Richard Cotter

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

1760 posts by Richard Cotter

on the count of three: stands and delivers

One. Kevin and Val are uninspired thirty-somethings who decide that the only way forward is to end things altogether, together.

Two. With a suicide pact scheduled and guns loaded, Val and Kevin stand eye-to-eye, pistol-to-temple.

Three. A last-minute bid for

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fall : vertiginous vision

Vertigo meets The Birds in FALL, a sweaty palm, white knuckle, dry mouth, nail biting B movie.

Vertiginous cliff face and accident causing avian set this story up as two girls and a boy ascend flaky footholds and perilous hand …

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fall: vertiginous vision

Vertigo meets The Birds in FALL, a sweaty palm, white knuckle, dry mouth, nail biting B movie.

Vertiginous cliff face and accident causing avian set this story up as two girls and a boy ascend flaky footholds and perilous hand

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heat 2: hot as hell

What have we got? Boom. Bang. Biff. Boredom, you’re going down!

HEAT 2 with its strident staccato and cinematic eye is some kind of crime fiction masterpiece.

Sired by cinema, delivered by literature, this book cries instant classic from its

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the whitewash: literary tiktok

If Jean Claude Van Damme was a key plank in the lucrative bridge between East and West, then another man, a bearer of similar martial artist as leading man legacy, was building a different bridge… that man was Brandon

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the 2022 st. ali italian film festival: favoloso

The 2022 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival presented by Palace, Australia’s preeminent event celebrating the culture and cinema of Italy, returns next week, promising to transport viewers on a favoloso escape to Italy.

The ST. ALi Italian Film Festival, will

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here be leviathans: a mammoth book of stories

From the inanimate to animals extant and extinct, Chris Flynn’s story collection, HERE BE LEVIATHANS is a potpourri of the playful and the poignant, featuring platypus and primates, pestilence and plague, the polyamourous and the polymorphous.

An ennead of narratives,

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three thousand years of longing: djinn a tonic

A children’s story for adults, THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING has an old fashioned Saturday matinee vibe, a macabre Arabian night’s throwback rich in the exotic, erotic and grotesque.

Idris Elba plays a Djinn has been trapped in and out

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fire of love: the look of lava

Lava flows where my volcanologists goes in Sara Dosa’s loved up lava story, FIRE OF LOVE.

Intrepid French scientists, chemistry physicist, Katia Kraft and Maurice Krafft, a geologist, devoted their lives to uncovering the mystery of volcanoes, chasing fire around

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