Author: gffreviews

A documentary movie about Palestine’s first judge in Sharia law, Kholoud Al-Faqih. So inspiring. She is a stalwart of bravery and defiance in the face of both patronising sexism and more concerted misogynistic disregard for women’s lives. She defies tradition, endures discrimination and champions other women in the field. To watch her sew seeds of…

The new movie by the guy that did Garth Merenghi. It’s an almost entirely dialogueless psychological horror. The main character is a haunted house of a man, who himself haunts the decaying urban landscape of this nothing English town, surrounded by ever-encroaching scrub brush, marshland and woodland, pushing to reclaim it to purposelessness. He carries…

A gap year, Humanitarians of Instagram, selfie-stick of a film. It’s a movie that, without irony or self-awareness, would tell you that the Third World people it’s visited were sooo poor but they were sooo happy. It’s a barely disguised piece of advertising for an ‘adventure’ firm that caters to the super-wealthy, and does not…

What absolute gash. Join the most achingly heteronormative family imaginable, with the mother barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen, and the dad whose entire character can be summed up as “No let family die”. Spent 2 hours hoping they’ll all get eaten as they plan the most infuriatingly stupid home birth since that dumb-arse bird…