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Review by © Jane Freebury If the impression we get is really true, rather than chosen for dramatic effect, Winston Churchill behind the scenes was not the type…
Review by @ Jane Freebury When a grieving mother in rural Missouri tries shock tactics to get results from police investigating the rape and murder of her daughter,…
Review by © Jane Freebury It’s summer holidays in Orlando, Florida. Disney World is just over the road, and out of reach. What is there to do when…
Review by © Jane Freebury This is a film that shows what’s possible on screen with a good idea that is well thought through and delivered in a…
Review by © Jane Freebury Two well known films by writer-director Martin Provost, Seraphine and Violette, are about creative women who suffered for their art. The French filmmaker…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…