

Kevin Ibbotson-Wight
@weaklemondrink
Borders-born Edinburgh based worker/ writer/ runner/ sleeper. A good book, a good film, or a good show and I'm a very happy chap.
Reviews: 863
Other Articles: 265

In My Mother’s Skin
Frustrating pacing blunts the potency of a strikingly dark and violent fairy tale


Polite Society
Wonderfully dynamic and restlessly inventive comedy, action thriller, family drama, and everything in between



birth/rebirth
Ferocious and deeply troubling medical horror finds a new way to deal with the theme of trauma

Run Rabbit Run
Australian Mummy-issues horror pales considerably next to other films dealing with similar themes

Sometimes I Think About Dying
Quiet and thoughtful little character piece that sadly fails to strike a real chord


Adura Onashile
We speak to the writer and director of Girl about the Glasgow-set drama screening at Sundance and opening Glasgow Film Festival

Dreaming Walls
Elegiac ode to the counter-cultural hotspot the Hotel Chelsea, and the residents who are left long after its heyday

Sorry About the Demon
Comedy-horror is as breezy as its title suggests, but brings enough scares to keep most inner demons sated



The Enforcer
Generic and muddled noir action thriller with the occasional bright spot, Antonio Banderas chief among them

Alcarrà s
Gorgeous but narratively static depiction of a family in peril from the mechanised ranks of gentrification

The Minute You Wake up Dead
Small-town crime caper so inconsequential that its very existence isn’t entirely certain

Corsage
Anachronistic fictionalised year in the life of an Empress constrained by court as well as corsetry

Christmas Bloody Christmas
Animatronic Santa slasher mixes pop culture-savvy hang-out movie with ’80s-inspired lo-fi carnage




