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.
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Glasgow Film Festival Round-Up Pt. 5
We conclude our coverage of GFF 2024 with another trio of varied treats
Glasgow Film Festival Round-Up Pt 4. FrightFest Edition
Our fourth instalment from GFF covers some of the dark delights from the annual FrightFest weekend
Interview: Jonas Chernick, Sean Garrity, Sara Canning, Christian Meer
We speak to the director and stars of the ambitious reverse chronology relationship drama The Burning Season
Glasgow Film Festival Round-Up Pt. 3
Part three of our round-ups takes us round the Czech Republic, Chile, and Turkey with equally diverse narratives
Disco Boy
Gorgeous and dreamlike drama sees two men with differing ideas of freedom be forever changed through one violent moment
The Burning Season
Reverse chronology relationship drama links tragedy to compulsion with impressive results
Io Capitano
A safe and slightly sanitised take on the hardships endured by those seeking a better life
Glasgow Film Festival Round-Up Pt. 2
A trio of incredibly individual visions comprise the second round-up from GFF24
Interview: Dale Dickey & Karl R. Hearne
‘Hollywood is a sand trap, particularly for women’, We spoke to Karl R. Hearne and Dale Dickey, director and star of the excellent thriller, The G
Glasgow Film Festival 2024 Round-Up Pt 1.
We take our first look at some of the other films screening at GFF this year
Love Lies Bleeding
A curious and distinctive mashup of queer love story and brutal exploitation thriller
Interview: Pamela Hutchinson on Frances Marion
‘It’s kind of a shame that we don’t know her name quite so well these days’, We speak to writer and film historian Pamela Hutchinson on a screenwriting great
Interview: Sam Lake
‘I think the only non-toxic role model we have left is Paul Chuckle?’ We chat to Sam Lake about being an ‘Aspiring DILF’
Monolith
Intelligent and deeply unsettling single-location sci-fi impresses with the most basic of elements
Memory
A challenging, painful, but ultimately hopeful drama of two people afflicted by a loss and a surfeit of memory