Geeks OUT

4 Aug 2025

MIFF Seen and Anticipated (Melbourne International Film Festival)

Arts, Society & Culture, TV & Film

MIFF  as always serves up all the wild, weird, and wonderful this year, and we’ve been soaking it all in.

LISTEN IN TO HEAR — From queer cosmic chaos to haunting animation, absurd Thai ghost stories to homegrown zombie chills, here’s what we’ve seen so far — plus the ones we’re itching to get our eyes on next.

🎬 Seen & Reviewed

• Lesbian Space Princess

• We Bury the Dead

• A Useful Ghost

• Maya, give me a little – Michel Gondry

• Death Does Not Exist

---

🔮 Anticipated / Upcoming

• Beast of War (review coming soon)

• Toxic Avenger (review coming soon)

• Exit8

• The End

• Good Boy

• Zombucha!

• The Legend of Ochi

• Twinless

• Two People Exchanging Saliva

• 1000 Women in Horror

• The Dysphoria

• Space Cadet

• Went Up the Hill

• Dead Lover

• It Ends (reviewing next week)

The Melbourne International Film Festival for 2025 runs from Thursday, 7 August to Sunday, 24 August — that’s 18 full days of cinema, from opening galas to XR experiences, talks, and more

You can head over to the MIFF website for full details — including program listings, tickets, passes, and festival info

https://miff.com.au/

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:50 — 57.5MB)

4 Nov 2025

My Phone is Frozen: A Black Phone 2 Review

Technology

Miranda and Clayton discuss the follow-up to Joe Hill's The Black Phone, titled Black Phone 2.

4 Nov 2025

I Spy: A Happyend Review

TV & Film

Miranda and Clayton talk about the Japanese dystopian drama, Happyend, in cinemas after a run at MIFF.

3 Nov 2025

🎈 IT: Welcome to Derry

Arts, Literature, Society & Culture, TV & Film

We’re back in that cursed little Maine town where fear has a postcode — Derry. Long before the Losers’ Club faced ...