Stephen Porzio

The best way to spend three minutes of your day. Welcome back to our beloved quick-fire general knowledge quiz! We’re on day 591, 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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We’d recommend this stand-alone sequel to both fans of the franchise and newcomers. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 1 April) is Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin, the very underrated, stand-alone sequel in the hit horror-thriller franchise. This spooky seventh entry in the found-footage series centres around Margot (rising star Emily Bader, People We […]

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Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 92nd 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 True Lies The Terminator […]

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After years of not being available to stream in the Republic of Ireland, viewers can finally catch up on the series. Industry, widely considered to be one of the best shows on TV (if not the best), has just been made available to stream in the Republic of Ireland for the first time. Having aired […]

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The 2026 action film is from the makers of Bullet Train and Nobody. Pretty Lethal, the latest action thriller movie from Prime Video, is climbing up the streaming charts. The movie revolves around five ballerinas (played by Avantika, Iris Apatow, Lana Condor, Maddie Ziegler and Millicent Simmonds) who are on their way to a prestigious […]

7 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 590, 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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It once held the record for being the most expensive film ever made. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 31 March) is True Lies, the iconic 1994 action comedy written and directed by James Cameron (Avatar, Titanic). A remake of the French film La Totale, the movie focuses on Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger, reuniting […]

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‘It’s brimming with sharp one-liners, clever callbacks, brilliantly cringey slapstick situations, and hilariously inventive sight gags.’ Splitsville, our favourite comedy movie of 2026 so far, is available to watch in cinemas now. The film follows two couples. One is made up of Ashley (Adria Arjona, Hit Man) and Carey (Kyle Marvin, The Climb), who are […]

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We’ve been waiting for this for a long, long time. Full Circle, the star-studded 2023 crime thriller series from Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh (Haywire, Ocean’s Eleven, Traffic), is finally available to stream in Ireland and the UK. Accessible through HBO Max/NOW, the show follows an investigation into a botched kidnapping that “uncovers long-held secrets connecting […]

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The classic film has a 94% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 27 March) is Pale Rider, the legendary Western directed by and starring Clint Eastwood (A Fistful of Dollars, Dirty Harry). Released in 1985, the film sees Eastwood play an enigmatic man named Preacher. He arrives in a small […]

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Based on true events, this tense thriller puts a unique twist on a classic sub-genre. No Ordinary Heist, a new Irish crime thriller inspired by actual events, is available to watch in cinemas from this weekend. The movie follows two bank workers, manager Richard Murray (Eddie Marsan) and security guard Barry McKenna (Saipan’s Éanna Hardwicke), […]

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Happy quizzing! The year really does seem to keep marching on, and even if the spring weather doesn’t seem to have arrived quite yet, we’re now just days away from the clocks changing. Take this as your early reminder to reset your alarm clocks for Monday! Before all that, though, we have an exciting weekend […]

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The film merges the style of Netflix’s Adolescence with the setting of The Bear. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 26 March) is Boiling Point, the 2021 British drama with a whopping 99% score on Rotten Tomatoes. All shot in one long take, the film focuses on Andy Jones (a typically brilliant Stephen Graham, Netflix’s […]

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What an amazing achievement! An international team of astronomers, led by a PhD student at the University of Galway, have discovered a new planet, just months after finding another. The study was led by Chloe Lawlor, 25, from the Centre for Astronomy at the School of Natural Sciences and the Ryan Institute at the University […]

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It’s Amazon’s first major James Bond project since acquiring the franchise rights. Bait, Prime Video’s first major James Bond project since Amazon acquired the rights to the franchise, is streaming now. That said, Bait isn’t your typical 007 entry. Instead of an action movie, it’s a six-part comedy-drama centred around the hunt for Daniel Craig’s […]

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Very sad news. Alex Lawes, co-founder of the popular Dublin brewery Whiplash and Dublin bar Fidelity, has died. Located in Smithfield, close to Dublin city centre, Fidelity announced the news of Alex’s passing on Wednesday (25 March) in a statement. The bar wrote: “It is with profound sadness that we are communicating the passing of […]

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Fans of Den of Thieves, Heat and Widows will probably enjoy this. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 25 March) is Triple 9, the star-studded and tense 2016 heist thriller. The film follows a gang of criminals (Aaron Paul, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Norman Reedus) and corrupt cops (Anthony Mackie, Clifton Collins Jr.) in Atlanta. They […]

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Written by an Irishman, the movie was only out in cinemas a few weeks ago. Prime Video has just added Mercy, the 2026 sci-fi action thriller starring Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy, The Terminal List). The movie is set in a near-future Los Angeles, which has taken radical steps to combat crime levels surging […]

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The Irish Government has revealed exactly by how much the excise duty on diesel and petrol will be reduced. The Government has confirmed a new package of emergency measures, which aims to ease pressure on people and businesses. This €250 million package is in response to the recent, much-publicised surge in fuel prices due to […]

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Holding an 85% Rotten Tomatoes score, the film is ‘based on an unbelievable true story’. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 24 March) is American Made, the 2017 action crime comedy thriller loosely based on real events. The film follows an American pilot (Oscar-nominee Tom Cruise, Born on the Fourth of July) in the […]

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Featuring four massive stars, the Western was made by the same director as some of the most famous James Bond films. Red Sun, the 1971 cult classic spaghetti Western with an all-star cast, is airing on TV today (Tuesday, 24 March). Set in the 1870s in the Old West, the movie follows two bandits: Link […]

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Only 73 minutes long, the film is basically a blend of End of Watch and the V/H/S franchise. Bodycam, a cool new found footage horror thriller, has just been made available to stream at home. Available to watch through the service Shudder, the movie centres on two police officers (Jaime M. Callica and Sean Rogerson) […]

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Boasting an 84% Rotten Tomatoes score, we hope this funny, smart and tense thriller finds a bigger audience through streaming. Bone Lake, a very entertaining and stylish 2025 thriller movie, is now available to stream at home. Accessible through the service NOW, the film follows Diego and Sage (Marco Pigossi and Maddie Hasson), a long-time […]

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A major star has joined the film as a producer and told JOE about the project. The Land of Nod, the new horror movie from Kyle Edward Ball (Skinamarink), has just gotten an exciting update from its producer, Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings). JOE spoke to Wood and Sarah Michelle Gellar about their […]

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Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 90th 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 L.A. Confidential The Insider […]

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The film is from the writer of Jurassic Park, Twister and Westworld. Our TV movie pick for today (Thursday, 19 March) is The Andromeda Strain, the 1971 sci-fi thriller. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Twister, Westworld), the film revolves around a US research satellite carrying a […]

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Upon release, the film earned comparisons to the modern cult classic The Nice Guys. Netflix has just added The Fall Guy, the very fun 2024 action comedy movie starring Ryan Gosling (Project Hail Mary). A reboot of the 1980s TV series of the same name, the film sees the Oscar-nominee play Colt Seavers, the long-time […]

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The Irish Oscar-winner made her movie debut playing the lead character in this psychological thriller. Beast, the first movie to star Ireland’s latest Oscar-winner Jessie Buckley (Hamnet), is airing on TV tonight (Wednesday, 18 March). In the 2017 psychological thriller, the Kerry actress plays the lead character, Moll, a troubled young woman living in a […]

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