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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…
First published in Anne Summers Reports in August 2015 Are we all tabloid voyeurs? By © Jane Freebury The brilliant and eccentric German filmmaker Werner Herzog clearly thought…
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….
© Jane Freebury The story of Orry-Kelly, a gifted designer who created costumes for the Hollywood stars over three decades, would be tantalising fantasy were it not anchored…
© Jane Freebury Bushranger movies did a brisk business early last century until the authorities put a stop to them. What influence were they having on an impressionable…
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 Boogie woogie and blues pianist Jan Preston often has a twinkle in her eye. When she accompanies the early Australian silent comedy classic, The Kid…
© 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…
My introduction to Rolf de Heer’s The Tracker that screened as part of a special program at the National Film and Sound Archive during Reconciliation Week in Canberra,…
Review © Jane Freebury Finding a space on screens crowded with cataclysm and ultra-violent action, in an industry that waits for no one, the new Mad Max has…
© Jane Freebury Curators had plenty to choose from when they decided what to showcase at the German Film Festival this year. They always do. Well over 200…
Review © Jane Freebury Fading stars facing tough new realities is a subject that has been worked to brilliant effect on screen. It received definitive, hysterical treatment in…
Review by © Jane Freebury It’s just as well this 12-year-old is a fast learner. For a boy who could be headed for institutional care after his mother,…
Review by © Jane Freebury So, being tall, willowy and perfectly proportioned, with lustrous hair and perfect skin is not always the distinct advantage you might think it…
Review by © Jane Freebury It takes a brave and confident filmmaker to begin with so little information in frame. Leviathan begins with breathless long shot of a…