Richard Cotter

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

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tideline: a watermark

Thrashing about in carnal climax, Wilfrid comes, his father goes, his load blown, dad’s spirit flown, and family secrets and enmities are revealed.

This is the way his world upends, with a bang and a limper in TIDELINE by Wajdi

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everything in between: more than middling

A showcase for two emerging stars on the Australian screen scene, EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN is the story of a lonely teenager, Jay, who doesn’t fit in and has nothing to live for until he has a chance meeting with a

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iris: powerful and extraordinary

Adrift, anachronistic, alienated and alone, intelligent and intransigent in equal manner, a “sexual deviationist”, Iris Webber is a woman to reckon with.

Abused housewife, Iris has fled the country town of her torment and travelled to Sydney. It is 1932.

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the night of the 12th: a superior policier

Cold case. A term that sends shivers down a cop’s spine.

Unsolved, unavenged, justice denied. Sooner or later, every police investigator comes across a case that remains unsolved and that haunts him.

For Yohan, a detective newly in charge of

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never closer: ever present

A virtuoso ensemble brings a joie de vivre to a troubling drama in Grace Chapple’s NEVER CLOSER.

The play begins with a ghost story spun in spell binding oration by Deirdre, in whose house in a Northern Ireland border town,

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a taste of hunger: can you stand the heat?

This year’s Oscar for best foreign language film went to Another Round, and its writer, Tobias Lindholm has co-authored another superb drama in the epicurean entertainment, A TASTE OF HUNGER.

Carsten and his wife Maggi are hungry for each other

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greek film festival: definitely worth a look

It could be argued that the whole of Greek tragedy and all the satire springing from Aristophanes is nothing if not moral propaganda. Its aim is to get you thinking.

That’s why you should have a proper gander at The

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amsterdam: the eyes have it

The eyes have it.

David O. Russell’s latest eloquent epic, AMSTERDAM, is an optical allusion, where characters’ eyes loom large to capture our gaze.

Eyeballs feature prominently in the narrative as one of the lead characters, Burt Berendsen, sports a

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the stranger: first class thriller

A first class sting drama, THE STRANGER is a constantly intriguing look into a painstaking undercover police operation.

The film opens with the shot of a mountain, a monolith sheathed in vegetation. A voice over talks meditatively. Visually, it’s an

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queer for fear: brilliant four part series

Disgust, discomfort or fear. Such was the plight of the queer.

Straight society sought to repress, suppress and punish transgression and so homosexuality into the Gothic horror was a natural progression.

Bryan Fuller’s entertaining series, QUEER FOR FEAR is a

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