FEATURE: MIFFing Out On Festival Fatigue

“19 Days Only”! That’s the slogan for this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival. It’s a catchy little phrase, no doubt engineered by some marketing guru hoping to incite panic among cinephiles desperate to savour each and every last frame from the films on show. And yet now, with the program nearing its conclusion, I can’t […]

REVIEW: Your Mommy Kills Animals

A woman dressed in a fur coat is walking through a shopping mall. Suddenly, a man carrying a baseball bat approaches and beats her to the ground. Stripping the coat from her lifeless body he wanders casually away. A title card fades up on screen; “What if you were killed for you coat?” It’s a […]