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Review by © Jane Freebury What do we know about the lives that others leave behind when they arrive in their adopted country? Migrant cultures like ours or…
Review by © Jane Freebury In less sensitive hands, this story of a married London couple and friends could have included some sex, a smattering of drugs and…
Review by © Jane Freebury It is good to see—if this marvellous film gets it right—that the Australian Lionel Logue had a healthy disregard for the English class…
Review by Jane Freebury It’s one helluva first day at work for a young policeman who has moved to a quiet country town to improve his wife’s health…
Review by Jane Freebury At 84 minutes, The Loved Ones is on the short side for a feature, however pace and economy are not the only virtues in…
Review by Jane Freebury There’s a lot happening just below the surface in this romantic drama set in the orange groves of Sunraysia. Fruit is ripening ready for…
Review by © Jane Freebury Eat Pray Love, the book an American journalist and author wrote about a year she spent overseas, was in the US top 10…
Review by © Jane Freebury The received wisdom that foreign language Hollywood remakes are a pale imitation of the original is usually true, but not always. An exception…
Review by © Jane Freebury Out-of-office doesn’t mean that much anymore, thanks to the mobiles and blackberries and other culprits. The film producer trying to orchestrate life and…
Review by Jane Freebury Even at the best of times lighthouse keeping would have to be a tough call. The isolation on an inhospitable outcrop in the ocean,…
Review by © Jane Freebury There’s something about Tilda Swinton. The way she looks and the characters she plays have an ethereal quality, like something from far away…
Review by © Jane Freebury In our anti-heroic age, the girl with a dragon tattoo is a perfect heroine. She is the rank outsider, an asocial girl geek…
Review by Jane Freebury The Tasmanian tourism industry won’t be thanking our film industry for its interest in an Irish convict called Alexander Pearce who was hanged in…
Review by Jane Freebury You have to like a film with a good story to tell. Granted, this is based on a personal memoir, Li Cunxin’s book of…
Review by Jane Freebury This is an out-of-date news story, but it’s my guess there’s life in it yet. Though it’s hard to credit why it’s taken so…
Review by Jane Freebury There aren’t many mainstream feature films made in Australia that have made mention of sex in their title. Jonathan Teplitsky’s Better Than Sex was…
Review by Jane Freebury In the lead-up to its screening at Cannes, it might seem to sceptical punters that the critics are falling over themselves in praise of…
Review by © Jane Freebury When everything else goes wrong, there’s a chance you’ll find a funny side to it after all. That’s what the very talented filmmaker…
Review by © Jane Freebury One minute a seductive action hero, next minute a vulnerable woman coping with inexpressible loss, Angelina Jolie on screen has been a changeling…
Review by Jane Freebury Since the 1950s became a byword for stifling conformity, there have been so many movie references to that unfortunate decade that nothing, not even…