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Review by © Jane Freebury Out-of-office doesn’t mean that much anymore, thanks to the mobiles and blackberries and other culprits. The film producer trying to orchestrate life and…
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Review by Jane Freebury This is an out-of-date news story, but it’s my guess there’s life in it yet.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 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 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…
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 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…
Review by © Jane Freebury As journalist Daniel Pearl disappears into the Karachi traffic on his way to his last interview, it hardly seems reasonable to expect him…
Review by © Jane Freebury From the long pause as Matthew Macfadyen stares into the coffin and asks ‘Who’s this?’ to the sight of old Uncle Alfie’s bare…
Review by © Jane Freebury This new film from Canada is set in the wintry frozen landscapes of Ontario, within the featureless interiors of an institution for aged…
Review by © Jane Freebury Unless I blinked and missed it, there wasn’t a subtitle or intertitle in sight during this two-hour tribute to the late Joe Strummer,…
Review by Jane Freebury I imagine that we all feel privileged when invited to share the intimate details of someone’s childhood, and most especially when the story is…
Review by © Jane Freebury It’s hard not to think of the figure of Ingmar Bergman towering over Swedish cinema still, especially when you see a configuration of…
Review by Jane Freebury Catering to backstage mums with big aspirations would have to be one of the hardest jobs around, even worse than being a portaloo cleaner,…
Review by © Jane Freebury This international story takes place over a few days, linking locations deep in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, with the desert and towns…
Review by Jane Freebury It’s good to see Ben Mendelssohn return to the big screen in Hunt Angels as he’s mostly been in television since his last local…
Review by Jane Freebury If you just closed your eyes and listened to the blonde in black bustier, nails like bloodied talons and killer stilettos, there’d be time…
Review by © Jane Freebury Dysfunctional families are a dime a dozen on screen nowadays. Then, just when you think the movies have milked all they can from…