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Suzi Q: rock’n’roll pioneer in a leather catsuit

M, 96 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In the bad old days, rock stars were by definition blokes and a bit of poor behaviour went…

Marty Scorsese among the Superheroes

The director’s director up against the comic book heroes By © Jane Freebury Every city has to have one. A film festival. Just about every region on earth…

The Report: a record too hot to handle

M, 120 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The missing middle word in the title of this strenuous and thoughtful film is torture. The inconvenient truth…

Ailo’s Journey

G, 86 minutes 3 Stars Review by ©  Jane Freebury It’s often hard to see how creatures born in the wild, just a bundle of knobbly limbs and…

Pain and Glory

MA15+, 114 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The actor Antonio Banderas and director Pedro Almodovar first worked together in the 1980s and helped make each…

Balloon

Up, up and away to freedom M, 125 minutes 3 stars Review by © Jane Freebury This is the story of two young families, the Strelzyks and the…

Blinded by the Light

PG, 1 hr 57 mins All Canberra cinemas 4 Stars Life was all mapped out. Young Javed would become an accountant, an estate agent, or even a lawyer,…

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Cinemas everywhere 4 Stars Review @ Jane Freebury It’s the start of another California day where careers are made, lost, or peter away under a peerless blue sky….

Danger Close: the Battle of Long Tan

Rated MA 15+, 1 hr 58 mins All cinemas 3.5 Stars Review © Jane Freebury In 1966, Long Tan was just an abandoned village inside a rubber plantation…

Ophelia

Rated M, 1 hr 46 mins Dendy Canberra Centre, Palace Electric New Acton 3 Stars Review © Jane Freebury The true story of Ophelia is a ripe, juicy…

The White Crow

Rated M, 2 hrs 7 mins Dendy Canberra Centre and Palace Electric New Acton 3.5 Stars Review © Jane Freebury Before the great Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected…

Apollo 11

Rated G, 93 mins Capitol Cinemas Manuka, Dendy Canberra Centre, Palace Electric New Acton 5 Stars Review © Jane Freebury There are no talking heads recalling the event…

Parasite

MA 15+, 2 hrs 11 mins Dendy Canberra Centre, Palace Electric New Acton 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Writer-director Joon-ho Bong makes bold and confident films…

Yesterday

Rated M, 1 hr 55 mins Dendy Canberra Centre, Capitol Cinemas Manuka, Palace Electric New Acton 3.5 stars Review © Jane Freebury The concept for Yesterday is terrific….

Never Look Away

Rated M, 3 hrs 9 mins Dendy Cinema Canberra Centre, Palace Electric New Acton 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It isn’t possible to look away from…

Tolkien

Rated M, 1 hr 52 mins Capitol Manuka, Dendy Canberra Centre, Palace New Acton 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In this new biopic about a major…

Red Joan

Rated M, 1 hr 50 mins Capitol Cinema Manuka, Dendy Canberra Centre, Palace Electric New Acton 2.5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Any film with Judi Dench…

2040

Rated G, 1 hr 32 mins Dendy Cinema Canberra Centre, Palace Electric New Acton 3.5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In a couple of decades, twentysomething Australians…

The Reports on Sarah and Saleem

Rated MA15+ 2 hrs 12 mins Palace Electric 3.5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This film is from the Middle East, written and directed by Rami Alayan…

All is True

M, 1 hr 41 mins Dendy Canberra Centre, Palace Electric New Acton 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This is Shakespeare as you have never seen him…