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Streaming on Stan. By © Jane Freebury Six Degrees of Separation, a film from 1993, had a catchy idea and title to match that has had the distinction…
Ned Kelly (Tony Richardson, 1970) Streaming on Stan. By © Jane Freebury Every now and then, our most popular folk hero is taken out of storage, dusted down…
By © Jane Freebury There is a trove of quality films to watch free-to-air on SBS OnDemand, 650 titles to revisit or catch up with. An astounding range…
A brilliant, brooding adaptation of Shakespeare on leadership and power MA15+, 140 minutes Review by © Jane Freebury 4 Stars Now the streaming platforms are windows on the…
Combines style and charisma to make the point MA15+, 132 minutes Review by © Jane Freebury 4 Stars The date at a diner wasn’t going well. She had…
ROLF DE HEER FCCA 2019 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AWARD Australia’s premier association of professional film critics, the Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCCA), has presented a special award to filmmaker…
M, 86 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A wild and rugged landscape, a cast of thousands of airborne extras and their solitary beekeeper feature in…
∼∼ Big on atmosphere, light on plot MA 15+, 95 minutes 3 stars Review by © Jane Freebury The backstory to this atmospheric, moody psychodrama is the dark…
Pet project made with a free hand M, 144 minutes 4 stars Review by © Jane Freebury Edward Norton has had a lot of time to think this…
Difficult questions, no easy answers PG, 90 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In September last year, a 12-year-old Indigenous boy from Alice Springs, Dujuan Hoosan,…
A wild journey with a pretend dog PG, 100 minutes 2 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury By the look of the bio of the American author, Jack…
By © Jane Freebury During the Academy Awards this year, when a foreign language film from South Korea carried off the top awards, it seemed a watershed moment…
PG, 125 minutes All Canberra cinemas 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Emma Woodhouse, created by the 19th century novelist Jane Austen, is blessed with beauty, intelligence…
The Nightingale won best feature film at the recent FCCA Awards 2019 in Sydney. The film’s star Aisling Franciosi received the award for best actress. Damon Herriman…
PG, 98 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The advance media for this new film for young adults suggests it’s about a girl with a knack…
MA15+, 84 minutes Dendy Canberra Centre 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This documentary is a letter for a little girl who was born during the conflict…
M, 103 minutes Capitol Cinemas Manuka, Dendy Canberra, Palace Electric Cinema 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In the French film that made Jean Seberg famous, she…
M, 137 Minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It took more courage than many of us would have thought necessary 30 years ago to leave home…
PG, 101 minutes Review by Jane Freebury 3 Stars The Dr Dolittle character was first created by a young British engineer while fighting in the trenches in World…
MA 15+, 119 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury For whatever reasons, World War I doesn’t figure nearly as much as World War II on the…