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Review by © Jane Freebury While the studios compete for audiences, outdoing each other with bigger and noisier SFX extravaganzas, along comes a small film that really has…
Review by Jane Freebury Based on a tall tale with a bit of truth to it, this is a home-grown version of the story of the dog that…
Review by Jane Freebury ‘Mad bastard’, that familiar Aussie expression, describes the bloke who’s brave to the point of being mad. In this new film set in Indigenous…
Review by © Jane Freebury What do we know about the lives that others leave behind when they arrive in their adopted country? Migrant cultures like ours or…
Review by © Jane Freebury In less sensitive hands, this story of a married London couple and friends could have included some sex, a smattering of drugs and…
Review by Jane Freebury There’s a lot happening just below the surface in this romantic drama set in the orange groves of Sunraysia. Fruit is ripening ready for…
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Review by Jane Freebury This is an out-of-date news story, but it’s my guess there’s life in it yet.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…