It’s awards season in Hollywood and on Sunday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out the gongs more commonly known as The Oscars. To celebrate, twenty members of the JOE team have selected their favourite movies of all time and the reasons why. Think of all the great opening scenes across the […]

7 years ago

Ted Bundy killed more than 30 women across America during the seventies. As Netflix’s launches a new docu-series, ‘Conversations With A Killer’, JOE talks to Kathy Kleiner: the one that got away.

7 years ago

American sportsmen have some of the greatest names known to man. In honour of this weekend’s Super Bowl we’ve put together a championship team full of the most beautiful appelations. This Sunday is Super Bowl Sunday where the champions of the American Football Conference (the New England Patriots) take on the champions of the National […]

7 years ago

A comprehensive look back at all of Sunday’s action. The game of the day in the NFL turned into the game of the season as New England held off a furious Kansas City rally to win 43-40 on a last second field goal from Stephen Gostkowski. The contest had twisted this way and that with […]

8 years ago

A comprehensive look back at all of Sunday’s action. LEAD OFF The Cleveland Browns are 2-2-1 this season. It doesn’t seem much, but having gone 1-31 over the last two campaigns, you begin to see why even small steps matter. The most moribund franchise in American sport over the past twenty years is rising, Phoenix-like […]

8 years ago

A comprehensive look back at all of Sunday’s action LEAD OFF We’ll get to the re-birth of Patriot Nation, contenders becoming pretenders, Earl Thomas’s hand signals and plenty of overtime madness. But let’s start in Atlanta in the biggest game of the weekend as the upstart Bengals roared into town. Marvin Lewis’s team are on […]

8 years ago

A comprehensive look back at all of Sunday’s action. LEAD OFF We’ll get to the fall of Patriot Nation, the surprise leaders of the AFC, the devastating knee injury to San Francisco’s star quarterback and overtime craziness in Atlanta shortly. But let’s start in Minneapolis where the NFC favourite Minnesota Vikings hosted the hapless Buffalo […]

8 years ago

A comprehensive look back at all of Sunday’s action.

8 years ago

Simon Clancy writes about his former colleague Rachael Bland, who passed on Wednesday, two years after being diagnosed with breast cancer

8 years ago

If you don’t love this brilliant slice of the US at its best, then you’re either Donald Trump or dead.

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McLoughlin has a staccato style, crouching his not insignificant frame to hammer home laugh after laugh, and it’s at the confluence of old and new where he makes the most hay.

8 years ago

This is razor sharp stand-up as Barron riffs on sex – lots of it – marriage and motherhood, poking fun at men generally, her husband specifically, other women, and her own child. She’s scathing, even caustic, but never cruel.

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Matafeo throws different threads out on a whole range of subjects and then gently and cleverly weaves them together in the final ten minutes like she’s crocheting a Rembrandt.

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Harriott delivers on all fronts: quality story-telling, numerous laugh-out loud moments, mixed with takes on race, modern society, and then, very subtly, huge poignancy on what it’s like to be a father’s son.

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Maddix commands his tiny stage as he riffs on racism’s microscope and his sense of ennui with people who can’t see past the colour of a man’s skin.

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Both men filled fairly cavernous venues and from the first minute each had their respective audiences eating out of their hands.

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Luka Modric might be the world’s best player. He’s also English football’s biggest nemesis. So what makes him tick and why can’t we find our own version of the Croatian master?

8 years ago

Italia 90, Euro 96 and now, Russia 2018

8 years ago

What the Japanese brought to Rostov, turning the status quo on its head, will live long in the memory

8 years ago

Loathing him is easy. But so is loving him

8 years ago

Week one is no picnic, but week two is when we get to the real nerve-shredders

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England’s former goalkeeper opens up on exactly what it feels like to prepare for a World Cup finals

8 years ago

Diana Ross and Roberto Baggio: inextricably linked by two awful penalties

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Back then there was no wall to wall football. No transfer rumour pages, no hipster journalists

8 years ago

Nilsen was always happy to discuss his murders, and he did just that with a young journalist in the mid 1990s

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It’s book month here at JOE and we are celebrating the simple pleasure of making time to read. In an age of digital distraction it can be tough to read as much as you might want to, but whether you prefer a paperback, audiobook or ebook – we’ve come up with a comprehensive list of […]

8 years ago

Silent Stan may just have the perfect plan

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How Scousers and then Geordies took Rafa to their hearts

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