Holding an 87% score on Rotten Tomatoes, the film was only in cinemas a few months ago but has already come to streaming. The Beast, an epic sci-fi movie from acclaimed French director Bertrand Bonello (Nocturama), is now streaming at home in the UK just weeks after its cinema release. Available to watch on the […]

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Also featuring strong Western elements, the film comes from the director of the classics 48 Hrs. and The Warriors. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 20 July) is Extreme Prejudice, an ’80s action thriller with strong Western elements. It centres around two childhood friends, one of which has grown up to be a Texas […]

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It is landing on the streaming giant very soon. A new edition of Godzilla Minus One, the beloved 2023 monster movie that picked up an Oscar earlier this year, is coming to Netflix very soon. Titled Godzilla Minus One / Minus Color, it is described as a “meticulously decolorised version” of the Japanese runaway blockbuster. […]

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This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. ‘For a modern sensibility, not a good thing to do.’ Prime Video’s very entertaining Ancient Rome-set historical epic series Those About to Die is now available to stream in its entirety. Directed by Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow, […]

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We’d argue there has never been a more clever idea for a Western movie. Title – The Quick and the Dead Year – 1995 Plot – “A female gunfighter (Sharon Stone) returns to a frontier town where a duelling tournament is being held, which she enters in an effort to avenge her father’s death.” Cast […]

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We’d advise seeing this on the largest screen possible. The 1996 movie Twister has aged like a fine wine. A special effects extravaganza about storm chasers researching tornadoes, it was seemingly developed as a way to try to replicate the success of Jurassic Park. It was co-written by Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton and executively […]

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This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. It was a big hit at the box-office and with the Oscars. Prime Video has just added Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 Western film masterpiece, to its streaming service. Set two years before the US Civil War, Jamie Foxx […]

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It’s a truly haunting start to a brilliantly creepy film. We here at JOE we’re raving about the new movie Longlegs last week, writing in our review that it was the first 5/5 horror or thriller film of 2024. And now that it has landed in cinemas, where it has become a massive box office […]

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It’s an absolute modern classic. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 17 July) is Top Gun: Maverick, the over $1 billion grossing Oscar-winner released in 2022. A sequel to the 1986 action classic Top Gun, Tom Cruise reprises his role as the daredevil naval aviator Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell. Having fallen out with his bosses […]

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Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the second entry in a new series of quizzes – The JOE Film Club Quiz. Each week, we will prepare 20 questions designed to test movie lovers. And making matters slightly harder – players only have five minutes to fill out the answers. Have what it takes? Play below and […]

2 years ago

Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the first in a new series of quizzes – The JOE Film Club Quiz. Each week, we will prepare 20 questions designed to test movie lovers. And making matters slightly harder – players only have five minutes to fill out the answers. Have what it takes? Play below and find […]

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This darkly entertaining gem was released in 2018. Netflix has just added Greta, the tense 2018 psychological thriller movie from director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Michael Collins), to its service. The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) as Frances, a young woman living in New York with her friend and roommate (Maika Monroe, Longlegs) […]

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This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. The connections between the two projects run much deeper than both just being set in Ancient Rome. With the release of the trailer for Gladiator II and the release of Prime Video’s new historical epic series Those About to […]

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EXCLUSIVE: The director of the disaster movie classic Roland Emmerich told JOE of his plans for what sounds like a spiritual sequel. The Day After Tomorrow, the blockbuster movie in which climate change brings about a new ice age, just turned 20 years old a couple of weeks ago. That said, some sort of sequel […]

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It’s from the director of Die Hard and Predator. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 16 July) is The Thomas Crown Affair, the 1999 classic heist film starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo. A remake of a ’60s movie, which starred Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, the reimagining sees Brosnan play the titular bored […]

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The show is set in an ‘eerie lakeside town where an arson, missing persons cold case, and an illicit triangle are intricately intertwined’. The BBC‘s new crime drama The Jetty is a must-watch for fans of Happy Valley. Instead of Happy Valley’s Yorkshire setting, The Jetty takes place in an “eerie lakeside town” in Lancashire […]

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It is definitely one of Bruce Willis’ most underrated movies. This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. Lucky Number Slevin, the 2006 neo-noir crime thriller movie with a truly all-star cast, is now streaming on Prime Video. Directed by Paul McGuigan (Gangster No. 1, Sherlock), the […]

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There is so much newly available to watch. This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. Another week, another batch of new movie and TV show additions to the big streaming services. Here’s the films and series you can check out now. Movies The Batman (Prime Video) […]

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It’s a must for fans of silly but hysterical comedies like Hot Rod and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. For those on the hunt for a funny new comedy movie, we’d recommend Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain which is now streaming via Sky Cinema and NOW Cinema. As you can probably guess […]

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A recent poll saw the film voted the ‘fourth best war movie of all time’. This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. Prime Video has just added Black Hawk Down, which was recently named one of the greatest war films of all time. Directed by Ridley […]

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

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“The heavyweight tear-jerker of the year.” This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. Prime Video has just added The Iron Claw, the brilliant sports drama that landed in cinemas last February and is based on a shocking true story. Written and directed by Sean Durkin (Martha […]

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“It was one of the most notorious and horrific killings the country has ever witnessed.” This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. A new documentary about Charlotte and Linda Mulhall – dubbed the ‘Scissor Sisters’ by Irish media – and their killing of Farah Swaleh Noor […]

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The original was a massive hit for Netflix. The Platform, one of Netflix’s best and biggest original thrillers ever, is getting a sequel set for a release later this year. Hailing from Spain, the 2019 movie tells the story of a man named Goreng (Iván Massagué) who one day wakes up in a tower-style holding […]

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The film is from the director of Man on Fire, Top Gun and True Romance. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 11 July) is Beverly Hills Cop II, the second entry in the classic action comedy franchise which was directed by the great Tony Scott (Man on Fire, Top Gun, True Romance). The plot […]

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If you’re looking for a short film to check out this weekday, the heist flick is a breezy 88-minutes-long. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 10 July) is Armored, a 2009 heist action thriller starring Matt Dillon (Crash), Jean Reno (Léon: The Professional) and Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix). The film revolves around Ty (Columbus […]

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The show has also been handed a release date as fans have been complaining about the wait for season two. The second season of Apple TV+ sci-fi thriller series Severance has gotten its first teaser trailer and a release date. This is as fans have taken to social media to complain about how long they […]

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The Western was itself a remake. A Fistful of Dollars, the first entry in Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood’s iconic Dollars Trilogy of movies, is getting a remake. Directed by Leone and starring Eastwood in his first lead role, the 1964 Western sees the latter play a wandering gunfighter who arrives in a Mexican village […]

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It has a sequel coming out in October, so now is a perfect time to catch up with the film. Smile, the 2022 acclaimed smash-hit horror movie, has finally been added to Netflix. Written and directed by Parker Finn, based off an earlier short he made, the film revolves around a doctor named Rose (a […]

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If you love John Wick or The Raid, do yourself a favour and seek this out. 2024 has not been a bad year so far for action movie fans thanks to the likes of Civil War, The Fall Guy, Furiosa and Land of Bad. It must be said though, all of these pale in terms […]

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It comes from the creator of the hit drama series Euphoria. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 9 July) is Assassination Nation, the 2018 dark comedy thriller movie from writer-director Sam Levinson (Euphoria, The Idol, Malcolm and Marie). The film revolves around four teenage friends (Abra, Hari Nef, Odessa Young and Suki Waterhouse) whose American town of Salem […]

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It’s a must-watch for fans of serial killer thrillers like Fallen, The Silence of the Lambs, Se7en and Zodiac. We’re over halfway through the year but 2024 has already given UK cinema goers some 5/5 movies. I’d comfortably label the unforgettably haunting Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest, the devastatingly emotional All of Us Strangers […]

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Hailing from the director of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Mr. Robot, the show has earned comparisons to Columbo. A new detective thriller series has premiered on the BBC and is proving a hit with both viewers and critics. That show is The Turkish Detective, which centres around Mehmet Suleyman (Ethan Kai) – […]

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The Hitchcockian psychological thriller is based on an acclaimed novel and stars an Oscar-winner. Eileen, one of 2023’s most sadly underseen movies, is now available to stream through Sky Cinema and NOW Cinema. Based on the acclaimed novel of the same name by Ottessa Moshfegh (My Year of Rest and Relaxation) and directed by William […]

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The film has been compared to the work of Guy Ritchie. The Art of the Steal, a star-studded crime comedy heist movie, has just been added to Netflix. The film follows Crunch Calhoun (Kurt Russell), a motorcycle daredevil and art thief, who agrees to help his half-brother (Matt Dillon) with one last heist. As Crunch […]

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The series hailed from the creators of The Matrix. Netflix’s new British superhero drama Supacell has been major success, topping the service’s TV charts in the UK and scoring a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes. And having watched all of its six episodes, we’d say the show’s inventive ground-level superhero storytelling, its great performances […]

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He picked up a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the modern classic. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 6 July) is the 2001 crime thriller Training Day, one of Denzel Washington’s very best films. It centres around rookie cop Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) as he spends his first day as a Los […]

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Streaming on Netflix now, the stylish flick’s deft blend of action, horror and thriller elements makes it a film anyone can enjoy. Title – The Guest Year – 2014 Plot – “A string of mysterious deaths leads a teenager (Maika Monroe) to become suspicious of a soldier (Dan Stevens) who showed up on her family’s […]

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One for fans of old school action flicks. Netflix has just added Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, the new fourth entry in the legendary action comedy movie franchise. Eddie Murphy reprises his role as Axel Foley, a Detroit police officer who travels back to Beverly Hills after his estranged lawyer daughter, Jane Saunders (Taylour Paige, […]

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The film won two Oscars. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 5 July) is Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 Western film masterpiece. Set two years before the US Civil War, Jamie Foxx stars as a slave named Django who finds himself accompanying an unorthodox German bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) on […]

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This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. Holding a 91% score on Rotten Tomatoes, it was written and directed by the creator of Peaky Blinders. Prime Video has just added Locke, the 2013 movie starring Tom Hardy which was written and directed by Steven Knight – […]

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This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. The film has split audiences right down the middle. The Outwaters, the divisive micro-budget found footage horror movie from 2022, is now available to stream at home via Prime Video. The film opens by telling the audience that four […]

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It comes from the producer of Get Out and Paranormal Activity. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 4 July) is Dark Skies, the underrated sci-fi horror thriller movie from 2013. It centres around a married couple (played by Josh Hamilton and Keri Russell) whose peaceful life in the suburbs with their sons is shattered […]

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It’s one of the most anticipated films of the year. For many horror movie fans, the release of the new film MaXXXine has been the most anticipated event on the cinematic calendar. After all, it is writer-director Ti West’s follow-up to his 2022 slasher X and its prequel Pearl – two of the coolest movies […]

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The underrated and underseen flick was surprisingly made by the director of cult comedies Clerks and Dogma. Red State, the 2011 thriller movie written and directed by cult filmmaker Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy, Clerks, Dogma), has been added to Netflix. It revolves around three teenagers – Travis (Michael Angarano), Jarod (Kyle Gallner) and Billy-Ray (Nicholas […]

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Featuring several acting titans as part of its cast, the film is a true underseen gem. Citizen X, a brilliant underseen crime thriller based on a shocking true story, has been made available to stream on Sky Atlantic and NOW Entertainment. Released as a TV movie by HBO back in 1995, it tells the story […]

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It features a great ensemble cast. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 25 June) is In a Valley of Violence, the excellent 2016 Western with a star-studded cast. The film sees Ethan Hawke play a mysterious drifter in the Old West who, while travelling toward Mexico, stumbles into a town known as the “valley […]

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This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. It stars an Oscar-winner in the lead role. Prime Video has just added Sleeping Dogs, a new murder mystery thriller movie starring Oscar-winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator). Based on the 2017 novel The Book of Mirrors, Crowe stars as Roy […]

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It also has one of the most iconic final scenes in a film ever. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 22 June) is The Long Good Friday, the classic British gangster flick from 1980. Set in the late 1970s, it follows Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) – an English gangster trying to become a legitimate […]

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It was a massive box-office hit, a Best Picture Oscar nominee and even introduced a new term into the public lexicon. Fatal Attraction, one of the most famous thriller movies of all time, has been added to Netflix. Released in 1987, it centres around a man named Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) with a great life, […]

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