Stephen Porzio

The series comes from Harlan Coben, the writer behind Fool Me Once, Missing You and The Stranger. Fresh off the back of streaming hit Missing You in January, Netflix has re-teamed with best-selling author Harlan Coben on not one but two more TV adaptations coming out this month. The first has already arrived and is […]

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Just when it feels like there hasn’t been a major comedy released in ages, two arrive together. If you head to the cinema this weekend, you have the option of seeing not one, but two new comedies – Marching Powder and One of Them Days. The first film stars man-of-the-moment Danny Dyer (fresh off his […]

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Ahead of its time, the film shares similarities with one of 2024’s biggest action movies. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 6 March) is Bushwick, a 2017 action thriller starring Dave Bautista (Dune, Guardians of the Galaxy). In the film, the wrestler-turned-actor plays a combat veteran living in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn, New […]

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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 417 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 36th 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 Failure to Launch How […]

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The film was only out in cinemas a few weeks ago and was nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. Prime Video has just added Nickel Boys, the acclaimed historical drama film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Colson Whitehead. Set mostly in the ’60s, the movie follows an African-American […]

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The deliriously fun modern classic will soon be getting a sequel. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 5 March) is Ready or Not, the excellent 2019 horror thriller starring scream queen Samara Weaving (The Babysitter, Scream VI). In the film, Weaving plays Grace, a young bride who marries the man of her dreams (Mark […]

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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 415 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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He was in the band for nearly nine years. The Mary Wallopers have announced that one of their founding members, Seán McKenna, is leaving the band. One-third of the original Mary Wallopers trio, McKenna was a guitarist and vocalist for the on-the-rise Irish folk group. In a statement shared on the band’s social media, McKenna […]

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Producers had been trying to adapt the game since 2005. Netflix has just added the first season of Halo, the sci-fi series based on the hugely popular video game franchise. Since as far back as 2005, there were reports that a live-action movie adaptation of the Halo games was in the works – though in […]

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It was recently announced that a remake of the film is in the works. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 1 March) is A Fistful of Dollars, the first entry in Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood’s iconic Dollars Trilogy of Westerns. Directed by Leone and starring Eastwood in his first lead role, the 1964 […]

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‘The inaction we’ve experienced is not only heartbreaking – it’s unacceptable.’ A group of 54 parents of children without suitable SEN (Special Educational Needs) school placements have staged a 24-hour sleepout at the Department of Education headquarters in Dublin 1. Beginning at 1pm on Friday (28 February), the parents said in a statement that this […]

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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 414 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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If you haven’t seen the cult sci-fi film before, now is the time to do so. Netflix has announced that it will be removing its acclaimed, cult-favourite sci-fi thriller Annihilation from the service later this month. Written and directed by Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Civil War, Ex Machina), the movie stars Oscar-winner Natalie Portman […]

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The film also has one of the best final scenes in recent memory as well. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 28 February) is Nightmare Alley, the excellent 2021 neo-noir psychological thriller co-written and directed by Guillermo del Toro (Crimson Peak, The Shape of Water). Based on the William Lindsay Gresham novel – previously […]

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‘…Especially with what’s going on in our country at the moment. I’m glad I’m here.’ Ed Harris and Jessica Lange were full of praise for Ireland on the red carpet in Dublin last night, with Harris saying: “I’d just as soon live here.” The pair attended the world premiere of their new movie Long Day’s […]

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Holding a 90% Rotten Tomatoes score, the film stars a future Oscar winner. Prime Video has just added Moon, the incredible 2009 sci-fi starring future Oscar-winner Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri). In the film, the actor plays Sam Bell, an astronaut in the future whose solo three-year work shift at a mine on […]

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The movie’s lead actress recently picked up an IFTA Award for her performance. Netflix has just added the Saoirse Ronan-starring The Outrun, one of 2024’s best-reviewed drama films. Based on the 2016 memoir of the same name by Amy Liptrot, the movie’s story is told in non-linear order and follows a young woman from Scotland […]

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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 413 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 35th 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 Doctor Strange in the […]

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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 412 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 best way to spend three minutes of your day. Welcome back to our beloved quick-fire general knowledge quiz! We’re on day 411 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 was nominated for nine Academy Awards, making it the most Oscar-nominated Irish film ever. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 22 February) is The Banshees of Inisherin, one of the best movies of the decade and one of the best Irish movies ever. The film is set in 1923, near the end […]

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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 410 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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Gardaí told JOE that the remains will be removed for examination and DNA analysis. Gardaí now believe that a severed hand found at a school in Darndale, north Dublin belonged to a 12-year-old boy injured in a gas canister explosion nearby, according to reports. In a statement to JOE on Friday (21 February), Gardaí said […]

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