RKS 2025 Film: “Eat the Night”: Video Game Unreality Intersects with Actual Brutal Reality

Pablo (Théo Cholbi) and sister Apolline (Lila Gueneau) are enamored with a medievalist violent and brutal video game Dark Noon. Decapitation, slashing and all matter of normalized violence. As one’s murderous on-screen rampage claims more victims and the player survives one’s skill rating increases. A perfect world of violence which 17-year-old Apolline appears lost in.

Pablo has faded away from the juvenility of Dark Noon as his low level “chemical” manufacture and distribution of MDM and the like has attracted Night (Erwan Kepoa Falé) as a partner and bisexual lover generating some steamy cavorting and has also angered an organized gang of dealers.

The reality of Pablo and Night becomes increasingly violent with the organized gang whose turf they have violated. In this real and painful world blood flows.

The real-life plot is tiresome, mundane and hardly novel or gritty. The video game plot is also very videogamish. The intersection of the two plots although simple and not particularly well developed has worthy CGI particularly when Apolline and Pablo play themselves in the video game. The intersection between video game fantasy and reality makes “Dark Noon” an interesting but not compelling watch unless of course you attend Comicon on a regular basis.

I prefer the 2011 Polish film “Suicide Room” for a more riveting view of the destructive unreality of video games.

This French film is directed by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel.

Its Canadian theatrical release commences 19February2025.

RKS 2025 Film Rating 68/100.

Spoof News Services: Trump Dolls Parachuted Over the United States: Washington: 13January2025

The White House reported today thousands of Trump dolls were parachuted into “Red States” yesterday evening. A string is pulled on the doll and the following phrases can be heard, “Stolen Election”, “Make America Great Again”, “The Golden Age”, “Drill Baby Drill” and “He’s a wonderful guy. Really Wonderful!

No group has claimed responsibility although the dolls are tagged “Made in America”.

The White House reported that Cristal “Yee Haw” Numbhead Secretary of Homeland Paranoia was “hot on the case”.

The Return of the Penniless Pensioner: Chapter Seven: A Dictator Grooms America: To Dream the Impossible Dream

The Storm Troopers may have failed to deliver a coup d’etat on 6January2021 to the defeated President Oran Crapaud but that was destiny. The rag tag hysterical bunch was too disorganized and poorly armed. But they propped up the foundation of a powerful myth of the “Stolen Election” a great injustice to Crapaud and for that matter the majority of Americans deprived of their right to vote. So dramatic! Such a swindle that deserved a fist salute from a wannabe dictator and some upside-down bible waving.

Then the intertwined MAGA myth of Make America Great Again and The Golden Age, the latter reminiscent of a strip of paper in a Chinese fortune cookie. A harking back to a mythical past almost biblical.

Buttress the myths with tariffs promising the creation of thousands of new paying jobs and revitalizing an end of the ropes steel industry. The question of course was America ever great and if it was then for whom? What did they say in the circus….the bigger the lie the easier it will be believed.

Ontario Progressive Conservative Party and The Liberal Party of Ontario: Stepping in Super Bowl DOO DOO?

The province of Ontario will be having an election 27February2025. All parties in the electoral fracas have expressed concern over the imposition of steep tariffs by executive fiat of President Donald Trump of the United States.

The current Ontario Progressive Conservative Party premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, has pumped up the electoral slogan of “Protect Ontario” in the face of crushing tariffs. Bonnie Crombie, Liberal Party wannabe premier has also expressed concern about the threats faced to Ontarians by the tariffs.

Given this patriotic bent is there any reason why both parties advertised reasons why they should form the next government of Ontario during the Canadian broadcast of a premier American cultural-sporting event knowing President Trump would be in attendance.

The Ontario Liberal Party gave a weak run around reason, “The ads were only played in Ontario and on Canadian news channels. It was an opportunity to increase awareness of this election and of Bonnie’s vision for Ontario.”

The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party gave no answer.

TRUMP AGRESSION TOWARDS CANADA:  Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) Hard At Work Protecting The Interests of Ontario

The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party has “Protect Ontario” as one of its electoral slogans for the upcoming 27February2025 provincial election.

Premier Doug Ford, as his fellow premiers of Canada, has focused on the low hanging and visible fruit of American alcohol particularly bourbon, as a punitive target but has waited to remove all American alcohol off the shelves of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario shelves and in third party retail outlets selling American wine and beer until the tariff situation is resolved.

Yet today a check at an LCBO store has revealed just how hard the LCBO is “depromoting” American bourbon.

Spoof News Services: Ukraine “Conflict” to End: (Mired Lang, Florida: 12February2025)

The White House announced today the cessation of the Ukrainian Conflict. Crimea will revert to joint ownership of Russia, North Korea and Mired Lang Investments of Kushner, Michigan.

The American sector of Crimea will be managed by Mired Lang Investments and will be subject to resort development. Doge Musky, president of Mired Lang Investments, expressed confidence that with 84 golf courses planned and a touristic infrastructure the region will be a premier golf destination. As a brave salute to the veterans of the Ukrainian conflict they will form a huge pool of caddies for the golf courses.  

The North Korean sector will house up to 100,000 North Korean “volunteer worker brigades” to be used as foreign workers in the United States. Jimbo Nochance, Vice President of the United States, noted due to the lack of a Latino workforce many of whom have scooted back to their homeland or housed as guests of the United States in Guantanamo Bay the United States can benefit from next to nothing labor costs of the North Korean brigades. All wages of the brigades will be forwarded to the North Korean government. Nochance stated, “It will cost peanuts to use these brave North Korean volunteers helping America build the Golden Age. With all the vacant government buildings made available by the elimination of a fat government bureaucracy we can house em cheap. As for food costs they should be low as the North Korean worker is quite used to starvation, we have plenty of feral dogs they can eat as that is the main staple of a North Korean peasant.”

Russian president and Supreme Leader Igor Pooping stated the Russian sector will host first class gulags with state of the art facilities to house “dissidents and enemies” of the Russian nation. Hungarian, Czech, Slovenian, Belarusian, Kazakhstani, Romanian and Georgian subsectors will host guest criminals of these principalities of Russia.

President Oran Crapaud of the United States remarked, Pooping and the Jongster, as he refers to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, are really great guys, wonderful people. As for that Zelensky character he’s sucked so much money from the United States he should be glad we didn’t take the whole damn country and make it the 53rd state. To recoup lost American money a 300% tariff will be imposed on Ukrainian cereals by the United States.    

RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Playing a Tricky Game with a Petrichor 2022 Cabernet Merlot

While developing a guarded respect for Ontario Merlot when carefully oaked, Ontario Cabernet Sauvignon rarely pleases. Blend the two together with some Cabernet Franc and you may be playing a risky game condemned to a wine dulled by neutrality and loss of identity.

Aroma: Black cherry, blackberry, blueberry and blackcurrant in a smoky envelope.

Palate: Moderate tannins with a hint of sweetness. Bits of black currant, blackberry with a certain dampness. Just beyond a short finish with some blackball candy to it.

Personality: No risk here RKS Wine. I have character. I have fruit. I have structure. I have an identity.

Food Match: Pasta with Putanesca sauce.

Cellarbility: Drink in 2025.

Price: $15.60.

RKS 2025 Canadian Wine Rating: 87/100. Wine Align 87.

(Petrichor 2022 Cabernet Merlot, VQA Niagara Peninsula, Artisan Wine Co., 750 mL, 13%).

RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Look at Me”: Captivating Quirkiness and Originality

Taylor (Taylor Olson) is an actor with an eating disorder. Classic bulimia. He has an alter ego egging him on encouraging destructive behavior, harassing and berating him making an unhappy existence miserable.

The story unfolds in black and white with Taylor speaking into the camera at an audition saying in his early teens how his aunt and a classmate hurtfully mocked him for being so fat. Was this the foundation for his eating disorder? Unhappy Taylor burns his childhood pictures.

Taylor attempts to deal with his weight explaining to all it is genetic. Diets fail.

Is it his bulimia that causes his awkwardness, loneliness, guilt, low elf esteem, insecurity, anxiety, pain and disappointment or is in reverse order.

Taylor can’t seem to do anything right alienating people rather lost in his awkwardness unable to forge lasting human connections with almost everyone. Dates end up in disaster. At one point he states he can’t be honest with anyone as it causes too much pain.

A refreshing and highly personal look at eating disorders told by a tortured soul and no tongue wagging here by “experts” in a Dr. Everett Scott “Rocky Horror Picture Show” way.

Taylor admits to a psychologist he is suffering from a Porcupine Dilemma. He fears closeness at it may hurt anyone attempting to get close to him. The ending of the film is optimistic but not happy forever after.

The journey’s trail here is riddled with quirkiness but never lighthearted. An original work painful at times.

Directed and written by Taylor Olson. Canadian theatrical release commenced 7February2025.

RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film Rating 90/100.

The Return of the Penniless Pensioner: Chapter Six: A Dictator Grooms America: Storm Troopers Needed

Dictators simply don’t sprout from the masses. There is a process which the bright emerging dictator grooms.

The fuel that razes the existing order requires The Disaffected requiring them riled up all loud and violent. A dictator requires some “exaggerated press” that harps on a small group of The Disaffected let’s call them Storm Troopers creating the illusion of a mass movement that generates the possibility of grooming a mass movement.

The Storm Troopers are ordinarily poorly educated men, excessively frustrated by erectile disfunction, drive pick-up trucks, drink beer in a manly fashion right from the bottle and revel in country music and bare-knuckle fighting. Perhaps we can call them theatrical thugs.

Storm Troopers specialize in waving flags, shouting, grooming wispy chin beards and assaulting anyone standing in their way particularly authority figures of the existing order such as policemen and Vice Presidents without backbone who they would prefer lynching.

Storm Troopers are of limited use as once the fire of hatred in the mases is inflamed in their midst the criminality of the Storm Troopers discredits the perceived legitimacy of a mass movement. Persecution transforms patriots into martyrs becoming a disposable force of crucial ideological importance. They are stars that guide the masses to the Messiah.

Spoof News Services: American Military Vehicles Spotted in Potsdam, New York Near Canadian Border: Kingston, Ontario:11January2025

Cadets at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario reported sightings of numerous American military vehicles in the Potsdam, New York area. Using drones they detected at least 35 tanks without any military markings and similarly some 75 troop transport trucks all with a “51” painted in a makeshift manner on their exteriors. President Oran Crapaud of the United States of America has repeatedly stated Canada should be the 51st state of the United States.

The White House replied to our queries by noting this was simply a routine training exercise and the “51” was the platoon number for the tanks.

(Photo Credit: Associated Press)