Richard Cotter

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

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SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL: LIVING IN OBLIVION

Celebrating 30 years of Tom DiCillo’s Living in Oblivion (1995), Sydney Underground Film Festival 2025 presents a special Movie Bingo screening of this sharp, surreal satire of indie filmmaking gone hilariously off the rails. Starring Steve Buscemi as Nick Rave,

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SORRY, BABY: UNAPOLOGETICALLY ENTERTAINING

Nothing to be sorry for, (except if you miss it), SORRY, BABY is an unapologetically eye worm viewing experience.

Writer director Eva Victor stars as Agnes, an academic dealing with the insidious seeping psychological displacement of a sexual assault.

Agnes

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BUT ALSO JOHN CLARKE: NOT ONLY GREAT

When you look at it, laughter and daughter should rhyme, but to do so you’d have to pronounce the latter as dafter. Or the former as loiter. With intent. Which brings me to point. That laughter and daughter go hand

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THE BALLOON DOG BITES: BARKING BONKERS

Nursing an anal fissure and a purse with a prolapse, Paulie Accio, graduate from Philippe Gaulier’s renowned clown academy reluctantly takes on the gig of performing at the birthday party of nine-year-old Birchgrove bitch in training, Constantina Levesy.

That’s

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2025 POLISH FILM FESTIVAL SYDNEY: OFF WE GO!

Opening the Polish Film Festival this Sunday at Palace Cinemas, Norton Street, it’s off we go to OFF WE GO, a bittersweet comedy of a married couple in their twilight years whose oft interrupted road trip is peppered with inter-generational

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KANGAROO ISLAND: NO LUGGAGE, JUST BAGGAGE

The best Australian film in a long while, KANGAROO ISLAND is a rich, multi layered story, intelligently written, deftly directed and beautifully acted.

Director Timothy David and writer Sally Gifford have combined, conspired and created a world class film, rich

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EDDINGTON: WHAT’S UP, DOC?

I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque” is a famous quote from Bugs Bunny cartoons, often said when he realises he’s made a wrong turn or is lost.

If he’d ended up in Eddington,

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BUTTERCREAM: DELICIOUS SHORT FILM

Cute as a cupcake and as sweet as one, BUTTERCREAM is a deliciously appealing confection from writer, producer, actor Ruby Busuttil.

BUTTERCREAM follows a young Maltese woman, Rose, as she navigates her irreparable grief for her Nanna, Marija, all the

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MORIARTY: GUISE & DOLLS

Two B or not Two B, that is not the question but the address of the Genesian Theatre Company – 2 B Gordon Street, Rozelle.

2B Gordon Street is currently transformed into 221B Baker Street as that iconic deerstalker capped

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