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Review by Jane Freebury OMG, a review of SATC when I haven’t paid attention to the series on TV! What to say? Much of my thirties spent in…
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 As it turns out, the director of this film is an American who learned French to make it, because he felt the story…
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 After a few films you can get to know a director and the private obsessions and personal politics that set up a conversation with…
Review by © Jane Freebury There were lovers and husbands, triumphs and catastrophes, illnesses and addictions, and highs and lows enough in the life of singer Edith Piaf…
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 This new Australian film has moved the bar for the local policier several notches higher. Writer/director Matthew Saville is an exciting new feature filmmaker,…
Review by Jane Freebury Although it sometimes overplays its hand, this is an ode to an iconic city which says most visitors find some romance at least. The…
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 If the point of fairy tales is to frighten small children into doing as they’re told or the bogeyman will get them, then this…
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 There’s nothing to feel too uneasy about when Borat opens the show from ‘home’ in Kazakhstan. Even if the people of the Romanian…
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…