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Review by © Jane Freebury The last time I saw Macbeth on screen it was set in the ganglands of Melbourne. Geoffrey Wright’s film was not the first…
Review © Jane Freebury Gifts are not always welcome, nor freely given. The well known subtext to giving and receiving gets a thoroughly sinister workout in this accomplished…
Review © Jane Freebury As the mum who didn’t show up for her daughter’s wedding then arrived in time for the divorce, Ricki Randazzo (Meryl Streep) could expect…
Review © Jane Freebury Far from men but not entirely without company, a teacher lives and works alone at an isolated school. There are children, girls and boys…
REVIEW BY JANE FREEBURY Everyone knew what had happened to her, Amy Winehouse, but many of us may have forgotten how good she was when she started out….
Review © Jane Freebury Lions, cheetahs, wildebeest and birds-of-prey grace the opening credits of this giddily extravagant Argentinean anthology of tales of revenge. By film’s close, well may…
© Jane Freebury If you’ve got it, flaunt it. As CIA agent Susan Cooper, Melissa McCarthy does. Just last year we saw her in St Vincent as a…
Review © Jane Freebury Fading stars facing tough new realities is a subject that has been worked to brilliant effect on screen. It received definitive, hysterical treatment in…
Review by © Jane Freebury It takes a brave and confident filmmaker to begin with so little information in frame. Leviathan begins with breathless long shot of a…
M, 150 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s dusk on the Turkish steppe. A crime has been committed. The manacled perpetrator is part of the…
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…