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Review by © Jane Freebury This international story takes place over a few days, linking locations deep in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, with the desert and towns…
Review by Jane Freebury It’s good to see Ben Mendelssohn return to the big screen in Hunt Angels as he’s mostly been in television since his last local…
Review by © Jane Freebury There’s nothing to feel too uneasy about when Borat opens the show from ‘home’ in Kazakhstan. Even if the people of the Romanian…
Review by Jane Freebury If you just closed your eyes and listened to the blonde in black bustier, nails like bloodied talons and killer stilettos, there’d be time…
Review by © Jane Freebury Dysfunctional families are a dime a dozen on screen nowadays. Then, just when you think the movies have milked all they can from…
Review by © Jane Freebury There are some delicious put-downs lines in this movie, but you have to listen closely to hear them. They’re mostly spoken sotto voce…
Review by Jane Freebury The stories behind the infamous gangland murders in Melbourne are worth a movie or two in their own right and hardly need the overlay…
Review by © Jane Freebury Shit happens. Kenny and his crew know all about that, because their jobs depend on it. Kenny (Shane Jacobson) half-heartedly tries to pass…
Review by Jane Freebury It would be interesting to see what director Ray Lawrence could do with a genre thriller, because he is a master of suspense. The…
Review by Jane Freebury It’s said that one of the reasons Hollywood has snapped up Australian cinematographers to shoot movies like Dances with Wolves, Chicago and Cold Mountain,…
Review by © Jane Freebury Clambering through leafy woods and taking a dip in a mountain stream is not what you’d expect a drug addled rock star to…
Review by Jane Freebury Little Fish heralds the very welcome return of two talented Aussies to the big screen in a fine Australian film. Cate Blanchett needs no…
Review by © Jane Freebury The world of real estate doesn’t seem to lend itself to cinema particularly, though it worked well enough for Glengarry Glen Ross, and…
Review by Jane Freebury The last time I remember being on the Hawkesbury River in an Australian movie was afloat in that fantastic glass church, the centrepiece in…
Review by © Jane Freebury The year 2046 is the last of the ‘50 years without change’ that China promised Hong Kong from 1997. It’s also the number…
Review by © Jane Freebury The face of actor Bruno Ganz, his gentle, impish features transformed by the intensity of performance in this portrayal of one of the…
Review by © Jane Freebury Experiencing this striking new movie from Turkish-German director Fatih Akin is like colliding with an artist’s pent-up fury and frustration. And it is…
Review by Jane Freebury Million Dollar Baby sounds more like a romantic romp, a battle of the sexes, or a doco about IVF than a drama about a…
Review by © Jane Freebury In the middle of last century, two young Argentinians set out on a journey of discovery to explore the South American continent. It…
Review by © Jane Freebury Every once in a while a feature comes along that signals a fresh, new creative voice that makes filmmaking look effortlessly fluent and…