While it did not fare well at the box-office, the controversial 2023 film should find a bigger audience through streaming. It’s rare for a mainstream movie to get that blood red 18s rating from the Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO) but the epic black comedy-drama Babylon managed to do it when it was released in cinemas […]

1 year ago

The entirety of Ireland has been issued wind warnings. All of Ireland has been hit with wind weather warnings as the newly-named Storm Ashley is set to batter the country this weekend. Met Éireann has said conditions will turn “wet and very windy on Saturday night and during Sunday”. “Very high spring tides will bring […]

1 year ago

Never going to give up writing / About the Late Late Show 🎵 The Late Late Show is back this Friday night with a particularly eclectic line-up. For one, host Patrick Kielty is rolling out the red carpet for a plethora of Hollywood talent. Irish Oscar-nominee, star of The Penguin and recent JOE interviewee Colin […]

1 year ago

Hailing from the writer-director of The Football Factory, it’s a very NSFW teaser. A very extreme first trailer has hit the web for Marching Powder, a new sports comedy-drama movie from actor Danny Dyer and writer-director Nick Love – who both worked together on the cult classic The Football Factory. Set in the “irreverent and […]

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 352 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

Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 16th 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 Talladega Nights: The […]

1 year ago

Also currently streaming on Prime Video, it’s a truly unforgettable film. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 17 October) is Kill List, the utterly terrifying 2011 British thriller from co-writer and director Ben Wheatley (Down Terrace, Free Fire, High-Rise). The film centres around a solider-turned hitman named Jay (Neil Maskell, Hijack) still reeling from […]

1 year ago

The film had its premiere just a few weeks after the release of Normal People. Irish Oscar-nominee Paul Mescal’s very first film – the 2020 short Drifting – has just been added to Disney+. 15 minutes in length, the short first premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in July of that year, just a few […]

1 year ago

The very popular Dublin city spot opened its doors 24 years ago. Hugely popular Dublin restaurant Shanahan’s on the Green has announced it is closing until further notice due to financial challenges. Located in Dublin city centre at St. Stephen’s Green, the food spot opened its doors 24 years ago and has been called the […]

1 year ago

EXCLUSIVE: Two of the actresses involved have given advice on how to approach the projects going head-to-head. Next month will see the release of two major Irish TV shows in close proximity to each other, events we are already dubbing ‘the Irish Barbenheimer’. The second season of comedy thriller Bad Sisters will be premiering on […]

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 351 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

Holding an 86% Rotten Tomatoes score, one critic dubbed it as being ‘as violent as the Coens, as vérité as Ken Loach’. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 16 October) is Down Terrace, the debut film from acclaimed co-writer and director Ben Wheatley (Free Fire, High-Rise, Kill List). The darkly comic crime thriller revolves […]

1 year ago

In a new statement, a Garda spokesperson said investigators now believe the eight-year-old is ‘missing presumed dead’. A murder investigation has been launched by Gardaí following the disappearance of eight-year-old Kyran Durnin in Louth. Kyran was reported missing from his home in Drogheda to An Garda Síochána on 30 August 2024. He was last seen […]

1 year ago

The show was shot in Co. Wicklow. Netflix has added The Cuckoo, the hit Channel 5 series that premiered just last April. The show centres around a financially strained couple named Nick (Lee Ingleby, Line of Duty) and Jessica (Claire Goose, Unforgotten) who take in mysterious lodger, Sian (Jill Halfpenny, Liar), that soon charms the […]

1 year ago

The movie is the feature directorial debut of one of the stars of Bad Sisters. Bad Sisters star Eva Birthistle has made her feature film debut as a writer-director with the excellent new drama thriller Kathleen is Here, which is out in cinemas this week. The movie tells the story of Kathleen (Hazel Doupe, star […]

1 year ago

It will be introduced to the service next year. RTÉ has announced that it will begin asking RTÉ Player users to sign into the streaming service in 2025. Currently, those based in Ireland are able to access the player without having to sign into a personal account, something which separates it from similar free-to-use streaming […]

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 350 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 famed brunch spot has said ‘it’s time to say goodbye’. Dillinger’s, the very popular restaurant based in Dublin suburb Ranelagh, has announced it will be closing its doors “after 15 amazing years”. The establishment first opened all the way back in 2009, becoming one of the original brunch spots in the urban village of […]

1 year ago

It holds a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score. Our TV movie pick for tonight is Assault on Precinct 13, the 1976 indie action thriller classic from legendary writer-director John Carpenter (Escape from New York, Halloween, The Thing). The film centres around a group of cops, criminals and secretaries who must defend a soon-to-be-closed Los Angeles police […]

1 year ago

The Irish-language band are not happy. Irish language hip-hop group Kneecap have taken to Twitter to hit out at the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) as controversy brews over a scheduled gig by the band in Derry this month. The Northern Irish rappers – fresh off the success of their acclaimed Oscar-hopeful biographical comedy-drama movie – […]

1 year ago

It features one of Hollywood’s most popular rising stars in the lead role. A new “darkly addictive” thriller series with a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score is streaming right now in its entirety. Available to watch through NOW and Sky, the show is titled Sweetpea and is produced by and stars Ella Purnell (star of […]

1 year ago

Several Oscar-winners are involved in the thriller miniseries both on-screen and off. A new mystery thriller miniseries available to stream now is being hailed by several critics as “the best show of the year”. Produced by Apple TV+, the series is titled Disclaimer and stars two-time Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett (Tár) as a famous documentarian and […]

1 year ago

Starring two Oscar winners, it was made by the best Western filmmaker ever. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 11 October) is A Fistful of Dynamite (also known as Duck, You Sucker!), the legendary spaghetti Western from 1971. Co-written and directed by all-time great filmmaker Sergio Leone (The Dollars Trilogy, Once Upon a Time […]

1 year ago

RTÉ are now seeking applicants for Traitors Ireland. One of the most popular reality game shows in recent years – The Traitors – is officially getting an Irish version. After months of rumours, the national broadcaster announced on Friday (11 October) that it has commissioned Traitors Ireland – a new iteration of the hit series […]

1 year ago

Host Patrick Kielty will be speaking to a lot of guests. The Late Late Show is back on screens tonight (Friday, 11 October) and I’m sure you are wondering who host Patrick Kielty will be in conversation with. Well, Irish comedian and television presenter Dara Ó Briain will drop by to chat about his new […]

1 year ago

The modern classic has an 86% score on Rotten Tomatoes. A common and valid complaint about mainstream US cinema today is that there are too many sequels, remakes and reboots. While this may be the case in terms of hugely budgeted tentpole releases by big studios, we’d argue that there are plenty of entertaining yet […]

1 year ago

‘The stats are looking really, really, really good.’ The Northern Lights may once again light up Irish skies tonight (Thursday, 10 October) with meteorology expert Carlow Weather informing the public of the chance to see the lightshow. This year has seen an onslaught of solar flares and coronal mass ejections that have paraded our skies […]

1 year ago

This tense movie stars one of the leads of Love/Hate. Best known for his iconic turn as psychotic gangster Fran Cooney in Love/Hate, Irish actor Peter Coonan has established himself as a reliably electric, formidable presence on screen. That said, it’s been awhile since he has been front and centre in a project – something […]

1 year ago

The film earned rave reviews upon its release in 2021. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 10 October) is The Novice, the acclaimed 2021 psychological sports thriller. The film follows Alex (played by Isabelle Fuhrman, Orphan), a college freshman who joins her university’s rowing team and becomes obsessed with being the squad’s best rower, […]

1 year ago

Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 15th 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 Pulp Fiction Reservoir […]

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 349 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

President Joe Biden had described Milton as looking like the ‘storm of the century’. Multiple deaths have been reported as Hurricane Milton has made landfall in the US state of Florida. According to NBC affiliate WPTV, the sheriff of Florida county St. Lucie has confirmed that multiple people have been killed at the senior community of […]

1 year ago

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