The film comes from the director of Man on Fire and Top Gun. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 30 January) is The Fan, the 1996 sports-focused psychological thriller. The film tells the story of a star baseball player (Wesley Snipes, Blade) who becomes the unhealthy focus of a down-on-his-luck salesman (two-time Oscar-winner Robert […]

1 year ago

Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 31st 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 True Romance Reservoir Dogs […]

1 year ago

What a line-up! Irish comedian, presenter and actor Tommy Tiernan has been named as part of the line-up for the upcoming edition of The Great Celebrity Bake Off. The celebrity charity edition of The Great British Bake Off in aid of Stand Up for Cancer will return to Channel 4 this spring, with a star-studded […]

1 year ago

They have become the first Lotto jackpot winner of 2025. One lucky Lotto player is a life-changing €4,642,646 richer after the draw that took place on Wednesday night (29 January). Becoming the first Lotto jacket winner of 2025, The National Lottery has since confirmed that the winning ticket was sold in Louth. The winning numbers […]

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 399 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

‘A gent of a guy who had such a warm personality.’ Tributes are pouring in for young Irish man and bricklayer Greg Cullinane following his unexpected death in Thailand this month. Mr Cullinane was from Blackpool in Cork and passed away on Tuesday, 14 January in the Asian country. His requiem mass will take place […]

1 year ago

Very sad news. Two men in Ireland have died this week in separate workplace accidents. The first of these incidents occurred on Tuesday (28 January) at a premises in Arklow, Wicklow. Gardaí and emergency services were alerted to the workplace accident at around 5.30pm. A man in his 30s was pronounced deceased at the scene. […]

1 year ago

Its first two seasons have a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score. The Capture – one of the BBC’s best thriller shows in recent years – is set to return for a third season, according to a new report. Created by Ben Chanan, the series launched in 2019 and revolves around an ambitious young detective named Rachel […]

1 year ago

The Oscar-winner spoke to JOE about her badass lead role in a new sci-fi. Star Trek: Section 31, a new movie in the legendary sci-fi franchise, is available to stream now. The film sees recent Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) reprising her role from Star Trek: Discovery as anti-hero and fan favourite […]

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Its star won a Golden Globe for her performance. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 29 January) is Happy-Go-Lucky, the Oscar-nominated 2008 comedy-drama. Hailing from acclaimed writer-director Mike Leigh – whose terrific new film Hard Truths is in cinemas now – his 2008 movie stars Sally Hawkins in a Golden Globe-winning, breakthrough performance. 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 398 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 had been on our watchlist for a while and it more than delivered. Humane, an excellent new sci-fi horror thriller from debut director Caitlin Cronenberg, is streaming on Paramount+ right now. The film is set in the near future where a global ecological collapse has forced world leaders to take extreme measures to reduce […]

1 year ago

We are definitely not jealous. One lucky Irish EuroMillions Plus player is a life-changing €500,000 richer after the draw that took place on Tuesday night (28 January). The National Lottery has since confirmed that the winning ticket was sold in Louth. In particular, the player purchased their ticket on Friday, 24 January from Centra at […]

1 year ago

We’d advise watching this quickly before its jaw-dropping reveals are spoiled for you. Disney+ has just added Paradise to its service, an addictive new thriller series that is sure to get people talking. The show stars Oscar-nominee Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction) as Xavier Collins, a Secret Service Agent assigned to work in a serene […]

1 year ago

‘I say that with admiration,’ he added. Longlegs was without a doubt one of last year’s biggest cinema success stories. Made on a moderately low budget of $10 million by writer-director Osgood Perkins – a cult figure in movie circles known for making niche, eerily nightmarish, slow-burn horrors – the film far exceeded expectations. Not […]

1 year ago

The film was produced by J.J. Abrams and holds an 82% Rotten Tomatoes score. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 28 January) is Overlord, the acclaimed 2018 action war thriller directed by Julius Avery (The Pope’s Exorcist) and produced by J.J. Abrams (Cloverfield). Set towards the end of World War II, it centres around […]

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 397 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 condition is understood to be serious.’ A 13-year-old boy is said to be in serious condition in hospital after a suspected e-scooter fall in Donegal. An Garda Síochána are appealing for witnesses following the road traffic incident that occurred in Buncrana on Monday (27 January). Shortly after 4.45pm, Gardaí and emergency services were alerted […]

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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 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 addicted to drugs […]

1 year ago

Imagine True Detective crossed with Looper. There are two particular types of movies that genre lovers can’t get enough of. One is the type of thriller where world-weary detectives must investigate a decades-spanning series of murders – with examples including The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Longlegs, Memories of Murder, Mindhunter, Prisoners, True Detective and […]

1 year ago

The film holds an 89% Rotten Tomatoes score. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 25 January) is Official Secrets, the 2019 biographical political thriller starring Keira Knightley. In the film, the Black Doves actress plays real-life British woman Katharine Gun who worked as a translator for the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) before becoming an […]

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 396 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 […]

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A Family Liaison Officer has been assigned to provide support to his family. The man who died in Donegal after a tree fell on a car during Storm Éowyn has been named as 20-year-old Kacper Dudek. At around 5.30am on Friday (24 January), Gardaí were alerted to a serious road traffic incident at Feddyglass in […]

1 year ago

In an interview with JOE, its Oscar-winning star explained how the idea for the film came from her. Star Trek: Section 31, the latest movie in the legendary Star Trek franchise, is available to stream now on Paramount+. A stand-alone spin-off to the series Star Trek: Discovery, the film stars Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere […]

1 year ago

The LA Confidential and Memento star earned his first Oscar nomination this week. Guy Pearce has established himself as one of the most reliably great actors of the past few decades. This is thanks to his work in movies and shows like Animal Kingdom, Brimstone, The Hurt Locker, The King’s Speech, LA Confidential, Mare of […]

1 year ago

It’s from the director of Training Day and the creator of True Detective. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 24 January) is The Magnificent Seven, the 2016 remake of the 1960 Western classic of the same name (which itself was a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai). The film focuses on seven gunmen (including […]

1 year ago

Tragic news. A man in Donegal has died after a tree fell on a car during Storm Éowyn. At around 5.30am on Friday (24 January), Gardaí were alerted to a serious road traffic incident at Feddyglass in Raphoe. Subsequently, Gardaí and local emergency services attended the scene where, during the storm, a tree fell on […]

1 year ago

The reviews for season two are even better than season one. Season 2 of The Night Agent, which was Netflix’s most-watched series of 2023, is streaming now on the service. The action thriller show revolves around Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso, Hillbilly Elegy), a low-level FBI agent who works in the basement of the White House […]

1 year ago

Expect an eclectic mix of sports, music and comedy. The Late Late Show is back this Friday night (24 January) with another packed line-up. Irish comedian, musician and famously “delicious” TikToker Garron Noone will sit down with host Patrick Kielty to talk about what a wild ride the last year has been, as well as a bit of […]

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The film stars two Oscar winners. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 23 January) is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the legendary 1969 Western. The buddy film revolves around Butch Cassidy (Oscar-winner Paul Newman) and the Sundance Kid (Oscar-winner Robert Redford), a pair of outlaws living in 1890s Wyoming as the West becomes […]

1 year ago

There were a couple of big surprise nominations. Despite having been shortlisted in two categories, the Irish movie Kneecap failed to secure any nominations at this year’s Oscars. The Irish-language comedy-drama about and starring the Belfast-based hip-hop trio of the same name has been critically acclaimed and has been nominated for and won several major […]

1 year ago

Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 30th 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 Once Upon a Time […]

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 395 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

Public transport will cease and schools will close for the duration of the Status Red warnings. For updates about the storm that has been called the “worst in terms of forecast for many years”, check out our live blog below: Storm Éowyn is set to hit Ireland on Thursday night (23 January) and, in an […]

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It’s what everyone will be wondering today ahead of the ‘worst in years’ storm. Storm Éowyn is set to hit Ireland tonight (Thursday, 23 January) and, in an extremely rare event, all 32 counties have been issued Status Red wind warnings. Met Éireann has said that there will be gale to storm force winds with […]

1 year ago

The thriller series is available to stream now. Apple TV+ has just added Prime Target to its service, a new thriller series with rising star Leo Woodall (One Day, The White Lotus). In the eight-episode show, the actor plays Edward Brooks, a brilliant young math postgraduate who is on the verge of a major breakthrough. […]

1 year ago

In a new interview with JOE, Michelle Yeoh talked about James Bond and working with Cillian Murphy. Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh is the star of Star Trek: Section 31, a new Star Trek movie coming to Paramount+ this week. A spin-off to the TV series Star Trek: Discovery, the film sees Yeoh reprising her role as […]

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The film comes from an Oscar nominee. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 22 January) is The Innocents, the 2021 thriller from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Eskil Vogt (co-writer of The Worst Person in the World). A Norwegian film, the story revolves around four children who become friends during the summer holidays and discover, out of […]

1 year ago

Batten down the hatches. Update: 17.25pm Met Éireann has now issued Status Red wind warnings for every county in the Republic of Ireland. For the specific times of each of the Red alerts scheduled for the 26 counties, visit Met Éireann’s website here. There is a Nationwide Red Wind Warning with different applicable times. Please […]

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 394 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 entire country has been issued a Status Orange warning. Update: 10.35am, January 22. Met Éireann has now issued a Status Red wind warning for four counties over Storm Éowyn. Scheduled for 3am to 10am on Friday (24 January), the rare alert applies to Clare, Cork, Kerry and Limerick. It reads: “Storm Éowyn: Gale force […]

1 year ago

There has been a renewed interest in the film in recent weeks. Inside Llewyn Davis, one of the best movies of the 21st century, has just been re-added to Prime Video. The 2013 film follows a week in the life of Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac in his breakthrough role), a folk singer who struggles to […]

1 year ago

We could see this becoming a bit of a cult classic in years to come. Lisa Frankenstein, one of 2024’s most underrated movies, is now available to stream via NOW Cinema and Sky Cinema. From Oscar-winning writer Diablo Cody (Juno), the romantic comedy horror is set in the ’80s and centres around Lisa (scream queen […]

1 year ago

‘I’m your huckleberry.’ Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 21 January) is Tombstone, the legendary 1993 Western starring Kurt Russell (Bone Tomahawk) and Val Kilmer (Top Gun). The film sees Wyatt Earp (Russell) and his brothers, Morgan and Virgil (Bill Paxton and Sam Elliott), leave their gunslinger ways behind them to settle down 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 393 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

There is also the potential for ‘damaging’ winds. Storm Éowyn, which is expected to bring “very strong to gale force winds” and falls of snow to Ireland this week, has been officially named by the Met Office UK. Last week, JOE reported how Carlow Weather and Ireland’s Weather Channel had stated that “some nasty storms” […]

1 year ago

The former GAA player also worked as a paramedic. Tributes are pouring in for former GAA player and paramedic Martin ‘Fozzy’ Fallon after his sudden death on Friday (17 January). A former Roscommon and Strokestown footballer, Mr Fallon represented the county at minor, U-21 and senior levels. This included winning a Connacht Senior Championship medal […]

1 year ago

The tough-as-nails neo-noir is based on an Ernest Hemingway story. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Monday, 20 January) is The Killers, the classic ’60s neo-noir crime thriller. Based on the short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway (which was also previously adapted to great effect in 1946), the film follows two hitmen […]

1 year ago

Holding a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score, the film makes for an unforgettable watch. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Sunday, 19 January) is Custody, the extremely tense thriller drama from 2017. A French film, it stars Denis Ménochet (Beau is Afraid, Inglourious Basterds) and Léa Drucker (The Bureau, War of the Worlds) as a married couple […]

1 year ago

Boasting a 93% Rotten Tomatoes score, the film also features one of the best lead performances in recent memory. Netflix has just added the brilliant 2022 psychological horror movie Pearl to its service. The film centres around the title character (played by co-writer Mia Goth), a young woman living in Texas in 1918 who dreams […]

1 year ago