Movie Review

I seem to be on a bit of an indie film kick at the moment…

Which is great because I’m discovering hidden gems like this one. The Girl with All the Gifts is an award winning film based on the bestselling novel of the same name by M.R. Carey. 

The Girl with All the Gifts (Release Date: January 2017)

In a dystopian near future, humanity has been ravaged by a mysterious fungal disease. The afflicted are robbed of all free will and turned into flesh-eating ‘hungries’. Humankind’s only hope is a small group of hybrid children who crave human flesh but retain the ability to think and feel. The children go to school at an army base in rural Britain, where they’re subjected to cruel experiments by Dr. Caroline Caldwell (Glenn Close). School teacher Helen Justineau (Gemma Arterton) grows particularly close to an exceptional girl named Melanie…