Some movies require your complete attention and if losing your train of thought you may spin out of control on the film freeway. Do we call these “thinking person’s movies”? In this American horror- mystery-thriller please pay attention very closely to the film as it has a trail of breadcrumbs that most likely will leadContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Lyvia’s House”: Be Prepared for Breadcrumbs or You May Become Lost”
Author Archives: Robert K Stephen (CSW)
RKS Literature: Radiation Madness in Soviet Cancer Treatment (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
“But then, ten, fifteen or eighteen years ago, when the term “radiation sickness” did not exist, X-ray radiation had seemed such a straightforward, reliable and foolproof method, such a magnificent achievement of modern medical technique, that it was considered retrograde, almost a sabotage of public health, to refuse to use it and to look toContinue reading “RKS Literature: Radiation Madness in Soviet Cancer Treatment (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)”
RKS 2024 Wine: Donnafugata La Bella Sedàra 2021
This Sicilia DOC Rosso is a blend where Nero d’Avola, Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon comprise most of the blend. The wine has seen no oak. The flamboyant label is dedicated to Claudia Cardinale who portrayed the character of Angelica Sedàra in the 1963 film Il Gattopardo (“The Leopard”). Aroma: The wine has a very cleanContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Donnafugata La Bella Sedàra 2021”
RKS 2024 Film: “Night of the Harvest”: Psycho Sisters Enjoy the Big Halloween Party
Just in time for Halloween “Night of the Harvest” is available digitally. I never understood the penchant some movie goers have for slasher films. What fun is there with blood, guts and body parts flying all over the screen. As far as slasher films go this is true to the genre with a tad ofContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Night of the Harvest”: Psycho Sisters Enjoy the Big Halloween Party”
RKS 2024 Film: “The Pitch: Patient Safety’s Next Generation”
The documentary “The Pitch: Patient Safety’s Next Generation” presents a picture of the United States’ hospital network as predominately archaic from a technological perspective but reveals change is beginning to arrive hopefully improving patient safety much of the change attributable based in artificial intelligence and virtual reality. For example, 25% of patients admitted to hospitalsContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Pitch: Patient Safety’s Next Generation””
RKS Literature: The Cancer Patient in the Hospital a Grain of Sand (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
“You, see, you start from a completely false position. No sooner does a patient come to you than you begin to do all his thinking for him. After that, the thinking’s done by your standing orders, your five-minute conferences, your program, your plan and the honor of your medical department. And once again I becomeContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Cancer Patient in the Hospital a Grain of Sand (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)”
RKS 2024 Wine: Searching for a Reasonably Priced Merlot in Italy
Ontario struggles with a reasonably priced Merlot. Good Merlots are not easy finds in Ontario. My favourite is the Merlot from Two Sisters in Niagara-on-the-Lake but at $60 a bottle few are willing to pony up at that price. So we look to Italy for a reasonably priced Merlot. We find an Italian Merlot fromContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Searching for a Reasonably Priced Merlot in Italy”
RKS Literature: Physicians are of the Highest Order (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
“The sternest and most solemn of all was that of the nurse Olympiada Vladislanova. For her the morning rounds were like a divine service for a deacon. She was a nurse for whom the doctors were of a higher order. She knew that doctors understood everything, never made mistakes and never gave wrong instructions. SheContinue reading “RKS Literature: Physicians are of the Highest Order (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)”
RKS Literature: Crossing the Threshold of Death While Still Living (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
“This autumn I Iearned from experience that a man can cross the threshold of death even when his body is still not dead. Your blood still circulates and your stomach digests, while you yourself have gone through the whole psychological preparation for death-and lived through death itself. Everything around you, you see as if inContinue reading “RKS Literature: Crossing the Threshold of Death While Still Living (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)”
RKS 2024 Film: “The Arrival”: Intense and Impeccable
In a Manhattan bar a reporter, an elementary school art teacher, a law school student, a potential victim of a date drug rape , a struggling playwright, a wealthy Cornell University dropout and a bitter and frustrated bartendress wanabee an actress on Oxy converge. They are awaiting the arrival of River Dupont (Nikolas Elrifi). TheContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Arrival”: Intense and Impeccable”
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