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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…
Review © Jane Freebury The title doesn’t give much away. Just that it’s about the wartime leader,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Review © Jane Freebury Is peace between former enemies possible while the horror of war still haunts them? The process certainly gets complicated in the latest…
Reviewed by Jane Freebury If Irreplaceable, the original title of this genial tale seems a bit over-stated, the title for English speaking audiences, The Country Doctor,…
Review by © Jane Freebury A rag-tag bunch of German soldiers, some barely men. A beautiful beach on the Danish coast, and it’s spring. Now that the war…
Review by © Jane Freebury The films of writer-director Asghar Farhadi are taut, tense, obliquely scripted and immaculately performed. His latest film in similar vein…
Review by © Jane Freebury The film of the popular novel by Craig Silvey is not so much about Jasper. It’s about his loyal, younger friend during…
review by © Jane Freebury Here’s one from a director we can expect to throw us a curve ball. Silence is the story of two Jesuit priests…