Richard Cotter

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

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the 355 : by the numbers

 

Make room 007, there’s a new number to figure in the espionage action genre – THE 355.

Comparisons with 007 are irresistible – the globe trotting, the glamour, the gadgets. But this is more a team effort, more Mission

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red rocket: full throttle

Starlet out of Tangerine meets The Florida Project in RED ROCKET, the audacious new film from writer director Sean Baker.

Simon Rex stars as the hyper kinetic pensioned off porn star, Mikey Saber, who returns to his hometown in coastal

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i’m wanita: award winning crowd pleaser

I don’t want to look like a fuckwit” says Wanita, Australia’s Queen of Honky Tonk in Matthew Walker’s knockout, knock-about doco, I’M WANITA.

Well, that’s going to be in the eye of the beholder as we embark on bizarre

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ghostbusters afterlife: an embarrassment of witches

I was in some doubt as the end credits crawled on GHOSTBUSTERS AFTERLIFE, whether I should surrender to rage or compromise or boredom.

A promising fast and furious beginning reminiscent of The Goonies, Gremlins and the original Ghostbusters, peters out

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house of gucci: all that glisters, blisters

Like a Marvel version of The Godfather, HOUSE OF GUCCI is flash trash veneer and little volume.

The rich and affluent are the rich effluent in this baggage ridden tale of envy, pride, lust, mistrust and murder amid the Milano

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licorice pizza: perfect crust, surprising topping

Whichever way you slice it, LICORICE PIZZA is arguably the best rom com since Punch Drunk Love. Paul Thomas Anderson’s film has a surprising title and surprise is the essential ingredient in LICORICE PIZZA.

Set in 1973, in the San

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all about me: mel brooks autobiography

The sound of what could have been one back slapping is stifled with a cartload of kudos for a kaleidoscope[e of collaborators in Mel Brooks’ conversational autobiography, ALL ABOUT ME!

Brooks is not above blowing his own trumpet but he

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delicious: a dainty dish of sweet revenge

DELICIOUS is the title and delicious is the experience of DELICIOUS, a delicious Christmas bon bon, set at the dawn of the French Revolution, a time which coincided with the advent of the restaurant.

Pierre Manceron, a proud cook, is

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west side story: sixty year cinematic makeover

There was no reason to remake it, but Steven Spielberg has remade WEST SIDE STORY, And, as remakes go, it’s pretty good.

Sixty years on from its Oscar scooping film incarnation, WEST SIDE STORY gives a shiny new cast the

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