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  • Kneecap on the chances of a movie sequel: ‘If the money is right’

    Kneecap on the chances of a movie sequel: ‘If the money is right’

    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

  • One of 2025’s biggest sci-fi action movies has just been added to streaming

    One of 2025’s biggest sci-fi action movies has just been added to streaming

    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

  • Prime Video has just added one of Ireland’s best sci-fi thriller movies ever

    Prime Video has just added one of Ireland’s best sci-fi thriller movies ever

    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

  • One of the most underrated movies of the decade is on TV tonight

    One of the most underrated movies of the decade is on TV tonight

    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

  • ‘Outstanding’ noise cancelling headphones available now at bargain price

    ‘Outstanding’ noise cancelling headphones available now at bargain price

    This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. For those interested in all things tech and are looking to score a great deal on Amazon, here’s an offer that has caught our eye. Soundcore by Anker’s Q20i Hybrid Active Noise Cancelling Foldable Headphones have now dropped in […]

    1 year ago

  • The JOE quick-fire general knowledge quiz: Day 405

    The JOE quick-fire general knowledge quiz: Day 405

    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 […]

    1 year ago

  • The JOE Film Club Quiz: Week 33

    The JOE Film Club Quiz: Week 33

    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

  • Two Lotto punters become millionaires as county of lucky tickets revealed

    Two Lotto punters become millionaires as county of lucky tickets revealed

    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

  • A legendary epic Western movie is airing on TV tonight

    A legendary epic Western movie is airing on TV tonight

    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

  • New crime thriller movie with 92% on Rotten Tomatoes becomes streaming hit

    New crime thriller movie with 92% on Rotten Tomatoes becomes streaming hit

    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

  • One of 2024’s best thriller shows gets very exciting season two update

    One of 2024’s best thriller shows gets very exciting season two update

    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 […]

    1 year ago

  • An absolutely breakneck thriller movie is airing on TV tonight

    An absolutely breakneck thriller movie is airing on TV tonight

    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 JOE quick-fire general knowledge quiz: Day 404

    The JOE quick-fire general knowledge quiz: Day 404

    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

  • New Netflix series remake of classic movie gets exciting update from star

    New Netflix series remake of classic movie gets exciting update from star

    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

  • One of Dublin city’s most popular cafés hit with closure order

    One of Dublin city’s most popular cafés hit with closure order

    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

  • An underrated Denzel Washington action thriller movie is on TV tonight

    An underrated Denzel Washington action thriller movie is on TV tonight

    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 JOE quick-fire general knowledge quiz: Day 403

    The JOE quick-fire general knowledge quiz: Day 403

    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 […]

    1 year ago

  • Gardaí issue statement over ‘security threat’ sent to schools in Clare

    Gardaí issue statement over ‘security threat’ sent to schools in Clare

    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 […]

    1 year ago

  • Man, 20s, charged over knife attack in Stoneybatter

    Man, 20s, charged over knife attack in Stoneybatter

    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

  • New stage version of Stanley Kubrick masterpiece is an absolute triumph

    New stage version of Stanley Kubrick masterpiece is an absolute triumph

    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 […]

    1 year ago

  • One of the best action movies of the 21st century is on TV tonight

    One of the best action movies of the 21st century is on TV tonight

    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

  • BBC’s new comedy series is being hailed as ‘one of the funniest shows in years’

    BBC’s new comedy series is being hailed as ‘one of the funniest shows in years’

    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

  • A brilliant new journalism thriller movie is available to watch now

    A brilliant new journalism thriller movie is available to watch now

    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

  • The JOE Film Club Quiz: Week 32

    The JOE Film Club Quiz: Week 32

    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

  • An exciting action thriller movie is airing on TV tonight

    An exciting action thriller movie is airing on TV tonight

    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 JOE quick-fire general knowledge quiz: Day 402

    The JOE quick-fire general knowledge quiz: Day 402

    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 […]

    1 year ago

  • Prime Video has just added one of the best action movies of the 21st century

    Prime Video has just added one of the best action movies of the 21st century

    ‘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

  • A controversial sci-fi thriller movie on Netflix is climbing up the streaming charts

    A controversial sci-fi thriller movie on Netflix is climbing up the streaming charts

    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

  • A brand new Harlan Coben thriller show is coming to Netflix next month

    A brand new Harlan Coben thriller show is coming to Netflix next month

    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 JOE quick-fire general knowledge quiz: Day 401

    The JOE quick-fire general knowledge quiz: Day 401

    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 […]

    1 year ago

  • One of the best crime drama movies ever is on TV tonight

    One of the best crime drama movies ever is on TV tonight

    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

  • An extremely tense sci-fi thriller movie is on TV tonight

    An extremely tense sci-fi thriller movie is on TV tonight

    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 […]

    1 year ago

  • One of the best Western movies of recent years is on TV tonight

    One of the best Western movies of recent years is on TV tonight

    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 […]

    1 year ago

  • A massively popular Western series has just been added to Netflix

    A massively popular Western series has just been added to Netflix

    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 […]

    1 year ago

  • Netflix has just added one of the best thriller shows of recent years

    Netflix has just added one of the best thriller shows of recent years

    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 JOE quick-fire general knowledge quiz: Day 400

    The JOE quick-fire general knowledge quiz: Day 400

    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

  • One of the best action movies of the 21st century is on TV tonight

    One of the best action movies of the 21st century is on TV tonight

    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

  • WORLD EXCLUSIVE: First trailer released for Dr. Strangelove starring Steve Coogan

    WORLD EXCLUSIVE: First trailer released for Dr. Strangelove starring Steve Coogan

    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 best Western movie of 2024 is finally available to stream at home

    The best Western movie of 2024 is finally available to stream at home

    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

  • One of the very best legal thriller movies of recent years is on TV tonight

    One of the very best legal thriller movies of recent years is on TV tonight

    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

  • Irish store that sold this week’s winning €4.5m Lotto jackpot ticket revealed

    Irish store that sold this week’s winning €4.5m Lotto jackpot ticket revealed

    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

  • Two men, 20s, die in Carlow road crash as two other people seriously injured

    Two men, 20s, die in Carlow road crash as two other people seriously injured

    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

  • Here is the line-up for this week’s episode of The Late Late Show

    Here is the line-up for this week’s episode of The Late Late Show

    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