Planet! with some updates for our current conspiracy-ravaged world. Jesse Plemons is brilliant as a factory worker who kidnaps a pharmaceutical CEO (Emma Stone) he believes is an alien in disguise. It’s a typically mad Lanthimos offering with a deep core of sadness under the surface. Read Time Out’s review.

It’s Christmastime on Netflix, and that usually means a deluge of cheeseball holiday romcoms hitting the streamer. And yes, there are quite a few this year. But there’s much more happening than just guilty-pleasure winterslop. At the top of the highlight pile are a pair of potential award hopefuls: Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly and Wake Up Dead Man, the latest Knives Out murder mystery. There are documentaries about The New Yorker and journalist Seymour Hersh, another season of Emily in Paris and the directorial debut of Kate Winslet. And that’s not to mention the final episodes of Stranger Things… which we don’t, since we talked about them last month, and you likely already know if you’re tuning in. Here are nine other top picks.      What’s new on Netflix December 2025 at a glance: 📍Movies: Jay Kelly (Dec. 5), Wake Up Dead Man (Dec. 12), Goodbye June (Dec. 24) 📍Shows: Emily in Paris season 5 (Dec. 18), The Abandons (Dec. 4), Man vs Baby (Dec. 11)📍Limited Series: Simon Cowell: The Next Act (Dec. 10)📍Documentaries: Cover-Up (Dec. 26), The New Yorker at 100 (Dec. 5)  Recommended: 💻 The best Netflix original series to binge📺 The best TV and streaming shows of 2025 (so far) The Abandons  It’s Cersei Lannister versus Agent Scully in this Yellowstone-coded western from Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter. Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey are the respective matriarchs of two drastically different European families locked in a conflict over a cattle ranch in 1850s Oregon. Hey, if

Ya se siente la Navidad, sobre todo en las plataformas de streaming. Cada año, un buen puñado de películas festivas con sabor a roscón salen de la cadena de montaje directas a tu tele (y, de vez en cuando, a los cines). La mayoría son directamente malas, algunas son tan malas que resultan buenas y unas pocas son realmente buenas… o, al menos, lo bastante autoconscientes como para ofrecer una noche divertida reunidos alrededor del brillo de la pantalla. Más raras aún son las que se convierten en auténticos fenómenos virales. En 2024, la fruta escarchada se la llevó Un muñeco de nieve para derretirse, la comedia romántica invernal de Netflix sobre un muñeco de nieve buenorro que cobra vida. ¿Hay alguna película del catálogo de este año que pueda alcanzar ese status? Hemos revisado lo mejorcito de la cosecha navideña de 2025 y las hemos clasificado según sus posibilidades de ponerse tan de moda como "Frosty", el muñequito de nieve. Fotografía: Chip Bergmann/AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC En busca de Joy (Prime Video) Ideal para: Amantes de Tyler Perry ¿Tyler Perry presentando Misery como una comedia romántica? En la nueva película del incansable guionista-director-productor, Shannon Thornton interpreta a una diseñadora de moda neoyorquina insatisfecha con la trayectoria de su carrera que sigue a su crush hasta Colorado, solo para acabar derrapando en una carretera helada, donde es rescatada por un ermitaño sorprendentemente guapo, interpretado por Tosin Morohunfola. ¿Le ens

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, especially on streaming services. Every year, a stuffed stocking’s worth of peppermint-sweet holiday flicks roll off the assembly line and onto your television (and occasionally theaters). Most are straight-up bad, some are so-bad-they’re-good, and a select few are genuinely good – or at least, self-aware enough to make for a fun night gathered ‘round the glow of the TV set. Rarer still are those which become legit viral phenomenons. In 2024, that was Hot Frosty, Netflix’s winking winter romcom about a hunky snowman come to life. Are there any films from this year’s slate that might attain the same status? We’ve perused the cream of the 2025 yuletide crop, and ranked them by their chances to get as hot as Frosty.  Recommended: 🎅🏻The best Christmas movies of all-time🎄The best Christmas movies for kids to watch this year🎁The best Christmas specials of all-time Photograph: Chip Bergmann/AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC Tyler Perry's Finding Joy (Prime Video) Ideal for: Tyler Perry completists Tyler Perry presents Misery as a romcom? In the indefatigable writer-director-producer’s latest, Shannon Thornton is a New York fashion designer dissatisfied with her career trajectory who follows her crush to Colorado, only to wind up skidding off an icy road where she’s rescued by an improbably handsome hermit, played by Tosin Morohunfola. Will this rugged mountain man teach her to appreciate the things that truly matter in life? No spoilers!

Halloween ne tombe qu’un jour par an, mais les plus fervents adeptes de la fête trouvent toujours le moyen d’en faire un mois entier. Et quoi de mieux pour ça que de se plonger dans des films ? Rien de plus simple, après tout : il existe tout un genre cinématographique consacré à l’art de faire hurler les spectateurs de peur. Mais contrairement à ce qu’on croit souvent, il y a une vraie différence entre les meilleurs films d’horreur et les meilleurs films d’Halloween. Un film comme Ne vous retournez pas (Don’t Look Now) figure peut-être parmi les œuvres les plus bouleversantes du genre, mais il est sans doute un peu trop cérébral pour la « saison des frissons ». En revanche, les apocalypses zombies, histoires de fantômes, massacres à la tronçonneuse et mélanges de monstres ? Là, on est pile dans le thème. Alors, pour vous aider à composer votre programme d’octobre, on a concocté cette liste de films d’Halloween à voir le 31 au soir. Suspiria (1977) Sur le papier, le conte macabre de Dario Argento ne paie pas de mine : une danseuse américaine timide intègre une mystérieuse académie de ballet en Europe, où d’étranges phénomènes ne tardent pas à se manifester. Mais ce point de départ simple permet au maître du giallo de s’en donner à cœur joie : couleurs hallucinées, mises à mort stylisées, et bande-son cauchemardesque signée par les rockeurs progressifs italiens Goblin. Un cauchemar baroque qui hante encore les nuits des cinéphiles. Shining (1980) Si vous ne revoyez pas Shini

Somehow haven’t gotten enough of KPop Demon Hunters? Correction: have your kids still not gotten enough?  Well, if you missed catching the animated musical sensation in theaters during its limited run in August, you’re in luck, because it’s coming back to cinemas, just in time for Halloween. Starting October 31, the movie will screen in select theaters in several countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. And yes, singing along is once again encouraged – and given the time period, so are costumes. Initially released on Netflix back in June, the film, focusing on a mega-popular girl group who are also charged with protecting humanity from soul-sucking, shapeshifting beasties, came out of nowhere to become an almost instant phenomenon. It’s now officially the most popular movie in the history of the platform, topping 325,100,000 views. Four songs from the soundtrack, including the inescapable chart-topper ‘Golden’, occupied the Billboard Top 10 simultaneously, while the vocal trio of EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, and REI AMI recently made their live debut on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Tickets for the upcoming screenings go on sale October 17 at 6 am. Find a screening nearest you here. Best to act fast: the movie will only be in theaters for three days, ending November 2. Then you’ll have to go back to singing alone in your home on an endless loop. The best family movies of 2025 (so far) The best Halloween movies for kids on Netflix

If you’re like most Taylor Swift fans, you simply cannot get enough content from your queen. Good thing, then, that she seemingly never stops cranking it out. Not only did she just release her sixth album in seven years, the record-breaking The Lift of a Showgirl – available in 27 different physical variations – it coincided with both a box-office-topping cinematic event, a two-part Channel 4 documentary and the announcement of her engagement to football player Travis Kelce, whose eventual wedding will almost certainly produce a tidal wave of content on its own. Now, the pop megastar has two more film projects guaranteed to capture untold millions of eyeballs. Not even a year after her world-dominating Eras Tour finally ended, a six-part docuseries chronicling the production of her globe-spanning, generation-defining, economy-shifting concert tour is coming to Disney+. According to a press release, The End of an Era ‘gives an intimate look at Taylor’s life as her tour made headlines and thrilled fans around the world’ and features cameos from contemporaries such as Gracie Abrams, Sabrina Carpenter, Ed Sheeran and Florence Welch. (What, no Charli XCX?) The doc premieres December 12 – the day before Swift’s 36th birthday – with two episodes dropping each week. The same day, Disney+ will also debut The Eras Tour: The Final Show, a full concert film indeed shot at the final stop of the 149-date tour, at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, Canada, on December 8, 2024. You might

Eh bien, il n’aura pas fallu 28 ans, ni même 28 semaines : l’un des meilleurs films d’horreur de l’année débarque déjà sur une plateforme de streaming. 28 Ans plus tard, le retour du réalisateur Danny Boyle et du scénariste Alex Garland dans un monde ravagé par le tristement célèbre virus de la Rage, arrive sur Netflix en France ce samedi 20 septembre. Techniquement, c’est le troisième volet de la saga entamée en 2002 avec 28 Days Later, suivi en 2007 par 28 Weeks Later du réalisateur espagnol Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Mais ce nouvel épisode prend quelques libertés, allant jusqu’à effacer une partie des événements du précédent film. Situé près de trois décennies après l’apparition du virus – qui transforme les infectés en machines à tuer convulsives et ultra-rapides – le film dépeint des îles Britanniques mises en quarantaine du reste du monde, revenues à une forme de stabilité, certes primitive mais fonctionnelle. L’intrigue suit une famille en particulier : Aaron Taylor-Johnson incarne le patriarche, le jeune Alfie Williams son fils, et Jodie Comer la mère de ce dernier, rongée par une mystérieuse maladie. Ce qui commence comme une aventure initiatique de survie bascule, dans sa seconde moitié, en une méditation profondément émouvante sur l’acceptation de la mort comme partie intégrante de la vie. Porté par une bande-annonce déjà culte, 28 Ans plus tard est sorti en salles en juin et a cartonné au box-office, engrangeant 151 244 007 dollars dans le monde. Côté criti

Well, it didn’t take 28 years, or even weeks, but one of the year’s best horror films is already arriving on a streaming service. 28 Years Later, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland’s return to a world ravaged by the so-called Rage virus, hits Netflix in the United States this coming weekend, on Saturday, September 20. It’s technically the third film in the series, which started with Boyle’s 28 Days Later in 2002 and was followed up in 2007 by 28 Weeks Later, from Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, although the newest movie does much to undo the events of the latter. Indeed set nearly three decades after the onset of the virus, which turns the infected into twitchy, fast-moving killing machines, the movie finds the British Isles quarantined from the rest of the world, having returned to a somewhat stable if primitive way of life. It focuses on one family in particular, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the patriarch, young Alfie Williams as his son, and Jodie Comer as the latter’s mother, who’s suffering from a mysterious illness. What starts as a coming-of-age survival adventure slows in the second half into a deeply emotional meditation on accepting death as a part of life.  Preceded by an all-time great trailer, 28 Years Later arrived in theaters in June and was a box office hit, pulling in $151,244,007 worldwide. It was also a critical favourite, with an 89 percent Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.  In a mixed review, Time Out praised the action-fi

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 – with Daniel Craig’s likely replacement still a mystery. 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.  What does Amazon MGM Studios’ takeover mean for the next James Bond? After months of rumour and speculation, James Bond finally got a new boss in February 2025. Not M, but Amazon MGM Studios who sealed a deal with 007’s producers, Eon’s Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, to take creative control of the franchise.  Broccoli and Wilson will remain co-owners of James Bond but crucially, will step back from controlling the future direction or execution of the franchise. ‘With the conclusion of No Time to Die and Michael retiring from the films, I feel it is time to focus on my other projects,’ Broccoli said in a statement.So what does it all mean for 007? We’re probably a step closer to a release date for Bond 26 and the announcement of a new James Bond to star in it. Maybe a radical change of direction for the whole franchise, too, with immediate speculation that Amazon will look to spin their expensive new IP into the kind of shared universe storytelling that Disney pursued with Lucasfilm and Star Wars after its takeover. Is a

Look! Up on the TV screen! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman! Only five weeks after its theatrical release, James Gunn’s reboot of DC Comics’ most legendary superhero is now available for streaming. Normally, the quick move to video on demand would indicate poor box office performance, but Superman is a certified hit, grossing $500 million worldwide to date. Instead, Gunn says the move was strategic, to give audiences the chance to watch before the premiere of Season 2 of The Peacemaker on HBO – and if you’ve seen the film, you’ll recognise the connection to the series. In addition to being the highest-grossing superhero movie of the year, Superman was also a critical hit: it currently holds an 83 percent Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In a mixed review, TimeOut praised David Corenswet’s performance as the Last Son of Krypton, praising the ‘lovely balance of sweetness, strength and self-doubt bubbling beneath the surface’ he brings to the role. And we mustn’t forget Krypto the superdog, ‘a sidekick whose lack of proper training and licky nature makes him a menace to foes and friends alike.’ Superman is now available to rent or buy on digital services like Prime and Google Play. It’s expected to stream on HBO Max at some point in the future, but given past Warner Brothers releases, that might not be until October.