The best way to spend three minutes of your day. Welcome back to our beloved quick-fire general knowledge quiz! We’re on day 389 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

Shocking news. Tributes are being paid to a 21-year-old Irish woman following her death in Spain last Friday evening (10 January). English-language Spanish newspaper Euro Weekly News reports that a young Irish woman, who has since been named locally as Eve McCarthy, fell to her death while rock climbing at a mountain range in El […]

1 year ago

Though it received poor reviews upon release, the film has many defenders. Our TV movie pick for tonight is The Butterfly Effect, the 2004 cult classic sci-fi thriller. An against-type Ashton Kutcher (That ’70s Show) stars as Evan, a college student who suffered a traumatic childhood and is now afflicted with headaches so painful that […]

1 year ago

Featuring a great cast, the film has a 93% Rotten Tomatoes score. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday 11 January) is Looper, the 2012 sci-fi action thriller from writer-director Rian Johnson (Knives Out, Poker Face). The film is set in a near-future where time-travel exists but it is only available to those with the […]

1 year ago

It’s a film that taps into a modern craze. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 10 January) is Escape Room, the extremely underrated thriller from 2019. Starring up-and-comer Taylor Russell (Bones and All), the film centres on six adventurous strangers who gather at a mysterious building. This is after being invited to participate in […]

1 year ago

It’s one of the few movies where we’d argue a reboot may be necessary. Earlier this week, JOE wrote about Longlegs – in our opinion, the absolute scariest movie of 2024 – being added to Prime Video. And those who have seen the mystery horror thriller will know that a standout of the film was […]

1 year ago

It was renowned for its excellent coffee, gorgeous brunch options and warm atmosphere. Network, the beloved Dublin city café located on Aungier Street, has announced that it will be closing for good at the weekend. Just a short walk from JOE’s offices, Network was renowned for its excellent coffee, gorgeous brunch options and warm atmosphere […]

1 year ago

Patrick Kielty is kicking off the year with a music-heavy episode. The Late Late Show returns this Friday night (10 January) for its first episode of 2025. The episode will showcase the best established and emerging musical talents participating in the annual Tradfest event at the end of this month. In what has become a […]

1 year ago

FreeNow has since issued a statement on the matter. Irish musician and actor Steve Wall has voiced his shock at the “mental” €75 taxi fare he was hit with, after being driven from Harold’s Cross to Dublin Airport. Wall is a founding member of Irish rock bands The Stunning and The Walls and was recently […]

1 year ago

Coming from the writer of The Italian Job, it’s also a heist film as well. Our TV movie pick for this evening (Thursday, 9 January) is Kelly’s Heroes, the 1970 war comedy-drama heist film. Set during WWII, it centres on an array of colourful American soldiers who get inside information from a drunk German officer […]

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 388 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

Critics are calling it a harrowing but powerful watch. Netflix has just added a six-part series titled American Primeval that looks like a must-watch for Western fans. Hailing from creator Mark L. Smith (The Revenant) and director Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights), the show is described as a “dramatisation of the deadly clash between Natives, […]

1 year ago

It was also one of the most expensive films ever produced in Ireland. Warner Bros. Entertainment has begun adding full movies to its YouTube channel to watch for free, with one of these including 1996 Irish classic Michael Collins. Written and directed by Neil Jordan (The Butcher Boy, The Crying Game), the film is set […]

1 year ago

Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 28th entry of The JOE Film Club Quiz. This week, we are presenting players with stills from 10 movies. They then must select what film the images are from based on three options. Have what it takes? Play below and find out. Name the movie Wicked Barbie The School […]

1 year ago

The film sounds very intriguing. Danny Dyer has announced that he is making a new movie that will be shot in Dublin, a project that he has compared to the Colin Farrell classic Phone Booth. In the latest episode of his podcast Live and Let Dyers, The Football Factory and Rivals star revealed that he […]

1 year ago

We’d argue it’s one of the scariest films Hollywood has put out in years. Prime Video has just added Longlegs, the absolute scariest movie of 2024. Hailing from writer-director Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter), modern horror icon Maika Monroe (The Guest, It Follows, Watcher) stars in the film as Lee Harker, an up-and-coming FBI agent […]

1 year ago

The film stars an action legend. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 8 January) is Retribution, a 2023 action thriller starring Liam Neeson. A remake of the well-liked 2015 Spanish film of the same name, Neeson plays a husband and father named Matt who, while driving his kids (Jack Champion and Lilly Aspell) to […]

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 387 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

His body was discovered on Sunday amid the ongoing stretch of severe cold weather. A man who was found dead in a camper van in Kilkenny at the weekend has been named locally as Gerry Kennedy. In a statement to JOE, a Garda spokesperson said that Gardaí and emergency services responded to an incident in […]

1 year ago

If you love John Wick or The Raid, do yourself a favour and seek this out. 2024 was a good year for action movie fans thanks to the likes of Civil War, The Fall Guy, Furiosa, Land of Bad, Monkey Man and Rebel Ridge. It must be said though that most of these pale in […]

1 year ago

Inspired by real events, the film won three Oscars. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 3 Jan) is 1917, the three-time Oscar-winning war film from co-writer and director Sam Mendes (Skyfall). Set during World War I, the movie follows two young British soldiers named Will and Tom (played by George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman) […]

1 year ago

Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 27th entry of The JOE Film Club Quiz. This week, we are presenting players with stills from 10 movies. They then must select what film the images are from based on three options. Have what it takes? Play below and find out. Name the movie The Lighthouse Cold Skin […]

1 year ago

It’s been adapted for the screen several times before, though we’d love to see Eggers’ take on the horror classic. Writer-director Robert Eggers’ new horror movie Nosferatu is in cinemas now and is proving to be a hit with both audiences and critics. Ahead of the film’s release, JOE sat down with the filmmaker and […]

1 year ago

Upon release, it earned comparisons to the modern cult classic The Nice Guys. The Fall Guy, one of 2024’s best action movies, is now available to watch at home via NOW Cinema and Sky Cinema. A reboot of the 1980s TV series of the same name, the action comedy sees Ryan Gosling play Colt Seavers […]

1 year ago

‘Significant snowfall accumulations expected.’ Six counties have been issued a Status Orange weather warning for this weekend as “significant snowfall accumulations” are expected. Carlow, Clare, Kilkenny, Limerick, Tipperary and Wicklow are the counties that have been hit with an orange snow-ice alert by Met Éireann. Valid for 24 hours from 5pm on Saturday (4 January), […]

1 year ago

This 2016 movie is relentlessly tense. Don’t Breathe, the incredible 2016 thriller movie, has just been added to Netflix. Co-written and directed by Fede Álvarez (2013’s Evil Dead, Alien: Romulus), the movie centres around Rocky (a charismatic Jane Levy, Evil Dead) – a young woman and thief longing to escape her abusive home in Detroit […]

1 year ago

Farewell to a Dublin institution. The Living Room, one of the most famous bars in Dublin city centre, has announced that it will close on Monday, 6 January. Located just off O’Connell Street on Cathal Brugha Street, the pub was renowned for its beer garden – where patrons often gathered to watch major sporting events […]

1 year ago

It has a 93% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Our TV movie pick for New Year’s Eve is Pale Rider, the legendary Western from 1985 directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. He plays in the film an enigmatic man named Preacher who arrives in a town where a property owner named Coy LaHood (Richard Dysart) has […]

1 year ago

We had been waiting for this for a long time. Here’s our verdict. Nosferatu’s emergence over a century as a major horror franchise is quite fascinating given its origins. Taking its title from an archaic Romanian word meaning “the offensive one”, the first version of Nosferatu was a 1922 silent German vampire film that was […]

1 year ago

He is survived by his wife and Sophie’s mother. Georges Bouniol, the father of French woman Sophie Toscan du Plantier who was murdered in Cork, has died at the age of 98. According to various outlets, Mr Bouniol – who lived in Paris – had been in critical condition in hospital over Christmas and passed […]

1 year ago

2024 is nearing its end. But before we enter the new year, we’re looking back at some of the past 12 months’ biggest news stories through the medium of quiz. 20 questions designed to test you await. Let us know how you do. If you want to try some of our other quizzes, you can […]

1 year ago

The film had its world premiere earlier this year. A documentary about a legendary Irish pub produced by and starring Oscar-nominated Irish actor Brendan Gleeson will be airing on TV tonight. Titled Brendan Gleeson’s Farewell to Hughes’s, the film, which is being shown on TG4 tonight at 20:30, is about Hughes’s – the bar that […]

1 year ago

As 2024 comes to a close, these are the films you should be excited about next year. JOE has always tried to spotlight hidden gem movies or TV shows that may otherwise be overlooked by the masses. In fact, earlier this month we compiled a list of our favourite underseen films from 2024 and where […]

1 year ago

The film features an Oscar winner in the lead role. A quite tense 2024 sci-fi thriller movie is now available to watch at home via NOW Cinema and Sky Cinema. That film is I.S.S., which takes place on the International Space Station as it is populated by two groups – one of American astronauts and […]

1 year ago

We’ve been waiting a long time for this. Netflix has just added the hotly-anticipated second season of its biggest show ever – Squid Game. Having premiered in 2021, the South Korean thriller’s first season told the story of a group of cash-strapped people who accept a strange invitation to compete in what’s revealed to be […]

1 year ago

It’s an absolute classic, even if it’s not for the squeamish. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 27 December) is Bone Tomahawk, the incredible 2015 Western thriller. The film stars Kurt Russell, Matthew Fox, Patrick Wilson and Richard Jenkins as men of the Old West who embark on a quest to rescue a group […]

1 year ago

Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 26th entry of The JOE Film Club Quiz. This week, we are presenting players with stills from 10 movies. They then must select what film the images are from based on three options. Have what it takes? Play below and find out. Name the movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog […]

1 year ago

It picked up the IFTA award for Best Irish Film this year. UPDATE: Monday, 30 December In case you missed it on St. Stephen’s Day, That They May Face the Rising Sun will also air tonight (Monday, 30 December) at 10.30pm on BBC One NI. For more details about the Irish drama, read our original […]

1 year ago

‘Tis the season, after all. The objective of this Christmas quiz is simple. We are presenting you with the titles of 10 UK Christmas No. 1 singles in random order. All you have to do is name the artist that sang the song. Five minutes are on the clock. Best of luck. If the quiz […]

1 year ago

Only out in cinemas last month, the blend of coming-of-age drama, crime thriller and fantasy has an 85% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Barry Keoghan’s acclaimed and most recent movie Bird is now available to watch at home. Currently streaming on Mubi – the service devoted to showcasing less mainstream cinema – the film revolves around […]

1 year ago

It made history upon release and is truly a must-see film. Our TV movie pick for Christmas Day is An Cailín Ciúin (also known as The Quiet Girl), the brilliant 2022 Oscar-nominated Irish drama. Based on the story ‘Foster’ by Claire Keegan, the Irish-language film is set in rural Ireland in 1981. It revolves around […]

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Directed by one of the action movie kings, it’s basically a cross between Heat and Speed. Our TV movie pick for Christmas Eve is Ambulance, one of the best action movies of the decade so far. Directed by action filmmaking legend Michael Bay (Bad Boys, The Rock), it stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (The Matrix Resurrections). […]

1 year ago

It had been open just over a year and a half. The International Rugby Experience (IRE) in Limerick city centre has closed its doors for the final time two days before Christmas. Having launched in May 2023, the tourist attraction was described as an “interactive visitor experience” and a “six-storey, immersive celebration of the game”. […]

1 year ago

Released just over five years ago, we’re still confused as to why this wasn’t a bigger hit. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 21 December) is Bad Times at El Royale, the sadly underseen 2018 neo-noir crime thriller from writer-director Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods, The Martian). Set in 1969, the film […]

1 year ago

We cannot wait for this. Jack Black and Paul Rudd have confirmed they will star in a reboot of the 1997 action thriller horror movie Anaconda. The original focused around a filmmaker (played by Jennifer Lopez) and her crew (including Eric Stoltz, Ice Cube and Owen Wilson) travelling deep in the Amazon jungle looking for […]

1 year ago

The band have issued a statement following his death. Tributes are pouring in for pioneer of the Irish language movement in Belfast, Gearóid Ó Cairealláin, following his death at age 67 after a short illness. A journalist and former President of Conradh na Gaeilge, an organisation that promotes the use of Irish as the standard […]

1 year ago

Here’s the latest from Met Éireann. Fresh off its Status Yellow wind warnings yesterday, Met Éireann has issued a new Status Yellow snow-ice warning for five counties. Valid from 10pm on Saturday (21 December) until 9am on Sunday, the alert applies to Cavan, Donegal, Monaghan, Leitrim and Louth. It reads: “Wintry showers of hail, sleet […]

1 year ago

Boasting a 95% score on Rotten Tomatoes, the cast includes an Oscar-winner who recently played Santa in another big film, as well as Norm Macdonald and Rashida Jones. Once again, it’s that special time of the year when we all start discussing our favourite Christmas movies. As always, it’s the same contenders: Elf, Home Alone […]

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 386 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. If you’re looking for some hidden film gems to check out over the Christmas break, let this be your guide. Regular readers of JOE will know that we love highlighting underrated or underseen movies. After all, not every film […]

1 year ago