Richard Cotter

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

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the sweet science of bruising: on the ropes

Image Credit – Becky Matthews

Punch drunk on polemic and drab rather than dab with the jab of drama, and the crisp uppercut of comedy, Theatre Travels’ production of THE SWEET SCIENCE OF BRUISING is on the ropes early due

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lost illusions: the birth of fake news

Pineapples and ducks are all part of the luscious lasciviousness and intrigue in LOST ILLUSIONS, a sumptuous saga of status and smear.

Opening this year’s Alliance Francaise Film Festival heralded the Australian premiere of LOST ILLUSIONS,

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bad actors: a superb performance

A maelstrom of intrigues, deceits, and canards, BAD ACTORS is arguably the best espionage story you’ll read this year.

The eighth book in Mick Herron’s critically acclaimed and best selling Slough House series of secret service screw-ups, BAD ACTORS takes

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akoni : an impressive new australian film

Akoni is an aspiring astronomer studying in in his homeland, Nigeria. A newspaper headline informing 86 female students had been abducted in a village prompts him to visit his own village to see that his mother and sister are safe.

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daddy developed a pill: fast acting

Cynthia’s Daddy developed a pill, a mother’s little helper, that made her family very rich but left her emotionally bankrupt. His absence created an abscess in his daughter, the pus of parental negligence, remedied only by her emulating his pharmaceutical

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terrain: ten years on

Elite aesthetic athleticism. That, in a word or three, describes much of what you’ll experience with the 10th Anniversary re-staging of Bangarra’s award winning and ground breaking work, TERRAIN.

A powerful, physicalised insight into a world where the connection

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black river: deep dive into shivers

Forget the mean streets, Matthew Spencer navigates the mean streams in his sensational debut crime thriller, BLACK RIVER.

The banks of the Parramatta River are the hunting ground of a serial killer dubbed the Blue Moon Killer, the coves, the

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a hero: to be human

One good turn deserves another goes the old saying.

Add to that, one false move begets another,  and you have the praxis of A HERO, the latest film of human frailty from master Iranian film maker, Asghar Farhadi.

 We first

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