Richard Cotter

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

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three identical strangers: stranger than fiction

Nature and nurture, or, rather, nurture versus nature, is the fundamental focus of the fascinating film THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS.

Three strangers are reunited by astonishing coincidence after being born identical triplets, separated at birth, and adopted by three different families. …

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spinning man : an above average yarn

Pearce and Pierce prove a perceptive pairing in the piece-it-together murder mystery, SPINNING MAN.

Guy Pearce plays Evan Birch, a philosophy professor whose former philandering makes him the focus of a missing female student investigation headed by Pierce Brosnan’s alibi …

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wedderburn : blood lust in the dust

Two dominant, controlling, headstrong men, one a violent bully, the other an arrogant bombast, living cheek by jowl, were bound to come to loggerheads.

Ian Jamieson, an immovable object, met Peter Lockhart, an unstoppable force. It was always going to …

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jinga : return of the soldier

What a pleasure to see a picture where a thousand words of dialogue are stayed by the pictures that tell a thousand words.

JIRGA is a shoe string smell of an oily rag budgeted film that puts a lot of …

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ladies in black : sunny nostalgia

Set two years after They’re a Weird Mob was published, LADIES IN BLACK, looks at the impact of European migration in late 1950’s Australia.

It’s the summer of 1959, when Lisa, aged sixteen and a bit of a swat, takes …

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custody : a cowardly custard

JUSQU’A LA GARDE. To the hilt. That is the English translation of the original title of the film CUSTODY.

CUSTODY is built on fear and tension, the fear and tension inspired by a man prepared to do anything to get …

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a simple favour : beware of geeks baring stiffs

Heart-throb leading man from Crazy Rich Asians, Henry Golding turns up as a nonplussed husband in the glam noir, A SIMPLE FAVOUR.

Golding plays spouse to yummy mummy Emily, lively played by Blake Lively, a shady lady who befriends …

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crazy rich asians : an occident waiting to happen

Lacking the charm and heart of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, CRAZY RICH ASIANS nevertheless purloins that template in a brash and vulgar display of avarice masquerading as a model of Hollywood inclusiveness.

CRAZY RICH ASIANS begins with an Asian …

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