Richard Cotter

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

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SHELL: PRAWNOGRAPHIC FUN

Pulchritudinous. It sounds dirty but it means pretty. It’s a word that Kate Hudson’s character, Zoe Shannon is enamoured of in Max Minghella’s SHELL.

Superior B picture in the vein of The Substance, SHELL takes its name from the

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4 MINUTES,12 SECONDS: DANGEROUS DIGITAL LIAISONS

Photographer: Phil Erbacher.

4 MINUTES 12 SECONDS is the title not the running time of this one hour and twenty minutes of coruscating contemporary theatre.

Frightening and frequently funny, James Fritz’s forensically layered play peels away at the pernicious phenomenon

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FRANKENSTEIN: LATEST ADAPTATION IMPRESSIVLEY EPIC

Scale works better” says Victor Frankenstein, on why larger cadavers are his choice of corpse patchwork quilting in Guillermo del Torro’s long gestating adaptation of the Mary Shelley’s legendary book.

The latest in this unending series of cinematic renderings

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FAMILIAR TOUCH: DIMENSIONS

That old devil dementia, the mind and memory trickster, is playing merry hell with Ruth Goldman, widowed retired cook and mother of her only child, her son, Steve.

She’s getting ready for a date, getting finicky about what to wear,

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VAGABOND: CURRY FAVOUR

From sweet transvestite to sage vagabond, from vanguard of the stage to cult figure of the silver screen, Tim Curry has an extraordinary tale to tell.

In his memoir, VAGABOND, Curry engenders a shiver of anticipation with every chapter, something

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THE LONG SHOE: LACED WITH COMEDY

One of the most amusing novels of the year by a long shot, THE LONG SHOE fits like a glove with laces.

A crime caper featuring a talking cat and a mantra that you don’t have to have a quirk

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SODA: AT THE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

 

SODA sounds like a sparkling entertainment experience, but the title belies the bitterness that bubbles away in this story of blighted relationships and the hangover from the Holocaust.

The film opens with a group of Polish partisans executing a

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SHADOW TICKET: PYNCHON ENGLISH

Brimming with box office brio and blossoming into one of the biggest critical and financial hits of the year, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is opening up new audiences to Thomas Pynchon, on whose novel, Vineland, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is

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SOVEREIGN: SICK,SELFISH SNAKE OILERS

In the wake of the Porepunkah, SOVEREIGN has severe and savage reverberations, too soon to be seen by some, but certainly not in any way sympathising with wanton and wilful slaughter.

What many thought was a malaise of the U.S.A.

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