Brian Bowe
@brian-bowe.bsky.social
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•Words: Sight & Sound | LWLies | RTÉ
•Editor: HeadStuff
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•Words: Sight & Sound | LWLies | RTÉ
•Editor: HeadStuff
•Portfolio: http://bquinn.contently.com
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Brian Bowe
@brian-bowe.bsky.social
· Mar 6
Bad Painter review: a gleefully absurd self-portrait
German artist Albert Oehlen invites audiences into his subconscious with an irreverent mockumentary starring Udo Kier.
www.bfi.org.uk
Thrilled to be back in @sightsoundmag.bsky.social with my review of Albert Oehlen’s delightfully bonkers solo directorial debut, BAD PAINTER, fresh from its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam #IFFR
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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"Zhao’s vision isn’t subtle, but it reaches for big emotions and achieves them, sometimes in spite of itself."
our HAMNET review
✍️ @cynicalfilm.bsky.social
🍿 in cinemas from Friday
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
our HAMNET review
✍️ @cynicalfilm.bsky.social
🍿 in cinemas from Friday
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
Hamnet Movie Review | Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal’s Sublimely Sad Shakespeare Story - HeadStuff
Philip Bagnall reviews Hamnet, Chloé Zhao's film about William and Agnes Shakespeare – and the tragic loss of their child.
headstuff.org
January 8, 2026 at 1:09 PM
"Zhao’s vision isn’t subtle, but it reaches for big emotions and achieves them, sometimes in spite of itself."
our HAMNET review
✍️ @cynicalfilm.bsky.social
🍿 in cinemas from Friday
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
our HAMNET review
✍️ @cynicalfilm.bsky.social
🍿 in cinemas from Friday
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
Last day to catch PETER HUJAR'S DAY @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social — hard to pass up!
January 8, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Last day to catch PETER HUJAR'S DAY @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social — hard to pass up!
"Zhao’s vision isn’t subtle, but it reaches for big emotions and achieves them, sometimes in spite of itself."
our HAMNET review
✍️ @cynicalfilm.bsky.social
🍿 in cinemas from Friday
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
our HAMNET review
✍️ @cynicalfilm.bsky.social
🍿 in cinemas from Friday
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
Hamnet Movie Review | Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal’s Sublimely Sad Shakespeare Story - HeadStuff
Philip Bagnall reviews Hamnet, Chloé Zhao's film about William and Agnes Shakespeare – and the tragic loss of their child.
headstuff.org
January 8, 2026 at 1:09 PM
"Zhao’s vision isn’t subtle, but it reaches for big emotions and achieves them, sometimes in spite of itself."
our HAMNET review
✍️ @cynicalfilm.bsky.social
🍿 in cinemas from Friday
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
our HAMNET review
✍️ @cynicalfilm.bsky.social
🍿 in cinemas from Friday
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
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From the grind of poverty to the perfection of porridge via samurai and swearing, read film editor @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social's write-up of Scottish film in 2025
Scotland on Screen: A Year in Scottish Film – The Skinny
From the grind of poverty to the perfection of porridge via samurai and swearing, this was 2025 in Scottish film.
www.theskinny.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 12:30 PM
From the grind of poverty to the perfection of porridge via samurai and swearing, read film editor @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social's write-up of Scottish film in 2025
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"Slick and smart, Saipan effectively communicates its tragicomedy to non-sporting cinephiles, and should reignite the old debate for football fans too."
It's Saipan Week on Film In Dublin, starting with our review - what did you think of the Keane/McCarthy film?
filmindublin.ie/2025/12/26/s...
It's Saipan Week on Film In Dublin, starting with our review - what did you think of the Keane/McCarthy film?
filmindublin.ie/2025/12/26/s...
January 5, 2026 at 12:35 PM
"Slick and smart, Saipan effectively communicates its tragicomedy to non-sporting cinephiles, and should reignite the old debate for football fans too."
It's Saipan Week on Film In Dublin, starting with our review - what did you think of the Keane/McCarthy film?
filmindublin.ie/2025/12/26/s...
It's Saipan Week on Film In Dublin, starting with our review - what did you think of the Keane/McCarthy film?
filmindublin.ie/2025/12/26/s...
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Welcome to Food with FiD, a totally original, never-been-done-before video series where we recreate meals that you've seen in movies...from Ireland. We're starting with the Cheese Sandwiches as seen in Saipan, part of #SaipanWeek:
filmindublin.ie/2026/01/06/f...
filmindublin.ie/2026/01/06/f...
January 6, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Welcome to Food with FiD, a totally original, never-been-done-before video series where we recreate meals that you've seen in movies...from Ireland. We're starting with the Cheese Sandwiches as seen in Saipan, part of #SaipanWeek:
filmindublin.ie/2026/01/06/f...
filmindublin.ie/2026/01/06/f...
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MARTY SUPREME was a fine way to kick off my year in cinemagoing @lighthousecinema.bsky.social
Faces! Beautiful, funky, shot-on-film faces. And that ending… reminds me of the last shot in Paul Morrissey’s Spike of Bensonhurst — a sweet suffocation.
Faces! Beautiful, funky, shot-on-film faces. And that ending… reminds me of the last shot in Paul Morrissey’s Spike of Bensonhurst — a sweet suffocation.
January 6, 2026 at 9:14 PM
MARTY SUPREME was a fine way to kick off my year in cinemagoing @lighthousecinema.bsky.social
Faces! Beautiful, funky, shot-on-film faces. And that ending… reminds me of the last shot in Paul Morrissey’s Spike of Bensonhurst — a sweet suffocation.
Faces! Beautiful, funky, shot-on-film faces. And that ending… reminds me of the last shot in Paul Morrissey’s Spike of Bensonhurst — a sweet suffocation.
MARTY SUPREME was a fine way to kick off my year in cinemagoing @lighthousecinema.bsky.social
Faces! Beautiful, funky, shot-on-film faces. And that ending… reminds me of the last shot in Paul Morrissey’s Spike of Bensonhurst — a sweet suffocation.
Faces! Beautiful, funky, shot-on-film faces. And that ending… reminds me of the last shot in Paul Morrissey’s Spike of Bensonhurst — a sweet suffocation.
January 6, 2026 at 9:14 PM
MARTY SUPREME was a fine way to kick off my year in cinemagoing @lighthousecinema.bsky.social
Faces! Beautiful, funky, shot-on-film faces. And that ending… reminds me of the last shot in Paul Morrissey’s Spike of Bensonhurst — a sweet suffocation.
Faces! Beautiful, funky, shot-on-film faces. And that ending… reminds me of the last shot in Paul Morrissey’s Spike of Bensonhurst — a sweet suffocation.
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Join us next Thursday 8 January at 18.00 at IMC HEADFORD ROAD GALWAY for the unique screening of the superb THE BOTANIST (dir. Jing Yi, 2025), winner Grand Prix, Generation Kplus, Berlin International Film Festival 2025
TICKETS/BOOKING: imc.ie
Support by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
TICKETS/BOOKING: imc.ie
Support by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Join us next Thursday 8 January at 18.00 at IMC HEADFORD ROAD GALWAY for the unique screening of the superb THE BOTANIST (dir. Jing Yi, 2025), winner Grand Prix, Generation Kplus, Berlin International Film Festival 2025
TICKETS/BOOKING: imc.ie
Support by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
TICKETS/BOOKING: imc.ie
Support by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
Favourite first-time watches of December 2025:
• Holiday Affair (1949)
• The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023)
• Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special (1988)
• Portrait of Jennie (1948)
• Holiday Affair (1949)
• The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023)
• Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special (1988)
• Portrait of Jennie (1948)
January 2, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Favourite first-time watches of December 2025:
• Holiday Affair (1949)
• The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023)
• Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special (1988)
• Portrait of Jennie (1948)
• Holiday Affair (1949)
• The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023)
• Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special (1988)
• Portrait of Jennie (1948)
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Plenty to still catch up on, but here’s what I’ve been grooving with this past year.
December 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Plenty to still catch up on, but here’s what I’ve been grooving with this past year.
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Incase you missed it — here’s our list of top-ranking outliers, shedding some light on the films that perhaps fell under your radar this year.
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
Best movies you might've missed in 2025 - HeadStuff
We asked our writers for their top movies of 2025. This list comprises their unique choices: titles that ranked high on the fewest of ballots
headstuff.org
December 31, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Incase you missed it — here’s our list of top-ranking outliers, shedding some light on the films that perhaps fell under your radar this year.
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
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Before I share my personal favourites from 2025, we HeadStuff film writers are back to finish off the year with our traditional Top 10 picks.
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
HeadStuff Picks | The Best Movies Of 2025: #10-1 - HeadStuff
The HeadStuff writer voted on and then write about what they consider to be the Best Movies Of 2025: #10-1.
headstuff.org
December 31, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Before I share my personal favourites from 2025, we HeadStuff film writers are back to finish off the year with our traditional Top 10 picks.
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
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Tatiana Schlossberg, daughter of Caroline Kennedy, has died at 35. In November, she wrote about receiving a terminal diagnosis following the birth of her daughter.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/hsZC7S
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/hsZC7S
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
December 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Tatiana Schlossberg, daughter of Caroline Kennedy, has died at 35. In November, she wrote about receiving a terminal diagnosis following the birth of her daughter.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/hsZC7S
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/hsZC7S
Plenty to still catch up on, but here’s what I’ve been grooving with this past year.
December 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Plenty to still catch up on, but here’s what I’ve been grooving with this past year.
Before I share my personal favourites from 2025, we HeadStuff film writers are back to finish off the year with our traditional Top 10 picks.
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
HeadStuff Picks | The Best Movies Of 2025: #10-1 - HeadStuff
The HeadStuff writer voted on and then write about what they consider to be the Best Movies Of 2025: #10-1.
headstuff.org
December 31, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Before I share my personal favourites from 2025, we HeadStuff film writers are back to finish off the year with our traditional Top 10 picks.
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
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‘75/‘25 is the biggest project I’ve ever undertaken. 9 months, 28,500 words, 19 film comparisons and a lot of hours researching. Spent more time on the damn Vietnam War this year than Ken Burns!
All been worth it, I’m genuinely proud of it and can’t thank @filmindublin.bsky.social for the support
All been worth it, I’m genuinely proud of it and can’t thank @filmindublin.bsky.social for the support
In the final part of our year-long series, @keelanhothothot.bsky.social concludes his comparison of the films of this year & 50 years prior with ultraviolence, funny girls and more.
'75/'25 Part Five: Going Down in Flames, live now:
filmindublin.ie/2025/12/30/75-25-part-five-going-down-in-flames/
'75/'25 Part Five: Going Down in Flames, live now:
filmindublin.ie/2025/12/30/75-25-part-five-going-down-in-flames/
December 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
‘75/‘25 is the biggest project I’ve ever undertaken. 9 months, 28,500 words, 19 film comparisons and a lot of hours researching. Spent more time on the damn Vietnam War this year than Ken Burns!
All been worth it, I’m genuinely proud of it and can’t thank @filmindublin.bsky.social for the support
All been worth it, I’m genuinely proud of it and can’t thank @filmindublin.bsky.social for the support
Viewing habits during this Xmas-New Year stretch call for a Letterboxd where we can log films by minutes watched: Today I’m logging 23mins of The Italian Job, the 6mins of Von Ryan’s Express I saw over my uncle’s shoulder, and the bit in Back to the Future where Marty invents the skateboard.
December 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Viewing habits during this Xmas-New Year stretch call for a Letterboxd where we can log films by minutes watched: Today I’m logging 23mins of The Italian Job, the 6mins of Von Ryan’s Express I saw over my uncle’s shoulder, and the bit in Back to the Future where Marty invents the skateboard.
Inspired Yuletide family viewing this. In just two hours Bond goes from laying flowers at his wife’s grave to having sex with an orphan at Margaret Thatcher via a parrot.
December 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Inspired Yuletide family viewing this. In just two hours Bond goes from laying flowers at his wife’s grave to having sex with an orphan at Margaret Thatcher via a parrot.
“For all its background comedy, the Keane-McCarthy clash never feels less than momentous on the screen.”
our SAIPAN review
✍️ Ciarán O’Rourke
🍿 in Irish cinemas from Jan 1
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
our SAIPAN review
✍️ Ciarán O’Rourke
🍿 in Irish cinemas from Jan 1
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
Saipan movie review | Mick and Keano's infamous spat delivers on the big screen - HeadStuff
Ciarán O'Rourke reviews Saipan, a movie exploring the fallout between Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy during Ireland's 2002 World Cup campaign
headstuff.org
December 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
“For all its background comedy, the Keane-McCarthy clash never feels less than momentous on the screen.”
our SAIPAN review
✍️ Ciarán O’Rourke
🍿 in Irish cinemas from Jan 1
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
our SAIPAN review
✍️ Ciarán O’Rourke
🍿 in Irish cinemas from Jan 1
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
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So, the last ever Click Clack on @rte2xm is done! Stream it at www.rte.ie/radio/2xm/cl...
I tried to cover records that meant most to me over the last 16 (!) years, missed loads, thanks for listening & to the 2XM team, espesh Sarah Garvey.
That said... st8y tuned for news...
I tried to cover records that meant most to me over the last 16 (!) years, missed loads, thanks for listening & to the 2XM team, espesh Sarah Garvey.
That said... st8y tuned for news...
December 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
So, the last ever Click Clack on @rte2xm is done! Stream it at www.rte.ie/radio/2xm/cl...
I tried to cover records that meant most to me over the last 16 (!) years, missed loads, thanks for listening & to the 2XM team, espesh Sarah Garvey.
That said... st8y tuned for news...
I tried to cover records that meant most to me over the last 16 (!) years, missed loads, thanks for listening & to the 2XM team, espesh Sarah Garvey.
That said... st8y tuned for news...
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We asked our writers for their top movies of 2025. The following selection is made up of their unique choices (titles that ranked high on the fewest lists) — featuring me writing about my fav movie of the year!
Here’s to the outliers!
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
Here’s to the outliers!
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
Best movies you might've missed in 2025 - HeadStuff
We asked our writers for their top movies of 2025. This list comprises their unique choices: titles that ranked high on the fewest of ballots
headstuff.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We asked our writers for their top movies of 2025. The following selection is made up of their unique choices (titles that ranked high on the fewest lists) — featuring me writing about my fav movie of the year!
Here’s to the outliers!
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
Here’s to the outliers!
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
We asked our writers for their top movies of 2025. The following selection is made up of their unique choices (titles that ranked high on the fewest lists) — featuring me writing about my fav movie of the year!
Here’s to the outliers!
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
Here’s to the outliers!
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
Best movies you might've missed in 2025 - HeadStuff
We asked our writers for their top movies of 2025. This list comprises their unique choices: titles that ranked high on the fewest of ballots
headstuff.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We asked our writers for their top movies of 2025. The following selection is made up of their unique choices (titles that ranked high on the fewest lists) — featuring me writing about my fav movie of the year!
Here’s to the outliers!
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
Here’s to the outliers!
headstuff.org/entertainmen...
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PRO TIP: Make your Christmas extra merry with k.d. lang's joyous rendition of Jingle Bell Rock from Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special.
December 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
PRO TIP: Make your Christmas extra merry with k.d. lang's joyous rendition of Jingle Bell Rock from Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special.
PRO TIP: Make your Christmas extra merry with k.d. lang's joyous rendition of Jingle Bell Rock from Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special.
December 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
PRO TIP: Make your Christmas extra merry with k.d. lang's joyous rendition of Jingle Bell Rock from Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special.