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: 492

Other Articles: 71

Creation Stories

Familiar but self-effacing rock n’ roll cautionary tale

Castro’s Spies

Fascinating and accessible doc on the ‘Cuban Five’

Murmur

Delicate character study with an atomic emotional impact

Mindwarp

Cheerfully excessive sci-fi horror

Pulse

Electric techno-horror just isn’t shocking enough

Breeder

Danish throwback to the heyday of ‘torture porn’ is sterile and muddled

The World to Come

Chilly lesbian drama is stifled by its literary trappings

Judas and the Black Messiah

Furious Black Panther drama balances politics and entertainment to great effect

The Last Warning

Tragically early final bow for one of the greats of silent cinema

Opinion

Sundance Round Up Part 4

The final round up of other films from the Sundance Film Festival 2021

A Nightmare Wakes

Disastrously dull and misguided attempt to fictionalise the creation of Frankenstein

Coming Home in the Dark

Sparse, violent and nihilistic thriller is a perfect midnight movie

News

Sundance Round Up Part 3

A further instalment of quick-fire reviews from Sundance ’21

Passing

Luscious period racial drama with the seductive sense of a fable

Mass

Punishing drama sees two couples attempt to discuss the unspeakable

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

An unabashed celebration of perhaps the most important TV show ever made

Opinion

Sundance Round Up Part 2

Some more quick-capsule reviews from the Sundance Festival

In the Earth

Lysergic folk horror is flawed but hugely entertaining

How It Ends

Slight but charming lockdown comedy imagines a cheery Apocalypse

Opinion

Sundance Round Up

A round up of other films from Sundance Festival 2021

Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Astonishing concert film hauls a black cultural touchstone from obscurity

Censor

’80s-set horror that fetishises the period as much as the films that inspired it

CODA

Tender, heartfelt drama moored by a compelling depiction of a deaf family

The Queen of Black Magic

Stylish gorefest employs practically every horror trope with precision and verve