Richard Cotter

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

1755 posts by Richard Cotter

ERROL FLYNN: FOLLOW THAT CAD!

Follow that cad!

Patricia A. O’Brien’s ERROL FLYNN seeks to dig beneath the American myth of Errol Flynn to uncover the Australian man, tracing the odyssey from his Hobart birth to his Hollywood burial and his cultural afterlife.

Errol Flynn’s

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CLICK: BAIT

The internet is the fiery bowels of hell.” says a major character in Sarah Bailey’s latest thriller, CLICK.

Set in the first month of 2020 just before the catastrophe of the Covid 19 pandemic, CLICK also

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THE SHARK: BITE THE BAIT

All men are rapacious.

That’s the spear gun point in the shape shifting narrative, THE SHARK, by Emma Styles. She proclaims she writes Australian crime fiction about young women taking on the patriarchy and that’s what she has done in

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THE DEB: DESTINED FOR CULT STATUS

THE DEB pays a debt to pleasure. With an opening song called Fuck My Life, led by a precocious schoolgirl and cohort of privileged choristers, the tone is set, the buzz begun.

Strictly Ballroom out of Welcome to Woop Woop,

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THE DRAMA: DATE MOVIE OF THE MOMENT

Kristoffer Borgli makes mind boggling pictures. His last film was Dream Scenario, the cancel culture feature that delivered a fantastic performance from Nicolas Cage.

His latest movie, THE DRAMA, lives up to its title in spades.

Zendaya and Robert Pattinson

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THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE: A SWEET TREASURE

A shot of boats wending their way through Mesopotamian marshlands as two fighter jets scream into frame begins the bittersweet odyssey that is THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE. It’s a striking image to a strikingly affecting film.

The Mesopotamian marshes

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THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE: THREE GO OFF THEIR TREE

Francesca is away with the fairies. Fran, in short, is, in short, off her tree. The Magic Faraway Tree.

Adapted from the beloved The Faraway Tree series of novels for children, THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE follows Polly and Tim and

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LA GRAZIA: HALE, MERRYFULL OF GRACE

Who owns our days?

This is the question that the soon to be retired President of Italy grapples with in Paolo Sorrentino’s latest political parable, LA GRAZIA.

Nearing the end of his presidency, Mariano De Santis, procrastinates over the signing

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THE PLAGUE: ACME OF ACNE

THE PLAGUE is about the pestilence of persistent and prevailing bullying, that stubborn stain of the human condition.

The film opens with a shot of a pool stand, the calm, still waters belying the coming storm. One by one, the

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