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Review by Jane Freebury As arguments for human rights go, this is in its quiet way a powerful one. All the more for the way it draws us…
Review @ Jane Freebury Movies featuring journalists have a way of looking at the best or the worst of the profession with little shading in between. It makes…
Review © by Jane Freebury Once upon a time in the Wimmera, a stranger comes to town. The twang of guitar and low-angle framing suggest that this…
Review by Jane Freebury A mission on Mars is aborted during a wild storm. One crew member is left behind, presumed killed by flying debris, but the rest…
Review by © Jane Freebury The last time I saw Macbeth on screen it was set in the ganglands of Melbourne. Geoffrey Wright’s film was not the first…
Review © Jane Freebury Gifts are not always welcome, nor freely given. The well known subtext to giving and receiving gets a thoroughly sinister workout in this accomplished…
Review © Jane Freebury As the mum who didn’t show up for her daughter’s wedding then arrived in time for the divorce, Ricki Randazzo (Meryl Streep) could expect…
Review © Jane Freebury Far from men but not entirely without company, a teacher lives and works alone at an isolated school. There are children, girls and boys…
REVIEW BY JANE FREEBURY Everyone knew what had happened to her, Amy Winehouse, but many of us may have forgotten how good she was when she started out….
Review © Jane Freebury Lions, cheetahs, wildebeest and birds-of-prey grace the opening credits of this giddily extravagant Argentinean anthology of tales of revenge. By film’s close, well may…
© Jane Freebury If you’ve got it, flaunt it. As CIA agent Susan Cooper, Melissa McCarthy does. Just last year we saw her in St Vincent as a…
Review © Jane Freebury Finding a space on screens crowded with cataclysm and ultra-violent action, in an industry that waits for no one, the new Mad Max has…
Review © Jane Freebury Fading stars facing tough new realities is a subject that has been worked to brilliant effect on screen. It received definitive, hysterical treatment in…
Review by © Jane Freebury It’s just as well this 12-year-old is a fast learner. For a boy who could be headed for institutional care after his mother,…
Review by © Jane Freebury So, being tall, willowy and perfectly proportioned, with lustrous hair and perfect skin is not always the distinct advantage you might think it…
Review by © Jane Freebury It takes a brave and confident filmmaker to begin with so little information in frame. Leviathan begins with breathless long shot of a…
Review by © Jane Freebury In this romantic crime caper, Margot Robbie and Will Smith are well cast as a glamorous pair of grifters, Jess and Nicky, who…
Review by © Jane Freebury So, after weeks of pre-release sales, it’s here at last, the film of the international best-selling novel translated into more than 50 languages….
Review by © Jane Freebury An upper-class twit played by Johnny Depp? Why not. As Lord Mortdecai, mortgaged to the hilt to maintain his magnificent pile in the…
Review by © Jane Freebury Wild opens at the top of a rocky outcrop in stunning mountain wilderness. If the lone hiker who has earned herself the view…