Richard Cotter

Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.

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into the night: no sleep till dawn

Plot, pacing, a sentient sense of place and a cast of complex characters propel the compelling new thriller from Sarah Bailey, INTO THE NIGHT.

Last year, Sarah Bailey’s debut novel, THE DARK LAKE was published.

Critically acclaimed, including by yours …

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au revoir la haut: see you up there

The superb saga AU REVOIR LA HAUT (See You Up There) is a cinematic triumph, a little bit Beauty and the Beast, a little bit Paths of Glory, a little bit Phantom of the Opera, and a whole lot of …

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damascus cover : silly syrian spy yarn

Syria-ously?

As muddled and murky as the milieu of espionage, DAMASCUS COVER suffers from a distinct lack of pace, tension and action with a bloated run time that digests the story like a Galapagos iguana rather than a Syrian gazelle.…

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back to burgundy: ce qui nous lie

Back to Burgundy from Australia, BACK TO BURGUNDY is a tale of terroir, tradition and tippling.

Jean (Pio Marmaï) left his family and his birthplace of Burgundy ten years ago to tour the world, finally settling in Australia, beginning a …

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sicario: day of the soldado

A Trump regime trumpeter for putting up the wall to keep Mexican drug cartels from sending drugs, people and jihadis, SICARIO DAY OF THE SOLDADO is a clarion call for with so much macho swagger, and one of the year’s …

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mary shelley: pride of frankenstein

Well worth shelling out a few scheckles for, MARY SHELLEY is an impressive bio pic .

Suitably, for the story of the creator of Frankenstein, pic opens in a graveyard, but this isn’t a horror story.

Rather, MARY SHELLEY tells …

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on leopard rock: a life of adventures

In the big game hunt for bestsellerdom, Wilbur Smith has few rivals.

When not shooting game, he’s been firing off best sellers for over fifty years.

Finally, he has penned a memoir, ON LEOPARD ROCK, which will surely scale the …

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disobedience: frum tradition to taboo

The Jewry maybe out, but DISOBEDIENCE is guilty of being an engaging, intimate story within an archaically cultural behemoth.

The sublimely effervescent Rachel Weisz plays photographer, Ronit, who returns from her life in New York to her roots East London …

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adrift: hope floats

You might think the end credits for ADRIFT should be maybe Six Months in a Leaky Boat but the honour goes to Picture in a Frame by Tom Waits, a fitting song for the romance the two protagonists of this …

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