The actor had a funny response to the speculation about the hit crime drama’s return. Over the past couple of days, there has been a lot of speculation about the return of the hit Irish crime drama Love/Hate. This was sparked by one of its stars John Connors stating that the show was coming back […]

1 year ago

JOE spoke to the trio about their beloved movie on the IFTA red carpet last night. Irish-language hip-hop trio Kneecap have said they would be open to a sequel to their IFTA award-winning comedy-drama movie. The film was nominated for a whopping 17 awards at the Irish Oscars and wound up taking home four during […]

1 year ago

The incident occurred in the early hours of this morning. A man has died and another man was injured after a serious public order incident on a busy Dublin city centre street. Gardaí responded to the incident that occurred in Dublin 2 on South Anne Street, which is just off Grafton Street, in the early […]

1 year ago

We’ve been excited about this film for a long time. The Gorge, one of JOE’s most-anticipated movies for 2025, has just been released via Apple TV+. Hailing from director Scott Derrickson (The Black Phone, Sinister), the film stars Anya Taylor-Joy (Furiosa) and Miles Teller (Top Gun: Maverick) as two highly-trained operatives appointed to posts in […]

1 year ago

The film stars a two-time Oscar nominee. Prime Video has just added Vivarium, the extremely creepy 2019 Irish sci-fi thriller movie. The film centres around a young woman (Imogen Poots, 28 Weeks Later) and her fiancé (Oscar-nominee Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network) who are in search of the perfect starter home. “After following a mysterious […]

1 year ago

From the director of Mad Max: Fury Road, the fantasy film has two huge stars. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 14 February) is Three Thousand Years of Longing, the film legendary director George Miller made in between Mad Max: Fury Road and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Boasting one of the most intriguing […]

1 year ago

‘It’s not every day that you hear one of your customers has become an overnight millionaire.’ Two Lotto punters won top prizes in the Lotto draw on Wednesday (12 February). The Lotto Jackpot, worth €2,935,144, and the Lotto Plus One top prize, worth €1,000,000, were both claimed by two Dublin players. In terms of the […]

1 year ago

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The best way to spend three minutes of your day. Welcome back to our beloved quick-fire general knowledge quiz! We’re on day 405 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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Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 33rd 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 Hostel Saw The Conjuring […]

1 year ago

One player won the Lotto jackpot and the other won the top prize in the Lotto Plus One. Two Lotto punters have won top prizes in last night’s draw (Wednesday, 12 February). The Lotto Jackpot, worth €2,935,144, and the Lotto Plus One top prize, worth €1,000,000, were both claimed by two Dublin players. In terms […]

1 year ago

Starring two Oscar winners, it was made by the best Western filmmaker ever. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 13 February) 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

Based on a true story, the film only got a brief and limited cinema release but is being discovered now via streaming. A common complaint you hear from people about movies is that all there is in cinemas is just blockbusters and sequels. While this isn’t quite true – the box office success of indies […]

1 year ago

JOE spoke to one of the series’ stars, who described what he would like to see happen in season two. One of JOE’s favourite TV shows of recent memory is The Agency, the spy series starring Irish actor Michael Fassbender streaming on Paramount+. A remake of France’s The Bureau – widely considered one of the […]

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The sadly underseen gem has an 86% Rotten Tomatoes score. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 12 February) is Last Passenger, an extremely tense 2013 British thriller. The film 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 […]

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 404 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

Some fans of the show have criticised Channel 4 for the warning. A classic episode of the beloved Ireland-set sitcom Father Ted has been issued a trigger warning by Channel 4 nearly 27 years after it first aired. The entire series is streaming on Channel 4’s website right now but attached on the site alongside […]

1 year ago

The limited series features a great Irish actor in one of the lead roles, alongside Florence Pugh. JOE recently interviewed American actor Christopher Abbott about his lead turn in the excellent Ireland-set thriller Bring Them Down. During the conversation, the actor opened up about the challenges of playing the role of a farmer in rural […]

1 year ago

‘The Wicklow Way is maybe my favourite path that I’ve ever run on.’ Hollywood star Peter Sarsgaard has been on a roll for the past few years. Not only did he appear in the most recent Batman movie and win a Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival for the drama Memory but he […]

1 year ago

This was over a ‘failure to comply with food legislation’. Bewley’s Café – one of Dublin city’s most popular cafés – was issued a closure order last month. In a statement on Tuesday (11 February), The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) revealed that the closure order for the restaurant and café located at 78/79 […]

1 year ago

The remake saw the two-time Oscar winner reteam with the director of Man on Fire. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 11 February) is The Taking of Pelham 123, the 2009 action thriller starring Denzel Washington. A remake of the classic ’70s flick of the same name, the film sees heavily armed criminals – […]

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 403 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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Some schools have been forced to close over the threatening messages. An Garda Síochána has issued a statement in regard to the “security threat” sent to a number of education establishments in Clare on Tuesday (11 February). A number of schools in the county have been forced to close after receiving the threatening messages. In […]

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He is scheduled to appear in court this morning. A man in his 20s arrested in connection with the knife attack in Stoneybatter in Dublin last weekend has been charged. He is scheduled to appear before Dublin District Court, Criminal Courts of Justice (Court 4) on Tuesday morning (11 February). Three men were assaulted in […]

1 year ago

Starring Steve Coogan as four different characters, tickets are on sale now. Due to various global developments, a feeling of nuclear anxiety is in the air and it’s already being represented in the arts. This specific, pervading sense of dread was at the heart of Christopher Nolan’s recent Oscar Best Picture winner Oppenheimer. Just this […]

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The film is noteworthy for mostly being shot in Ireland. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 1 February) is Haywire, the excellent 2011 action thriller from director Steven Soderbergh (the Ocean’s Trilogy, the currently in cinemas Presence). The film stars former MMA artist Gina Carano as Mallory Kane, a highly trained operative for a […]

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The actor recalls joking to his director: ‘Are you sure you don’t want to just get someone Irish to do it?’ After over a decade of acclaimed lead turns in indie films and supporting work in bigger movies, rising star Christopher Abbott is the man of the moment. Already in 2025, the American actor has […]

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The show comes from Bad Sisters’ Sharon Horgan. The new BBC sitcom Amandaland is being hailed as “one of the funniest shows in years” by viewers. A spin-off to the beloved series Motherland, it sees Lucy Punch reprise her role as Amanda – the acerbic, self-centred and extremely image-conscious “alpha mum”. Now taking centre stage, […]

1 year ago

JOE spoke to the cast and director of the nail-bitingly tense, Oscar-nominated thriller about sports journalists covering a hostage crisis. There’s been a lot of brilliant movies about journalism from ’70s classics like All the President’s Men and Network to more recent films like Civil War, The Post and Spotlight. Joining that canon is September […]

1 year ago

Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 32nd 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 Superbad Scott Pilgrim vs. […]

1 year ago

It’s from the director of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and L.A. Confidential. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 6 February) is The River Wild, the 1994 star-studded action thriller. The film centres around a young family (led by Meryl Streep and David Strathairn) whose white-water rafting holiday is endangered when they are […]

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 402 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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‘Essentially a futuristic take on Die Hard or The Raid.’ Prime Video has just added Dredd, the acclaimed 2012 sci-fi action film based on the 2000 AD comic strip Judge Dredd. Karl Urban (The Boys) stars as the title character – a law enforcer given the power of judge, jury and executioner in a dystopian […]

1 year ago

Despite its 18 rating, the film looks to be finding an audience on streaming. Infinity Pool, a recent sci-fi horror thriller that stirred some controversy upon release, has recently been added to Netflix and is climbing up the streaming charts. The 2023 film stars Alexander Skarsgård (Succession) and Cleopatra Coleman (Cobweb) as James and Em, […]

1 year ago

Great news for fans of Fool Me Once, Missing You and The Stranger. Fresh off the back of streaming hit Missing You last month, Netflix has re-teamed with best-selling author Harlan Coben on another TV adaptation coming out very soon. Titled Caught (Atrapados), the six-part limited series is set in Argentina and is based 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 401 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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It was the breakthrough movie for three people who would become cinematic legends. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 5 February) is Mean Streets, the 1973 crime drama co-written and directed by Martin Scorsese (The Departed, Goodfellas and Taxi Driver). Set in the Little Italy neighbourhood of New York City, the film centres around […]

1 year ago

If you like Black Mirror, this is a must-watch. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Monday, 3 February) is Await Further Instructions, an extremely tense sci-fi horror thriller from 2018. The film revolves around an already strained Christmas family gathering that gets even more stressful when the clan finds themselves trapped inside their house by […]

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Holding an 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, the film stars four Oscar nominees. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Sunday, 2 February) is The Sisters Brothers, the 2018 Western based on the beloved novel of the same name by Patrick deWitt. The film stars Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix (Joker) and Oscar-nominee John C. Reilly (Chicago) as the […]

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The show hails from the writer of Hell or High Water and Sicario. The first four seasons of the massively popular Western series Yellowstone have just been added to Netflix. Co-created by Taylor Sheridan (Hell or High Water, Sicario, Wind River), Oscar-winner Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves) stars as John Dutton – the patriarch of […]

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The first two seasons of the timely thriller series hold a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score. The Capture – one of the best thriller shows in recent years – has just been added to Netflix. Created by Ben Chanan, the series launched in 2019 on the BBC and revolves around an ambitious young detective named Rachel […]

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 400 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 film is noteworthy for mostly being shot in Ireland. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 1 February) is Haywire, the excellent 2011 action thriller from director Steven Soderbergh (the Ocean’s Trilogy, the currently in cinemas Presence). The film stars former MMA artist Gina Carano as Mallory Kane, a highly trained operative for a […]

1 year ago

You can watch the trailer for Armando Iannucci’s new adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s classic movie exclusively on the JOE website. The first trailer for the stage production of Stanley Kubrick’s timeless classic Dr. Strangelove starring Steve Coogan has been released and is available to watch exclusively on JOE. Co-adapted by Bafta and Emmy-winner Armando Iannucci […]

1 year ago

The film has a near-perfect 97% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The best Western movie of 2024, The Last Stop in Yuma County, is finally available to watch at home. Streaming via NOW Cinema and Sky Cinema, the neo-Western noir stars Jim Cummings (Thunder Road) as a travelling knife salesman in the ’70s who stops off […]

1 year ago

It has an 89% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 31 January) is Dark Waters, a 2019 legal thriller based on true events. It revolves around a corporate defence attorney (Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight) who takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company on behalf of a family friend and […]

1 year ago

She was conned out of her pension savings. An Irish woman has revealed how she was conned out of her pension savings by fraudsters impersonating Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. Speaking to RTE’s Drivetime, the Dubliner in her 40s – given the name Sinead to protect her identity – said that scammers used artificial intelligence to […]

1 year ago

The lucky punter has 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 now confirmed that the winning ticket was sold in Louth. More […]

1 year ago

Awful news. Two men in their 20s have died in a road crash in Carlow, with the collision also leaving two other people in their 20s seriously injured. The crash occurred on the N80 in Leagh, Rathoe at around 1.15am on Friday (31 January) and involved one vehicle. Two occupants of the car – the […]

1 year ago

A former Irish President and a legendary Irish comedian will be on the programme. The Late Late Show is back this Friday night (31 January) with another packed line-up. Former President Mary McAleese and former broadcaster Mary Kennedy – who now host The Changing Times podcast – will talk about their thriving friendship, not retiring, the […]

1 year ago