Stephen Porzio

Martin Scorsese once called the original one of the best films of the ’90s. Bad Lieutenant, the extremely dark 1992 crime drama starring Harvey Keitel that was once banned in Ireland, is getting a surprise reboot. The original saw Keitel play the unnamed title character, a corrupt New York cop addicted to drugs and steeped […]

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The show comes from the creator of Godless and The Queen’s Gambit. Netflix has just released the first trailer for Dept. Q, its new crime thriller series that looks like it should appeal to fans of Apple TV+’s smash hit Slow Horses. The show follows DCI Carl Morck (Matthew Goode, Watchmen), who is described as […]

1 year ago

The best way to spend three minutes of your day. Welcome back to our beloved quick-fire general knowledge quiz! We’re on day 448 and if you’re a regular by now, you know the drill. For the newly initiated out there, every day, we present players with 15 general knowledge quiz questions and three minutes to answer […]

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The true crime film has a 94% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 7 May) is The Night of the 12th, the excellent 2022 French mystery crime thriller. Inspired by one story from Pauline Guéna’s non-fiction account of her time embedded with a French Criminal Investigation department, the film follows […]

1 year ago

The show tells the story of the worst ever terror attack on British soil. The Bombing of Pan Am 103, a new BBC drama from the producers of Line of Duty with one of the stars of Suits, has been given a first trailer and a release date. Comprising six episodes, the series is based […]

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There has been a recent renewed interest in the Oscar-winning thriller as a result of real-world events. Conclave, the excellent 2024 Vatican-set mystery thriller, is now available to stream via Prime Video. Based on a novel by Robert Harris (The Ghost) and directed by Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front), the movie focuses […]

1 year ago

The best way to spend three minutes of your day. Welcome back to our beloved quick-fire general knowledge quiz! We’re on day 447 and if you’re a regular by now, you know the drill. For the newly initiated out there, every day, we present players with 15 general knowledge quiz questions and three minutes to answer […]

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JOE spoke with Tom Hardy and director Gareth Evans (Gangs of London, The Raid) about their new Netflix hit and the important issue of firearm safety. Tom Hardy’s Netflix action crime thriller Havoc has proven to be a hit for the streamer, ranking number one on the service’s global movies chart for this week. The […]

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Holding an 84% Rotten Tomatoes score, the film does not appear to be available to rent or stream, so now is the time to watch it. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 3 May) is Breach, the brilliant 2007 spy thriller based on true events. Co-written and directed by Billy Ray (Shattered Glass), the […]

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The film has a 91% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 2 May) is The Gift, the incredible 2015 psychological thriller written and directed by and starring Joel Edgerton (Warrior). The film centres around a married couple named Robyn (Rebecca Hall) and Simon (Jason Bateman) who move to a new […]

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JOE interviewed director Mark O’Connor and actor Luke McQuillan about their gritty new crime thriller. Mark O’Connor has established himself as one of Ireland’s best filmmakers. This is because of his thriller dramas about people on the fringes of society who, as they try to navigate their surroundings, find themselves pulled into a criminal underworld. […]

1 year ago

The best way to spend three minutes of your day. Welcome back to our beloved quick-fire general knowledge quiz! We’re on day 446 and if you’re a regular by now, you know the drill. For the newly initiated out there, every day, we present players with 15 general knowledge quiz questions and three minutes to answer […]

1 year ago

Made by an Oscar-winning filmmaker, some have even called it one of the best sci-fi films of the 21st century. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 1 May) is Nope, the 2022 neo-Western sci-fi thriller from Oscar-winning filmmaker Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us). With its title standing for ‘Not of Planet Earth’, Nope revolves […]

1 year ago

Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 44th entry of The JOE Film Club Quiz. This week, we are presenting players with stills from 10 movies. They then must select which film the images are from based on three options. Have what it takes? Play below and find out. Name the movie The Rock The Silence […]

1 year ago

The best way to spend three minutes of your day. Welcome back to our beloved quick-fire general knowledge quiz! We’re on day 445 and if you’re a regular by now, you know the drill. For the newly initiated out there, every day, we present players with 15 general knowledge quiz questions and three minutes to answer […]

1 year ago

JOE spoke to Florence Pugh and her co-star David Harbour about their new blockbuster, which is out in cinemas this week. Thunderbolts*, the latest movie in the Marvel superhero franchise, lands in theatres this week, and cinemagoers are set to be wowed by the opening scene. The introduction sees assassin Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) tasked […]

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The film, which tells a story about Billy the Kid, was recently added to Netflix as well. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 29 April) is The Kid, the star-studded 2019 Western directed by Vincent D’Onofrio (Daredevil). Set in the 19th century in the old West, the film follows a young boy named Rio […]

1 year ago

The best way to spend three minutes of your day. Welcome back to our beloved quick-fire general knowledge quiz! We’re on day 444 and if you’re a regular by now, you know the drill. For the newly initiated out there, every day, we present players with 15 general knowledge quiz questions and three minutes to answer […]

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The Oscar-winning film is a must-watch for fans of legal thrillers. Anatomy of a Fall, one of the decade’s very best movies, has just been added to Netflix. The film stars Sandra Huller (who was Oscar-nominated for her role) as Sandra Voyter, an acclaimed German novelist. She lives in an isolated mountain chalet in France […]

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EXCLUSIVE: The series’ co-creator spoke to JOE about the plans for a second season. Crá, the 2024 hit Irish-language crime thriller mystery series, could be returning for a season two, JOE has learned. Commissioned by both TG4 and BBC Northern Ireland, the six-part show, whose title means ‘anguish’ or ‘torment’ in Irish, was set in […]

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The film is also one of Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham’s best. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 26 April) is Wrath of Man, the excellent 2021 heist revenge thriller that reunited director Guy Ritchie and star Jason Statham (Lock Stock, Snatch) after 15 years. A remake of the 2004 French flick Cash Truck, […]

1 year ago

The best way to spend three minutes of your day. Welcome back to our beloved quick-fire general knowledge quiz! We’re on day 443 and if you’re a regular by now, you know the drill. For the newly initiated out there, every day, we present players with 15 general knowledge quiz questions and three minutes to answer […]

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The film was recently removed from Netflix but has found a new streaming home. After its surprise recent removal from Netflix, the brilliant sci-fi thriller Annihilation has just been added to Prime Video. Written and directed by Alex Garland (Civil War, the currently in cinemas Warfare), the movie stars Oscar-winner Natalie Portman (Black Swan) and […]

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Be warned though, this sadly underseen Western with an Irish twist is not for the faint-hearted. Prime Video has just added The Nightingale, the 2018 Western thriller movie starring Irish actress Aisling Franciosi (Speak No Evil). In the film, she delivers a phenomenal performance as a young Irish convict named Clare in 19th-century Australia who […]

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‘That show you like is going to come back into style.’ Twin Peaks, the seminal mystery horror-drama show that ran for three seasons between 1990 and 2017, will be getting a new streaming home courtesy of the service Mubi. Created by the late and great David Lynch, alongside Mark Frost, the series takes place in […]

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Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 43rd entry of The JOE Film Club Quiz. This week, we are presenting players with stills from 10 movies. They then must select which film the images are from based on three options. Have what it takes? Play below and find out. Name the movie Mad Max 3: Beyond […]

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JOE spoke to the film’s star Tom Hardy, as well as its writer and director. This week, Netflix will be releasing Havoc – the new action crime thriller from writer-director Gareth Evans and star Tom Hardy. Hardy plays Walker in the movie, a cop battling personal demons. In the wake of a drug deal gone […]

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The film was directed by and stars a Hollywood legend. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 23 April) is True Crime, the 1999 mystery crime thriller directed by and starring Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven). Based on Andrew Klavan’s 1995 novel, the film sees Eastwood play Steve Everett, a womanising journalist and recovering alcoholic. “A chance […]

1 year ago

The best way to spend three minutes of your day. Welcome back to our beloved quick-fire general knowledge quiz! We’re on day 442 and if you’re a regular by now, you know the drill. For the newly initiated out there, every day, we present players with 15 general knowledge quiz questions and three minutes to answer […]

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Starring a legend of the genre, the film is currently unavailable to stream. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 22 April) is Open Range, the 2003 revisionist Western directed by and starring Kevin Costner. Based on the novel The Open Range Men, the film is set in the 19th century. It centres around Boss […]

1 year ago

The best way to spend three minutes of your day. Welcome back to our beloved quick-fire general knowledge quiz! We’re on day 441 and if you’re a regular by now, you know the drill. For the newly initiated out there, every day, we present players with 15 general knowledge quiz questions and three minutes to answer […]

1 year ago

Its first four episodes are streaming now. Apple TV+ has just added Government Cheese, a very fun new crime comedy series starring David Oyelowo (Silo). Set in ’60s Los Angeles, the show sees Oyelowo play Hampton, a man who begins the story in prison for forging cheques. In jail, the petty criminal finds religion, as […]

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The unpredictable thriller film deserves a much bigger audience. This week on JOE’s Film Club Classics, we’re recommending The Block Island Sound – an inventive 2020 indie thriller streaming on Netflix now that accomplishes a lot with very little. The breakthrough movie of the writing-directing duo Kevin and Matthew McManus (whose upcoming thriller Redux Redux […]

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The film has a 90% Rotten Tomatoes score, but be warned, it’s not for the faint of heart. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 19 April) is Titane, the 2021 French psychological horror drama that is easily one of the best films of the decade so far. Written and directed by Julia Ducournau (Raw), […]

1 year ago

The best way to spend three minutes of your day. Welcome back to our beloved quick-fire general knowledge quiz! We’re on day 440 and if you’re a regular by now, you know the drill. For the newly initiated out there, every day, we present players with 15 general knowledge quiz questions and three minutes to answer […]

1 year ago

The film has earned comparisons to Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 18 April) is Bullet Train, the very fun Brad Pitt-led action comedy movie from 2022. Pitt in the film plays Ladybug, a notoriously unlucky assassin who is determined to complete his latest assignment in Japan peacefully after […]

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