Celebrity Big Brother topped the list… Christmas has been and gone, and the year is nearly at an end, which means it is time for OFCOM to release the list of the most complained TV shows of 2018. The UK TV watchdog received the most complaints regarding this year’s edition of Celebrity Big Brother. The controversial series […]

7 years ago

The singer has been charged with two counts. Chris Brown faces up to six months in prison due to him owning a capuchin monkey. The animal was seized by Californian authorities, and according to legal documents obtained by TMZ, the RnB singer faces two counts of owning a restricted species without a permit. Brown reportedly got […]

7 years ago

If true, it’s 312 minutes long which might confirm a big theory… Details have been thin on the ground regarding the return of Black Mirror, with constantly swirling rumours that the upcoming Christmas special of the show would star Miley Cyrus and would somehow be an interactive episode. All signs seem to point to an […]

7 years ago

Buy me Bonestorm or go to hell. Having run for over 30 years and 649 episodes, The Simpsons has had its fair share of Christmas specials. At its best, The Simpsons is probably the greatest and most important TV show of all time, but its fall from grace in the post-1990s era has been well documented. Still, […]

7 years ago

Not saying that whole world is laughing at England, but… Last week was a rather quiet week for Theresa May, with her only having to deal with the anger from of her postponing the Brexit deal vote, then having 117 of her MPS vote against her in a no confidence vote, and then having a squabble […]

7 years ago

Is this Gina’s replacement? Brooklyn Nine-Nine returns to TV screens next month, with the cop sitcom moving to its new home on NBC. After being saved from cancellation, the new network is making a big song and dance about the new season. Last week, for example, we got an absolutely brilliant Die Hard-themed trailer.  Now we have […]

7 years ago

Buff Sonic is not something we need. Ok, so there is a Sonic The Hedgehog movie coming soon. But not an animated movie, like you might think. Not a version of Kung Fu Panda or Madagascar, but with Knuckles and Tails. That makes too much sense. No, instead, we are getting a live action Sonic […]

7 years ago

If the trailer is this funny, just think how good the new season will be. Brooklyn Nine Nine returns next month, with the cop sitcom moving to its new home of NBC. After being saved from cancellation, we needed something big to mark the occasion. And this new trailer definitely does not disappoint. A long-running […]

7 years ago

Will Far Cry 6 have a post-apocalyptic theme? Out of nowhere, Ubisoft has announced that new Far Cry game is coming. The proper reveal will come at Thursday night’s 2018 Game Awards, but before then, they have revealed this mysterious trailer. It starts out on a shot of a barn, which somewhat resembles the rural […]

7 years ago

Totally worth it. A false panic went around the internet this week. People were mistakenly reporting that Friends was leaving Irish Netflix at the end of year. It was completely not true, don’t worry, but it showed how important the 90s sitcom is to the streaming giant. The One Where Friends is Going Nowhere, Don't […]

7 years ago

It looks set to be announced at the 2018 Game Awards. After what seems like years of rumours and speculation, a remake of Crash Team Racing looks set to be announced very soon. PlayStation Access channel manager Hollie Bennett tweeted that she’d been sent something very mysterious ahead of this week’s 2018 Game Awards. She […]

7 years ago

He knows what it means.  Arsenal vs Tottenham games rarely disappoint, but Sunday afternoon gave us another fantastic 90 minutes of entertainment. It has it all: six goals, two penalties, a red card, a mass brawl… It was the first North London derby for Arsenal’s young French midfielder Matteo Guendouzi, who signed for them in […]

7 years ago

Tell your boss. It is nearly the end of the week. We’re also close to the end of the month too, which means that it’s probably payday for a lot of you. Even after all of that, if you still can’t face going into work tomorrow, then we have some good news for you because […]

7 years ago

Season five is almost here. It has been almost three years since Detective Chief Inspector John Luther last graced our screens. The cop show, starring Idris Elba, has been one of the best British dramas of recent years, with Elba’s no-holds-barred performance helping to create a character that could easily hold his own against any […]

7 years ago

Warning: this is definitely not for the squeamish. Actor David Arquette is best known for two things: starring as Deputy Dewey in the Scream movies; and marrying Courtney Cox in the late 1990s. He is also famous – or infamous – for another thing. n the early 2000s, at the height of his fame, he […]

7 years ago

Say it ain’t so. Rick and Morty has had a quite an incredible rise. Starting out as a late night show on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim block, it is now a bone fide international phenomenon. Even if you’ve never seen it, you’ve definitely had multiple people bore you at parties telling you how amazing it […]

7 years ago

A collector bought the 70 year old film for less than a fiver. A 70-year-old Disney cartoon which had been long considered ‘lost’ has been discovered in Japan. Entitled Neck & Neck, the two minute short features Oswald The Lucky Rabbit – the character Walt Disney first had success with, before he created Mickey Mouse. […]

7 years ago

Finally! An actual answer about something GOT related! George RR Martin has revealed the title of the first of the highly-anticipated Game of Thrones prequel shows. He confirmed the series will be entitled The Long Night in a blog on his website. Last week, Oscar-nominated Australian actress Naomi Watts was cast in he show. “I […]

8 years ago

A new generation is set to be scarred for life. The 1978 animated movie Watership Down has traumatised multiple generations of kids. What looks like a sweet cartoon about talking bunnies is actually a devastating allegory about war, death and freedom. It is basically Apocalypse Now, but with rabbits. Despite being a staple of afternoon […]

8 years ago

The Suicide Squad spin-off is taking shape. Ewan McGregor looks set to play the villainous Black Mask in the upcoming DC Comics movie Birds of Prey. The spin-off from Suicide Squad will see Margot Robbie return as Harley Quinn and team up with several other female heroes, including Jurnee Smollet-Bell as Black Canary, Mary Elizabeth […]

8 years ago

Todd LaTourrette also appeared in the George Clooney film The Men Who Stare At Goats. An actor who claimed to be a wounded war veteran has admitted that he lied about his military career to help him get roles. Todd LaTourrette, who is bipolar, cut his own arm off during a psychotic episode after he […]

8 years ago

He already tackled Cruise in My Scientology Movie. Louis Theroux returns to our screens in early November with Louis Theroux’s Altered States – a series of three new films shot in America, investigating the worlds of adoption, polyamory and assisted suicide. JOE was lucky enough to attend an advanced screening of the first film in […]

8 years ago

Saturday saw both Glenn Hoddle fall ill and Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha’s helicopter crash. Gary Lineker has said that Saturday night’s edition of Match of the Day was the hardest episode of the show that he has ever presented. On Saturday evening, the helicopter of Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha crashed following taking off […]

8 years ago

The crash happened after Leicester’s 1-1 draw with West Ham. Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was on board his helicopter when it crashed on Saturday evening, according to a BBC News source. The accident happened at around 8.30pm on Saturday after the helicopter took off from the King Power Stadium pitch an hour after the […]

8 years ago

He failed to open his parachute in time. A Canadian rapper has died while filming an airborne stunt for a music video. 34-year-old Jon James McMurray fell from the wing of the plane he was walking across and rapping. According to Murray’s manager, Ryan Desrochers, the small Cessna plane went into a downward spiral. Murray […]

8 years ago

Could he BE any more of a suspect? Police in Blackpool are looking for an alleged thief who looks a lot like Ross Gellar from Friends. The suspect is seen in the photo carrying a crate of cans out of a location in the town centre. Authorities want to speak to him “in relation to a […]

8 years ago

God bless memes. In these scary times, memes give us strength. Which do you like? I like the woman being annoyed at her boyfriend looking at another girl. And the man with the butterfly. And the man who offers you free real estate. And The Simpsons ones. Simpsons memes are the best. Anyway, it turns out, […]

8 years ago

New details have emerged. Louis Theroux returns next month with three new documentaries and it has finally been announced what they are about. The three-film series is called Altered States and will “explore the unusual ways modern America deals with birth, love and death” and the changing laws that have transformed how the population experiences […]

8 years ago

Batista teased one more match. A host of WWE legends, including Batista, Rey Mysterio and The Undertaker, all returned to for the thousandth edition of WWE’s Smackdown. WWE Smackdown launched all the way back in April 1999, as a companion to the flagship show Raw. And for this big milestone, they pulled out most of the stops, […]

8 years ago

From the man behind the Bourne movies. 22 July is not an easy watch. The new Netflix film recounts the events of July 22nd, 2011. On that day, Norwegian far-right terrorist Anders Breivik murdered 77 people in two separate attacks. Breivik first set off a car bomb in the Norwegian capital of Olso, killing eight […]

8 years ago

Let’s be honest, nobody liked Iron Fist When Netflix first announced they were making shows about four street-level Marvel heroes – Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist – it seemed like a cannot-fail proposition. And for three of them, it was. Daredevil brought moody NY vigilante action and the best villain of all […]

8 years ago

He is playing the bad guy. The Rock and Jason Statham are making a spin-off from The Fast and The Furious movies, where Hobbs and Shaw, their characters from the series, team up. And it is going to be the best movie ever made. Of course, there is a clear difficulty here, in that who on […]

8 years ago

It was all over the recent Apu controversy. South Park has always had a grudging respect for The Simpsons. Most famously, there was the episode ‘Simpsons Already Did It’, where creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone basically admitted that the long-running show had done a lot of things first. Their attitude seemed a little different […]

8 years ago

He was best known for playing Hershel Greene on the show. Veteran actor Scott Wilson has died at the age of 76. Wilson was best known for playing grizzled farmer Hershel Greene on The Walking Dead. He first appeared in the show in the season 2 episode ‘Bloodletting’, and was last seen in season 4. […]

8 years ago

“Take your rightful place as king” The next chapter of the DC movie universe is nearly here. Aquaman hits cinemas in December, and an extended five-minute trailer has given us our first big look at the film. https://twitter.com/IMDb/status/1048251500307341313 Aquaman has always been a bit of a goofy character – but this trailer shows they managed to balance […]

8 years ago

We’re pumped. A potential live action Star Wars TV series has been in the works for a long, long time. There have been various animated shows, including Ewoks and Droids in the ’80s, and The Clone Wars and Rebels more recently. On this note, the idea of a live action show was first mooted in […]

8 years ago

Michael Moore remains probably America’s best-known documentarian. His 1989 breakthrough movie Roger & Me was a powerful, thoughtful and personal film about the closures of the General Motors factories in Moore’s hometown of Flint, Michigan, and his efforts to track down GM CEO Roger Smith. He would then win an Oscar for his 2002 documentary […]

8 years ago

This is just like John Wick. The thing everyone forgets about The Matrix is how perfectly put together it is. The plodding confusing sequels, along with The Animatrix, and the video games, and the comics, and pretty much everything that came after, were all just a mess. But go back and watch the original film. […]

8 years ago

Staying up all night to watch American sporting events is a sign of dedication. It is something Irish fans of boxing, UFC, Bellator, WWE and NFL have all experienced – shows that start in the evening in the US will kick off in the middle of the night Ireland time, and go on to the early […]

8 years ago

It hasn’t even been announced yet, but we are still needlessly speculating. In 2016, Nintendo released the NES Classic Edition – a lovingly-made shrunken down version of the iconic console that came pre-loaded with 30 classic games ready to play, plus the right cables to hook it up to a modern TV. A year later, […]

8 years ago

Cool Boarders, Micro Machines V3 and South Park: Chef’s Love Shack didn’t make the cut. Sorry. This week, Sony revealed the PlayStation Classic – a special, shrunken-down replica of the classic 1990s console, that comes pre-loaded with 20 titles, ready to play. 45% smaller than the original unit, the Playstation Classic will go on sale on 3 […]

8 years ago

The Batman-less Joker movie continues to build up steam. Earlier this week, we got the first look at Joaquin Phoenix in full Joker make-up. The movie – just titled Joker – stars the Walk The Line actor as Batman’s greatest villain and will provide a backstory to the clown prince of crime set in the […]

8 years ago

It’s a fill-in week this week on the pub quiz

8 years ago

GIVE US GOLDENEYE. NOW Ever the innovator, Nintendo have had incredible success with their NES and SNES Classics units – cute little mini recreations of their iconic consoles, pre-loaded with a load of classic games ready to play, and the right cables to hook it up to modern TVs. The concept has been so successful, […]

8 years ago

“I think it only makes sense.” As Disney’s takeover of 21st Century Fox rumbles ever-closer to completion, one thing is becoming clearer. The X-Men are probably going to show up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Despite being published by Marvel Comics, the movie rights to the merry mutants were sold to Fox long ago, before […]

8 years ago

“Where are you going, with your fetlocks blowing…” Homes Under The Hammer is your standard, banal daytime TV property show. Presented in part by former England footballer Dion Dublin, it follows houses that are bought at auction, and the people that do them up. The Wire, it is not, but if you are pulling a sickie […]

8 years ago

The incident happened in December 2016. Singer Oritse Williams, formerly of boyband JLS, has been charged with raping a fan in a hotel room after a show. 31-year-old Williams was arrested by West Midlands Police on December 2nd, 2016, after performing at the Gorgeous club in Wolverhampton the night before. At the time of the arrest, […]

8 years ago

What a time to be alive. Tamagotchis – the so-called ‘digital pets’ which first appeared in Japan in 1996 and around the world soon after – are coming back and we couldn’t be more excited. Before Pokemon, before Digimon, before The Sims, Tamagotchis supplied a little LCD blob for you to look after. Encased in a […]

8 years ago

Former foreign secretary Boris Johnson has received criticism from two senior Conservative MPs for comparing Theresa May’s Brexit plan to “a suicide vest” In a column for the Mail on Sunday, Boris Johnson attacked the Prime Minister’s Chequers deal, saying it left the UK open to “perpetual political blackmail”. Johnson resigned as foreign secretary in […]

8 years ago

Incredible. NASA has shared an amazing 360-degree photo taken by the Curiosity Rover on Mars. The rover has been on the red planet for six years, and the image shows a thin layer of crimson dust on the vehicle. Take a look at a 360º panorama of Vera Rubin Ridge on Mars, taken as the […]

8 years ago