This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. ‘Unrelenting, no-nonsense and hard-as-nails.’ A victim of being released in the UK amid the Covid pandemic, the British crime thriller Bull – which has just been added to Prime Video – was sadly not seen by as many people […]

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This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. While not for the faint of heart, the film is certain to appear on many best of 2024 lists. Prime Video has just added Love Lies Bleeding, a 2024 noir crime thriller that is sure to go down as […]

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Easily one of the year’s most talked about films, it is truly an unforgettable watch. The Substance, the brilliantly bonkers body horror satire released in cinemas just a few weeks ago, is now available to watch at home. Streaming on the service Mubi, the film is the sophomore effort of visionary writer-director Coralie Fargeat (we […]

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It has a brilliant cast. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 2 November) is 21 Bridges, the 2019 action crime thriller starring the late and great Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther). In the film, the actor plays Detective Andre Davis – a policeman on the hunt for two young cop killers in New York (Stephan […]

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Comprising of five episodes, the series boasts a score by Hans Zimmer. The Night Logan Woke Up, the excellent Canadian mystery drama miniseries, has finally been made available to watch in the UK. Streaming now through the Studiocanal Presents service, the French-language show tells the story of the Quebec-based family the Larouches, whose estranged adult […]

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If you know, you know. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday 1 November) is Prince of Darkness, the supremely underrated upon-release 1987 horror from writer-director John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing). The film follows a group of scientists in Los Angeles who are asked to assist a Catholic priest (Donald Pleasence) in investigating an ancient […]

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Its story was previously made into a Twilight Zone episode. Our TV movie pick for tonight (31 October aka Halloween) is The Box, the underrated sci-fi thriller from cult writer-director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko). The 2009 film is based on the short story ‘Button, Button’ by Richard Matheson (Duel, I Am Legend), which was previously […]

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Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 18th entry in 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 Zombieland 28 Days Later […]

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This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. The film would make perfect viewing ahead of Halloween. Prime Video has quietly added Immaculate, the much-discussed and very good 2024 horror movie produced by and starring Sydney Sweeney (Anyone But You, Euphoria). In the film, the rising star […]

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The film spawned a sequel series that ran for two seasons. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 30 October) is Legion, the 2010 action horror starring Paul Bettany (WandaVision). In the film, Bettany plays the Archangel Michael who falls to Earth after rebelling against God. This is because God has lost faith in humanity […]

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The thriller show was shot on location in Donegal. Crá, a new Irish-language crime thriller mystery series, will be released by TG4 this month. Commissioned by both the Irish channel and BBC Northern Ireland, the six-part show is described as a “gripping story of murder, secrets and justice in a close-knit Irish village”. The plot […]

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It holds a 94% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Ahead of Halloween, we are urging fans of horrors and thrillers to check out MadS – a 2024 hidden gem that has just been released. Available to stream on the service Shudder, the French film begins with a young man buying drugs ahead of a big house […]

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The film has retained the much-coveted title for another year. This week, it was announced that the 2012 horror flick Sinister had retained its title as the scariest movie ever, according to science (it was joined on the top 20 by a recent Irish gem). The Science of Scare project has been running since 2020 […]

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Hailing from the writer of Basic Instinct, the film has an 81% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 24 October) is Jagged Edge, the 1985 neo-noir legal thriller starring Glenn Close and Jeff Bridges. The film centres around lawyer Teddy Barnes (Close) who reluctantly takes up the case of publisher […]

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Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 17th entry in The JOE Film Club Quiz. This week, we are presenting players with stills from 10 movies. They then have to select what film the images are from based on three options. Have what it takes? Play below and find out. Name the movie Ocean's Eleven Wolfs […]

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Matt Damon is also rumoured to co-star. Tom Holland has confirmed he will star in legendary filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s mysterious next movie. A couple of weeks ago, it was reportedly revealed that there are plans for Nolan’s follow-up to smash hit and Oscar Best Picture winner Oppenheimer to be released on IMAX on 17 July, […]

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Produced by M. Night Shyamalan, the film has been earning comparisons to a hit Netflix show. Caddo Lake, a 2024 mind-bending mystery thriller, is newly available to watch through NOW Cinema and Sky Cinema. Produced by M. Night Shyamalan, the film stars Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner) and Eliza Scanlen (Old) as two strangers whose […]

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It holds an 89% Rotten Tomatoes score. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 23 October) is Prospect, a hugely underseen 2018 sci-fi gem starring Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us). Set in the future, the film centres around a teenage girl named Cee (Sophie Thatcher, The Boogeyman) who travels with her father (Jay Duplass, […]

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The 2024 flick beat out some horror heavyweights to make the list. An excellent new Irish movie has been dubbed one of the scariest films of all time, according to science. Released in cinemas in August of this year, the horror thriller is titled Oddity and hails from writer-director Damien Mc Carthy (Caveat). The plot […]

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This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. This is one of those cases where you should believe the hype. Kneecap, one of the best movies of 2024, has finally been given a streaming release date. Coming to Prime Video on 15 November, the Sundance award-winning film […]

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While the airport says it’s just ‘a bit of fun’, the rule has caused quite a stir. An airport in New Zealand has caused quite a stir for introducing a three-minute time limit on goodbye hugs. Dunedin Airport has brought in the limit at its drop-off location to combat people lingering around leaving no space […]

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It holds a 91% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 22 October) is Locke, the 2013 film starring Tom Hardy which was written and directed by Peaky Blinders’ creator Steven Knight. In the thriller drama, the actor plays Ivan Locke, a family man and successful construction manager whose life begins […]

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It would be the first time the pair have worked together. Tom Holland is in talks to co-star in legendary filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s mysterious next movie alongside Matt Damon, according to reports. Earlier this month, it was reportedly revealed that there are plans for Nolan’s follow-up to smash hit and Oscar Best Picture winner Oppenheimer […]

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It’s already one of 2024’s most-talked about shows. Disney+ has just added Rivals, a new TV series that has quickly become one of 2024’s most talked about shows. Based on the 1988 novel of the same name by Jilly Cooper, the series is set in ’80s Britain and “dives headfirst into the cutthroat world of […]

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It was the first Western directed by a legend of the genre. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 19 October) is High Plains Drifter, the classic 1973 Western directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. In the film, Eastwood plays a gunslinging drifter with no name who wanders into the small Old West town of […]

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A perfect pre-Halloween watch. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Friday, 18 October) is The Awakening, a brilliant supernatural drama from 2011 starring Rebecca Hall (The Night House). Directed by Nick Murphy (who also made the excellent 2012 crime drama Blood), the film is set in post-World War I England and sees the actress play […]

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Here’s JOE’s verdict on the controversial film. The idea of Donald Trump biographical drama The Apprentice arriving in 2024 is a tricky thing for American audiences. Those who are pro-Trump don’t want to see a film featuring anything negative about the businessman turned politician, while those anti-Trump probably do not want to witness a nuanced […]

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Streaming on Netflix right now, the movie has a very impressive 92% Rotten Tomatoes score. Netflix has just added Woman of the Hour, an acclaimed new crime thriller movie based on the life of serial killer Rodney Alcala. Focusing on almost unbelievable true events, the film tells the story of how Alcala (played by Daniel […]

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While it did not fare well at the box office, the controversial 2023 film should find a bigger audience through streaming. It’s rare for a mainstream movie to get that blood-red 18s rating from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), but the epic black comedy-drama Babylon managed to do it when it was released in […]

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Hailing from the writer-director of The Football Factory, it’s a very NSFW teaser. A very extreme first trailer has hit the web for Marching Powder, a new sports comedy-drama movie from actor Danny Dyer and writer-director Nick Love – who both worked together on the cult classic The Football Factory. Set in the “irreverent and […]

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Also currently streaming on Prime Video, it’s a truly unforgettable film. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 17 October) is Kill List, the utterly terrifying 2011 British thriller from co-writer and director Ben Wheatley (Down Terrace, Free Fire, High-Rise). The film centres around a solider-turned hitman named Jay (Neil Maskell, Hijack) still reeling from […]

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Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 16th entry in The JOE Film Club Quiz. This week, we are presenting players with stills from 10 movies. They then have to select what film the images are from based on three options. Have what it takes? Play below and find out. Name the movie Talladega Nights: The […]

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Holding an 86% Rotten Tomatoes score, one critic dubbed it as being ‘as violent as the Coens, as vérité as Ken Loach’. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 16 October) is Down Terrace, the debut film from acclaimed co-writer and director Ben Wheatley (Free Fire, High-Rise, Kill List). The darkly comic crime thriller revolves […]

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EXCLUSIVE: Two of the actresses involved have given advice on how to approach the projects going head-to-head. Next month will see the release of two major Irish TV shows in close proximity to each other, events we are already dubbing ‘the Irish Barbenheimer’. The second season of comedy thriller Bad Sisters will be premiering on […]

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The show premiered just last April. Netflix has added The Cuckoo, the hit Channel 5 series that premiered just last April. The show centres around a financially strained couple named Nick (Lee Ingleby, Line of Duty) and Jessica (Claire Goose, Unforgotten) who take in mysterious lodger, Sian (Jill Halfpenny, Liar), who soon charms the whole […]

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It holds a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score. Our TV movie pick for tonight is Assault on Precinct 13, the 1976 indie action thriller classic from legendary writer-director John Carpenter (Escape from New York, Halloween, The Thing). The film centres around a group of cops, criminals and secretaries who must defend a soon-to-be-closed Los Angeles police […]

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It features one of Hollywood’s most popular rising stars in the lead role. A new “darkly addictive” thriller series with a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score is streaming right now in its entirety. Available to watch through NOW and Sky, the show is titled Sweetpea and is produced by and stars Ella Purnell (star of […]

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Several Oscar-winners are involved in the thriller miniseries both on-screen and off. A new mystery thriller miniseries available to stream now is being hailed by several critics as “the best show of the year”. Produced by Apple TV+, the series is titled Disclaimer and stars two-time Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett (Tár) as a famous documentarian and […]

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The modern classic has an 86% score on Rotten Tomatoes. A common and valid complaint about mainstream US cinema today is that there are too many sequels, remakes and reboots. While this may be the case in terms of hugely budgeted tentpole releases by big studios, we’d argue that there are plenty of entertaining yet […]

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The film earned rave reviews upon its release in 2021. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 10 October) is The Novice, the acclaimed 2021 psychological sports thriller. The film follows Alex (played by Isabelle Fuhrman, Orphan), a college freshman who joins her university’s rowing team and becomes obsessed with being the squad’s best rower, […]

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Movie fans, assemble! Welcome to the 15th entry in The JOE Film Club Quiz. This week, we are presenting players with stills from 10 movies. They then have to select what film the images are from based on three options. Have what it takes? Play below and find out. Name the movie Pulp Fiction Reservoir […]

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This article contains affiliate links, we may earn a commission on any sales generated from it. Holding an 88% Rotten Tomatoes score, the film was a word-of-mouth hit earlier in the year. Prime Video has just added Challengers, one of 2024’s buzziest and best-reviewed movies. Directed by Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash, Call Me By […]

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Holding a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, the director of this sadly underseen thriller was recently in the news. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 9 October) is Revenge, the incredible and sadly underseen 2017 action thriller. Written and directed by Coralie Fargeat in her feature debut, the film revolves around a young woman named […]

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It looks like the film will see him reuniting with a major Hollywood star. The first details about writer-director Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to smash hit and Oscar Best Picture winner Oppenheimer have reportedly been revealed. According to multiple outlets, there are plans for the legendary filmmaker’s movie – whose title is unknown as-of-yet – to […]

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The show boasted a star-studded cast. Netflix has cancelled Kaos, its darkly comic fantasy epic series, after only one season. The show was released just a few weeks ago on 29 August and was created by Charlie Covell, who wrote The End of the F***ing World. Taking place in a version of the modern world […]

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It is noteworthy for being the first sequel of its lead actor’s career. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Tuesday, 8 October) is The Equalizer 2, the excellent second entry in Denzel Washington’s beloved Equalizer trilogy of action films. The sequel sees retired US Marine and DIA agent Robert McCall (two-time Oscar-winner Washington) trying to […]

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Shortly after earning raves at its Sundance Film Festival world premiere, the film was bought by Netflix for a whopping $17 million. Netflix has just added It’s What’s Inside, one of 2024’s buzziest and best-reviewed sci-fi thriller movies. Written and directed by Greg Jardin in his feature film debut, the movie revolves around a pre-wedding […]

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The series is based on a dark real-life police investigation. An acclaimed true crime drama series from 2019 is climbing up the Netflix charts having been recently added to the streaming service. That show is titled A Confession, which originally aired on ITV and details the true story of Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher (played by […]

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The show has already been renewed for a third season. A post-apocalyptic series that has earned strong comparisons to The Last of Us is now back for its second season. Available to watch via NOW Entertainment and Sky Max, that show is The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, a spin-off of the hit zombie drama series […]

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The darkly comic thriller has a 91% Rotten Tomatoes score. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 5 October) is Go, the 1999 crime comedy thriller directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow, the new Road House). Comprising three different interconnected stories, the film begins with two young women (Katie Holmes and […]

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