Films

Having finally completed my MIFF 2024 film reviews, here, here and here; and thought about their impact I’m finally able to set down my favourites. There were so many it’s been quite hard to whittle them down from the forty films I saw. Films which took me to Countries - Germany, Norway, India, China, Turkey, America, South Korea, Australia, New … [Read more...] about MIFF 2024 – Favourite Films

These are my remaining films. All were really very good, but except, perhaps, for the first one, which I would put higher now that I've thought about it for a while, all had flaws that stopped them being great. Audrey I had no expectations of this film but I always check out at least one Australian film at MIFF and enjoyed lots. In these … [Read more...] about MIFF 2024 The Rest

It's always hard at MIFF to grade the films you see. As it happened I think I was a bit harsh about all of these movies. I gave them all between none and eight stars instead of ten. The first few because they were the first I'd seen, the later ones because there were a couple of things that were less than perfect but all of them were really, really … [Read more...] about MIFF 2024 Really Good Films

It's taken me ages to get to this blog, given the festival concluded at the end of August! Now I've done three and even after six weeks there were only two that I couldn't remember. I suppose I remember them because I enjoy the experience of watching them so much. Anyway these are the films to which I gave ten stars immediately after seeing them. … [Read more...] about MIFF 2024 Best Films

I'm a bit late with this post but here we go. I had a wonderful time at this year's MIFF until the last week when I caught Joe's cold and was couch-ridden for a couple of weeks. They say colds post covid are worse than usual and I can attest to that. Anyway here are my short reviews. In the order in which I saw the films. I've left the stars as I … [Read more...] about MIFF 2023

My fourth blog about this year's MIFF, my thoughts on the best Ten Star films are here, Eight Star films here and Seven Star films here. As I've said one gets very judgemental at a film festival and all of these films are great so don't be put off by the six star rating. The italicised bits are my contemporaneous tweets. 6⭐️ Cathedral … [Read more...] about MIFF 2022 – Six Star Films