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Top End Wedding

M, 1 hr 53 mins All Canberra cinemas 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   Everything was good to go and to go well. He had proposed…

Burning

Rated M, 2 hrs 28 mins Palace Electric New Acton 3.5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s good to see a film like this, an all too…

Woman at War

M, 1 hr 41 mins Dendy Canberra Centre Review by © Jane Freebury 4 Stars Of the various women warriors on the big screen this week, Woman at…

Spanish Film Festival 2019

The Spanish Film Festival 2019 is book-ended with comedies. It has opened with Champions and will close with Pedro Almodovar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, 30…

Sometimes Always Never

PG, 1 hr  27 mins 4 Stars Dendy Canberra Centre, Palace Electric New Acton Reviewed by © Jane Freebury Words, words, words are at the heart of the…

FCCA awards outstanding achievement in Australian film

Film Critics Circle of Australia awards are held annually to recognise outstanding achievement in Australian film. This year’s contenders for best fiction feature are Breath, Cargo, Ladies in…

Swimming with Men

M, 1 hr 37 mins All cinemas Review by © Jane Freebury 3 Stars Angst and how to lose it. Swimming with Men is pool immersion therapy that…

Green Book

M, 2 hrs 10 mins Capitol Cinema Manuka, Dendy Canberra Centre Review by © Jane Freebury 3.5 Stars A highly entertaining movie released weeks ago and in a…

Everybody Knows

Review by © Jane Freebury M, 2 hr 13 mins Capitol Cinemas Manuka, Dendy Canberra Centre 3.5 Stars In the ambience of the Spanish countryside, star couple Penelope…

Capernaum

M, 2 hours, subtitled Dendy Canberra Centre, Palace Electric New Acton 4 Stars Review © Jane Freebury Set in contemporary Lebanon, Capernaum takes its name from a town…

Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2019

You cannot take France out of cinema nor the cinema out of France. French filmmakers were among the pioneers, and from the very start in silent films to…

The Mule

Rated M, 1 hr 57 mins Dendy Canberra Centre, Capitol Cinema Manuka, Hoyts Woden and Belconnen, Palace Electric New Acton 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury  …

The Favourite

  MA 15+, 1 hour 59 mins Dendy Canberra Centre, Palace Electric New Acton 4.5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A power struggle at the top. Deadly…

Roma

MA 15+, 2 hrs 15 mins Netflix Review by ©Jane Freebury 5 Stars In all the best possible ways, Roma reminded me of being a film student again….

Vice

M, 2 hrs 13 mins All cinemas Review by © Jane Freebury 3 stars   Controversial and reviled, American politician Dick Cheney is fair game for filmmaker Adam…

Cold War

Rated M, 1 hr 28 mins Review by © Jane Freebury 4.5 Stars This story of the longing and desire of lovers who could no more live together…

The Children Act

M, 105 mins Palace Electric New Acton Review by © Jane Freebury 4 stars A good story about a moral dilemma is hard to beat. The English novelist…

Widows

 MA 15+, 129 mins Capitol Manuka, Dendy Canberra Centre, Palace Electric New Acton 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A heist movie has to be fun. It…

First Man

Rated M, 2 hrs 21 mins All Canberra cinemas Review by © Jane Freebury 4.5 Stars   The final frontier gets rather mixed treatment from Hollywood. The studios…

British Film Festival 2018

Makes its return to Canberra on 24 October with a selection of the best of new cinema from the British Isles. There is plenty of variety. Stan &…