Tag: 2.5 Stars

Red Joan

Rated M, 1 hr 50 mins Capitol Cinema Manuka, Dendy Canberra Centre, Palace Electric New Acton 2.5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Any film with Judi Dench…

Suburbicon

Reviewed by © Jane Freebury It can’t be as bad as all that, can it? I mean, Suburbicon is directed by the sophisticate George Clooney. Those brilliant, witty…

Viceroy’s House

  Review by © Jane Freebury This sweeping historical drama is the work of a filmmaker with a happy knack for the comic and the absurd, and for…

shortcuts

       My Cousin Rachel Handsome, lush, gorgeous to look at and not nearly as over the top as the trailer suggests. Romantic obsession has been plausibly updated,…

The Legend of Ben Hall

  Review by © Jane Freebury A refusal to submit to authority has pride of place in movies from down under. Here we expect a film about a…

The Age of Adaline

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…

Fifty Shades of Grey

Review by © Jane Freebury So, after weeks of pre-release sales, it’s here at last, the film of the international best-selling novel translated into more than 50 languages….

Diana

Review by © Jane Freebury It can take an outsider to reveal what we cannot see for ourselves. So the news that German film director Oliver Hirschbiegel was…

Red Hill

Review by Jane Freebury It’s one helluva first day at work for a young policeman who has moved to a quiet country town to improve his wife’s health…

Sex and the City

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…