Richard Cotter

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

1760 posts by Richard Cotter

PROBE: SECRETIONS AND LIES

Blood, sweat, semen and tears. Add saliva and mucus and PROBE pretty much delivers on all bodily fluid secretions.

The play begins with celebrity actor writer director, Griffin Thornby, merrily masturbating to online porn, climaxing as the klaxon ring of

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BONNARD: PIERRE & MARTHE

See it for it for Cécile. If for no other reason, Cécile de France’s performance and presence as Marthe in BONNARD, PIERRE & MARTHE is absolutely worth the price of admission.

Sumptuous, sensual, sexy, BONNARD, PIERRE & MARTHE is a

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BEETLEJUICE,BEETLEJUICE: A TASTY TRIFLE

A terrific trifle of a film, a squealing sequel, a sprawling celebration of the original with some audacious new moves including a MacArthur Park lip sync symphony worth the price of admission.

You can’t help but love and laugh at

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THELMA: AGE CANNOT WITHER HER

 

A riff on Mission Impossible, THELMA puts the zing into Zimmer frame, and the go into Gofer, proving a 93 year old woman on Cruise control can shaft scammers and give them their comeuppance.

Thelma Post, a fiercely independent

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KNEECAP: COP IT

It sounds like a ghastly crime drama, but KNEECAP is a knees up, thumbs up cheeky pseudo bio of an Irish band bigger, brasher, bolder than The Commitments, bowling over the brutal British insistence of English as the franca lingua

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MIDAS MAN: GOLD TINDER

Brian Epstein, he’s the man, the man with the Midas touch, the guide us touch, the chap who shepherded a talented bunch of Liverpool lads to the attention of the world.

Son of a store owner, young Brian had

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PRECIPICE: ASTONISHING BLEND OF FACT AND FICTION

Asquith was an ass in Robert Harris’ latest exquisite fact and fiction weave, PRECIPICE.

It’s 1914, and the peace of the world is on the precipice. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, is smitten with a young, aristocrat, half

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KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL IN AUSTRALIA: SYDNEY SEASON

Opening the Korean Film Festival in Australia is FAQ, a WTF whimsical family comedy about an overburdened elementary student, Dong-chun, who discovers the secrets of the world through a talking bottle of rice wine.

Yes, you heard right, a

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LIFE AFTER FIGHTING: FAILED TO RESUCITATE.

There’s not much life but lots of fighting in LIFE AFTER FIGHTING, a derivative, repetitive, tiresomely solemn martial arts movie written and directed and choreographed and starring Bren Foster.

Foster knows his fisticuffs and kung fu but is deficit as

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