Richard Cotter

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

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where the light falls by gretchen shirm

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Featured photo – Author Gretchen Shirm

‘To take a good photograph, there are three main things to keep in mind. Composition- what is inside and outside of the frame. Focus, which determines where the viewer focuses their eyes. And, most …

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girl asleep

Wake up to yourself, audiences, GIRL ASLEEP is already the sleeper hit of Australian cinema in 2016.

While the local box office has been hibernating, GIRL ASLEEP has been garnering awards and audiences in a dream run overseas and at …

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black water lilies

 

Time travel is no longer the terrain of science fiction.

In BLACK WATER LILIES, author Michel Bussi crafts a chrono- synclastic crime story, a horological homicide that adds a chilling new dimension to the term, cold case.

BLACK WATER …

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red billabong

As if sharks, snakes and spiders weren’t enough to make Australia a dangerous place to live, the legend of the bunyip brought turgidly to life in RED BILLABONG makes the continent downright uninhabitable.

This cannibalised creature feature stolen from Dreamtime …

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free state of jones

“From this day forward we declare the land north of Pascagoula Swamp, south of enterprise and east to the Pearl River to the Alabama border, to be a Free State of Jones. And as such we do hereby proclaim and …

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david brent : life on the road

david-brent (1)“My time is overdue like a roof on a synagogue”, sings David Brent, in the feature length sequel to the TV mockumentary, The Office, DAVID BRENT: LIFE ON THE ROAD.

The film catches up with Brent twelve years on from …

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tickled

If you like your facts stranger than fiction, you’ll be tickled by TICKLED, a Kiwi documentary that initially sets out to be about an extreme sport called competitive endurance tickling, but turns out to be something even stranger.

New Zealand …

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high rise

High Rise - second (1)

For the High-Rise soundtrack, Portishead created a haunting cover of ABBA’s 1975 hit ‘SOS’, a song that represented the glamour and disintegration of the period for the director, Ben Wheatley.

It becomes a haunting refrain in this highly risible …

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the shallows

The Shallows

If nothing else, THE SHALLOWS lives up to its title.

Disappointing in its lack of depth, THE SHALLOWS is schlock and cheese where it should be shock and unease.

A cross between Blair Witch and Jaws, THE SHALLOWS
begins …

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tribunal @ sbw stables theatre kings cross

The definition of tribunal is a body established to settle certain types of dispute or a court of justice.

The aptly named TRIBUNAL is the title of the group devised presentation by Powerhouse Youth Theatre from a concept by Karen

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