MIFF 2019 - Day 14

Cats

A fun kids film, full of fantasy. If you like the idea of a kitten building a multi stage rocket to leave their apartment and fly to "Peachtopia" you'll enjoy this. Shades of Finding Nemo, The Secret Life of Pets, and a few others.

The Whistlers

All the pieces of a cool and twisty thriller, but assembled without an instruction manual. Something is missing from this film. You can see how it should be better than it is, but it just falls in a heap. Cool central conceit of a secret whistling code, but it's actually not that important in the end. Not bad, it just fails to come together at the end in any particularly satisfying way.

Bellingcat: Truth in a Post Truth World

A really interesting doco about the "open source investigations" of the Bellingcat news website. Using freely available online information and a forensic approach to establishing facts, they're pioneering an interesting approach to investigative journalism that's showing a way to verify facts in a world full of disinformation. Really interesting stuff.

For My Father's Kingdom

A Tongan expat family reckon with their father's determination to send all his money back to the church in Tonga. This is one family making themselves very vulnerable for a documentary exploring their connections to Tongan culture, and their criticisms of it. It's a really compelling look at a cultural issue that isn't often spoken about.