Prime Video has just quietly added 50 huge movies
The streaming additions are a great mix of classics, cult movies and Irish films. This month, Prime Video has been on an adding spree. To save you from sifting through the streaming service, we’ve compiled a list of the 50 most noteworthy additions below: Absolution This ’70s thriller is from Anthony Shaffer, the writer of […]
3 weeks ago
Irish drama series being compared to Downton Abbey gets release date
Season two of the show is already on the way. The Hardacres, a new Ireland-shot drama earning comparisons to Downton Abbey, has just been handed a release date by RTÉ. The six-part show, which first aired on Channel 5 in the UK, is based on CL Skelton’s best-selling series of novels The Hardacre Saga and […]
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New Irish movie getting early Oscar buzz after huge festival win
From the writer of Adam & Paul and Garage, JOE recently spoke to one of the film’s stars. Irish movie Everybody Digs Bill Evans is generating early Oscar buzz after picking up a major award at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival. Primarily filmed in Cork, the movie is a biographical drama about the legendary […]
1 month ago
A powerful Irish drama movie is airing on TV tonight
Upon its cinema release, some critics even called it ‘the best Irish film ever made’. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 20 February) is Garage, the 2007 drama directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Mark O’Halloran. The same writing-directing duo behind the modern classic Adam & Paul, Garage revolves around Josie (Pat Shortt, […]
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A star-studded Irish drama movie is on TV tonight
The film takes its title from a U2 song. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 18 February) is With or Without You, the 1999 Northern Ireland-set comedy-drama directed by Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, The Trip). The film follows Rosie (Dervla Kirwan, House of Guinness) and Vincent (Christopher Eccleston, Shallow Grave), a couple […]
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Powerful new drama with 98% on Rotten Tomatoes is available to watch now
The partly Irish film features one of the stars of Gangs of London and Slow Horses in the lead role. My Father’s Shadow, an excellent new drama film with 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, is available to watch in cinemas now. An Irish-Nigeria-UK co-production, the movie is set in 1993 against the backdrop of the Nigerian […]
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