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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Review by Jane Freebury This is an out-of-date news story, but it’s my guess there’s life in it yet.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…
Credits include Hours; Irma Vep; and [segment in] Paris, Je t’aime Set in the rambling provincial home of a middle class French family, the latest film from Olivier…
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…
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…
The Yangtze, that great waterway of China, starts in the Tibetan plateau and winds its way across over 6,000 kilometres to the sea at Shanghai. ‘No matter what…
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…