MA 15+, 120 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury There are some damn fine reasons to watch this biopic about the life of a Scottish disability…
M, 133 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The Italian president is getting on, with six months to go until his term is over. Then he…
M, 126 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This family drama about two brothers is set in a fraught and complicated masculine world. The anemone flower…
M, 89 minutes 4 Stars Review of © Jane Freebury Will you come and get me? I’m on my own. A little girl asks emergency services for help…
MA 15+ 4 x 60 minute episodes, Stan 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Within a few years of his experience in the armed services during World…
M, 136 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Making a film from a novel is a tricky business. Page and screen are vastly different, unless we’re…
M, 103 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This new film from Iran, about a group of former political prisoners who kidnap a man they believe…
MA 15+, 158 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In the sugar-cane country of northeast Brazil, a young man driving a yellow VW Beetle pulls in…
M, 106 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Of all the film directors who took part in the French New Wave, no one rode it quite…
M, 135 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Long, long winters in confined spaces have no doubt fostered a tendency in Scandi film and theatre to…
MA 15+, 118 Minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury By keeping bees, a hallowed art today, a man somewhere in America feels that he is doing…
PG, 117 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s ironic that a drama set during a time of brutal political repression gets a PG rating in…
M, 113 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In this teenage resistance caper set in Tokyo in the near future the authority figures, young and old,…
M, 97 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In a take on the dynamics between those who leave to pursue their career and those who stay,…
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…