PG, 112 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In its heyday a few decades ago, the Merchant Ivory film was a lavish cinema experience, a sumptuous…
National Theatre live E, 111 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A cracking script and skilful, creative direction combine in this new production bringing theatre to…
MA 15+, 105 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury There are so many aspects to a movie that can win us over. The way it looks,…
MA 15+, 105 minutes 2 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The publicists decided to label this movie about two hetero couples having issues an ‘unromantic’ comedy. It…
M, 121 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury There can’t be anybody aged over 60, retired or not, who doesn’t warm to the idea of a…
PG, 100 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury There’s a wet welcome on offer at this remote island off the coast of Wales with neither a…
M, 110 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Kangaroos, koalas, echidnas, the occasional goanna. There are cameos from distinctive local fauna that watch on from the…
M, 124 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Inspirational teachers enjoy a well-deserved niche at the movies. To Sir, With Love with Sidney Poitier was a…
M, 104 minutes 2 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The original Bank of Dave film has picked up a lot of likes on Netflix since becoming a…
M, 119 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This sweet story about canine companionship combines a little sadness with a dash of wry humour. Some of…
M, 92 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Before his world abruptly changes, the young man at the heart of this story set in rural France…
MA 15+, 98 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In these days of everyday celebrity, a French stage actress who was a pioneer in theatre arts…
M, 110 minutes, subtitled 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This gentle, stirring drama is as modest in its scope as it is timely, and based on…
MA 15+, 98 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury What was it about Joh Bjelke-Petersen, the outlandish state premier who drove a tractor through the democratic…
M, 94 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A family lunch in the gardens of a fine house in the French countryside sets the stage in…
M, 98 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Once again, one of England’s best and most popular novelists has a thing or two to answer for….
M, 117 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The dreamy, introspective relationship drama, Past Lives, was so successful several years ago with an Oscar nomination that…
Netflix series 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The further south along the east Australian coast, the darker, denser and twistier the trees and plants become. The…
M, 101 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury If the whacky charm and playfulness of a Wes Anderson film is a challenge to folk who prefer…
PG, 75 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This portrait of an English couple who tried for years to maintain an inherited estate as a working…