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Review by © Jane Freebury It’s funny that a Coen brothers film with so few laughs, No Country For Old Men, should win their first best picture Oscar…
Review by Jane Freebury Movies from down under that ‘shocked audiences the world over’ is quite a claim, and on the strength of what we see in this…
Review bu Jane Freebury The Rolling Stones are sure squeezing new meaning into the definition of rock star. Even the guys who made Spinal Tap wouldn’t have credited…
Review by Jane Freebury One of the ‘user comments’ posted on the web with this movie’s production details calls the plot device that brings an Aussie sheep farmer…
Review by Jane Freebury OMG, a review of SATC when I haven’t paid attention to the series on TV! What to say? Much of my thirties spent in…
Review by Jane Freebury When some of the best dishes in the world come from the countries around the Mediterranean, what better way to celebrate them than show…
Review by © Jane Freebury As it turns out, the director of this film is an American who learned French to make it, because he felt the story…
Review by © Jane Freebury There’s nothing quite like an image in black and white, particularly a portrait, and the actors of Hollywood’s golden years have never looked…
Review by © Jane Freebury As journalist Daniel Pearl disappears into the Karachi traffic on his way to his last interview, it hardly seems reasonable to expect him…
Review by © Jane Freebury From the long pause as Matthew Macfadyen stares into the coffin and asks ‘Who’s this?’ to the sight of old Uncle Alfie’s bare…
Review by © Jane Freebury This new film from Canada is set in the wintry frozen landscapes of Ontario, within the featureless interiors of an institution for aged…
Review by © Jane Freebury Unless I blinked and missed it, there wasn’t a subtitle or intertitle in sight during this two-hour tribute to the late Joe Strummer,…
Review by Jane Freebury After a few films you can get to know a director and the private obsessions and personal politics that set up a conversation with…
Review by © Jane Freebury There were lovers and husbands, triumphs and catastrophes, illnesses and addictions, and highs and lows enough in the life of singer Edith Piaf…
Review by Jane Freebury I imagine that we all feel privileged when invited to share the intimate details of someone’s childhood, and most especially when the story is…
Review by Jane Freebury This new Australian film has moved the bar for the local policier several notches higher. Writer/director Matthew Saville is an exciting new feature filmmaker,…
Review by Jane Freebury Although it sometimes overplays its hand, this is an ode to an iconic city which says most visitors find some romance at least. The…
Review by © Jane Freebury It’s hard not to think of the figure of Ingmar Bergman towering over Swedish cinema still, especially when you see a configuration of…
Review by Jane Freebury Catering to backstage mums with big aspirations would have to be one of the hardest jobs around, even worse than being a portaloo cleaner,…
Review by Jane Freebury If the point of fairy tales is to frighten small children into doing as they’re told or the bogeyman will get them, then this…