Richard Cotter

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

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hunter: sizzling sequel to hangman

Vitreous humour takes on a whole new definition in HUNTER, Jack Heath’s eye popping sequel to Hangman, the delicious debut of his anthropophagus shamus, Timothy Blake.

After severing ties with the FBI, Blake is currently employed as a body disposal …

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night train: new & selected stories by thom jones

George Bernard Shaw, using Colonel Pickering as his mouthpiece in the play, Pygmalion, says: “There’s always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.”
Guess that qualifies Thom Jones posthumous collection of stories, NIGHT TRAIN, professional.

These new and selected …

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king of thieves: hip replacement required

In his latest beaut book, BLOWING THE BLOODY DOORS OFF (Hodder & Stoughton), Michael Caine says “In my latest movie, KING OF THIEVES, I appear along with many old friends: Ray Winstone, Michael Gambon, Jim Broadbent. But maybe the one …

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greta: fractured fairy tale

A kind of reverse Hansel and Gretel comes into play in GRETA, a competent and elegant B grade stalker pick from Neil Jordan.

Instead of the youngsters leaving breadcrumbs, it’s the witch who leaves an equivalent – in this case …

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stan & ollie: another fine mess of nostalgic finesse

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are widely regarded as the greatest comedy partnership in movie history. Between 1927 and 1950, they made over 107 film appearances (32 silent short films, 40 sound shorts, 23 features, 12 cameos), defining the notion …

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chinese film week: year of the pig out

FREE CINEMA AND CHINESE CULTURE CELEBRATED
FOR FIRST TIME AT EVENT CINEMAS GEORGE ST

Inaugural Chinese Film Week Comes To Sydney

Bringing FREE critically-acclaimed Chinese cinema to Event Cinemas George St. film fans in Sydney, the first ever Chinese Film …

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black is the new white: a comic gem

 

Farce and furious, Nakkiah Lui’s seriously side splitting BLACK IS THE NEW WHITE is now published, so audiences who relished seeing it on stage can now revisit this comic gem in print form.
Race is front and centre in …

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peter pan goes wrong : a night of ramshackle revelry

To begin at the beginning.

Well, not quite.

Anyone got a hammer?

PETER PAN GOES WRONG goes awfully wrong before it begins as clueless stage hands ask entering audience members for tools and their assistance in running extension cords through

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at eternity’s gate: starry,starry knight

All eyes on the prize for Best Performance by an Actor in A Lead Role in this year’s Oscar race seem to be on Rami Malek or Bradley Cooper, but there is another contender of equal if not greater worth, …

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if beale street could talk: listen up!

Academy Award-winning writer/director Barry Jenkins’ first film since the Best Picture Oscar winning Moonlight is IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK, his adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel.

Set in early-1970s Harlem, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK is a love
story as …

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