Richard Cotter

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

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mulga’s magical musical creatures

Last year, Mulga’s Magical Colouring Book became an instant best-seller. Mulga’s latest book, MULGA’S MAGICAL MUSICAL CREATURES looks set to follow in its footsteps.

Saturated in amazing colour, MULGA’S MAGICAL MUSICAL CREATURES takes us from marvellous alliteration to imaginative illustration …

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thirty three @ the old fitz

 

oldfitz-1A good dose of theatre verite takes over the top tier of the Old Fitz pub as resident production company curate the first of a new series of performances, THIRTY THREE.

THIRTY THREE is not only the title of …

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snowden

snowdon1A couple of years ago, the documentary CitizenFour won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. The film was directed by Laura Poitras, who has become a character in Oliver Stone’s dramatic narrative version of the same story, SNOWDEN.

Poitras

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pete’s dragon

While her dad, Ron Howard, is stroking the nostalgia zone of baby boomers with his brilliant Beatles doco, Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years, daughter Bryce Dallas Howard is rekindling interest in a remake of a classic children’s …

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the confirmation

Gillian Welch’s Wrecking Ball plays over the opening titles of Bob Nelson’s THE CONFIRMATION.

In tone and timbre, it’s the perfect song to accompany the shots of a small American town where Jaeden Lieberher plays eight year old Anthony …

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eight days a week : the touring years

the-beatles-2

In the film Goldfinger, James Bond infamously says that some things are not done, like listening to The Beatles without earmuffs. Clearly, he means at their concerts when teems of screaming teens were louder than the band.

That’s clearly …

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my scientology movie

“You’ll never work in this town again” I hear being said to the brave and possibly professionally foolhardy actors who appear in Louis Theroux‘ mad, bad and brilliant re enactment documentary, MY SCIENTOLOGY MOVIE.

Following a long fascination with …

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our house @ genesian theatre

There’s madness in the method of the sliding doors story of OUR HOUSE by Tim Firth, writer of such classics as Calendar Girls and Kinky Boots.

Inspired and incorporating songs from the baggy trousered British ska band of the Eighties, …

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don’t breathe

Let this be a lesson to larcenous lads and lassies – breaking and entering could end in being broken and exiting without breathing.
That’s the lesson to be learned from DON’T BREATHE a genuinely tense and creepy entertainment from director …

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artist in residence by simon bill

Featured photo- Simon Bill.

The hippocampus is not an equestrian college but part of the human brain. The human brain works on a strict use it or lose it policy, which is why, if you never think, you get more …

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