Ally (Lesli Brownlee) from Vancouver has an exciting and winning night at a Las Vegas casino. She wakes up in a suburban hotel not knowing how she got there. She is naked in bed with her clothes scattered about and EEKS a condom on the floor! She tears out of the hotel walking in aContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: GEMFest 2025: “Henderson”: Shifting Realities is the Reality”
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Vancouver’s 20th Annual GEMFest Film Festival: “Autophagy”: Harmless Claymation or Wicked Commentary?
“Autophagy”, a British production, could be enjoyed as an amusing claymation trip attractive due to its striking animation and threatening soundtrack. But it could be viewed as a wickedly sarcastic view of those terrible COVID days. Redcap is a quiet coastal town ravaged by an Octopi Epidemic, a waterborne disease that transforms humans, in aContinue reading “Vancouver’s 20th Annual GEMFest Film Festival: “Autophagy”: Harmless Claymation or Wicked Commentary?”
Vancouver’s 20th Annual GEMFest Film Festival: “Saigon Kiss”: Much Not Said and Much Not Done Imbued with Massive Tension and Mystery!
“Saigon Kiss” might be misleading in that Saigon no longer exists having being renamed Ho Chi Minh City after the fall of South Vietnam. And there is a kiss but not quite the one you might expect and maybe even deserve with all the tension leading up to a moment that does not happen. HoContinue reading “Vancouver’s 20th Annual GEMFest Film Festival: “Saigon Kiss”: Much Not Said and Much Not Done Imbued with Massive Tension and Mystery!”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Morningside”: Life, Suffering and Death in Scarborough, Ontario: Classic American Inner-City Drama?
Scarborough is one of those “distant” suburbs of Toronto so far away from Toronto it is sometimes referred to as Scarberia. Not a great reputation among many of us Torontonians. My sole experience with Scarborough is that it is a landmark for me driving home from Montreal on the 401 Highway ironically signalling I amContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Morningside”: Life, Suffering and Death in Scarborough, Ontario: Classic American Inner-City Drama?”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Anacoreta”: A Movie About Attempting to Make a Horror Movie
“Anacoreta” is a movie about attempting to make an experimental horror movie. I can’t discern any horror or mockumentary flavour to it. I attended the 65th Annual Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Thessaloniki, Greece in early November 2024 and watched 23 movies and posted reviews on 20 of them in 10 days. Three of theContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Anacoreta”: A Movie About Attempting to Make a Horror Movie”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Sweet Summer Pow Pow”: Two Generations Barely Able to Politic to Peace in “Love Story” Indigenous Style
Jinny (Tatyana Rose Baptiste) is a 17-year-old from the County Lake nation in British Columbia. Jinny suffers under the despotic but well intended iron fist of her mother Cara (Tanis Paranteau). Cara, now the chief of the County Lake nation, was not always a paradigm of respectability as Jinny notes she spent time in herContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Sweet Summer Pow Pow”: Two Generations Barely Able to Politic to Peace in “Love Story” Indigenous Style”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Lucky Star”: Down the Rabbit Hole Again?
Harold “Lucky” Lee (Terry Chen) resides in Calgary, Alberta with his wife Noel (Olivia Cheng) and daughters Grace (Connie Miu) and Jenny. Lucky recently purchased an electronic repair business and is heavily leveraged. And his accountant, and long-time friend, advises him he owes the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) $15,000 in taxes. After Lucky receives aContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Lucky Star”: Down the Rabbit Hole Again?”
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.Continue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Eat the Night”: Video Game Unreality Intersects with Actual Brutal Reality”
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 hisContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Look at Me”: Captivating Quirkiness and Originality”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Mongrels”: Horror, Fantasy, Reality and the Concealment of Truth
Sonny Lee (Jae-Hyun Kim) newly arrived Korean to British Columbia is hired by hunter and farmer Scott Larson to eradicate packs of feral dogs in the neighboring woods. They snarl, howl and growl as a menacing, omnipresent and quasi surreal force. His daughter Hana (Sein Jin) and adolescent son Hajoon (Da-Nu Nan) have emigrated withContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Mongrels”: Horror, Fantasy, Reality and the Concealment of Truth”
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