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Reviewed by © Jane Freebury Think ‘when worlds collide’ with this one. Unexpected dinner guests can create quite a stir. There is something of a cinema sub-genre out…
Review by © Jane Freebury With a cheeky play on names, Victoria & Abdul hints that Queen Victoria so missed her late husband and consort Prince Albert that…
Review by © Jane Freebury Smitten by a lovely girl at the local mosque and eager to make his father and family proud, a young man tells a…
Review © Jane Freebury Like so much, it all depends on point of view. Is it the male of the species or is it the female who is…
Review © Jane Freebury In her day, the American poet Emily Dickinson was a kind of free thinker and early feminist, but she hardly crossed her front porch…
Review © Jane Freebury It is a committed, adventurous actor who takes on the role of a pedophile, even apparently reformed. They couldn’t have been exactly lining up…
4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Smitten by a lovely girl at the local mosque and eager to make his father and family proud, a young man…
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…
Review by © Jane Freebury Who was Heath Ledger? His take on the Joker, Batman’s nemesis in The Dark Knight, was transfixing, with a vicious malevolence that…
Review by © Jane Freebury The future? Impossible to predict, we know that at least. There’s no way to escape it. And now something they call disruption…
Review by © Jane Freebury A rag-tag bunch of German soldiers, some barely men. A beautiful beach on the Danish coast, and it’s spring. Now that the war…
review by © Jane Freebury Here’s one from a director we can expect to throw us a curve ball. Silence is the story of two Jesuit priests…
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,…
Review by © Jane Freebury It is no small irony that the main character in Manchester by the Sea is a dependable handyman who can fix anything and…
Review by © Jane Freebury A little boy lost with no way home. As he wanders through throngs of strangers in the streets of Kolkata, several things can…
Review by © Jane Freebury Why this? Why now? A singing-dancing entertainment brimming with optimism to close a tough, unruly year and open a new one that…
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…
Review © by Jane Freebury Would this film have attracted much attention without the name of Jim Jarmusch attached to it? About a loving and contented couple,…
Review © by Jane Freebury Nocturnal Animals is without question a transporting tale, stylish and clever, but it is also an onslaught of cruelty, yearning and pathos. A…
Review © Jane Freebury It is clear that Ken Loach, who turned 80 this year, will never retire. Making films about people who are disadvantaged and dispossessed has…