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Author: gffreviews
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
I really wanted to see this film at the Femspectives festival in February, but I missed it because I felt like shite. They actually intended to having other screenings of it later on, but those have now also been cancelled due to the coronavirus. So fuck it, I’m watching it on Netflix with Femspectives at…
Color Out of Space
So, we’re in quarantine, all the cinemas are closed and several festivals have had to cancel or cut themselves short. Does this mean I won’t review new films I desperately wanted to see at the cinema, but are now available on demand? Does it fuck! Just watched Color Out of Space. It’s actually really good.…
Geez a haun
Glasgow Film, which is the charity that runs the GFF and the GFT cinema, could do with a helping hand the now. Due to the coronavirus crisis, the GFT has had to shut. As a not-for-profit charity, who support a number of dedicated staff members, having to close for a month or possibly more can…
GFF21 dates!
Holy Jeebus, we’ve only just finished GFF20 and the GFF21 dates are being announced. See you all next year 24th February – 7th March!
GFF20 highlights
It was a good un
It’s over!
Well, that’s the festival over for another year. Had such a good time at the Closing Gala. Drank cider and ate pizza. This was one of the best GFFs I’ve been to, and that’s saying something, because they’re always of a very high quality. I think I did better this year too, pacing myself better,…
How To Build A Girl
A fuck-yeah coming-of-age based on Caitlin Moran’s memoir of being a teenage music critic. A movie about self-discovery, self-invention, self-destruction, self-reflection, and self-reinvention. Johanna from Wolverhampton becomes rock diva take-down artist Dolly Wilde, providing for her broke-ass family and making a new identity for herself. It makes her bold, it makes her sexy, it makes…
Dolly, Kitty and Those Twinkling Stars
What an epic! A family drama, a coming-of-age, this film is just packed. It focuses on Dolly, a frustrated housewife, and her cousin Kaajal, who is more like a sister to her. But this film spills out in a hundred directions, taking in storylines with Dolly’s mother and kids, Kaajal’s friends and lovers. Yet it…
The Perfect Candidate
From the director of Wadjda comes a story about a doctor standing in local elections in order to improve health facilities. The problem? She’s a woman and this is Saudi Arabia. Another inspiring story about the power of insisting upon your own worth, that your voice deserves to be heard.