Stephen Porzio

While it did not fare well at the box office, the film has garnered a devoted legion of fans. Babylon, the epic historical comedy-drama from Oscar-winning director Damien Chazelle (La La Land, Whiplash), is airing on TV tonight (Friday, 13 February). Set during the decadent days of early Hollywood, the story centres around Manny Torres […]

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Barry Keoghan is one of the stars of the crime thriller, which is set in the West of Ireland. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 13 February) is Calm With Horses, the incredible 2019 Irish crime thriller starring Barry Keoghan (Saltburn) and Cosmo Jarvis (Shōgun). The film centres around Douglas ‘Arm’ Armstrong (Jarvis), a […]

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Here’s our thoughts on the much-anticipated new Irish series. How to Get to Heaven From Belfast, the much-anticipated new comedy thriller series from Derry Girls’ creator Lisa McGee, is streaming on Netflix now. The eight-part series follows three Northern Irish lifelong friends – Dara (Caoilfhionn Dunne, Love/Hate), Robyn (Sinéad Keenan, Unforgotten) and Saoirse (Roisin Gallagher, Lazarus) – who […]

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‘Potential impacts: Hazardous travel conditions on road and underfoot, travel disruption.’ Met Éireann has issued a low temperature/ice warning for Ireland as temperatures are set to fall to -4 this weekend. The alert is scheduled to take effect from 9pm on Friday (13 February) until 10am on Saturday (14 February). It reads: “Temperatures falling between […]

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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 565, and if you’re a regular by now, you know the drill. For the newly initiated, we present players with 15 general knowledge quiz questions every day, along with three minutes to answer them. […]

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If you are a movie and TV lover with multiple streaming services, this new option could save you some money. Sky has announced that it is bringing together Disney+, HBO Max, Netflix and Hayu into a single Sky TV subscription, a move that it is calling a “world-first”. For the first time, new customers can […]

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Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 85th 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 Once Upon a Time […]

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Netflix has released a teaser of the much-anticipated series exclusively on JOE. Netflix has just released a clip from How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, the new comedy thriller from Derry Girls’ creator Lisa McGee, exclusively on JOE. Coming to the streaming service this week, the eight-part series follows three Northern Irish lifelong friends […]

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Also currently on streaming, the thriller co-stars another screen legend. The Drop, the brilliant 2014 crime thriller starring Oscar-nominee Tom Hardy (The Revenant, Warrior), is airing on TV tonight (Tuesday, 10 December). In the film, the actor plays Bob, an assuming Brooklyn bartender who works in a pub owned by his cousin, Marv (The Sopranos’ […]

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From the director of Say Nothing, this underseen Irish movie has a 86% Rotten Tomatoes score. A Patch of Fog, an excellent but underseen Irish thriller starring Stephen Graham (Adolescence, Boiling Point, The Good Boy), is now available to stream at home on Disney+. The feature directorial debut of Michael Lennox (Say Nothing, the upcoming […]

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The partly Irish film features one of the stars of Gangs of London and Slow Horses in the lead role. My Father’s Shadow, an excellent new drama film with 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, is available to watch in cinemas now. An Irish-Nigeria-UK co-production, the movie is set in 1993 against the backdrop of the Nigerian […]

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The thriller is from the director of Carrie, The Untouchables and the original Mission: Impossible film. The Fury, the great 1978 supernatural horror/conspiracy thriller, is airing on TV tonight (Saturday, 7 February). Directed by the legendary Brian De Palma (Carrie, Mission: Impossible, The Untouchables), the movie follows a former CIA agent named Peter (Kirk Douglas, […]

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Starring an Oscar-winner, the film has a 94% Rotten Tomatoes score. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 7 February) is The Woman King, the brilliant 2022 historical action war film from director Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Old Guard). Inspired by true events, the story centres around the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected […]

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The film stars Irish actors from Kin, Love/Hate and Say Nothing. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 6 February) is Kathleen Is Here, the 2024 thriller drama written and directed by Bad Sisters star Eva Birthistle. Birthistle’s feature directorial debut, the film follows Kathleen (Hazel Doupe, Say Nothing), an 18-year-old fresh out of foster […]

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Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 84th 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 Minority Report A.I. Artificial […]

9 months 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 563, and if you’re a regular by now, you know the drill. For the newly initiated, we present players with 15 general knowledge quiz questions every day, along with three minutes to answer them. […]

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The film is based on true events. Grizzly Night, a tense new thriller movie based on harrowing true events, is available to rent at home now. Set over 24 hours in Montana’s Glacier National Park in 1967, the film follows several different characters who have gathered in the area. Some are campers there to be […]

9 months 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 562, and if you’re a regular by now, you know the drill. For the newly initiated, we present players with 15 general knowledge quiz questions every day, along with three minutes to answer them. […]

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‘A tense and tight 90-minute thriller.’ Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 3 February) is Retreat, the very underrated 2011 Cillian Murphy-starring thriller. The film sees Murphy and Thandiwe Newton (Line of Duty, Westworld) play a married couple, Martin and Kate, whose relationship has become tense in the wake of Kate experiencing a miscarriage. […]

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JOE spoke to stars Justine Mitchell and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor about the new Irish show’s ‘plot twist’. Spoilers obviously! RTÉ’s new six-part mystery comedy-drama, These Sacred Vows, began this week with a jam-packed first episode, of which we here at JOE were big fans. Created by John Butler (Handsome Devil), the series begins with a man […]

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The actor made the comments while on the press tour for his new RTÉ series. Irish star Tom Vaughan-Lawlor is returning to screens in his first lead role in an RTÉ series since playing the infamous gangster Nidge in Love/Hate. The new show is called These Sacred Vows and premieres Sunday night (1 February). It […]

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This dark thriller makes for a tough but mostly powerful watch. The Cut, the tense 2025 psychological thriller movie starring Orlando Bloom (Lord of the Rings) as an Irish boxer, will be made available to stream at home this weekend. Coming to NOW on Sunday (1 February) after its cinema release last September, the film […]

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The film mines a universal fear for maximum tension. Old, the 2021 horror thriller from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan (Knock at the Cabin, The Sixth Sense, Signs), is airing on TV tonight (Saturday, 31 January). Based on a graphic novel, the film revolves around a group of people – including a husband (Gael García Bernal, […]

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A truly unforgettable film, though it is not for the faint of heart. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 31 January) is Oldboy, the 2003 South Korean mystery thriller masterpiece. The film centres on Oh Dae-su (played by an absolutely electric Choi Min-sik – I Saw the Devil, Lucy), a businessman and alcoholic who […]

9 months 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 561, and if you’re a regular by now, you know the drill. For the newly initiated, we present players with 15 general knowledge quiz questions every day, along with three minutes to answer them. […]

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The Dublin City branch had been open for over 20 years. Zaytoon, the beloved Dublin-based chain of Persian restaurants specialising in kebabs, has announced the closure of one of its most famous locations. In a statement posted to social media, the food business revealed that its branch located on Camden Street in Dublin City Centre […]

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Holding a 92% Rotten Tomatoes score, the film stars a major Irish actor. Slow West, the excellent 2015 Western starring Irish Oscar-nominee Michael Fassbender (Kneecap), is airing on TV tonight (Friday, 30 January). The feature debut of writer-director John Maclean (who helmed last year’s Tornado), the film is set at the end of the 19th […]

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It’s a cult classic, even if it’s definitely not for the squeamish. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 30 January) is Bone Tomahawk, the incredible 2015 Western thriller. The film stars Kurt Russell (The Hateful Eight), Matthew Fox (Lost), Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring) and Richard Jenkins (Burn After Reading) as men of the Old […]

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JOE spoke to the cast of the exciting new series, including Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, who discussed similarities between the character in his show and himself. Tom Vaughan-Lawlor has told JOE that he feels “fortunate” to get to play a character closer to his “tempo” in the new RTÉ mystery comedy-drama These Sacred Vows. The Dublin actor […]

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