#miff2018

The thought of going on a hot date while your mum munches potato chips in the corner of the room might sound like some twisted kind of punishment. But when you’re a young Jehovah’s Witness courting a prospective spouse, chaperoning is de rigueur.

What’s also normal for a young believer is growing up in “the truth” – a “new system” that will soon, hopefully, flood through the Earth, weeding out…

MIFF Review: MILF Shorts

Motherhood is almost untapped in the world of film, which typically typecasts mums as one-dimensional caregivers, the gentle, warm, older feminine support to a much-more-exciting protagonist.

But this really is rubbish – and it’s something film and television needs to answer for. We all have mothers and we all know how complex and multifaceted they really are. The character of Ruth Fisher in the…

The 50-something year old man sitting next to me was texting during the film so I said “can you please not do that during the movie”, to which he replied, “I’m in a bad mood so fuck off and die” then proceeded to literally run out of the cinema the second the film ended.

The next film a woman in her 40s a few seats down from me was using her phone consistently throughout the film yet the two teenage boys sitting on the other side of me managed to watch the entire film without pulling out their phones once...