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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

Girl

Gorgeous impressionistic drama oozes compassion, empathy, and quality

Interview

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

Till

Civil rights drama is unwieldy and erratically paced, but never safe

The Enforcer

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

Alcarràs

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

Corsage

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