He has been described as a ‘gentleman’ and a ‘business titan’. Tributes are being paid to Richard Quirke, the owner of Dr. Quirkey’s Good Time Emporium on Dublin’s O’Connell Street, after his death. A Garda before swapping careers to establish his gambling business, Mr Quirke’s death was announced in a notice on RIP.ie which says […]

1 year ago

Real intermission vibes. Barry Keoghan is one of the stars of Burberry’s new Outerwear 2024 Campaign, which sees him lashing A LOT of brown sauce onto a breakfast meal. The campaign – that also features celebrities Cara Delevingne, Cole Palmer, Eberechi Eze, Little Simz, Olivia Colman and Zhang Jingyi – sees each person rocking an […]

1 year ago

Holding a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, the director of this sadly underseen thriller was recently in the news. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 9 October) is Revenge, the incredible and sadly underseen 2017 action thriller. Written and directed by Coralie Fargeat in her feature debut, the film revolves around a young woman named […]

1 year ago

If it occurs, it would likely be the last Ireland sees before winter. Met Éireann’s new monthly forecast is giving hope to the Irish public of another Indian Summer this October. The Irish meteorological service’s extended range forecast aims to provide an insight into weather patterns for the weeks and months ahead. And as part […]

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 348 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

This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. Holding an 88% Rotten Tomatoes score, the film was a word-of-mouth hit earlier in the year. Prime Video has just added Challengers, one of 2024’s buzziest and best-reviewed movies. Directed by Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash, Call Me By […]

1 year ago

A truly life-changing win. One lucky Irish EuroMillions punter is €500,000 richer after the draw that look place on Tuesday night (8 October). While there was no winner of the EuroMillions jackpot prize of €17 million, one Irish player nabbed the top prize of €500k in the EuroMillions Plus draw. The National Lottery has since […]

1 year ago

It looks like the film will see him reuniting with a major Hollywood star. The first details about writer-director Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to smash hit and Oscar Best Picture winner Oppenheimer have reportedly been revealed. According to multiple outlets, there are plans for the legendary filmmaker’s movie – whose title is unknown as-of-yet – to […]

1 year ago

The show featured a Love/Hate actor as part of its star-studded main cast. Netflix has cancelled Kaos, its darkly comic fantasy epic series, after only one season. The show was released just a few weeks ago on 29 August and was created by Charlie Covell, who wrote The End of the F***ing World. Taking place […]

1 year ago

This should fill the void while we wait for Heat 2 to make it to the big screen. Barry Keoghan is set to star in a crime thriller movie, according to reports, that is already earning comparisons to ’90s classic of the genre Heat. Said to be starting shooting this month, the film is titled […]

1 year ago

The body of the second woman was discovered this morning. Two women have been confirmed to have died within 24 hours following separate sea incidents that occurred off the coast of two popular Dublin areas. In a statement to JOE, Gardaí confirmed that they attended the scene after a woman’s body was discovered in the […]

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 347 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

It is noteworthy for being the first sequel of its lead actor’s career. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 8 October) is The Equalizer 2, the excellent second entry in Denzel Washington’s beloved Equalizer trilogy of action films. The sequel sees retired US Marine and DIA agent Robert McCall (two-time Oscar-winner Washington) trying to […]

1 year ago

The incident occurred yesterday afternoon. A woman has died after being found unresponsive in the water off the coast of the popular north Dublin beach Portmarnock Strand. In a statement to JOE, Gardaí say they were alerted to the incident on Monday afternoon (7 October). According to multiple reports, an alarm was raised after the […]

1 year ago

Shortly after earning raves at its Sundance Film Festival world premiere, the film was bought by Netflix for a whopping $17 million. Netflix has just added It’s What’s Inside, one of 2024’s buzziest and best-reviewed sci-fi thriller movies. Written and directed by Greg Jardin in his feature film debut, the movie revolves around a pre-wedding […]

1 year ago

The series is based on a dark real-life police investigation. An acclaimed true crime drama series from 2019 is climbing up the Netflix charts having been recently added to the streaming service. That show is titled A Confession, which originally aired on ITV and details the true story of Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher (played by […]

1 year ago

The show has already been renewed for a third season. A post-apocalyptic series that has earned strong comparisons to The Last of Us is now back for its second season. Available to watch via NOW Entertainment and Sky Max, that show is The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, a spin-off of the hit zombie drama series […]

1 year ago

The darkly comic thriller has a 91% Rotten Tomatoes score. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 5 October) is Go, the 1999 crime comedy thriller directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow, the new Road House). Comprising of three different interconnected stories, the film begins with two young women (Katie Holmes […]

1 year ago

Joe Duffy himself described the lyrics to the hit single as ‘extraordinarily explicit’. A woman has called into Joe Duffy’s Liveline show to complain about Charli XCX and Billie Eilish’s hit single ‘Guess’ being played on daytime radio. The caller, named Olivia, featured on the RTÉ radio programme on Friday (5 October) where she criticised […]

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 346 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 best way to spend three minutes of your day. Welcome back to our beloved quick-fire general knowledge quiz! We’re on day 345 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

Howdy, partner. That’s right, The Late Late Show’s Country Music Special returns this Friday night (4 October). And this year’s edition has pledged to bring together the “biggest and brightest stars on the Irish country music scene” so that there is something to enjoy for both the “newest of country music fans to the oldest”. […]

1 year ago

It is scheduled to open early next year. Omniplex Cinema Group have announced plans to open a new five-screen cinema in the Nutgrove Shopping Centre in the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham. Set to be situated on the first floor of the shopping centre, it is said that Omniplex Nutgrove will offer “an elevated cinema experience […]

1 year ago

Met Éireann has said there will be dangerous travelling conditions, flooding and travel disruption. At the start of this week, JOE wrote about how the early forecasts for the coming weekend suggested Ireland was in store for more poor weather conditions. This has come to pass, with Met Éireann now issuing several warnings over incoming […]

1 year ago

It has a 92% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 4 October) is Hang ‘Em High, the 1968 revisionist Western starring Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood. The film sees Eastwood play Jed Cooper, a man falsely accused of a cattle rustling crime by a gang of men who unsuccessfully attempt to […]

1 year ago

The allegations against the country singer have been made by his former hair and makeup artist. Country singer Garth Brooks has issued a statement in which he denies the rape and sexual assault allegations that have been made against him. The accuser, who is using the pseudonym ‘Jane Roe’, made the allegations in a lawsuit […]

1 year ago

The President and Taoiseach have paid tribute. Former Irish minister Mary O’Rourke has passed away at the age of 87. Ms. O’Rourke’s political career spanned decades, during which she served as Minister for Education, Health and Public Enterprise, as well as Fianna Fáil’s deputy leader. She held the latter position between 1994 and 2002. Ms. […]

1 year ago

We’d argue that the film is not quite a folie à dud. When Joker: Folie à Deux was announced, no one really knew what to expect. After all, the original didn’t seem like the most mainstream proposition ahead of its release – a super grounded and dramatic retelling of a Batman villain’s origin story without […]

1 year ago

The film seems unavailable to stream or rent anywhere so now is the chance to watch it. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 3 October) is the 1967 British sci-fi horror thriller Quatermass and the Pit. Also known as Five Million Years to Earth in some territories, it is the third film entry in […]

1 year ago

While the Garvey sisters will be back on screens next month, this new darkly comic mystery should fill the void until their return. Fans of the Irish hit series Bad Sisters will have to wait until 13 November next month for its second season. That said, its streaming service, Apple TV+, has just added a […]

1 year ago

Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 14th entry of The JOE Film Club Quiz. This week, we are presenting players with stills from 10 movies. They then have to select what film the images are from based on three options. Have what it takes? Play below and find out. Name the movie Iron Man 2 […]

1 year ago

The atmospheric and dark low-budget thriller is told in a mockumentary style. It’s quite a time for Irish cinema, with the past few months giving us such homegrown gems as All You Need is Death, Double Blind, Kneecap, Oddity and Swing Bout. This month, meanwhile, will see the release of both Kathleen is Here and […]

1 year ago

Banned in Ireland for a time, Martin Scorsese once called it one of the best films of the ’90s. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 2 October) is Bad Lieutenant, the extremely dark 1992 crime drama starring Oscar-nominee Harvey Keitel (Reservoir Dogs). The actor plays the unnamed title character, a corrupt New York cop […]

1 year ago

A major horror thriller star has already signed on to star in the remake. The hit ’90s psychological thriller movie The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is reportedly set to get a reboot starring Maika Monroe (It Follows, Longlegs, Watcher). The original was released in 1992 and starred Annabella Sciorra as Claire Bartel – a […]

1 year ago

Here’s everything you need to know about the three-time Oscar-winner’s new movie. Daniel Day-Lewis has officially come out of retirement after claiming that 2017’s Phantom Thread would be his final movie. On Tuesday (1 October), photos were published of Day-Lewis sporting a handlebar moustache and riding on a motorbike with Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) […]

1 year ago

It’s officially horror movie season after all, so let us be your streaming guide. It is now October – or as it’s known to movie lovers: horror movie season. And to make it easier for our readers to know what to check out, we’ve compiled a list of – in our opinion – the best […]

1 year ago

The show comes from the creator of American Horror Story and Netflix’s Monster anthology. Grotesquerie, a new horror thriller mystery series from prolific TV creator Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story, Monster, The Watcher), is streaming on Disney+ now. The series revolves around a hard-bitten alcoholic detective named Lois Tyson (Niecy Nash, Dahmer – Monster) who […]

1 year ago

Rain, rain, go away. After several days of unsettled weather and Status Orange warnings, Met Éireann’s early predictions for the coming weekend suggest we will be seeing more rain and wind. According to the Irish meteorological service, Wednesday and Thursday will be “largely dry”, with the chance of just a few showers. This is before […]

1 year ago

A true undiscovered gem. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 1 October) is Boss Level, the 2020 sci-fi action flick co-written and directed by Joe Carnahan (Copshop, Narc, The Grey). In the vein of stories like Groundhog Day and Edge of Tomorrow, Copshop’s Frank Grillo plays a former special forces agent named Roy Pulver […]

1 year ago

EXCLUSIVE: Its star says he would love to do a second season, saying he hopes for it ‘more than anything’. We here at JOE were big fans of Apple TV+’s 2024 mystery thriller series Sugar starring Colin Farrell. And though the show has not yet been renewed by the streaming giant for season two, its […]

1 year ago

‘I was totally submerged to the point where I’d look in the mirror and what was looking back was nothing recognisable.’ Colin Farrell is no stranger to transforming how he looks for acting roles as evident from Daredevil, The Gentlemen, Horrible Bosses and The Lobster. That said, Oz Cobb – his character in 2022 blockbuster […]

1 year ago

The buddy flick features two Oscar-winners in the lead roles. Wolfs, the new action comedy thriller movie starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney, is finally available to watch now. Streaming on Apple TV+, the film sees Clooney play a Harvey Keitel in Pulp Fiction-esque professional fixer hired to cover up a high-profile crime. “But when […]

1 year ago

The movie is based on a true story and is also currently streaming on Netflix. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 28 September) is The End of the Tour, the excellent 2015 road trip drama starring Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother) and Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network). Based on a memoir by […]

1 year ago

The new film comes 56 years after the Oscar-winning original. Apartment 7A, the prequel to one of the greatest horror movies of all time Rosemary’s Baby, is now available to watch at home via Paramount+. Based on Ira Levin’s novel of the same name, the 1968 original starred Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes as a […]

1 year ago

There could be ‘flooding’ and ‘difficult travelling conditions’. Five counties have been newly issued Status Orange rain warnings by Met Éireann. One of the warnings applies to Cork and Waterford and will be valid from 8am to 6pm on Sunday (29 September). The other is for Carlow, Kilkenny and Wexford and is set to take […]

1 year ago

High praise indeed. Continuing his recent trend of lavishing praise on Irish acts, Elton John has called Kneecap ‘amazing’ and ‘brave’ in a new interview with the Irish language hip-hop group. The ‘Rocketman’ icon spoke to Kneecap members Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí as part of his Apple podcast ‘Rocket Hour’. The episode […]

1 year ago

Three young people have died on Irish roads in recent days. Two teenagers have died and is another is seriously injured after a crash involving a tractor and a car in Mayo. Gardaí and emergency services attended the scene of the fatal road traffic collision, which occurred on the N83 in Levallyroe shortly after 8pm […]

1 year ago

The Penguin has a surprisingly strong connection to Ireland both in terms of actors and story. Irish actors Colin Farrell, Barry Keoghan and Peter McDonald all had villain roles in the 2022 smash hit blockbuster The Batman. Both Farrell and McDonald, briefly in the latter’s case, reprise their roles in The Penguin – the excellent […]

1 year ago

Move over, Longlegs. A new Irish movie that has been dubbed “the scariest film of the year hands down” is now available to watch at home. Streaming on Shudder from today (Friday, 27 September), that horror thriller is titled Oddity and hails from Cork based writer-director Damien Mc Carthy, whose debut feature Caveat creeped us out back […]

1 year ago

This 2022 Irish found-footage flick is one of the coolest films of recent years. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 27 September) is LOLA, the 2022 Irish-British found-footage sci-fi flick. Co-written and directed by Andrew Legge in his feature debut and boasting a soundtrack by The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon, the film revolves around […]

1 year ago