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The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari

PG, 98 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury   One bright, clear December morning several years back, a group of intrepid day-trippers keen to visit…

Best seen on screen in 2022

Only the best in 2022 By © Jane Freebury Back at the cinema sure helped, but the end of lockdown can’t explain the astonishing success of Top Gun:…

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

  MA 15+, 126 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury With an eye to the young female demographic, this new version of one of the…

Neptune Frost

  M, 110 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The creatives behind this dystopian indie set in the heartlands of Africa know a thing or two…

The Road Dance

M, 117 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   The islands of the Outer Hebrides have a wild beauty all their own, captured within the frame…

Stars at Noon

  MA15+, 138 minutes 3 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury Adapted from a novel set in Nicaragua, this new film from the French auteur Claire Denis…

Margrete: Queen of the North

  MA15+, 120 minutes 4 Stars       Review by © Jane Freebury This political drama from Denmark is about an indomitable female leader prepared to make…

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

M, 139 minutes 4 Stars     Review by © Jane Freebury When the world’s greatest detective turns up as a house guest on a private Greek island,…

She Said

M, 129 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   It’s not that long ago now, only five years. Yet it still feels like things have turned…

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

M, 135 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In the closing scenes of this impressive, entertaining documentary on Black American cinema, the figure of actor-director Sidney…

My Father’s Dragon

PG, 100 minutes 3 Stars   As visually entrancing as the hand drawn classics of yesteryear, and while the characters are slight it resonates with the issues of…

The Velvet Queen

M, 92 minutes 4 Stars   Review by ©  Jane Freebury A quest for a rare and beautiful creature in one of the most remote locations on earth…

The Wonder

M, 112 minutes 4 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury Every fiction feature is an invitation to believe. If it’s the promise of raw experience or of…

Whina

PG, 112 minutes 3 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury At a time of mass protests around the world, the indigenous people of New Zealand were facing…

The Woman King

M, 135 minutes 4 stars Review by © Jane Freebury Set against a dark backstory, this exhilarating tale of Amazon women, brimming with female energy, has more going…

Decision to Leave

M, 139 minutes 5 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury If the director of this moody, compelling murder mystery was inspired to make movies after watching Vertigo,…

Interview with Dominik Moll, director, The Night of the 12th

  Dominik Moll discusses how The Night of the 12th moves beyond the murder suspects into community attitudes towards victim behaviour   By © Jane Freebury A film…

Muru

MA15+, 105 minutes 3 Stars   Review by © Jane Freebury   Pumped police take the film into actioner territory, despite the breathtaking landscapes and issues of divided…

Amsterdam

MA 15+, 134 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Set in New York in 1933, this tale about love, friendship and politics would have been so…

See How They Run

M, 98 minutes 3 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury   Riffing on Agatha Christie’s work, it has a focus on its a pair of unlikely young coppers…