Jessica Murdock (Hayley Erin) all bloodied is running through the woods as if someone is pursuing her piquing your curiosity. Why is she running and why is she bloodied? Who is pursuing her? One of her flashbacks has her locked in some makeshift detention centre. This is getting heavier by the moment. Then that ladyContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “New Life”: The Brutality of Good Intentions or the Evil of “Good””
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RKS 2024 Film: “Wild Goat Surf”: Joanna Andrade Dreams but Down and Out in Penticton
Rell “Goat” Anderson (Shaylea Martin) is a thirteen-year-old surfer chick obsessed with becoming a great surfer although her summer of 2003 trailer park life in Penticton, British Columbia’s beautiful Okanagan is not progressing well for her. Goat has the look, the garb and attitude of a skateboarder a la Avril Lavigne’s “Skater Boy”. One problemContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Wild Goat Surf”: Joanna Andrade Dreams but Down and Out in Penticton”
RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “Never Look Away”
The Canadian premiere of “Never Look Away” will be at Hot Docs showing on 27/30April2024 and 4May2024. Margaret Moth was a fearless almost Gothlike camera woman hailing from New Zealand as is director Lucy Lawless with her directorial debut. You may ask when viewing the film if she was addicted to the danger of operatingContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “Never Look Away””
RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “The Bones”: Dino Intrigue!
Watch the documentary “The Bones” and you will never see dinosaurs the way you used to. I have taken my children to see the dinosaurs at The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and now it is the grandchildren. Children are fascinated with dinosaurs but if you take them when they are too young, they mayContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “The Bones”: Dino Intrigue!”
RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “Daughter of Genghis”: A Lesson for Daughters and Sons of Trump
We follow the life of single Mongolian mother Gerel Byamba over the period of seven years. Extreme nationalists in Mongolia vilified Chinese control of the economy, the degradation of women and the threat of Chinese corruption of the “pure Mongolian genes” through Chinese controlled brothels and intermarriage with Mongolian women. Gerel Byamba’s husband died inContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “Daughter of Genghis”: A Lesson for Daughters and Sons of Trump”
RKS 2024 Film: “Occupied City”: Amsterdam Yesterday and Today: A Bloody Chapter in its History
Director and writer Steve McQueen has crafted a solid and very long historical documentary based on wife Bianca Stigter’s “Atlas of an Occupied City, Amsterdam 1940-1945”. In the Second World War German forces occupied Amsterdam and slowly but methodically drew the noose around the necks of its Jewish population. Some 60,000-80,000 of Amsterdam’s Jews wereContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Occupied City”: Amsterdam Yesterday and Today: A Bloody Chapter in its History”
RKS 2024 Wine: A Field Blend from Russian River: Groggy and Sluggish?
My experience with field blend is a Portuguese one. Once upon a time grapes were grapes and wine was wine. Different grapes could be planted willy nilly in the vineyard. Harvest them and you got a bit of this and that grape. Another type of field blend is where two or more different grape varietiesContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: A Field Blend from Russian River: Groggy and Sluggish?”
RKS Literature: The Solution to America’s Drug Problem (William S. Burroughs)
“If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish to annihilate the junk problem we start with the bottom of the pyramid: Addict in the Street and stop tilting quixotically for the “higher-ups” so called. All of whom areContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Solution to America’s Drug Problem (William S. Burroughs)”
RKS Literature: A Less Than Efficient Court System (William S. Burroughs)
“The County Clerk has his office in a huge red brick building known as the Old Court House. Civil cases are, in fact tried there, the proceeding inexorably dragging out until the contestants die or abandon litigation. This is due to the vast number of records pertaining to absolutely everything, all filed in the wrongContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Less Than Efficient Court System (William S. Burroughs)”
RKS 2024 Wine: Can Christopher Michael Save Face with Its Chardonnay
The Christopher Michael 2022 Pinot Noir I recently sampled limped in, as vacant faced as it was, with a 73/100. My retail contacts agreed and suggested their Chardonnay and Pinot Gris would fare better. Is that correct? So why not try the Christopher Michael 2021 Chardonnay? Aroma: Apple, pear, cantaloupe with some scant butterscotch andContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Can Christopher Michael Save Face with Its Chardonnay”
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