Kevin Ibbotson-Wight

Edinburgh

Film and Comedy Editor at The Wee Review

Edinburgh-based. Film editor and comedy editor @theweereview arts and cultural magazine. Also a contributor to @SetTheTape

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Aberdeen Comedy Festival 2025 Releases Programme

1 week ago | theweereview.com | Kevin Ibbotson-Wight

Taking place for the first time since 2022, Aberdeen Comedy Festival has been revived and revamped by Aberdeen Performing Arts who are preparing to host two weeks of the finest comedy in venues across the city.
April - The Wee Review

3 weeks ago | theweereview.com | Kevin Ibbotson-Wight

A staunchly uncompromising filmmaker in both subject matter and technique, Dea Kulumbegashvili won’t be one of those independent, critically-lauded auteurs who find themselves co-opted by the Disney/ Marvel machine any time soon. Her sophomore feature is a rigorously controlled, but unflinching and harrowing examination of the provision of abortion services in rural Georgia, or lack thereof.
The Ugly Stepsister

3 weeks ago | theweereview.com | Kevin Ibbotson-Wight

Emelie Blichfeldt‘s gleefully gory and giddily fun The Ugly Stepsister doesn’t so much as subvert the now-standard Disneyfied approach to fairy tales so much as reconnect with the original Grimm, Gothic nastiness, while shifting their traditional focus elsewhere in a similar way to Angela Carter in The Bloody Chamber. While nowhere near as erudite and thematically rich as Carter’s reworkings, it foregrounds the blood and sex and pain of it all in a very frank, drolly Scandinavian way.
HippFest 2025 - The Wee Review

2 months ago | theweereview.com | Kevin Ibbotson-Wight

HippFest festival of silent film returns this week, Wed 19 to Sun 23 Mar, at the Hippodrome Cinema in Bo’ness, Scotland’s oldest cinema. The 15th edition of the festival sees such legends as Mary Pickford, Laurel and Hardy, and genius of Buster Keaton, while also exploring the early works of directors like Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford. HippFest also dedicates to uncovering rare and little-known gems, some of which haven’t been screened for decades.
Glasgow FrightFest Day Two

2 months ago | theweereview.com | Kevin Ibbotson-Wight

The second day of Glasgow FrightFest is even more varied in quality than the first. Featuring cosmic generational trauma, some terrific short films, an affectionate lookback at a maligned entry in an iconic franchise, a dismal effort from a respected veteran, and a fun comedy haunted house horror, it wasn’t short of variety. Sadly, it also lacked that killer title to pin back the ears. Day Two kicks off with an interesting cosmic horror in A Mother’s Embrace (Cristian Ponce/ Brazil/ 2024/ 91 mins).
Glasgow FrightFest Day One

2 months ago | theweereview.com | Kevin Ibbotson-Wight

Lurking within the wider Glasgow Film Festival programme is the annual FrightFest weekend. A bastard homunculus of its larger London-based sire, it’s a wildly popular event that is well worth attending even when the movies are of variable quality, such as in this instance. Our Managing Editor Kevin Ibbotson-Wight was there, and gives his opinion on the films that were screened on Day One of the event.
FrightFest Glasgow Short Film Showcase

2 months ago | theweereview.com | Kevin Ibbotson-Wight

The Short Film Showcase has been a staple of the London staging of FrightFest for some time, but 2025 marks the first time that it’s been a feature of the Glasgow edition. It’s no exaggeration to say that, among the variable quality on offer over the weekend, the seven films all contribute to make the showcase one of the highlights. All recent work from the UK and Ireland, each of the films have something to offer, from simple ghost stories to ambitious retellings of folk legends.
Zero - The Wee Review

2 months ago | theweereview.com | Kevin Ibbotson-Wight

Congolese director Jean Luc Herbulot came to prominence a few years back with Saloum, a distinctive supernatural crime thriller populated with vivid characters and filmed with real style. That visual style is very much intact in new film Zero, but it has wider real-world concerns on its mind. It lacks a little of his earlier film’s individuality, but is for the most part a propulsive thrill ride crammed into a limited timeframe.
Jed Hart - The Wee Review

2 months ago | theweereview.com | Kevin Ibbotson-Wight

Jed Hart is a writer and director whose debut film Restless is screening at Glasgow Film Festival in the Audience Award category. This excellent drama sees Nicky, played by Lyndsey Marshal, driven to the extremes of sleep depravation by nightmare new neighbour Deano, played by Aston McAuley. We chatted to Jed about making the film on a tight budget, the importance of the film’s musical choices, and the importance of getting to see the film with an audience.
Glasgow Film Festival Round-up Pt. 2

2 months ago | theweereview.com | Kevin Ibbotson-Wight

Part two of our Glasgow Film Festival round-up takes in another three of the films competing in the Audience Award category for debut or second-time directors. In this instalment we have a a young girl attempting to track down her estranged mother, a comedy set in the newly reunified Germany, and a women being dragged into sleep depravation by a nightmare neighbour.