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. […]

7 years ago

The game has been remade on the Unreal Engine 4 GoldenEye 007 on the N64 was the greatest console shooter of all time. No, seriously, you can keep your Overwatch, Your Fortnite. All your CoDs. Your Halo. GoldenEye was the GOAT, and always will be the GOAT. Based on the Pierce Brosnan James Bond movie of the same name, the 1997 N64 […]

7 years ago

Look, don’t pretend you don’t want to see this Ok, sometimes the news is big and important and clever. And sometimes, just sometimes, we get the simple joy of someone falling over spectacularly on live TV. This is one of those times. Good Morning Britain presenter Balvinder Sidhu fell over backward walking into the GMB studio […]

7 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 […]

7 years ago

They fight, they bite. They bite and fight and bite Ferro de General Pico have just won everything. Ok, the Argentinian fourth tier team might not be set to win the Champions League or anything next season, but it doesn’t matter. You might remember several months ago when Ferro de General Pico revealed their green goalkeeper’s […]

7 years ago

Ronaldo is the cover star of FIFA 19 Cristiano Ronaldo appears to have had his image removed from the EA Sports website. Ronaldo has been the cover star of FIFA 19. On a drop-down menu on the EA Sports homepage, each on the company’s main franchise is displayed with the current cover athlete of that […]

7 years ago

The Animal is rumoured to have signed a short time term deal Batista – aka Dave Bautista – has done what very few wrestlers have managed, and forged a successful acting career. But WWE fans still clamor for his return to the square circle. WWE Smackdown reaches it’s 1,000 episode on October 16th – and […]

7 years ago

Is Vice a secret sequel to Anchorman? Earlier this week, the trailer for Christian Bale’s new film Vice dropped, which also stars the likes of Steve Carell, Amy Adams, and Sam Rockwell. He plays former Vice President Dick Cheney, in the true story of how George W Bush’s number two came to power. It is directed by […]

7 years ago

Ewwwwwww What was the worst thing about your school? Whatever it was, it probably wasn’t as bad as being full of false widow spiders. Four schools in East London have been closed for up to a month while pest control is called in, after infestations of the venomous eight-legged creatures were found on the premises. […]

7 years ago

Workers from several fast food chains and delivery companies are striking over pay UberEats and Deliveroo drivers, and workers from a handful of McDonald’s, Wetherspoons and TGI Fridays branches, are taking industrial action on Thursday over pay, as reported by BBC News. The action has been dubbed ‘McStrike’. Workers at four Wetherspoons pubs, two McDonald’s […]

7 years ago

You should still get one for Christmas though The Nintendo Switch has been a revelation. It hasn’t really been able to compete with the Xbox One or PlayStation 4, but that’s not the point of the console. Nintendo knew they could never match the power or dominance of Microsoft and PlayStation’s machines – a lesson […]

7 years ago

It has been a long time coming 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 1980s, and The Clone Wars and Rebels more recently. But the idea of a live action show was […]

7 years ago

This Morning is much weirder than it has any right to be Like, it is meant to be a fluffy mid-morning show, offering an inoffensive distraction for stay-at-home parents, students, and those pulling a sickie. Instead, we get things like terrifying royal wedding swimsuits, sex robots, haunted dolls, and horny aliens. The show celebrated its thirtieth anniversary this week, […]

7 years ago

Cowboy Rambo! Sylvester Stallone is 72-years-old. Let that sink in. Rocky was 42 years ago. First Blood was 35 years ago. Demolition Man was 25 years ago. But the Italian Stallion is still going strong. He plays Rocky Balboa for the eighth time in Creed 2, which hits cinemas later this month. But his other […]

7 years ago

Yes, we can see him Every time we do a story about John Cena – especially one about him changing his looks – we get loads of people replying “There’s no one in the picture!”. We get it. It’s the meme. His catchphrase is “You can’t see me,” so people like pretending that there is […]

7 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 […]

7 years ago

SH*T JUST GOT REAL Bad Boys 2 is the best movie of all time. No, seriously. Try and name a film better than it. You can’t. It has been fifteen long years since that cinematic masterpiece was released. You can understand that they might have been worried that they could never top it. But Bad Boys 3 has […]

7 years ago

Brought to you by Time to Change This might shock you, but not all movies are completely realistic Ok, films about superheroes fighting purple space gods, or clown-demons stalking small towns are obviously not real. But even if a movie seems more grounded, it still might not be getting everything right. Case in point: mental […]

7 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. […]

7 years ago

We still don’t know much about this movie tbh The Batman-less Joker movie continues to build up steam. Last week, we got the first look at Joaquin Phoenix in full Joker make-up. Then some on-set video leaked, giving us a look at his full costume. The movie – just titled Joker – stars the Walk The Line actor as Batman’s […]

7 years ago

Merry Christmas, Deadpool? The marketing of the Deadpool movies has arguably been more fun than the actual films themselves. There have been poop emoji billboards. There’s been the resurrection of Blockbuster Video. He even has hung out with David Beckham. And it appears there is another stunt of some sort is planned. Fox has confirmed […]

7 years ago

Nothing Kanye does surprises us anymore In the last few months he has unveiled a new clothing line at the Porn Hub awards, released a song of poop noises, and just this weekend, appeared on Saturday Night Live dressed as a giant water bottle. This is a man who goes out in public wearing both a […]

7 years ago

Staying up all night to watch American sporting events is a sign of dedication It is something British 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 UK time, and go on to the early […]

7 years ago

Kanye West appeared on Saturday Night Live this weekend, and it was a weird as you’d expect After Arianna Grande dropped out of appearing on the season premiere of US comedy institution SNL, Kanye West stepped up to fill in. And because this is Kanye, it was weird and controversial. First up, he dressed as […]

7 years ago

Last week, Louis Theroux let slip that he had a new series on the way However, apart from telling us that they would air in November, Theroux said he couldn’t reveal any more information. Now however, the BBC have officially announced Louis Theroux’s Altered States, “a new series exploring the unusual ways modern America deals […]

7 years ago

It is still kind of nuts that Kingdom Hearts is a thing that exists When the first Kingdom Hearts arrived on the PlayStation 2, it was the most unlikely of team-ups. On one hand you had Square, the Japanese geniuses behind Final Fantasy; and on other, you had Disney (we don’t really need to explain […]

8 years ago

This is a game-changer (no pun intended) Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has announced cross-platform play for the first time. Essentially, that means that PlayStation players will now be able to play against Xbox One owners for (pretty much) the first time ever. It will start with an open beta beginning today for Fortnite (what else?), allowing […]

8 years ago

“I thought they’d forgotten about me. I didn’t know about no fire.” On September 19th, disaster struck at a senior citizen apartment complex in Washington DC. A fire broke out at the Arthur Capper Senior Public Housing complex, and the blaze tore through the four-storey building. Firefighters, Marines from a local barracks and passers-by all […]

8 years ago

Bill Cosby has been sentenced to prison for between three and ten years The veteran comedian was found guilty in relation to a 2004 sexual assault case. In a retrial held in April in Pennsylvania, 81-year-old Cosby was convicted of drugging and molesting former basketball player Andrea Constand. The Cosby Show star was charged with […]

8 years ago

Quality Street are a Christmas essential You have no idea where they appear from, but there is always a tin of Quality Street floating about during the Christmas period. In the office, at the Christmas party, on your nan’s sofa. They just appear, and someone has already had all the strawberry ones. Now there has […]

8 years ago

Suicide Squad was a mess A messier, less-coherent movie released by a major studio would be very hard to find – clearly re-edited to death by a crack squad of panicked studio execs, they hastily sellotaped back together into something barely resembling a motion picture and released to cinemas. There one definite highlight however – […]

8 years ago

Ouch The DC cinematic universe hasn’t exactly run to plan. There have been hits – Wonder Woman went down very well, and made a hell of a lot of money. Aquaman could be fun, and the trailer for Shazam makes it look like Big with superheroes. But Batman Vs Superman was a turgid mess, and Justice […]

8 years ago

“I wanted to look away but couldn’t stop looking at it” A woman in Virginia got a nasty surprise when looking through her neighbour’s flowerbed this week. Stephanie Myers came across this terrifying two-headed copperhead snake, just wriggling around, minding its own business. An "exceptionally rare" two-headed copperhead snake was found in Virginia. Wildlife experts […]

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

Shades of the Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels here Earlier this year, WWE headlines by signing former UFC champion Ronda Rousey. She’s had great success in sports entertainment so far, wowing fans in her debut tag match at Wrestlemania, and winning the Raw Women’s Title at SummerSlam. She is not, however, the only person to have […]

8 years ago

New Louis Theroux is always a good thing Louis Theroux is a national treasure. His dweebish persona manages to perfectly put his subjects at ease, letting them slowly reveal themselves to the camera. Whether he is speaking to victims of head trauma or members of the Westboro Baptist Church, he treats people as actual human beings, […]

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

“Oh, hai Mark!” In 2003, a strange independent film opened in just one cinema in LA. At first, it seemed unremarkable, an indie drama about relationships that that on first glance was no different to tens of other low budget features made each year. However, The Room was far from ordinary. Now a fully acknowledged […]

8 years ago

No f*cks given by the raccoon Do you remember when The Undertaker threw Mankind off the top of the Hell In A Cell? This is exactly the same, only in raccoon form. Micha Rea from South Carolina was on holiday in Ocean City, New Jersey, when he saw a crafty raccoon scaling the wall of […]

8 years ago

The news was announced by the duo’s social media this morning Chas Hodges, of musical act Chas & Dave, has passed away at the age of 74. The vocalist had recently received successful treatment for oesophageal cancer, but died in the early hours of Saturday morning following organ failure, the duo’s Twitter confirmed. It is […]

8 years ago

This will be the greatest club night in the history of music “Africa” by Toto is a transcendently brilliant work which will probably come to define our era in times to come. In the future, when aliens come down to explore our planet, the survivors of the  Trump-Kim Jong-Un war will only have four remaining […]

8 years ago

Matthew Vaughn is back on board to write and direct part three The Kingsman movies have somewhat been an under-the-radar hit. Starring Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Samuel L Jackson, and Mark Strong, the first one was far from a perfect movie, but did have one truly extraordinary single-take scene: an incredible action sequence where Colin Firth shoots up an entire church […]

8 years ago

This Morning can be f*cking weird Like, it is meant to be a fluffy mid-morning show, offering an inoffensive distraction for stay-at-home parents, students, and those pulling a sickie. Instead, it frequently spews out a surreal Twin Peaks-level parade of madness, way before the watershed. Recent examples include features on terrifying royal wedding swimsuits, sex […]

8 years ago

I have never really got on well with open-world video games I am old enough to remember when Shenmue first came out. It was genuinely like nothing I’d seen before. A fully 3D game. A whole town, where you could walk into every building and speak to every non-player character. You could play darts, and […]

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 fruition, two things are becoming clearer. One: We are getting that much closer to living in a dystopian hellscape where one megacorporation controls every property you ever cared about, and all the movies we consume. And two: The X-Men […]

8 years ago

HOLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK WARNING, BATMAN Batman first appeared in Detective Comics issue 27, all the way back in 1939. After nearly 80 years of adventures, he has fought hundreds of villains and been all over the world. He’s been into space, and we’ve seen both future and past versions of the Dark Knight. […]

8 years ago

Remember the episode of Peep Show with Gog? (It is also the episode of Peep Show where Mark makes friends with the racist). Gog was the old school friend of Jeremy, who Jez convinces to let him do the music for his short film. Only Gog refuses to pay the agreed fee, so Jez and Mark […]

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 December […]

8 years ago