Richard Cotter

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

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on the basis of sex: the gender agenda

ON THE BASIS OF SEX sounds like a racy, hot and sweaty, steamy title. That’s exactly what it sounds like to a secretary typing up the court documents in the film, ON THE BASIS OF SEX. She correctly identifies the …

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arctic: no comfy for cold men

Like an icy myth of Sisyphus, ARCTIC is a tale of endurance and altruism.

When all seems lost in the frost, Mads Mikkelsen’s character, Overgard, wills himself to go on, survive and keep hope.

Overgard’s plane has gone down down …

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all the devil’s men: they’re no angels

It’s not so much a case of it’s marvellous what a difference Milo makes in the B grade grunt and jump and shoot em up, THE DEVIL’S MEN, but there’s a fair scoop of Aktavite in this play by numbers …

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the mule: you bet your ass

No country for old men? Tell that to Clint Eastwood, the phenomenal and perennial master craftsman.

Six years since his last starring role, Clint is back in front of the camera, playing the curmudgeonly horticulturist, Earl Stone. According to the …

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love & anger: crumble before betty grumble

A Rude X Pube of a show with, literally, vagina monologues that ticks all the boxes, BETTY GRUMBLE: LOVE & ANGER manages to affront and take aback in its seventy minute stride.

A sex clown aesthete with the stamina, flexibility …

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green book: don’t miss this doozey

Like a high octane Driving Miss Daisy in reverse, GREEN BOOK puts the pedal to the metal in a road movie that is a profound, profane and profusely powerful foray into the freeways of friendship, where race and class, and …

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counting & cracking: a cracker by any account

It’s three hours and thirty minutes long but who’s counting, as COUNTING & CRACKING delivers exhilarating theatre at cracking pace.

Length cannot wither this production, a co-show between Belvoir and Co-Curious, nor custom stale it’s infinite variety of drama, tragedy, …

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storm boy: a view from the peli-cam

Geoffrey Rush is Storm Boy in a new screen version of STORM BOY.
Well, actually, he’s Storm Boy all grown up, who recounts to his grand-daughter, Maddy, how he got the name, Storm Boy, over half a century ago.

It’s …

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french exit: an exit worth escaping through

“Have you fallen in with a mad cast of plucky, down at heel characters?” asks a surprising antagonist in Patrick de Witt’s surprising and delightful new novel, FRENCH EXIT.

The query comes from a cat, which gives this hilariously biting …

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the favourite: one of the best movies of the year

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos from a screenplay by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, THE FAVOURITE is firming up to be a favourite of this film going year.

Reminiscent and redolent of Stanley Kubrick and Peter Greenaway, Lanthimos shooting style …

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