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: 878

Other Articles: 273

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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

News

Glasgow Film Festival Announces 2021 Programme

COVID forces 2021 edition online but many digital goodies await

The Don is Dead

Entertaining but workmanlike post-Godfather Mafia thriller

Crash

Cronenberg’s infamous car crash kink drama is one of his finest

Survivor Ballads: Three Films By Shohei Imamura

Trio of later films from the under-appreciated great of the Japanese New Wave

How to Be a Good Wife

Clumsy farce wrecks satirical intent of this pretty pastel whimsy

Ishirô Honda Double Feature: The H-Man & Battle in Outer Space

Two different sci-fi takes on post-nuclear Japan by the genius behind Godzilla

Finding Steve McQueen

Tricksy narrative flatters to deceive in knockabout heist caper

Mothra

Delightfully weird psychedelic return to the Kaiju universe

The Bride With White Hair

Gorgeous kung-fu melodrama is a messy Romeo and Juliet tale

Waxworks

Clunky but fascinating anthology focussed on the power of narrative

Relic

This slow-burn requires patience but is ultimately a relic you would be glad to keep

Ammonite

Handsome but somewhat inert, Francis Lee’s titular fossil is a more apt metaphor than he intended