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Monster

Review by Jane Freebury A highway prostitute who in the late 1980s became a serial killer is now the subject of three films. British filmmaker Nick Broomfield made…

Girl With a Pearl Earring

Review by © Jane Freebury If a picture is worth a thousand words it can also prompt a good story, something shown recently by the success of a…

The Hours

Review by © Jane Freebury This beautifully constructed film and its fragile characters will delight its audiences, even though it is profoundly sad. It glides effortlessly backwards and…

Dinner Rush

Review by Jane Freebury Early in Dinner Rush a man is gunned down in the street. When this happens and when so many movie elements are slick, handsome…

La Spagnola

Review by Jane Freebury This spirited, compassionate and stylish movie begins in Australia in 1960 and is told from the point of view of Lucia, fourteen years old…

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Review by © Jane Freebury Having set the publishing world ablaze with her four books about an English schoolboy who finds out he’s a wizard in need of…

Mullet

Review by Jane Freebury When Mullet returns home to the small coastal town he left behind three years before, family and friends are somewhat underwhelmed. All of a…

Incident at Raven’s Gate

Review by © Jane Freebury Published in Australian Society magazine, May 1989 Incident at Raven’s Gate, a new science fiction thriller by Marc Rosenberg and Rolf de Heer,…