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10 Best Horror Movies of 2026
Horror has been having a moment. If you’re even slightly interested in movies, you’ve likely noticed that many of the most talked about films of recent years, and the most celebrated upcoming directors, are often focused exclusively on scaring you.
25 Best Horror Movies of All Time, Ranked
There are few things better than finding a good scary movie to watch on a dark and stormy night. But let’s be honest, there’s a lot of pretty bad ‘scary’ movies out there. Between an overuse of jump scares, boosted sounds that’ll blow out your TV’s speakers, or unnecessary violence for the sake of shock value, there are plenty of reasons people have for not engaging with the horror genre: despite the fact it is one of the best mediums to explore the extreme ends of human experience.
Click Frenzy 2026 : Main Event Dates, Deals and What to Expect
By Nick Hall - Guide Updated: 20 October, 2026 Readtime: 10 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. Click Frenzy’s Main Event 2026 opens at 7pm AEDT on Tuesday, 27 October and runs until 11:59pm AEDT on Friday, 30 October, exclusively through clickfrenzy.com.au.
Every Steven Spielberg Film Ranked from Best to Worst
Largely considered the pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Steven Spielberg is one of the most successful film directors in cinema history – boasting three Academy Awards and a reign as the highest-grossing director of all time (though Christopher Nolan is closing the gap). While Spielberg’s technical mastery is unquestioned, his films endure because of his deep exploration of family, resilience, childhood, and the unknown.
Ranking Quentin Tarantino’s Entire Filmography, from Worst to Best
Quentin Tarantino is an auteur filmmaker in every sense, having built a reputation for ultra-violence, profanity, simple dialogue that heightens absurd stories and scenes, and a penchant for non-linear storytelling – all wrapped up in a love for classic films that permeates every frame. Tarantino’s films vary wildly in genre, setting, historical accuracy, and even in-universe canonicity.
How to Watch the Entire ‘Star Wars’ Saga in Chronological Order
Perhaps the most influential science-fiction franchise of all time, Star Wars has endured almost 50 years on the big (and small) screen. With the franchise now worth almost US$50 billion, and serving as one of the major tentpole series of Disney’s entertainment empire, Star Wars is as successful today as it’s ever been.
What’s Next for the MCU? Every Upcoming Phase 6 Movie and TV Show Release Date
With Phase Six of the Marvel Cinematic Universe set to wrap up in 2028 with Avengers: Secret Wars, fans are already looking to what lies beyond the horizon. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has confirmed the MCU will undergo a ‘soft reboot’ following the film, lowering the barrier to entry for incoming audiences. Here are the 7 major releases coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe over the next three years, as well as an outline of the rebooted universe’s first three major films.
13 Best Prestige TV Shows That Actually Require Your Full Attention
If you’ve even casually surfed the front-page of a major streaming service recently, you’ve probably noticed the trend toward cheap, unengaging content meant to fill the air of your living room with over-explained plots, shallow characters, and forgettable dialogue. This is a relatively new concept brought about by the streaming age. It’s entertainment as content rather than as art, existing purely as a stocking stuffer to keep new content dropping as often as possible.
‘Blade Runner 2099’ is Coming Later This Year : Here’s Everything We Know
By Dean Blake - News Updated: 18 August, 2026 Readtime: 7 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here.
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How To Play Through The ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Franchise in Chronological Order
The Grand Theft Auto franchise can be split into three eras: 2D Timeline, 3D Timeline and HD Timeline. Historically, Grand Theft Auto games were set in an historic period, from the ’60s to the ’90s. Now, they tend to be set in present-day. Grand Theft Auto VI, the newest instalment, will release in November 2026. It’s easy to put little weight on the overarching narrative of Rockstar’s wildly successful Grand Theft Auto series.
8 Burnout Prevention Strategies That’ll Give You The Work-Life Balance You’re After
By Dean Blake - News Updated: 14 July, 2026 Readtime: 11 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. Burnout is a state of chronic exhaustion and psychological disengagement. It can happen when your demands overwhelm the resources you have to handle them.
Is ‘The Simpsons’ Good Again? How The Show Went From ‘Zombie’ to ‘Renaissance’
By Dean Blake - Entertainment Updated: 13 July, 2026 Readtime: 8 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. Fans and critics say that The Simpsons declined in quality from Season 8. The show’s 30th season has the long-running TV classic’s lowest IMDb score. Now fans and critics are arguing that there’s been a resurgence in quality through recent seasons.
How to Watch The Entire ‘Yellowstone’ Saga in Chronological Order
By Dean Blake - News Updated: 26 June, 2026 Readtime: 10 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. So, you want to watch the entire Yellowstone saga, but are looking for a different way to engage with the material?
MCU Chronological Order : How to Watch Every Marvel Movie and Series in the Timeline
Should you watch the MCU in release order or chronological order? Both work. Release order, starting with 2008’s Iron Man, is best for newcomers because it preserves the surprises and lets the storytelling evolve as audiences first saw it. Chronological order, like the guide above, is ideal for rewatches and for anyone who wants to follow the timeline as one continuous story. How many Marvel movies and shows are there?
20 Scariest Horror Movies of All Time—According to Science
Home/Entertainment/Movies & TV What’s the scariest horror movie of all time? Is it the vomit-inducing scenes from The Exorcist that curdled your blood? Or maybe Freddy’s first appearance in The Nightmare on Elm Street had you ducking your head under the covers? Whatever the case, fright flicks have served us well over the years, making for a pretty solid date night idea or weekend romp, but not all scare-cinema is created equal.
Should You Watch ‘Star Wars : The Mandalorian and Grogu’? The Reviews Are In
By Dean Blake - Review Updated: 26 May, 2026 Readtime: 7 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here.
Every James Bond Movie Ranked From Worst to Best
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Is ‘Dutton Ranch’ the ‘Yellowstone’ Sequel We’ve Been Waiting For?
By Dean Blake - News Updated: 15 May, 2026 Readtime: 8 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. Taylor Sheridan’s wildly popular Yellowstone series made such an impact on critics and audiences when it launched in 2018, that by the time the show was finishing up in its fifth-and-final season in 2024, it was a meteoric event.
Should You Watch ‘Star Wars : Maul – Shadow Lord’?
By Dean Blake - News Updated: 6 May, 2026 Readtime: 8 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. While we’re waiting for the release of the next Star Wars film – The Mandalorian and Grogu, launching later this month – Disney quietly launched one of the best Star Wars stories in recent memory: a new animated series called Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord.
25 Greatest Australian Movies of All Time, Ranked
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25 Greatest Australian Movies of All Time, Ranked
California’s ‘Mad Max’ gas nightmare — with drivers to pay the price It’s like a scene right out of “Mad Max”: The last precious barrel of oil from the Middle East has arrived in California. It’s aboard the Hong …
‘Impossible to Look Away’ : Is ‘The Boys’ Final Season Worth Watching?
By Dean Blake - Review Updated: 22 April, 2026 Readtime: 7 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. Superhero fatigue has been a thing for a while, with the overwhelming dominance of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe having given way to an overall boredom with the decade of super-powered heroes and villains gracing our screens.
Is the Long-Awaited ‘Scrubs’ 2026 Return Worth Watching?
By Dean Blake - Review Updated: 15 April, 2026 Readtime: 7 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. If you’re anything like most of us at Man of Many, you’ve probably seen your fair share of Scrubs throughout your life, and you were likely nervous when you found out it was coming back for a new season.
Is ‘Peaky Blinders The Immortal Man’ worth watching? It’s complicated
By Dean Blake - News Updated: 4 April, 2026 Readtime: 8 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. We’ve been looking forward to the beginning of a new chapter of everyone’s favourite crime drama Peaky Blinders for quite a while, but the first of series creator Steven Knight’s new stories in the Blinderverse finally hit Netflix earlier this month.
Is ‘The Madison’ worth watching? The reviews are in
By Dean Blake - News Published: 24 Mar 2026 Readtime: 7 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here.
‘Jackass 5’ is Coming : Here’s What We Know So Far
By Dean Blake - News Published: 13 Mar 2026 Readtime: 5 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. 2026 has been a strange year already, but easily one of the most unexpected turns of the past few months is the fact that not only are the Jackass crew getting back together for one final movie, but that it’s launching in the first half of this year.
Is ‘Marshals : A Yellowstone Story’ worth watching? The Reviews are in
By Dean Blake - Review Published: 10 Mar 2026 Readtime: 7 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. To say expectations were high for Marshals, the first Yellowstone spin-off to launch with the aim of continuing the current-day Dutton Family storyline, would be an understatement.
Could the Nothing Phone (4a) be 2026's Best Budget Phone?
By Dean Blake - News Published: 5 Mar 2026 Readtime: 7 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. Last year UK-based tech brand Nothing surprised us all with an incredibly solid mid-range budget phone in the $599 Nothing Phone (3a): a device that beat out a lot great phones to be crowned Man of Many’s favourite affordable phone of 2025.
What to Watch: The 9 Best Shows and Movies Coming to Streamers in March
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Everything We Know About the PlayStation 6 So Far
By Dean Blake - News Published: 25 Feb 2026 Readtime: 7 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. The PS6 is rumoured to launch in three distinct models, including a high-end Pro and a Nintendo Switch-style handheld hybrid.
What We Know About the Upcoming 'Michael' Biopic: Release Date, Cast, Troubled Production
By Dean Blake - News Published: 19 Feb 2026 Readtime: 7 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here.
Here's Our First Look at 'Stranger Things: Tales from '85' Animated Spin-off
By Dean Blake - News Published: 13 Feb 2026 Readtime: 5 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. There’s a new Stranger Things series in town, and this time it’s pulling from another of the 80’s greatest achievements—the animated cartoon.
Is Markiplier's 'Iron Lung' Worth Watching? The Reviews are in
By Dean Blake - News Published: 9 Feb 2026 Readtime: 7 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. To say the first week or so of Iron Lung‘s run at the box office has been a rollercoaster would be an understatement.
Is ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Worth Watching? The Reviews Are In
By Dean Blake - News Published: 27 Jan 2026 Readtime: 5 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here.
Everything We Know About Stephen Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day'
By Dean Blake - News Published: 21 Jan 2026 Readtime: 5 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. Stephen Spielberg is no stranger to aliens.
Everything We Know About ‘Project Hail Mary’: The Next Film from the Author of 'The Martian' | Man of Many
Home/Entertainment/Movies & TV By Dean Blake - News Published: 19 Jan 2026 Readtime: 4 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. A decade ago, Andy Weir’s novel The Martian was turned into a critical and commercial smash hit — grossing over US$630 million ($AUD942 million) worldwide off a US$110 million budget.
Golden Globes 2026 Biggest Winners and Losers Revealed (Full List)
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11 Most Anticipated New Movies of 2026
2025 was a big year for movies. Between the launch of the new biggest-animated-film-ever in Ne Zha 2, the cultural phenomenon that was A Minecraft Movie, and the return of Superman to our silver screens, the year had a lot of great movies to watch, and that doesn’t look set to ease up in 2026.
11 Most Anticipated New Movies of 2026
Now In “The Guilty Vicarage,” an essay on detective fiction, W.H. Auden argues that the most successful detective novels take place in an apparent Eden (the cozy village, the ivied college, the country house at Christmastime) that’s tainted by a hidden thread of evil, and “the job of the detective is …
Interview: Bridgerton’s Luke Thompson On Playing Prince Charming
By Dean Blake - News Published: 5 Jan 2026 Readtime: 8 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. Based off of a successful series of regency-romance novels set in 1800s London, Bridgerton is surely one of the major success stories of modern television.
What to Watch this January: All the Best Coming to Streamers This Month
By Dean Blake - News Published: 1 Jan 2026 Readtime: 5 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. Happy January everyone! We hope you’ve had a great holiday break so far, and are settling deep into your couches ready for a lot of TV.
What to Watch this January: All the Best Coming to Streamers This Month
The 2026 telecast of New Year's Eve Live on CNN was once again cohosted by BFFs Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen. And, as it is the case every single …
Man of Many's 2025 Best Tech Products of the Year Revealed
By Dean Blake - News Published: 22 Dec 2025 Readtime: 11 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. With 2025 rapidly coming to a close, we’re looking back at all the best bits of tech we were able to get our hands on in the past 12 months.
Everything We Know About Bungie's 'Marathon': Release Window, Character Classes, and More
By Dean Blake - News Published: 16 Dec 2025 Readtime: 8 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. After a less-than-stellar reveal earlier this year, Bungie’s Marathon has resurfaced with a fresh coat of paint, a deeper look at the systems players will be trying out on the decaying Tau Ceti IV, and a release month: March, 2026.
Man of Many's Staff Favourites—14 December, 2026 | Man of Many
By Dean Blake - News Published: 14 Dec 2025 Readtime: 5 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. Welcome to another instalment of Man of Many‘s Staff Favourites, where we showcase items, services, and experiences that have caught our eye throughout the week.
The Franchises at Stake in the Bidding War for Warner Bros.
By Elliot Nash - News Published: 13 Dec 2025 Readtime: 7 min Every product is carefully selected by our editors and experts. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For more information on how we test products, click here. Netflix and Paramount Skydance have kicked off one of the wildest studio battles in recent memory, with both companies now racing to take over Warner Bros Discovery.
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