Richard Cotter

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

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suburban wildlife: cinema on a shoestring

Shot for a paltry $4,000, SUBURBAN WILDLIFE, the debut feature film from director Imogen McCluskey is a micro budget movie about a microcosm of Millenials as they emerge from post pubescent to post graduate and maturation in the big, wide …

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a christmas gift from bob: santa claws

Three years ago, Roger Spottiswoode directed a sort of Disneyesque drug addict story called A STREET CAT NAMED BOB. It was a kind of amalgam of That Darned Cat meets The Panic in Needle Park.

Too long in the tale, …

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possessor: ai mayhem

Artificial intelligence combines with artificial insemination to produce a prodigy for the assassination industry in the do-your-head-in horror of POSSESSOR.

Like his father, David Cronenberg, writer/director Brandon Cronenberg has a predilection to bodily parts and bodily secretions, especially blood, and …

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misbehaviour: a beauty

A film fifty years in the making, MISBEHAVIOUR is a pageant against the patriarchy, a contesting of archaic patriarchal practise of parading women as chattel, presenting a pivotal point in the feminist movement, where the male gaze is put out …

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american utopia: a spike lee joint

A talented film maker in his own right, David Byrne attracts other titan talents to document his stage shows.

Academy award winning director, Jonathan Demme made an outstanding concert film, Stop Making Sense, when Byrne was still fronting the band, …

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japanese film festival: stream it

The Japanese Film Festival have unveiled the full streaming schedule for this year’s program featuring the very best in Japanese cinema from 4 – 13 December.

Gather your loved ones, select your top picks and settle in for an unforgettable …

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fatman: open slay

Move over Bad Santa, here comes bad ass Santa, more Chris Crinkle than Chris Cringle, and you better watch out if you’ve been naughty not nice.

He’s the FATMAN, and he’s sure to restore the cheer of Christmas, arresting it …

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morgana: knife fetishist on the edge

Morgana Muses grew up in Coober Pedy and was known as the Mole in the Hole when she attended secondary school in the big smoke.

Bullying and taunts did not detour or deter her from being a dutiful daughter and …

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