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a faith-based story for believers that attempts to interrogate its subject, but never follows through M, 113 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A love of…
MA15+ 104 minutes 4 stars Review by © Jane Freebury In the summer of 2018, when France beat Croatia in the FIFA World Cup, the people of Paris…
M, 81 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The Swallows of Kabul is set in the summer of 1998, a couple of years into Taliban rule…
M, 110 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This delicious tale of lovers a half century apart is a postmodern romance. Part your own romantic adventure…
(aka Little White Lies 2) M, 134 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In 2010, Little White Lies was an ensemble piece about a group of…
M, 95 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Harried parents of young children know full well that some days everything seems to be happening at once….
Pitch-perfect performances all round, a beautifully crafted drama about a teenager’s last fling at life M, 118 Minutes Dendy, Palace Electric 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury…
a fascinating tribute to Pierre Cardin, fashion visionary, whose work is ‘never done’ G, 97 minutes Palace Electric 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury How famous people…
Despite the deadpan, Ferrell doesn’t sink his Eurovision caper entirely M, 123 minutes 3 Stars Netflix Review by © Jane Freebury The Eurovision Song Contest scheduled for May…
A silent doco observes a world gone mad M, 97 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury For obscure reasons, It Must Be Heaven begins during an…
M, 98 minutes 2 stars Palace Electric Review by © Jane Freebury This letter to loved ones lost begins with a young woman on a mad dash across…
Cover-up and complicity all in a day’s work M, 87 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Her job begins at the office before dawn, making ready…
Subtle, taut drama that resonates beyond the family farm M, 86 minutes Streaming on Stan 4 stars Review by © Jane Freebury This is an impressive, subtle drama…
Taylor Swift and the pop music doco M, 85 minutes 3 Stars Streaming on Netflix Review by © Jane Freebury More often than not, a documentary about a…
Another spin with Meryl Streep 3 Stars By © Jane Freebury In shapeless, comfy clothes and floppy grey wig, Meryl Streep is barely recognisable in her latest film,…
By © Jane Freebury Odds are that someone somewhere has already come up with a phrase to nail the international health emergency that we are living through right…
Streaming on Stan. By © Jane Freebury Six Degrees of Separation, a film from 1993, had a catchy idea and title to match that has had the distinction…
Ned Kelly (Tony Richardson, 1970) Streaming on Stan. By © Jane Freebury Every now and then, our most popular folk hero is taken out of storage, dusted down…
A brilliant, brooding adaptation of Shakespeare on leadership and power MA15+, 140 minutes Review by © Jane Freebury 4 Stars Now the streaming platforms are windows on the…