“Another Body” is a documentary journey into a filthy and disgusting pool of sickening misogynist sewage. Taylor, a university student, (not her name and not her body in front of the doc camera) lives a quiet life in suburban United States until a friend messages her that she has seen Taylor on Pornhub a pornographicContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Another Body”: Misogynist “Sewage””
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RKS 2023 Film: “Adventures of the Naked Umbrella”: Is it Bird With Glowing Eyes, a UFO or Possibly a Christmas Film?
Sam Wanoutsky (Jeremy Davies) is a frantic conspiracy theorist and that certainly shows by listening to his podcast “The Naked Umbrella”. He is a convicted arsonist currently out on parole so as one says, “He’s gotta keep his nose clean”. Even his parole officer Yolanda Johnston (Darnell Rhea) is pulling for Sam but the factContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Adventures of the Naked Umbrella”: Is it Bird With Glowing Eyes, a UFO or Possibly a Christmas Film?”
RKS 2023 Wine: The Bad Oak Stink of A Bubonic Plague New Zealand Pinot Noir! Oak Murder of a Wine!
Wine can stink with a variety of contaminants. I recall having a Hester Creek Merlot from British Columbia a few years ago. It was jacked up with so much sulfur the wine tasted like hot dog juice. Oak can compliment the juice or it can embarrass itself by overpowering a wine. I tried a Nor’WesterContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: The Bad Oak Stink of A Bubonic Plague New Zealand Pinot Noir! Oak Murder of a Wine!”
RKS 2023 Literature: The Tight-Smiled Fury of Big Nurse (Ken Kesey)
“The Big Nurse tends to get real put out if something keeps her outfit from running like a smooth, accurate, precision-made machine. The slightest thing messy or out of kilter or in the way ties her into a little white knot of tight-smiled fury. She walks around with that same doll smile crimped between herContinue reading “RKS 2023 Literature: The Tight-Smiled Fury of Big Nurse (Ken Kesey)”
RKS 2023 Wine and RKS 2023 Film: “Crush: Message in a Bottle”: Life and Death in Wine
In the Canadian documentary “Crush: Message in a Bottle” the philosophy and life stories of Ann-Marie Saunders of Saunders Vineyard, Thomas Bachelder of Bachelder Wines and Le Clos Jordanne, Kelly Mason of Mason Vineyards and Shiraz Mottiar of Malivoire Wine Company and Mottiar Vineyard discuss their approach to making wines in the Niagara wine appellationContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine and RKS 2023 Film: “Crush: Message in a Bottle”: Life and Death in Wine”
RKS 2023 Film: “Verona”: Canadian Teen in Turmoil Film
If you are of a certain vintage you may have seen a fair share of “teen turmoil” genre films. In “Verona” gone are the “Rebel Without a Cause” monikers of teen turmoil such as boys, cars, teen hanky panky and overbearing parental authority. “Verona” as a Segway into modern teen turmoil becomes a bit moreContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Verona”: Canadian Teen in Turmoil Film”
RKS 2023 Film: “Whose Y’er Father?” Easy on the Mind Silly Canadian Spoof: Magnum PEI!
Larry Constable (Chris Locke) is the sole detective in the tiny Canadian Province of Prince Edward Island known for its lobsters and mussels, beaches and delicious potatoes. Constable is a good natured and trustful soul whose detective skills place him between inept and the village simpleton. Like Tom Selleck in “Magnum PI” he has aContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Whose Y’er Father?” Easy on the Mind Silly Canadian Spoof: Magnum PEI!”
RKS 2023 Film: “Waikiki”: Vacillating Between Gritty, Fantasy, Myth and Reality
Writer and Director Christopher Kahunahana’s “Waikiki” shatters the myth and fantasy of Waikiki, Hawaii held by many. The opening scene features a massive cruise ship arriving and the closing scene a cruise ship departing. Beautiful Hawaiian scenery weaves in and out of the film. The opening scene also includes happy Hawaiian hula dancers performing forContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Waikiki”: Vacillating Between Gritty, Fantasy, Myth and Reality”
RKS 2023 Wine: Rocky Gully from The Frankland River in Western Australia: Flinstonish Wine
Time to try a Rocky Gully Shiraz from the Frankland River in Western Australia. Aroma: Dense and verging on overripe black cherry and blackberry with hints of dark chocolate and toasty coconut. Palate: Jumps over the boundary of ripe to overripe perhaps not surprising due to the 14.5% alcohol. Hey folks please no more ofContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: Rocky Gully from The Frankland River in Western Australia: Flinstonish Wine”
RKS 2023 Film: “Trafficked Voices”: Sex Trafficking Canadian Style
“Trafficking Voices” is a Canadian documentary in which the voices of victims, parents of victims, police, trafficking specialists in law and finance lend their commentary to the sale, trading and exploitation of young vulnerable women some as young as 14. 93% of human trafficking victims are Canadian. The ultimate message is that trafficking of fleshContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Trafficked Voices”: Sex Trafficking Canadian Style”
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