Richard Cotter

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

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INSIDE: INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Guy Pearce has been nominated for an Oscar this year. About time, too! However, I fear that the nomination is for the wrong film. As good as his performance as the scene chewing bilious buggerising billionaire in The Brutalist, his

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THE LAST SHOWGIRL: RAZZLE WITH DAZZLE

Too good for Oscar, THE LAST SHOWGIRL is a tight, bright, coruscating drama of dashed dreams, resilience and hope.

After 30 years as the face of a Las Vegas floor show, Shelly (Pamela Anderson) and her co-workers (Brenda Song and

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EUROPA! EUROPA!: A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA

Unashamedly and unabashedly feel good, A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA is a singularge reason to book into Europa Europa Film Festival.

The 2025 festival opened with A Little Something Extra, the highest-grossing French film of 2024, surpassing 10 million

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FULLY SIKH: HOT CHIPS AND TURMERIC STAINS

Her suit – Inclusion to the exclusion of bigotry and prejudice; diversity is not a perversity. It’s her shtick. It’s fully Sikh.

Her suit becomes a suite in Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa’s two toned tome, FULLY SIKH. Two toned

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ORBITAL: BOOKER PRIZE WINNER

Sleep mutinies. Caught in the gravitational pull of Samantha Harvey’s ORBITAL, sleep cedes sovereignty to reading in this dream like odyssey of six souls, spinning around the globe, observing both outer and inner space.

Commence this wondrous novel and you

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GUTSY GIRLS: LOVE, POETRY & SISTERHOOD

 

 

Taking its title from a track from The Fiery Maze, the rock opera her sister Dorothy Porter and Tim Finn collaborated on, Josie McSkimming’s memorable memoir is a page turning revelation of a childhood under the shadow of

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PRESENCE: IT HARBOURS VIEWS : FIVE IN SEASON DOUBLE PASSES

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It harbours views.

It’s there before the family moves in.

It witnesses the family’s most intimate, inharmonious, uncomfortable moments.

It navigates the family’s new house at supernatural speed.

It pays unusual attention to Chloe, the teenage girl who’s neither

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ANTENNA: FESTIVAL MAKING WHOOPEE

Nostalgia has always been what it used to be. Warm and fuzzy reminiscence, a reminder, mostly pleasant, of times past and the legacy that has left he present.

Such is the feeling, warm and fuzzy, but also enlightening and still

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SEPTEMBER 5: A DATE WITH DESTINY

 

Before there was September 11, there was September 5, the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today.

Set during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, the film, SEPTEMBER 5, follows the American television

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