In this guide, we'll show you where to watch to best Tom Hiddleston movies online. This includes the latest streaming information for every popular streaming service in the United Kingdom, including BBC iPlayer, Netflix, and many more.

Tom Hiddleston is a British actor who needs no introduction, after his standout performances in franchises such as the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Loki Laufeyson. For over a decade the RADA trained actor has been at the forefront of some of the biggest films and TV shows and demonstrated the endless bounds of his talents across various genres, mediums and characters.

From his small, but memorable role in Steven Spielberg’s War Horse to his titular roles in independent films such as the dystopian thriller High-Rise and the Palme d’Or nominated picture, Only Lovers Left Alive, the actor has curated a varied and rich filmography.

On the small screen, Hiddleston’s roles have been equally as eclectic and captivating. He’s popped up in period TV films and series such as Return to Cranford and played William Shakespeare’s party-boy Prince Hal in The Hollow Crown’s “Henry IV Part I” and “Part II”. Hiddleston also debuted his James Bond-style skills in the BBC’s BAFTA-award winning adaptation of John le Carre’s novel The Night Manager, which landed him an Emmy nomination and secured him the Golden Globe for Best Actor.

Though Hiddleston’s best performance has to be his longest-reigning role as Loki Laufeyson in the MCU. Back in 2011, the young actor stunned audiences as the God of Mischief in Kenneth Brannagh’s Thor, who quickly became a fan-favourite character in the franchise after earning $440m at the box office. Loki continued to cause chaos with his devilish charm as the villain in 2012’s The Avengers, before he reprised his role for (what was meant to be the final time) in Thor: The Dark World. The villain only grew in popularity when Hiddleston made that infamous appearance in full costume at San Diego Comic Con in 2013. 

Yet, in early screenings of the film, audiences refused to believe that Loki’s death in the sequel wasn’t just one of his many magical deceptions. So, Marvel boss Kevin Feige added in a post-credit scene that confirmed Loki was alive and impersonating Odin to set up his return in Taika Waititi’s billion-dollar hit Thor: Ragnarok and his final big-blockbuster appearance in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

With so many iterations of Loki to choose from, it’s difficult to choose Hiddleston’s best single performance. Personally, Hiddleston’s ability to evolve the cherished character over the years culminates in his Disney+ spin-off series, Loki. The actor shines at the helm of the two-season show and proves once and for all why Hiddleston remains one of the best working actors.

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Every year at Christmas, school children across the world perform their own festive feel-good show, though they’re not all as eventful (and elaborate) as the one in 2009’s Nativity!

Just before Martin Freedom debuted as Sherlock Holmes’ trusty side-kick John Watson in the BBC’s Sherlock, The Office actor starred as a humble actor-turned primary teacher Mr Paul Maddens in the Nativity! The broken-hearted teacher, whose ex-Jennifer (Ashley Jenson) left him at Christmas, hates the festive season but reluctantly agrees to write the school’s nativity. After his disastrous attempt a few years before (that secured a minus two-star review), Mr Maddens is determined to put on a spectacle after he bumps into private school teacher and long-time rival Gordon Shakespeare (Jason Watkins). In the hopes of impressing his old friend, he drops into conversation that Jennifer will be returning from Hollywood with a producer to watch the show and turn it into a film… a lie which quickly catches up with him.

However, with the help of his new teaching assistant Mr Poppy (Marc Wootton), Mr Maddens pulls together an all-singing-all-dancing delight that’s worthy of a Hollywood producer. The heart-warming tale boasts catchy tunes, a musical stuffed with sparkle and shine and a happy ending for Mr Maddens too. After the popularity of the first installment, which made £6.4 million at the box office on a £1.8m budget, it spawned three sequels: Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger (2012), Nativity 3: Dude, Where’s My Donkey? (2014) and Nativity Rocks (2018).

The subsequent installments follow a similar format to the original film, as they’re all centered around the chaotic experience of putting on a school children’s show at Christmas. In the second film, Mr Poppy returns alongside Gordon Shakespeare, while a new teacher arrives as Mr Madden's replacement, Donald Peterson played by Doctor Who’s David Tennant. This titular role is taken over by Martin Clunes in Dude: Where’s my Donkey? as Ofsted inspector Jeremy Shepherd who is hit in the head by Mr Poppy’s donkey and loses his memory. Alongside Clunes, Catherine Tate and Celia Imrie appear as fellow school teachers, while Watkins and Wootton reprise their roles from the first two films. By the fourth film, there’s a whole new cast at the helm featuring Hugh Dennis, Helen George, Ruth Jones and Jessica Hynes.

Even with the cast changeovers, the heart of the franchise remains intact to offer some much-needed festive folly and fun for all ages. As Christmas fast approaches, it’s the perfect time to dive back into the family series, here’s how to watch the Nativity! film series in order and where to stream them now.

In this guide you can find out where to watch the best Michael Mann movies online, if you're streaming from the United Kingdom. We've got you covered with the latest steaming offers on services such as BBC iPlayer, Netflix, Prime Video and many more. We'll also show you if there are any Michael Mann movies streaming legally for free today.

The characters in Michael Mann movies are always driven – almost literally so, in the case of Mann’s Ferrari, which casts Adam Driver as Italian car mogul Enzo Ferrari. More often, Mann is fascinated by people – more specifically, let’s face it, by men – who are obsessed, battle-hardened pros, doing the thing they were put on Earth to excel at, even if they could wind up dead or in jail if they don’t stop. The results have been some of the most thrilling movies of the past five decades.

What are the best Michael Mann movies?

You know a film-maker is good when their debut sets out their core vision in its purest form, and Mann’s pared-down 1981 picture, Thief, does just that. James Caan is a Chicago safebreaker who, typically for a Mann anti-hero, is on the edge of escaping from a world he both loves and hates. As Caan’s character plans one last heist but is beset by cheats and rotters at every turn, Mann creates his signature world: a menacing, rain-lashed city, a shimmering score by Tangerine Dream, and electric tension.

Mann refined all that in 1986’s Manhunter, which is a good shout for the best screen version of Hannibal Lecter, even though the Brian Cox take on author Thomas Harris’s cannibalistic killer isn’t all that prominent. The movie tracks criminal profiler Will Graham (William Petersen), whose work involves getting inside the mind of a killer, at the risk of losing his own; the smothering sense of dread is masterfully layered by a director finding his best form.

Our vote for the number one Michael Mann film, though, goes to his biggest, boldest, most Michael Mann-ish film: Heat, which was big news in 1995 because it featured Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in the same movie, but is even better than its casting suggests. Paying equal respect to the professionalism of both Pacino’s cop and De Niro’s crime boss, it has nuanced characters and destructive action, Los Angeles looking more knackered and desperate than any previous Mann cityscape, and dialogue that’s very nearly overcooked, but not quite. The De Niro/Pacino face-off does not disappoint, either - it’s a true modern epic.

Mann continued his obsession with bad men roving around diseased urban sprawls with the sensational Collateral, featuring perhaps Tom Cruise’s most malevolent role as an assassin who ropes in Jamie Foxx’s taxi driver to help with a series of tricky jobs, and Miami Vice, which reboots the TV show where Mann’s career started but is nowhere near as cheesy as the source material.

Then there are the films that deviate from the template: gloriously, in the case of deadly serious whistleblower drama The Insider, somewhat less serious Nazi monster romp The Keep, and sweeping historical drama The Last of the Mohicans, which superficially at least is nothing like your average Mann movie. Even his less successful outings, like the oddly muted boxing biopic Ali and the actually a bit underrated cyberthriller flop Blackhat, are bursting with cinematic craft and alluringly single-minded characters who, because they are all dead set on achieving their goal, act as mirrors to the director himself: when Michael Mann makes a movie, he means it.

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This guide shows you every way you can legally watch Michael Mann movies on streaming services in the United Kingdom. Browse through the entire list of Michael Mann's best movies and see which of them are available on your services today.

In this guide, you can find out where to watch the best football movies of all time. Browse through the complete list to see which movies are available on your streaming services, and which football movies are streaming legally for free online.

What are the best football (soccer) movies?

Association football might be a growing sport in America, but Hollywood hasn’t made many great 'soccer' films to rival the numerous blockbusters built around baseball and American football. But even without much help from the US, cinema still has plenty of fine stories based on the type of football where the ball is round and stays on the ground.

For a start, there’s Next Goal Wins - the 2014 documentary upon which Taika Waititi's 2024 movie is based. It’s just as funny and heartwarming as the fictionalised movie, if not more so. Football is a happy hunting ground for documentarists, the finest example in recent years being Diego Maradona, a vivid journey through the rollercoaster life of perhaps the best player of all time.

As the home of football, the UK naturally leads the way when it comes to telling stories about the game. In the cult classic Mike Bassett: England Manager, Ricky Tomlinson’s turn as a lower-league coach who inexplicably gets the England job is a timeless celebration of the eccentric bunglers who still seem to flourish in the sport to this day. British football movies love to live out fantasies of football success: in When Saturday Comes, Sean Bean is a Sheffield factory worker who wants to play for Sheffield United; in The Bromley Boys, Brenock O’Connor is a teenager who’d be happy managing his local team.

The film in second place in our list takes top-level soccer a lot more seriously. Michael Sheen is brilliant as Brian Clough in The Damned United - a movie that takes major liberties with the real story of Clough’s very short spell as manager of Leeds United, but which captures the emotional intensity generated by the sport’s most charismatic figures.

Usually, though, football is a way into a story about regular people’s lives, with Bend It like Beckham using women’s football to tell a coming-of-age story, Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric deploying visions of Eric Cantona to lighten a tale about working-class struggles, and the underrated Aardman comedy Early Man utilising football as a metaphor for teamwork and community spirit, albeit in the Stone Age.

In our pick of the best football movie ever, football is the background for the victories and agonies of teen romance: Gregory’s Girl starts with a girl joining a boys’ football team, before showing how for Gregory (John Gordon Sinclair), wishing he could play football to a high level and wishing he could date any girl he fancies are equally unlikely ambitions, but ones that a lot of young men share.

Football itself is tricky to capture on film, with even movies that feature real footballers struggling - although the magic of Escape to Victory, an outlandish tale about Second World War prisoners playing a match against the Germans, is in seeing Bobby Moore, Pelé and half the 1981 Ipswich Town squad act alongside Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone.

Movies about football don’t, however, need to feature big football stars, real or fictional. If cinema is about ordinary people’s dreams, so is football - no wonder the two go together so well.

Where can I watch the best football movies online?

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Back in 2003, Richard Curtis revolutionised the festive film landscape with the romantic comedy, Love Actually. With a cast like no other, Curtis brought together some of Britain’s greatest actors to tell ten interlinked love stories in the countdown to Christmas.

Set and filmed predominantly in London, Love Actually is quintessentially British with an ensemble comprised of household names such as Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Bill Nighy, Alan Rickman, Liam Neeson, Rowan Atkinson, Keira Knightley, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Andrew Lincoln and Martin Freeman. There are even cameos from British TV royalty Ant and Dec and Michael Parkinson. Alongside this, notable American stars make an appearance such as Billy Bob Thornton as the US President and Laura Linney as the hopeless romantic Sarah who harbours a secret love for her colleague, Karl.

Despite its popularity with audiences, Love Actually received mixed reactions from critics, but on a modest budget of $40 million it grossed over $248 million at the worldwide box office and remained in the top ten titles for five weeks after its release.

For the most part, Love Actually is a wholesome Christmas film stuffed with romantic tropes and heart-warming moments that continue to set our hearts alight to an uplifting soundtrack, such as Sam running through the airport to tell his school crush Olivia that he loves her. The film has become an iconic part of British pop culture that’s ingrained into our festive season such as a Lobster being present at the birth of Christ in a school nativity, to our gift wrap being as excessive as Atkinson’s. Curtis also doesn’t shy away from touching on the more difficult elements of life that typically come to light around the festive season. For many, Thompson’s performance as Karen when she cries in her bedroom to Joni Mitchell after discovering her husband bought a necklace for someone else, remains the most poignant moment of the film. It spotlights the complicated nuances of adult life, with some rose-tinted festive elements woven in to prove that love actually is all around.

After a dose of this tonic and Bill Nighy’s BAFTA-winning performance as washed-up rockstar Billy Mack, there’s many similar titles to enjoy that will offer the same warmth, romance and hope including the short charity sequel, Red Nose Day Actually. Since the release of Love Actually, there has been a rise in seasonal ensemble comedies with interlinked storylines, such as Gary Marshall’s New Year’s Eve, Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day.

For fans of the cult Christmas classic, we’ve created a list of firm British favourites such as The Holiday and Bridget Jones’s Diary, which also features Curtis’ romantic comedies like Notting Hill and About Time and American ensemble comedies such as My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Crazy Stupid Love. With enough titles to keep you going well into the New Year, here are 12 films to watch if you liked Love Actually and where to stream them.

Britain is renowned for producing some of the greatest Christmas movies of all time. From family favourites such as 1992’s The Muppet Christmas Carol to contemporary cult classics such as Richard Curtis’ 2003 romantic comedy, Love Actually, there’s something for all generations to enjoy.

Every year festive film-lovers return to the sweet Suffolk cottage in The Holiday (and swoon over Jude Law in the pub), or take a nostalgic trip back to their childhood staple such as the Martin Freeman-led musical comedy, Nativity! With live action, animation, muppets and book adaptations to choose from, audiences are spoilt for choice with the seasonal film landscape. But what is the best British Christmas movie of all time?

For some, the most nostalgic option would take the top spot, Channel 4’s 1982 animation The Snowman named one of UKTV Gold’s Greatest TV Christmas Moments of all time. Since its debut, the adaptation of Raymond Briggs 1978 picture book has enchanted audiences with its sketchbook-style animation and stunning orchestral score performed by the London Sinfonia. With no dialogue, the story is told through action, pictures and its famous angelic song, We’re Walking in the Air.

Over the years, the film has also been rereleased with new introductions, including one by the late rock legend David Bowie who finds a copy of the book in his attic. On the 30th anniversary of the enchanting film, Channel 4 released a sequel The Snowman and The Snowdog, where six million people tuned in to watch the short film on Christmas Eve in 2012.

Though there’s a host of modern festive films that have garnered a major audience at the box office and on streaming, Last Christmas, Arthur Christmas, Your Christmas or Mine?, Boxing Day and A Boy Called Christmas.

Personally, another classic takes the top spot for the Best British Christmas movie - the popular retelling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, The Muppets Christmas Carol. Along with Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, Michael Cain appears as Ebenezer Scrooge who is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future… but with a twist – they’re in muppet form. Arguably, this was intended to be a children’s film, but it remains a title that adults of all ages, including myself, come back to every December. It’s an annual tradition as vital as getting a tree and tuning into a new Christmas TV.

With so many festive films to choose from, we’ve narrowed down the 12 best British Christmas movies and where to watch them online.

“Reacher’s back,” said the poster for the second season of Reacher on Prime Video, the slogan writ large across Alan Ritchson’s colossal, rippling torso, photographed from behind. It was a brilliant bit of marketing because, with one silhouette and two words, it captured why this action crime thriller is so addictive: yes, it’s about a massive bloke who obliterates everyone he gets into a fight with, but it has a sneaky, self-deprecating sense of humour that makes it unique.

There is nobody quite like Jack Reacher, the hero of Lee Child’s bestselling novels, who has been so completely embodied - and what a body it is - by Ritchson. But there are plenty of other TV shows that have flashes of the Reacher magic.

Season one of Reacher is all about small southern American towns rotted by violent crime, while the second run visits the grubby gamblers’ paradise of Atlantic City - both are locations where Raylan Givens, the cocky marshal in Justified, would thrive. Like Reacher, you trust Givens to emerge from encounters with the baddest of bad guys with all his teeth intact and his smile wider than ever. Reacher also drifts from town to town, reluctantly running into trouble wherever he goes, like The Mandalorian without Baby Yoda and the spaceship.

And, like Mando, our man Jack is unbeatable in hand-to-hand combat. The first episode of Reacher announced itself as a juicy fight show with an unforgettable beat-down in a prison shower, the sort of bone-snapping scrap we haven’t seen on TV since the glory days of Banshee - another show where a lawman, albeit a bogus one, takes on local criminals, one by one.

In Reacher, though, the smalltime criminals always lead to a big conspiracy, and there is no shortage of great shows where tough Americans bring down a nefarious plot all on their lonesome. The Old Man is a strong one, with Jeff Bridges as the former secret agent who is still lethal in his old age. Another underrated spy thriller is The Night Agent, where Gabriel Basso is one good man fighting his way out of a series of impossible predicaments, caused by bad actors at the top of the political food chain. In Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, John Krasinski is a senior CIA man, but it doesn’t stop him needing to use bullets and fists to bring the villains down. The first two of those, at least, share Reacher’s powder-dry wit.

For more hard-boiled US crime, you should try Bosch: Legacy, an excellent detective drama set on the streets of Los Angeles. But a lot of Reacher’s power and poise comes from him being an ex-military man: to find that vibe again, watch Shooter (Ryan Phillippe as an ex-sniper framed as an assassin) or The Terminal List (Chris Pratt as a Navy Seal avenging the murder of his family).

It may be that only Alan Ritchson will do. If so, the closest you’ll get to Reacher is probably the superhero saga Titans, where he’s a vigilante in Lycra. Ritchson has bulked up a lot since then, though - Reacher’s muscles would never fit in the costume.

Which version of Hugh Grant is your favourite? The British actor used to be the rakish, plummy king of romantic comedy but, as he’s got a little older, he’s become more adventurous with his film roles. Our Hugh can now pop up on the big screen playing anything from a con artist in Dungeons and Dragons: Honour among Thieves and a cannibal in Cloud Atlas to Daniel Craig’s apron-wearing other half in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

Back in the 1990s, when he was fresh of face and floppy of hair, Grant was a reliable presence in the best period dramas of the time, with pivotal supporting roles in The Remains of the Day and the brilliant Emma Thompson version of Sense & Sensibility - not forgetting his startling breakthrough in the early Merchant-Ivory production Maurice.

His best-known and best-loved performances, however, will forever be in the run of rom-com hits written by Richard Curtis that started with Four Weddings and a Funeral, where Grant heads up a gang of British friends who are constantly pulling on their best suits, piling into cars and attending other people’s lavish weddings. With Grant’s halting, awkward effort to woo Andie McDowell at its heart, the film encapsulated his special brand of stuttering English charm and made him a superstar.

Grant and Curtis collaborated further on Notting Hill, where Grant is a humble - but posh and extremely attractive - bookseller who has an unlikely liaison with a Hollywood A-lister played by Julia Roberts; and Love Actually, where his British Prime Minister is an adorable eccentric who still finds time to be wonderfully rude to his American colleagues when necessary. For the dark side of Hugh Grant: The Blundering Dreamboat Years, there are the two Bridget Jones movies, where he’s less lovable and more of a rogue.

When Grant was at the peak of his fame, many people tried to dismiss him as just a pretty face and a cut-glass accent, but underneath that flustered exterior there has always been a seriously gifted comic performer. You can see it in his work in American romantic comedies, where even if the movie isn’t the best, Grant is always terrific in his role - and in the likes of Two Weeks Notice (co-starring Sandra Bullock) and Music & Lyrics (with Drew Barrymore), the films aren’t too bad at all.

But there’s no pretty woman for Grant to win over in the movie that’s our pick of the best film he has ever appeared in, even if Four Weddings will always be the favourite for his fans: the pure joy that is Paddington 2. Grant is the villain of the story, flamboyant thief and failed actor Phoenix Buchanan - if you saw the film at the cinema and left as soon as the credits started rolling, you missed Grant showing a whole new side of himself in an uproarious closing song-and-dance sequence.

Now Grant is in the new one by Paul King, director of the Paddington films: in Wonka, a prequel to the Roald Dahl classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, he’s Lofty the Oompa-Loompa. There could be one more genre of Hugh Grant movies to add to the list: the ones where he has green hair and an orange face…

Where to watch Hugh Grant movies and TV shows

In this guide you can find out where to watch the best Hugh Grant movies and TV shows currently available on streaming services in the United Kingdom. This includes the latest streaming offers on the most popular streaming services such as Netflix, Prime Video and Apple TV+. We'll also show you whether you can watch each movie for free to stream on services such as iPlayer and ITVX.

Roald Dahl, who penned classics such as Matilda and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, is widely regarded as one of Britain’s most influential children’s book authors. 

Even three decades after his death, Dahl’s darkly comic whimsical best-sellers continue to be reimagined for new generations. With the arrival of Timothée Chalamat as the young chocolatier, Willy Wonka in Wonka, a recent Anne Hathaway-led adaptation of The Witches and Tim Minchin’s musical interpretation of Matilda, Dahl’s stories are having a major revival on the big-screen.

Dahl’s eclectic short stories, Revolting Rhymes, and novels have provided fruitful inspiration for directors to explore the pivotal themes of life, which are often excluded or censored from children’s art, such as community, purpose, hatred, death and grief. Each story boasts the unique ability to intertwine a heart-warming, whimsical quality with darkly comic take on the human experience.

Acclaimed auteurs from Wes Anderson to Tim Burton have adapted the author's rich tales into beloved feature and short films, with Anderson releasing the Academy-award nominated stop-motion animation, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Burton’s live-action take of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Anderson also revisited some of Dahl’s short stories from the 70s in a string of short films for Netflix, including The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Scarlett Johansson.

From Danny Devito in Matilda to Jeremy Irons and Robbie Coltrane in Danny, the Champion of the World, some of the finest actors have appeared in these adaptations of the weirdly, wonderful children’s stories. 

However, the earliest adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was turned into a screenplay by the author himself. In 1971, Dahl transformed his best-selling book into the cherished family film, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory fronted by Gene Wilder.

From the deliciously strange animation in James and the Giant Peach to the endearing live-action version of Esio Trot with Judi Dench and Dustin Hoffman, there’s something for everyone in this eclectic list. Here is every Roald Dahl adaptation to catch up with after Wonka and where to stream them.

It was inevitable that 2023 would be an outstanding year for TV with the return of Emmy-award winning shows such as Succession and Ted Lasso. This year gave us plenty of series to binge for big laughs, lots of tears, or an escape into a fictional world. As 2023 comes to a close, JustWatch has crunched the numbers to find the most popular TV series on streaming services throughout the year.

2023 started strong with HBO’s adaptation of the acclaimed video game, The Last of Us, which topped this year’s streaming charts. With a huge audience of new and pre-existing fans, this gripping dystopian horror became the most popular TV series of the year and already has a second season on the horizon.

Netflix debuted Tim Burton’s Addams Family spin-off Wednesday in late 2022, opening to worldwide success that led to a viral TikTok dance, and even broke the streamer’s records to become the most viewed series (in English) on the platform. The Netflix original series landed at #5 on the streaming charts. Netflix also released the fourth and final season of its award-winning drama, Top Boy, as well as the mind-boggling mystery series, Manifest.

Many of us also handled the heat of the kitchen in the second season of The Bear, bringing back Chicago’s favourite sandwich shop. Another favourite from Disney+ is Tom Hiddleston’s return as the God of Mischief in the second season on Loki, which debuted back in October. Other family favourite franchises also found success on the streamer, including Star Wars with the third instalment of The Mandalorian.

Several contemporary cult classic TV shows also came to a close this year, as the final season of HBO’s family business drama Succession aired with some shocking surprises. Apple TV+ also said farewell (for now it seems) to its greatest asset, Ted Lasso, as AFC Richmond returned for its third and final season of the Emmy-award winning comedy. In between the bittersweet goodbyes, viewers indulged in copious amounts of animated sitcom South Park for some light relief.

We found the top 10 titles using the JustWatch popularity score, which considers a host of activities such as clicking on a streaming offer, which titles were added to watchlists, and which titles were marked as ‘seen’. You can find the top 10 below, including streaming offers so you can catch up with the most popular series of the year.

It has been an incredible year for film in 2023. Despite the turbulence in Hollywood during the SAG-AFTRA strike, the industry has firmly found its feet after the coronavirus pandemic. From family franchises to breath-taking animation, movie musicals and gore-filled horrors, cinema has soared higher, further and faster to make sure there has been something for everyone.

While Barbie broke the box-office, established franchises released some of the most popular films of the year in the UK such as the live action remake of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Pixar’s Elemental and another action-packed instalment in John Wick: Chapter 4.

However, JustWatch found that the top film of 2023 was Marvel’s final outing for the Guardians in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3. James Gunn’s epic threequel was the most popular film according to our UK user. This was calculated using JustWatch’s popularity score, which includes user activity such as clicks on streaming offers, adding a title to a watchlist or marking it as ‘seen’.

Disney+ was home to half of the most popular films of the year, including James Cameron’s long-awaited return to Pandora in Avatar: The Way of Water. Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania also made the top ten, after its release in cinemas back in February.

The fan-favourite board game adapted to the big-screen in Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves also made the elite list. The Chris Pine-led film resonated with audiences as it captured the friendship and camaraderie found at the heart of the game, and its players. Alongside this, families sought out Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, while adults gorged on raucous comedies and horror in M3GAN and Cocaine Bear.

Here’s the 10 most popular films of the year and where to stream them from the United Kingdom.

Acclaimed studio Aardman Animation has been entertaining audiences for over six decades with their award-winning stop motion films. Founded by Peter Lord and David Sproxton in 1972, Aardman started out by making 5-minute shorts for UK broadcasters such as the BBC.

Within a collection of shorts for Channel 4 was Nick Park’s academy-award winning film Creature Comforts, where zoo animals were matched with human’s voices talking about their homes. The comical clips made it seem as though the animals were commenting on their own living conditions. What began as an experimental series of stories, which also debuted Aardman’s iconic plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit, created the foundations for Aardman to become the billion-dollar studio it is today.

In 2002, Aardman extended their 5 to 30-minute productions into full length features with Chicken Run, which followed a flock of cooped-up chickens as they attempted to break out of their farm. With a star-studded cast of Mel Gibson and Julia Sawalha and quick-witted humour for all ages, Park and Lord’s first film became a firm family favourite for all ages.

After the film’s staggering commercial and critical success, Chicken Run also became the highest grossing stop-motion film of all time. Several years later, Wensleydale-loving Wallace and his intelligent dog Gromit took to the big-screen and bagged another Academy Award for Aardman in Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit.

Due to the extensive time it takes to film a stop-motion feature (one project can take 18 months to six years to create), Aardman has established a short, but noteworthy filmography that subverts the norm in imaginative and witty ways. More recently, Aardman has teamed up with Netflix to deliver a sequel 21 years to their 2002 smash-hit with the family friendly title Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget.

Fresh new voices have taken to the fan-favourite characters, as Ginger and Rocky lead their close-knit group of chickens in paradise, before their whole world is threatened by a new type of high-tech chicken farm.

To celebrate Aardman’s long-awaited return to its most cherished film, here’s a list of the best Aardman animation movies to watch and where to stream them.

World War II drama, One Life, is a true story about the rescue of Jewish and refugee children who were evacuated to Britain before the start of the war. 

One Life stars Anthony Hopkins (The Father), Johnny Flynn (Stardust), Helena Bonham Carter (Harry Potter franchise), Jonathan Pryce (The Crown) and Lena Olin (Enemies: A Love Story). The film is directed by British television director James Hawes, who is making his feature film debut with One Life. 

With a stellar leading cast, and heartwarming true story, One Life has the makings of an Academy Award contender. This article will include:

• What One Life is about

• Who was Sir Nicholas Winton?

• Who are the Winton Children?

• Where to watch One Life

• The full One Life cast

• One Life filming locations

• The team behind One Life

As it turns out, there is a secret formula for living longer. It all starts with the food we put in our bodies. 

The fascinating discovery of ‘Blue Zones’ made by Dan Buettner has led to a new curiosity of what it means to be healthy. Dan Buettner is a National Geographic Fellow, author and producer who has done extensive research into what causes humans to live longer. If you’ve watched ‘Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones’ and are eager to learn more about our bodies, and their relationships to the food we eat, here are some other documentaries that you might like.

Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food

This 2023 documentary film explores the hidden pathogens in our everyday food that make 48 million Americans sick every year. In a world where profit is more important than ethics, the documentary asserts that your primary assumption about chicken that you buy in the supermarket should be that it contains bacteria such as salmonella. Although this documentary is focused specifically on the United States, it shares some stark realities about the food industry that make more sobering viewing.

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

Anthony Bourdain was one of the most influential chefs of our generation. With a passion for travel and culture, he wrote a number of bestselling books and produced food and travel shows such as A Cook’s Tour and Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown. Bourdain’s work explored international cuisines and how they influenced different cultures and traditions around the world. While the focus of Parts Unknown is a little different than the Blue Zones documentary, Bourdain’s love for food and culture leaps off the screen.

Down to Earth with Zac Efron

Zac Efron travels around the world to find new perspectives on age-old problems. Focused on food, water and energy, he speaks with experts in different fields who all have unique ideas on how to live well. There are two seasons of this documentary series, both with eight episodes each. Season one explores a different location every episode including Iceland, London, Lima and Costa Rica. Season two focuses exclusively on Australia, with episodes focused on the Great Barrier Reef, Regenerative Agriculture and Aboriginal Voices.

How To Live to 100

English journalist and Channel 4 news presenter Jon Snow leads this documentary series. In ‘How to Live to 100’, Snow explores the lifestyles of people that live to 100 years of age. Following a similar vein to the Netflix Blue Zones documentary series, Snow visits the Greek island of Ikaria, and speaks with senior citizens in Japan.

What the Health

From the creators of Cowspiracy, What the Health is a documentary that uncovers the hidden secrets about the pharmaceutical and health industries. In a world where chronic conditions are exponentially on the rise, the health industry is profiting on every illness. Andersen shares information about how to prevent and even reverse chronic disease. It begs the question - if this information has the ability to save lives, then why isn’t it being shared more openly?

Some of the greatest films in the history of cinema are capable of making us feel both great pain and great joy all at once. Celine Song’s superb romantic drama Past Lives does just that, succeeding in capturing feelings of longing alongside the bittersweet gratitude for a moment of profound connection with another human being.

If your heart needs another dose of melancholic joy after seeing Past Lives, make sure you check out the brilliant films below. Each film shares a kinship in some way with Past Lives, and is guaranteed to leave you feeling tender, heartbroken, and alive.

The ‘Before’ Trilogy

One of the most obvious entries is the Before trilogy by acclaimed director Richard Linklater. Filmed over the course of 18 years, the trilogy starts with Before Sunrise (1995), followed by Before Sunset (2004), and concludes with Before Midnight (2013). The films tell the story of Céline (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke), who first meet on a train going from Budapest to Vienna and wind up spending the whole night walking, talking, and falling in love. The films centre completely around the dialogue between Céline and Jesse as they share their innermost vulnerabilities, hopes, and desires, and — similar to Past Lives — the films succeed at being both deeply relatable and captivating all at once.

In the Mood for Love

Legendary Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai’s beautifully devastating romantic drama In the Mood for Love continues to be one of the most devastating descriptions of longing ever committed to film. Set in British Hong Kong in the 1960s, In the Mood for Love tells the story of journalist Chow Mo-wan and secretary Su Li-zhen, who form a connection after suspecting their partners are having an affair together. As their bond subtly begins to grow and transform, the two must decide if they will conform to societal morals or try to break free. As with Past Lives, In the Mood for Love is able to convey deep longing and internal turmoil, as well as the beauty of finding connection.

Call Me By Your Name

This exhilarating story of love and learning touches on all the subtler aspects of a great coming-of-age film, and succeeds in conveying both the beauty and pain of first love. Director Luca Guadagnino directs the story of a summer in 1983 in northern Italy, where the moody and reclusive 17-year-old Elio is spending the season with his mother and archeology professor father. When his father’s research assistant, a 24-year-old graduate student named Oliver, comes to stay, Elio finds himself both drawn to and wary of the new addition. As the push and pull dynamic buds into something more, Call Me by Your Name reveals itself to be both a heart wrenching romance and a universal lesson in self-compassion.

When Harry Met Sally

Known as one of the greatest (if not the greatest) romantic comedies of all time, When Harry Met Sally continues to earn its status through a mixture of typical rom-com tropes and more realistic elements like right timing and personal growth. When Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) first meet, they can barely stand each other, and part ways as soon as they finish the car journey from Chicago to New York City. They go years without seeing one another until they reconnect by chance. Only after several more years are they in a place to foster first a close friendship, before finally progressing to a real relationship. While When Harry Met Sally is a rom-com and Past Lives is a romantic drama, the films both share a dedication to understanding how the passage of time affects our most precious relationships, and allows them to progress in different and unexpected ways.

Atonement

This utter heartbreaker starring Kiera Knightly and James McAvoy takes a spot on this list for its depictions of unrequited love and missed opportunities. The film is based on Ian McEwan’s book of the same name, and takes place between World Wars in 1935. The film tells the story of Briony Tallis, a 13-year-old growing up in a large estate owned by her wealthy family. Due to her jealousy and confusion over her older sister Cecilia’s budding relationship with Robbie, the housekeeper’s son, Briony plays a key role in Robbie’s conviction for a crime of which he was innocent — a move that irrevocably changes the course of their love forever. Although Atonement is far more devastating in tone than Past Lives, the persistent question of ‘what if?' pervades both storylines.

Check out the complete list below, along with streaming information on where to watch them.

Three Christopher Nolan movies are in the Top 10 charts this week. Fans are rewatching his past films following the success of Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer premiered in cinemas on July 21. It is a critical and commercial success and has broken IMAX box office records. 

Elemental enters the Top 10 this week, with the Pixar animated movie available on Disney+. Other popular movies, including Spider-Man: Across the Universe and Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, have spent many weeks on the charts. Here are the most-watched movies of the week:

 

After the award-winning success of her series Derry Girls, which followed the lives of four school girls and a ‘wee English fella’ during the 1990s in Northern Ireland, creator Lisa McGee has announced her latest project: a comedy-thriller series called How to Get to Heaven from Belfast.

Like Derry Girls, the series will be created and written by McGee, and will focus on the close friendships at the heart of the story. However, this time the friends are in their late thirties and have chosen very different life paths since their days at school together. The story follows Saoirse, Robyn, and Dara, who are brought together again by the death of their old school friend, Greta. Saoirse is now a successful writer with middling impulse control, and Robyn is a foul-mouthed, stressed mother-of-three, while Dara has been stuck still living in her childhood bedroom and taking care of an aging parent. Things regarding Greta's death not as straightforward as they seem, and the three women find themselves on a journey out of Belfast and across Ireland in search of answers. 

Jane Austen fans can breathe a sigh of relief today, because the long wait for the final season of Sanditon is finally over. Although season 3 already had its American debut on PBS all the way back in March, fans in the UK were left wondering when the final season of the beloved series would make its way across the pond. Although Sanditon started out as a British television series on ITV, it was cancelled after one season. Luckily, campaigns by dedicated fans and interest from PBS Masterpiece gave the series a chance on American TV, where it continued for another two seasons. The third season of Sanditon is finally being released in the UK today, August 17, 2023, on ITVX.

The series is based on unpublished writings by famed 18th–19th century author Jane Austen. Her notable works have been adapted into acclaimed series and films several times, including but not limited to Pride and Prejudice (both the BBC miniseries and the film), Emma, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, and Sense and Sensibility. Sanditon was Austen’s final work, and she sadly died before completing the manuscript. Screenwriter and novelist Andrew Davies took on the task of adapting the text to the screen, basing the characters on Austen’s writing while taking their stories in new directions.

Past Lives is a South Korean - American drama written and directed by Celine Song. The film had its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival in January 2023, and then screened at a number of other festivals including the Berlin International Film Festival. The film has received critical acclaim on the festival circuit and is set for a theatrical release in the United Kingdom and select international markets. It is distributed by A24. Here’s what we know about Past Lives.

What is Past Lives about? 

Past Lives follows three characters whose lives are intimately entangled together. Nora and Hae Sung were close childhood friends in South Korea, but they lost touch when Nora and her family moved to Canada. Now an adult, Nora works as a playwright and lives in New York City with her husband, Arthur.

Out of the blue, Nora receives a message from Hae Sung. Hae Sung tells her that he is coming to New York and would like to meet her. Nora is confronted with her past, and a multitude of ‘what ifs’, as she comes face to face with someone who used to be such a big part of her world.

 

Gal Gadot has recently announced that she’ll be returning to play Diana Prince / Wonder Woman, and working with James Gunn on Wonder Woman 3. The news comes as a surprise, since it was not previously announced as part of Gunn and Peter Safran’s reimagined DC Universe, or their upcoming Chapter One: Gods and Monsters slate. 

Gadot previously played the iconic female superhero in Wonder Woman and its sequel Wonder Woman 1984, which were both directed by Patty Jenkins. It’s unclear at this point if Jenkins will return. 

While we wait for more information on the Gunn / Gadot collaboration, Gadot has a number of high profile films in the pipeline, starting with the Netflix action spy movie Heart of Stone. 

Heart of Stone

Tasked with ensuring the safety of a valuable asset, intelligence agent Rachel Stone is about to face the biggest mission of her career to date. Gadot stars as Stone in the upcoming Heart of Stone film, alongside Fifty Shades of Grey actor Jamie Dornan. Heart of Stone is directed by British director Tom Harper, and also includes Alia Bhatt, Sophie Okonedo and Matthias Schweighöfer in the cast. Read more about the film here. 

Heart of Stone will premiere on Netflix on August 11, 2023. 

 

The upcoming television series ‘Those About to Die’ is headed to Prime Video in the UK, exploring the world of gladiators in Ancient Rome. It is developed by Robert Rodat, and directed by Roland Emmerich and Marco Kreuzpaintner. Emmerich and Rodat also serve as executive producers on the project. 

Rodat is a producer, writer and Academy Award nominee for Best Original Screenplay on Saving Private Ryan. Emmerich is a director, writer and producer, whose previous work includes Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and White House Down. 

The show will air on Peacock in the US. ‘Those About to Die’ is one of few shows available to watch on different streaming services outside of the US, despite the fact that Peacock TV is available in the UK. The first season of the show contains ten episodes. 

The show will be available to stream exclusively on Prime in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Ireland, Poland, Turkey, Andorra, Luxembourg, Belgium and Monaco. Negotiations are still ongoing for the free TV rights outside of Prime Video’s exclusive distribution window. 

 

From the weird and wonderful mind of Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos comes Poor Things. After the success of past films such as The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Lanthimos has established himself as one of Hollywood’s most original auteurs, and is known for his thought-provoking storylines. Lanthimos’ films have also received critical acclaim, with 2018’s The Favourite winning the Grand Jury Prize at the 75th Venice International Film Festival, and earning ten Academy Award nominations with Olivia Colman winning for Best Actress. 

Lanthimos is known for his frequent collaborations with actors such as Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Joe Alwyn and Emma Stone. Emma Stone takes the lead role in Poor Things as Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back by the scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. 

As Lanthimos and Stone gear up for the premiere of Poor Things, here’s what we know about the film so far. We'll cover: 

• What is 'Poor Things' about?
• Is 'Poor Things' based on a true story?
• When will 'Poor Things' be released?
• Who is in the cast of 'Poor Things'?
• Who is the production team behind 'Poor Things'?
• Where 'Poor Things' was filmed
• Why 'Poor Things' is R-rated
• 'Poor Things' trailer