Time to get quizzing. Welcome back to our beloved quick-fire general knowledge quiz! We’re on day 283 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 them. You can have a go […]

1 year ago

The Ryan Tubridy replacement had been off the air for a few days but returned today. RTÉ presenter Oliver Callan revealed that he was diagnosed with skin cancer as he returned to the air waves today (Monday, 22 July). The host – who replaced Ryan Tubridy in the 9am weekday slot on RTÉ Radio 1 […]

1 year ago

Awful news. An 11-year-old Irish girl has died after falling from a balcony in Spain on Monday morning (22 July), according to reports. News outlet the Majorca Daily Bulletin states that the incident occurred on the seventh floor of a hotel in the town of Alcúdia in Majorca, a popular area for Irish people to […]

1 year ago

Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the third entry in a new series of quizzes – The JOE Film Club Quiz. This week, we’re doing something a little different. Instead of 20 traditional questions, we are presenting players with stills from 15 movies. They then have to select what film the images are from based on […]

1 year ago

The show boasts an Oscar-winner in the lead role. The first two episodes of Lady in the Lake, a new seven-part thriller drama mystery starring Oscar-winner Natalie Portman (Black Swan), are streaming on Apple TV+ now. Based on the 2019 novel of the same name by Laura Lippman and directed in its entirety by Alma […]

1 year ago

Holding an 87% score on Rotten Tomatoes, the film was only in cinemas a few months ago but has already come to streaming. The Beast, an epic sci-fi movie from acclaimed French director Bertrand Bonello (Nocturama), is now streaming at home in Ireland at the UK just weeks after its cinema release. Available to watch […]

1 year ago

Also featuring strong Western elements, the film comes from the director of the classics 48 Hrs. and The Warriors. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 20 July) is Extreme Prejudice, an ’80s action thriller with strong Western elements. It centres around two childhood friends, one of which has grown up to be a Texas […]

1 year ago

Time to get quizzing. Welcome back to our beloved quick-fire general knowledge quiz! We’re on day 281 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 them. You can have a go […]

1 year ago

‘Rocks, concrete bricks and other objects’ were thrown at Gardaí. Three Gardaí were injured and one man in his 20s was arrested amid further unrest in Coolock on Friday (19 July). A fire broke out at the former Crown Paints factory in the north Dublin area on Friday evening following a protest against it being […]

1 year ago

Time to get quizzing. Welcome back to our beloved quick-fire general knowledge quiz! We’re on day 280 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 them. You can have a go […]

1 year ago

This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. ‘For a modern sensibility, not a good thing to do.’ Prime Video’s very entertaining Ancient Rome-set historical epic series Those About to Die is now available to stream in its entirety. Directed by Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow, […]

1 year ago

It comes from the director-actor team also behind Dirty Harry and Escape From Alcatraz. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 19 July) is Two Mules for Sister Sara, the beloved 1970 Western starring the legendary Clint Eastwood. Directed by Don Siegel (who Eastwood collaborated with several times, including on Dirty Harry, Escape from Alcatraz […]

1 year ago

It is landing on the streaming giant very soon. A new edition of Godzilla Minus One, the beloved 2023 monster movie that picked up an Oscar earlier this year, is coming to Netflix very soon. Titled Godzilla Minus One / Minus Color, it is described as a “meticulously decolorised version” of the Japanese runaway blockbuster. […]

1 year ago

‘I would plea with people, do not retaliate.’ A man has been left seriously injured following a shooting in Longford on Wednesday evening (17 July) which is reported to be linked to an ongoing feud. In a statement to JOE, a Garda spokesperson said the incident occurred at around 7.50pm and involved the discharge of […]

1 year ago

We’d argue there has never been a more clever idea for a Western movie. Title – The Quick and the Dead Year – 1995 Plot – “A female gunfighter (Sharon Stone) returns to a frontier town where a duelling tournament is being held, which she enters in an effort to avenge her father’s death.” Cast […]

1 year ago

We’d advise seeing this on the largest screen possible. The 1996 movie Twister has aged like a fine wine. A special effects extravaganza about storm chasers researching tornadoes, it was seemingly developed as a way to try to replicate the success of Jurassic Park. It was co-written by Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton and executively […]

1 year ago

This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. It was a big hit at the box-office and with the Oscars. Prime Video has just added Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 Western film masterpiece, to its streaming service. Set two years before the US Civil War, Jamie Foxx […]

1 year ago

It’s a truly haunting start to a brilliantly creepy film. We here at JOE we’re raving about the new movie Longlegs last week, writing in our review that it was the first 5/5 horror or thriller film of 2024. And now that it has landed in cinemas, where it has become a massive box office […]

1 year ago

EXCLUSIVE: Director Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow) has told JOE of his plans to adapt the story of T.E. Lawrence for the small screen and how he may shoot the project in Ireland. A long-time passion project for director Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day) has been to adapt the story of […]

1 year ago

It’s an absolute modern classic. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 17 July) is Top Gun: Maverick, the over $1 billion grossing Oscar-winner released in 2022. A sequel to the 1986 action classic Top Gun, Tom Cruise reprises his role as the daredevil naval aviator Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell. Having fallen out with his bosses […]

1 year ago

This darkly entertaining gem was made by an Irish director. Netflix has just added Greta, the tense 2018 psychological thriller movie from Irish co-writer and director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Michael Collins), to its service. The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) as Frances, a young woman living in New York with her friend […]

1 year ago

EXCLUSIVE: The director of the disaster movie classic Roland Emmerich told JOE of his plans for what sounds like a spiritual sequel. The Day After Tomorrow, the blockbuster movie in which climate change brings about a new ice age, just turned 20 years old a couple of weeks ago. That said, some sort of sequel […]

1 year ago

It’s from the director of Die Hard and Predator. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 16 July) is The Thomas Crown Affair, the 1999 classic heist film starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo. A remake of a ’60s movie, which starred Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, the reimagining sees Brosnan play the titular bored […]

1 year ago

This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. The connections between the two projects run much deeper than both just being set in Ancient Rome. With the release of the trailer for Gladiator II and the release of Prime Video’s new historical epic series Those About to […]

1 year ago

The show is set in an ‘eerie lakeside town where an arson, missing persons cold case, and an illicit triangle are intricately intertwined’. The new BBC crime drama The Jetty is a must-watch for fans of Happy Valley. Instead of Happy Valley’s Yorkshire setting, The Jetty takes place in an “eerie lakeside town” in Lancashire […]

1 year ago

Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the second entry in a new series of quizzes – The JOE Film Club Quiz. Each week, we will prepare 20 questions designed to test movie lovers. And making matters slightly harder – players only have five minutes to fill out the answers. Have what it takes? Play below and […]

1 year ago

There is so much newly available to watch. This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. Another week, another batch of new movie and TV show additions to the big streaming services. Here’s the films and series you can check out in Ireland now. Movies The Batman […]

1 year ago

It’s a must for fans of silly but hysterical comedies like Hot Rod and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. For those on the hunt for a funny new comedy movie, we’d recommend Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain which is now streaming via Sky Cinema and NOW Cinema. As you can probably guess […]

1 year ago

It is definitely one of Bruce Willis’ most underrated movies. This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. Lucky Number Slevin, the 2006 neo-noir crime thriller movie with a truly all-star cast, is now streaming on Prime Video. Directed by Paul McGuigan (Gangster No. 1, Sherlock), the […]

1 year ago

The modern classic was also recently added to Prime Video. This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 13 July) is Black Hawk Down, which was recently named one of the greatest war films of all time. Directed by Ridley […]

1 year ago

Time to get quizzing. Welcome back to our beloved quick-fire general knowledge quiz! We’re on day 274 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 them. You can have a go […]

1 year ago

The teen played football for a local team and has been remembered as a ‘lovely gentleman’ who was ‘an absolute pleasure to be around’. A mother and her teenage son from Mayo who reportedly died in a road crash in Pakistan have been named locally as Noreen Shafiq and Umar Shafiq. The Shafiq family has […]

1 year ago

Gardaí say that the woman in her 30s was ‘assaulted by a number of youths’. A female Bus Éireann driver has been taken to hospital after reportedly being shot in the face with an air gun in Limerick on Friday afternoon (12 July). According the National Bus & Rail Union (NBRU), the incident occurred on […]

1 year ago

Kick off your weekend with a quiz. Welcome back to our beloved quick-fire general knowledge quiz! We’re on day 273 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 them. You can […]

1 year ago

The sadly underseen gem has an 86% Rotten Tomatoes score. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 12 July) is Last Passenger, an extremely tense 2013 British thriller. It tells the story of a group of passengers, including a doctor (played by Dougray Scott, Mission: Impossible 2) and his son, on a night train from […]

1 year ago

Update: 5pm, 12 July The FAI has paid tribute to the young player. A teenage girl who died during a football match in Louth on Thursday evening (11 July) has been named locally as Zara Murphy. The young player took ill as she played for Termonfeckin Celtic FC against her former club Glen Magic FC. […]

1 year ago

At long last, Friday and the Pub Quiz are here. Welcome to another edition of the JOE Friday Pub Quiz. Alongside side your traditional trio of rounds, this week we have a true or false round and a round about identifying logos. Think you can get top marks? Play below and find out. And when […]

1 year ago

This comes after the death of a 23-year-old woman last month following an XL bully attack. XL bully dogs are set to banned in Ireland under new regulations that will begin to take effect this year, according to reports. Currently, there are no bans in place for XL bullies in the country, though they are […]

1 year ago

‘The heavyweight tear-jerker of the year.’ This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. Prime Video has just added The Iron Claw, the brilliant sports drama that landed in Irish cinemas last February and is based on a shocking true story. Written and directed by Sean Durkin […]

1 year ago

The original was a massive hit for Netflix. The Platform, one of Netflix’s best and biggest original thrillers ever, is getting a sequel set for a release later this year. Hailing from Spain, the 2019 movie tells the story of a man named Goreng (Iván Massagué) who one day wakes up in a tower-style holding […]

1 year ago

“It was one of the most notorious and horrific killings this country has ever witnessed.” This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. A new documentary about Charlotte and Linda Mulhall – dubbed the ‘Scissor Sisters’ by Irish media – and their killing of Farah Swaleh Noor […]

1 year ago

The Irish film has a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score. This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. Prime Video has just added Double Blind, the brilliant Irish horror thriller movie which was released in cinemas just last February. The film centres on a group of cash-strapped […]

1 year ago

The film is from the director of Man on Fire, Top Gun and True Romance. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 11 July) is Beverly Hills Cop II, the second entry in the classic action comedy franchise which was directed by the great Tony Scott (Man on Fire, Top Gun, True Romance). The plot […]

1 year ago

The show has also been handed a release date as fans have been complaining about the wait for season two. The second season of Apple TV+ sci-fi thriller series Severance has gotten its first teaser trailer and a release date. This is as fans have taken to social media to complain about how long they […]

1 year ago

If you’re looking for a short film to check out this weekday, the heist flick is a breezy 88-minutes-long. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 10 July) is Armored, a 2009 heist action thriller starring Matt Dillon (Crash), Jean Reno (Léon: The Professional) and Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix). The film revolves around Ty (Columbus […]

1 year ago

The Western was itself a remake. A Fistful of Dollars, the first entry in Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood’s iconic Dollars Trilogy of movies, is getting a remake. Directed by Leone and starring Eastwood in his first lead role, the 1964 Western sees the latter play a wandering gunfighter who arrives in a Mexican village […]

1 year ago

It has a sequel coming out in October, so now is a perfect time to catch up with the film. Smile, the 2022 acclaimed smash-hit horror movie, has finally been added to Netflix. Written and directed by Parker Finn, based off an earlier short he made, the film revolves around a doctor named Rose (a […]

1 year ago

If you love John Wick or The Raid, do yourself a favour and seek this out. 2024 has not been a bad year so far for action movie fans thanks to the likes of Civil War, The Fall Guy, Furiosa and Land of Bad. It must be said though, all of these pale in terms […]

1 year ago

It’s a must-watch for fans of serial killer thrillers like Fallen, The Silence of the Lambs, Se7en and Zodiac. We’re over halfway through the year but 2024 has already given Irish cinema goers some 5/5 movies. I’d comfortably label the unforgettably haunting Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest, the devastatingly emotional All of Us Strangers […]

1 year ago

Here’s all the information you need on how to watch the show in Ireland. A new detective thriller series has premiered on the BBC and is proving a hit with both viewers and critics. That show is The Turkish Detective, which centres around Mehmet Suleyman (Ethan Kai) – a British detective who arrives in Istanbul […]

1 year ago