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MA 15+, 120 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury There are some damn fine reasons to watch this biopic about the life of a Scottish disability…
M, 133 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The Italian president is getting on, with six months to go until his term is over. Then he…
M, 89 minutes 4 Stars Review of © Jane Freebury Will you come and get me? I’m on my own. A little girl asks emergency services for help…
M, 136 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Making a film from a novel is a tricky business. Page and screen are vastly different, unless we’re…
M, 103 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This new film from Iran, about a group of former political prisoners who kidnap a man they believe…
M, 106 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Of all the film directors who took part in the French New Wave, no one rode it quite…
MA 15+, 118 Minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury By keeping bees, a hallowed art today, a man somewhere in America feels that he is doing…
PG, 117 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s ironic that a drama set during a time of brutal political repression gets a PG rating in…
M, 113 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In this teenage resistance caper set in Tokyo in the near future the authority figures, young and old,…
PG, 112 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In its heyday a few decades ago, the Merchant Ivory film was a lavish cinema experience, a sumptuous…
National Theatre live E, 111 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A cracking script and skilful, creative direction combine in this new production bringing theatre to…
MA 15+, 105 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury There are so many aspects to a movie that can win us over. The way it looks,…
M, 119 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury This sweet story about canine companionship combines a little sadness with a dash of wry humour. Some of…
M, 92 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Before his world abruptly changes, the young man at the heart of this story set in rural France…
MA 15+, 98 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury In these days of everyday celebrity, a French stage actress who was a pioneer in theatre arts…
MA 15+, 98 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury What was it about Joh Bjelke-Petersen, the outlandish state premier who drove a tractor through the democratic…
M, 94 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A family lunch in the gardens of a fine house in the French countryside sets the stage in…
M, 117 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The dreamy, introspective relationship drama, Past Lives, was so successful several years ago with an Oscar nomination that…
Netflix series 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury The further south along the east Australian coast, the darker, denser and twistier the trees and plants become. The…
M, 101 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury If the whacky charm and playfulness of a Wes Anderson film is a challenge to folk who prefer…