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Review © by Jane Freebury A cast bristling with terrific actors has to be any director’s dream. By all reports, the talent in Hail, Caesar! were…
Review by © Jane Freebury Only in Hollywood where life is performance art could a flamboyant screenwriter tell a government official to sod off in…
Review © Jane Freebury It was good to hear that the talented, youngish director Andrew Haigh had launched into new territory. He achieved exceptional naturalism in…
Review by © Jane Freebury In the three feature films that Sue Brooks has made so far, we have driven into the wide, open spaces of the…
The FCCA, the national professional body of film reviewers, critics and writers is pleased to announce the nominations for the Australian film of 2015. The Annual Awards will…
Review © Jane Freebury Just before 9/11, the Boston Globe was about to publish revelations of long-term and systematic child sexual abuse by rogue priests in…
Review © by Jane Freebury It’s good to be reminded of why we said goodbye to all that in the 1950s. When advertising had women appear in…
Review by Jane Freebury An epic about survival against all odds is timeless and borderless. How fascinating that both The Revenant and Mad Max: Fury Road, each…
Review by © Jane Freebury Either you have it or you don’t. And is there nothing in between? Poised at the age of 45, the Italian director…
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…