Stephen Porzio

The Cardboard Gangsters and Love/Hate star also produced the thriller. The first trailer has hit the web for Lost City, a new Irish crime thriller movie produced by and starring John Connors (Cardboard Gangsters, Love/Hate). Coming from director Seán Murray (Unquiet Graves), the film follows a young boxer in post-ceasefire Belfast whose quiet life changes […]

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It’s the type of twisty thriller that will have you guessing until the credits roll. Strange Darling, a terrific thriller movie that deserves a much bigger audience, is finally available to watch at home. Streaming via NOW and Sky, the film is divided into six chapters, which are presented in non-linear order. “Nothing is what […]

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The legal thriller has an 81% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 10 July) is Jagged Edge, the 1985 neo-noir legal thriller starring Glenn Close and Jeff Bridges. The film centres around lawyer Teddy Barnes (Close), who reluctantly takes up the case of publisher Jack Forrester (Bridges). This is after […]

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Met Éireann has listed the potential negative impacts of the high temperatures. The entire Republic of Ireland has been hit with Status Yellow high temperature warnings for this weekend. Two alerts have been issued by Met Éireann. The first is set to take effect from midday on Friday (11 July) until 6am on Saturday. It […]

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It’s a modern classic. Normal People, the Irish romantic drama series that gripped the world a few years ago (and caused a stir on Joe Duffy), is being added to Netflix early next month. Based on the acclaimed novel by Sally Rooney, the 12-part show charts the passionate, if turbulent, relationship between two young people […]

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The best way to spend three minutes of your day. Welcome back to our beloved quick-fire general knowledge quiz! We’re on day 481, 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 has a whopping 94% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 9 July) is Plane, the excellent 2023 action flick starring Gerard Butler (Den of Thieves, HTTYD). The film features the Scottish actor playing a commercial pilot named Brodie Torrance, who saves the passengers on his plane from […]

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This sadly underseen Western with an Irish twist is not for the faint-hearted. Netflix is about to remove The Nightingale, the 2018 Western thriller movie starring Irish actress Aisling Franciosi (Speak No Evil). In the film, Franciosi delivers a phenomenal performance as a young Irish convict named Clare in 19th-century Australia who relentlessly pursues a […]

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The best way to spend three minutes of your day. Welcome back to our beloved quick-fire general knowledge quiz! We’re on day 480, 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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Holding a whopping 96% Rotten Tomatoes score, this action comedy is a real crowdpleaser. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 3 July) is Riders of Justice, the incredible 2020 action comedy starring Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale, Hannibal). In the film, Mikkelsen plays Markus, a Danish soldier in Afghanistan who returns home after his wife […]

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The dystopian action film has an 89% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and will be getting a sequel soon. Netflix has just added The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, the hit 2023 blockbuster and the fifth movie in The Hunger Games franchise. A prequel to the other four films in the hit […]

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Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 53rd 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 Fight Club The Sixth […]

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 479, 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 made history upon its release and is truly a must-see. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 1 July) is An Cailín Ciúin (also known as The Quiet Girl), the brilliant 2022 Oscar-nominated Irish drama. Based on the story ‘Foster’ by Claire Keegan, the Irish-language film is set in rural Ireland in 1981. […]

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 478, 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 also has one of the best final scenes in recent memory. Prime Video has just added Nightmare Alley, the excellent 2021 neo-noir psychological thriller co-written and directed by Guillermo del Toro (Crimson Peak, The Shape of Water). The movie is based on the William Lindsay Gresham novel of the same name, which was […]

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The show’s lead actor spoke to JOE about his beloved character’s return, using comedy to explore hot-button issues, and the rave reviews he has received from Irish audiences. Everyone’s favourite bumbling British TV personality, Alan Partridge, is back with a hysterically funny new batch of episodes. This is courtesy of the fourth season of From […]

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The Irish film currently holds a 93% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Sharp Corner, one of JOE’s favourite thrillers of 2025 so far, has been quietly made available to watch at home. Streaming via NOW and Sky, the movie is set in Canada and follows married couple, Josh (Ben Foster, Hell or High Water) and Rachel […]

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 477, 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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Squid Game’s third and final season appears to have set up not one, but two potential spin-offs. The third and final season of Squid Game dropped on Netflix yesterday and is already setting the internet alight. This is on account of its dark twists, its shocking deaths and its tantalising teases regarding the franchise’s future. […]

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The Irish film stars a two-time Oscar winner. The first trailer has been released for the new Irish thriller movie Bugonia, which comes from the acclaimed filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite, Poor Things). A remake of the cult South Korean film Save the Green Planet!, Bugonia follows two conspiracy-obsessed young men (one of whom is […]

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Starring an Oscar winner and legend of the Western genre, the film also inspired a famous gif. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 27 June) is Jeremiah Johnson, the classic ’70s Western starring Oscar winner Robert Redford (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). The Hollywood legend plays the title character, a Mexican-American War veteran […]

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This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. ‘The whole package feels like it should have cost hundreds… Very impressive.’ Amazon has cut the price of the beloved Soundcore by Anker Liberty 4 NC Wireless Earbuds by 33% as part of a limited time deal. This means […]

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Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 52nd 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 Joker: Folie à Deux […]

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The Western film has four massive stars and was made by the director of the James Bond entries Dr. No, From Russia with Love and Thunderball. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 26 June) is Red Sun, the 1971 cult classic spaghetti Western with an all-star cast. Set in the 1870s in the Old […]

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 476, 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