“Last County” opens with a dead cop and two criminals fleeing the scene. Then a brief glimpse of an older silver long haired gentleman (Nicholas Campbell) waving an enormous pistol. What is happening? Then struggling alcoholic Abby (Kaelen Ohm) who likes her vodka laced smoothies has an automobile accident with her daughter Grace and smoothieContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Last County”: Pedantic Then Taratinoish!”
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The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): Shorts: “Jasteece”
Mrs. Zoe (Nina Menti) is a 65-year-old school cleaner from Xanthi, Greece. Her terminally ill husband is at home confined to bed and is being cared for by her. Medical bills are mounting forcing her to take two additional jobs cleaning houses. As she tidies up her house and administers medications for her ailing husbandContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): Shorts: “Jasteece””
The 4th Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Professional Sleepwalker”: More Tragedy Than Comedy? Why You Should Love Greek Cinema
The 4th Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada) is rather unique in that it is Canada wide showing in 11 Canadian cities from 1-31 October2024. There are comedic if not absurdist elements to the film but it is interwoven with strong implied warnings of substance abuse as a destructive force even if the victim believesContinue reading “The 4th Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Professional Sleepwalker”: More Tragedy Than Comedy? Why You Should Love Greek Cinema”
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “All Happy Families”
If you watch the trailer (below) for “All Happy Families” you might conclude why is an American made film screening in a Greek film festival? Any film showing in the festival qualifies if there is Greek connection to it be it shot in Greece, a main Greek actor, producer or director. Haroula Rose, the directorContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “All Happy Families””
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Minore”: Thoroughly Greek and Outrageous B Horror-Comedy Film
The Port of Piraeus has a problem. There are a series of minor earthquakes and citizens disappear. Mists roll in. An island appears in the middle of the harbour. Many walk-like zombies toward the island. Gooified bodies begin to appear many missing limbs. Meanwhile in Gotham City, ooops wrong movie but similar vibe, the merryContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Minore”: Thoroughly Greek and Outrageous B Horror-Comedy Film”
RKS Literature: The Danger of Over Protectiveness of Children (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
There were other patients to see: an American girl of fifteen who had been brought up on the basis that childhood was intended to be all fun-his visit was provoked by the fact that she just hacked off all her hair with nail scissors. There was nothing much to be done for her-a family historyContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Danger of Over Protectiveness of Children (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
RKS 2024 Film: “Only the River Flows”: A Murder Investigation Takes Centre Stage
If you are an aficionado of murder mysteries you will enjoy the film. A twist of clues with no obvious viewer conclusions to be made. If you enjoy film noir there is almost enough stylistically here to merit slotting the film into that genre. If you enjoy symbolism in film and subtle political criticism itContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Only the River Flows”: A Murder Investigation Takes Centre Stage”
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Listen to Who’s Talking”: Yes, Greeks Can Make Romcoms
Looking for something bright, breezy and humorous? Look no further than “Listen to Who’s Talking” a Greek feature film playing at the Greek International Film Festival Tour 1-31October24 in 11 Canadian cities. Buried under the covers or dreamt up by my film weary mind is the concept of mindfulness meditation possibly present in the film.Continue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Listen to Who’s Talking”: Yes, Greeks Can Make Romcoms”
The 4th Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Kapetan Mihalis”: Can a Greek Classic Modernist Novel Survive the Big Screen?
The Greek film “Kapetan Mihalis” is based on the Nikos Kazantzakis novel “Freedom or Death” chronicling the struggle of Cretans for independence in their Ottoman occupied Crete in the late 19th century. To transform this epic novel onto the screen requires guts! “Tampering” with a national treasure is risky business. However the filmmakers here haveContinue reading “The 4th Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Kapetan Mihalis”: Can a Greek Classic Modernist Novel Survive the Big Screen?”
RKS Literature: Can Scars of the Mind Ever Heal? (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, orContinue reading “RKS Literature: Can Scars of the Mind Ever Heal? (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
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