Brian Bowe

Reviewed from the 2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam
Albert Oehlen wastes no time in setting the tone for his solo directorial debut, the unabashedly perverse Bad Painter...

With Variety, Bette Gordon proved her knack for disrupting male spaces and transgressing the limits of the film noir genre. She also proved her punk-powered production is much more than "a feminist Vertigo", finds Brian Quinn

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A funny script and memorable lead performance from Seána Kerslake keep this slow-burn story of a budding friendship between a young cab driver and depressed stand-up from dissolving into a syrupy weepie.

With the club’s three-day film festival (SOME)WHERE, made in collaboration with the Architecture Association of Ireland, kicking off Friday, Oct 18, I sat down with the club’s founder and director, Ingrid Machado, to talk all things Solax

Beyond its anti-war rhetoric, the Czech director’s version of the Broadway musical is a story of same-sex love.

Following a traumatic childhood accident, this psychosexual oddity empowered me to take back control.

Case study on Cathal Black's film 'PIGS' for Sight & Sound Magazine.

Zihan He announced as a winner of the National Gallery of Ireland’s AIB Young Portrait Prize 2024. Exhibition runs until March 9

Ridley Scott has a long-running love affair with extravagant, theatrical and delectably trashy cinema – making House of Gucci nothing more than a logic next step, finds Brian Quinn

Directed by SFX visionary Douglas Trumbull, this homespun space odyssey is a far more soulful affair.

Rejoice, film fans! After a couple of bulky historical dramas — Mr. Turner (2014) and Peterloo (2018) — Hard Truths sees Mike Leigh return to contemporary Britain, serving up a searing and compassionate character study like only he can...

The dust has settled on another edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). This year marked my second visit to the Netherlands’ biggest film festival, the home of high art and experimental cinema...

I have chosen my most-anticipated films according to genre: one film for each genre category. This approach has its drawbacks. However, in a world where I and everyone I know base our lives on our seemingly endless Letterboxd watchlists, I hope this will simplify things for you when deciding what flicks to look out for in 2025.

We take a look at one of cinema’s most prolific partnerships and consider where the myth of the muse fits into 2019.

The best of Rotterdam Film Festival 2024