Richard Cotter

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

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the menu: making a meal from a morsel

We’re at base camp for Mount Bullshit” says Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy), the least pretentious patron to travel to an exclusive island restaurant called Hawthorn, where the reclusive, globally celebrated Chef Julian Slowik (Ralph Fiennes) has prepared a lavish tasting

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bones and all: fine young cannibals

A horror movie, a love story, BONES AND ALL is both and more, an accomplished and compulsive thriller that whets the appetite and keeps you asking for more.

Packed with wincingly convincing detail, BONES AND ALL calls us to share

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greenhouse by joost: roosts to roots

You can claim your stake and eat it too.

Imagine a house that grows its own food” – that’s the vision of Joost Bakker, who was once dubbed the ‘Poster Boy of Zero Waste Living’ by The New

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margrete: queen of the north

This year’s Carlsberg Scandinavian Film Festival made a majestic opening with the Australian Premiere of MARGRETE – QUEEN OF THE NORTH (Margrete den første), a lavish historical drama set in 1402 from acclaimed director Charlotte Sieling.

Now this

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in this light: an impressive premiere

Matters of life and death, no less, stir the pot of Noel Hodda’s IN THIS LIGHT.

A triptych tale of art, family, the passage of time, loss and reconciliation, IN THIS LIGHT begins years ago with a young Australian

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the velvet queen: cool cats collective

For one a dream, the other a rendezvous.

In the heart of the Tibetan highlands, multi-award-winning nature photographer Vincent Munier guides writer Sylvain Tesson on his quest to document the infamously elusive snow leopard, the Velvet Queen of the film’s

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desert star: devil in the detail

It’s thirty years since Harry Bosch burst onto the best seller lists with The Black Echo and the publication of the latest Bosch blockbuster, DESERT STAR sees the veteran detective command the stage of crime scenes and suspense as fresh

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