Jonny Sweet

@jonnyleesweet

After four years in the wanderlust wilderness, Jonny Sweet is back to the homeland to gorge himself on musical and cinematic catnip and scribble furiously in dimly lit rooms.

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Reviews: 347

Other Articles: 75

The Weasels’ Tale

Fanciful fable of the arrogance of youth versus the egoism of experience

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Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival 2020

ESFF returns for seventh annual event – this time online

Smog Town

Disheartening look at China’s air quality crisis

In My Blood It Runs

Eye-opening expose of Australia’s disturbingly colonial present

Softie

Stirring but saddening expose on the state of Kenyan politics

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Glasgow Youth Film Festival Presents

GYFF serves up a mini festival in place of the real thing this year

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Take One Action Film Festival 2020

Six UK premieres and five Scottish premieres await in online programme

A City Called Dragon

Martial arts spy flick is amusing but archaic

Cheerful Wind

Delightfully offbeat romcom featuring a strong-willed female at its heart

Kuei-Mei, a Woman

Intimate portrait of a Taiwanese woman pulling her family up by its bootstraps

The Sandwich Man

Nuanced trio of shorts depicting the challenges of everyday Taiwanese life

Anything for Jackson

Hair-raising reverse exorcism caper let down by shaky plot and tonal uncertainties

Survival Skills

Police training video spoof derails into darker social commentary

The Oak Room

A ripping good yarn about ripping good yarns

Undergods

Deeply dark journey through a post-Apocalyptic Europe

Minor Premise

Taut psychological thriller examines fragmentary nature of personality

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Taiwan Edinburgh Film Festival 2020

Taiwanese cinema receives a free-to-access, online-only festival in Scotland for the first time

Bloodstone

Hammy romp is epitome of ’80s action escapism

Perfumes

Gentle French comedy is heady blend of all the right notes

Young Ahmed

Skin-deep examination of one boy’s indoctrination into radical extremism

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

Stunning documentary finds beauty in manmade destruction

Scorsese Shorts

Delightful quintet of shorts from Scorsese’s first forays into cinema

The Mad Fox

Inventively theatrical but narratively suspect tale from classical Japan

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Ed Film Fest At Home on the horizon

Stay-at-home festival features 12 handpicked titles from the 2020 EIFF programme