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Loving Vincent

Review by © Jane Freebury It seems there is no end to the ways to express love for van Gogh. Buy the print, wear the jewellery, wear the…

Suburbicon

Reviewed by © Jane Freebury It can’t be as bad as all that, can it? I mean, Suburbicon is directed by the sophisticate George Clooney. Those brilliant, witty…

The Mountain Between Us

Review © Jane Freebury After a hasty set-up at an airport closed due to bad weather, The Mountain Between Us delivers us onto a snowbound mountainside when a…

Final Portrait

Review by © Jane Freebury Final Portrait, from the actor and occasional director Stanley Tucci, is a footnote to the life and work of sculptor and painter Alberto…

Blade Runner 2049

Review by © Jane Freebury It took a decade to perfect the original Blade Runner by jettisoning the voiceover and upbeat ending and restoring some scenes that had…

Beatriz at Dinner

Reviewed by © Jane Freebury Think ‘when worlds collide’ with this one. Unexpected dinner guests can create quite a stir. There is something of a cinema sub-genre out…

Mountain

  Reviewed by © Jane Freebury A modest 74 minutes long, this new documentary from local filmmaker Jennifer Peedom, is actually one continuous montage of fabulous, indomitable mountains…

Victoria & Abdul

Review by © Jane Freebury With a cheeky play on names, Victoria & Abdul hints that Queen Victoria so missed her late husband and consort Prince Albert that…

Ali’s Wedding

Review by © Jane Freebury Smitten by a lovely girl at the local mosque and eager to make his father and family proud, a young man tells a…

The King’s Choice

Review by © Jane Freebury Not too many monarchs appear on screen in foetal pose, the way the King of Norway does in early scenes in this wartime…

The Trip to Spain

Review by © Jane Freebury For a road trip to work, so much depends on who you are with. So, if you’re thinking of being the third party…

Dunkirk

Review © by Jane Freebury With films about perception, memory, and fluctuating identity, Christopher Nolan has carved out a very particular space for himself on the big screen….

The Beguiled

Review © Jane Freebury Like so much, it all depends on point of view. Is it the male of the species or is it the female who is…

A Quiet Passion

Review © Jane Freebury In her day, the American poet Emily Dickinson was a kind of free thinker and early feminist, but she hardly crossed her front porch…

Una

Review © Jane Freebury It is a committed, adventurous actor who takes on the role of a pedophile, even apparently reformed. They couldn’t have been exactly lining up…

Churchill

                      Review © Jane Freebury The title doesn’t give much away. Just that it’s about the wartime leader,…

Ali’s Wedding

4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Smitten by a lovely girl at the local mosque and eager to make his father and family proud, a young man…

Viceroy’s House

  Review by © Jane Freebury This sweeping historical drama is the work of a filmmaker with a happy knack for the comic and the absurd, and for…

I am Heath Ledger

  Review by © Jane Freebury Who was Heath Ledger? His take on the Joker, Batman’s nemesis in The Dark Knight, was transfixing, with a vicious malevolence that…

Things to Come

                          Review by © Jane Freebury The future? Impossible to predict, we know that at least. There’s no way to escape it. And now  something they call disruption…