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: 871

Other Articles: 267

Forget Everything And Run

Watchable but forgettable low-budget thriller falls victim to both pandemic and zombie fatigue

Fear of Rain

Mental health YA horror is both narratively bold and overly timid

Karloff at Columbia

The sheer range of a horror icon in full effect

Straight Shooting & Hell Bent: Two Films By John Ford

Two very early westerns from one of the genre’s greatest exponents

Portal

Anthology sci-fi flounders despite interesting ideas

For the Sake of Vicious

Relentless home invasion thriller lacks characterisation but delivers the gore in buckets

Final Days

Bland and formulaic American version of an already forgettable Korean zombie thriller

Rose

Isolation and illness shred a relationship in intelligent moody horror

The Lucky Stars 3-Film Collection

Some great action but a lot more misogynistic slapstick in trilogy of Hong Kong action comedies

Russian Raid

Relentless but empty Russian take on an action masterpiece

Slaxx

Fashion is deadly in high-concept slasher

Viy

Dizzying Soviet-era collision of religion and demonology

Nightwing/ Shadow of the Hawk

Double bill of indigenous American horror is surprisingly strong

Opinion

Glasgow Film Festival Round Up Part 2

Round up of three of the six films making up the Frightfest strand at GFF ’21

Limbo

Superbly droll depiction of the purgatory of the asylum process

Victim(s)

Bleak but clear-eyed examination of the modern forms of bullying

Redemption of a Rogue

Pitch-black comedy makes perfect use of some familiar elements

Opinion

Glasgow Film Festival Round Up

Some of the other films screening at GFF ’21

A Ghost Waits

Metaphysical romance lacks chills but has a charming soul

The Last Ones

‘Nordic western’ loses its way when let off the leash

Da Capo

Lightweight but charming musical drama about finding your own voice

Interview

Chino Moya

We spoke to the filmmaker about Undergods, screening at Glasgow Film Festival

Spring Tide

Three generations of Chinese femininity clash in claustrophobic family drama

Creation Stories

Familiar but self-effacing rock n’ roll cautionary tale