Richard Cotter

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

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wheel of fortune and fantasy: masterpiece

Spielberg did it in 1993. Now the director of the Oscar winning DRIVE MY CAR, Ryusuke Hamaguchi has done it too. Released two fantastic films in the same year.

Hot on the heels of DRIVE MY CAR’s Academy Award win,

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after yang: me two

The Me Too Movement has taken to task trespassers in a mainly male toxic environment.

In the future will we be dealing with a Me Two society? And if so, can a techno-sapien find true happiness with a clone?

These

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fantastic film festival australia

From naked screenings, cosmic queer sci-fi, gothic horror scares and razor-sharp satires, the Fantastic Film Festival Australia returns to Sydney (Ritz Cinema, Randwick)with a selection of weird and wonderful cinematic offerings, from 21 April – 6 May 2022.

Australia’s

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breathing corpses: from plague to stage

The show must go on…… and so it did.

Plagued by two lock downs over the past two years, Eye Contact Theatre’s production of Laura Wade’s BREATHING CORPSES finally took to the Kings Cross Theatre stage, albeit with two performers …

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everything everywhere all at once: a zinger!

Pure cinema.

Much more marvellous than any Marvel movie, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE is a monumentally original film that playfully mixes genre within a parallel universe plot device.

In spite of some audiences resistance to the fantastic in film,

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moro spanish film festival: classics and the new

To honour one of the great couples in modern cinema, this year’s MORO SPANISH FILM FESTIVAL features a special focus on Oscar Winners Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem with two titles in which they co-star –JAMÓN JAMÓN, their

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the good boss: badem bad boy

Before we enjoy the benefits of the Spanish Film Festival next week, we can feast on THE GOOD BOSS. If you like your comedy black and sharp, THE GOOD BOSS is for you.

A comedy of compromise creating humour out

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