Stephen Porzio

The series is full of heists, sports and real-life history and is a must for Peaky Blinders fans. Disney+ has just added the whole first season of A Thousand Blows, a new period crime drama series from Steven Knight – the creator of Peaky Blinders. Set in 1880s Victorian London, the show charts the rise […]

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Holding a 90% Rotten Tomatoes score, it was nominated for Best Film at the Irish Film Awards. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 21 Friday) is God’s Creatures, the acclaimed 2022 Irish psychological drama starring Emily Watson and Paul Mescal. Set in a small and sleepy Irish fishing village, the film centres around Aileen […]

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JOE spoke to Fiennes on the red carpet in Dublin, where we also asked him about the rumours of Murphy playing a zombie in 28 Years Later. As those reading probably are aware, a new Harry Potter series is in the works at HBO, and there have been rumours that Irish Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy is […]

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The new season has a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score. The third season of Reacher, one of Prime Video’s best shows, has just been added to the streaming service. Based on the Jack Reacher series of books by Lee Child, the show follows the title character (played by Alan Ritchson in a star-making turn) – […]

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The show has been called ‘properly thrilling’ and ‘preposterously entertaining’. Netflix has just added Zero Day, a new political techno-thriller series starring two-time Oscar-winner Robert De Niro (The Godfather Part II, Raging Bull) in his first major TV role. The six-part limited show sees the actor play a former US president named George Mullen, who […]

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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 409 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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In fact, it recently made a list of the 20 best war films of all time. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 19 February) is Fury, the 2014 hard-hitting World War II drama with Brad Pitt. Set in April 1945 when the Allies are making their final push in the European theatre, the film […]

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The new season holds a 93% Rotten Tomatoes score. The White Lotus, one of the best shows of the decade, is back with its third season on NOW and Sky. For those not aware, the anthology comedy-drama with thriller elements revolves around the titular fictional resort hotel chain – with each season following the guests […]

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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 407 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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The film’s Oscar-winning director will have a new sci-fi epic in cinemas very soon. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 18 February) is Snowpiercer, the incredible 2013 sci-fi action thriller from Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon-ho (Parasite, Okja, the upcoming Mickey 17). Based on a French graphic novel, the film takes place on an Earth […]

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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 406 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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The film comes from the same director as the German historical drama Downfall. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 15 February) is Five Minutes of Heaven, the brilliant Irish thriller drama starring James Nesbitt and Liam Neeson. Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (German historical drama Downfall) and written by Guy Hibbert (Omagh), the film is […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Based on a true story, the film only got a brief, limited cinema release but is now being discovered via streaming. A common complaint you hear about cinemas is that they are only full of blockbusters and sequels. While this isn’t quite true – the box office success of indies and smaller films like A […]

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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 […]

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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 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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 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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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 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, […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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