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RKS 2025 Film: “Dark Match”: Some Chilling Thrills and Comedy in a Quasi Farce

In “Dark Match” a struggling professional wrestling organization, SAW Wrestling, accepts a lucrative gig out in the isolated countryside. The tantalizing cash is difficult to resist. A small group of wrestlers and the managing promoter Rusty Beans (Jonathan Cherry) pack themselves off and head to the venue .They receive a warm welcome from a ratherContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Dark Match”: Some Chilling Thrills and Comedy in a Quasi Farce”

RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”: International Machinations Lead to National Disaster

“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” focuses on the futile attempt to attain veritable independence of the Belgian colony of the Congo led by Patrice Lumumba. The Democratic Republic of Congo with Lumumba as its first prime minister negotiated its independence from Belgium on 30June1960. But was it truly independence? The assassination of Lumumba in earlyContinue reading “RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”: International Machinations Lead to National Disaster”

RKS 2025 Film: “Loren & Rose”: Jacqueline Bisset on Stage!

“Loren & Rose” showcases the enormous talent of Jacqueline Bisset in her role as Rose Martin an actress rising to great acclaim in “Lisa Overnight” her greatest commercial success and her biggest curse as once you reach the summit it may be more of a slide down as how much room is there left toContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Loren & Rose”: Jacqueline Bisset on Stage!”

RKS 2025 Documentary: “A Conversation with Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion”

“A Conversation with Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion” is what you get in this American documentary; Bob Mackie and many others, predominately entertainers and celebrities, discussing the career of American costume designer Bob Mackie. Mackie, now 85, started sketching as a boy preferring that to athletic pursuits. When asked what he wanted to do “when youContinue reading “RKS 2025 Documentary: “A Conversation with Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion””

RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “Mediha”: ISIL’s Genocidal DNA

ISIL is a genocidal force bent on the annihilation of “non- believers”. There is no middle ground for fanatics. They can’t destroy all non-believers so they pick away here and there whether that be New Orleans, Paris, Moscow and many other urban centres with easy civilian targets. On 3August2014 ISIL commenced its attack on theContinue reading “RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “Mediha”: ISIL’s Genocidal DNA”

RKS 2025 Film: “Vermiglio”: Idyllic Decomposition

Pietro (Giuseppe De Domenico) a Sicilian deserter from the Italian Army assists a local fellow deserter, Attillo, to return to the latter’s mountainous home village Vermiglio. It is 1944 and the Second World War is drawing to a close. Vermiglio appears untouched by the war with an occasional plane flying overhead being the only tangibleContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Vermiglio”: Idyllic Decomposition”

RKS 2025 Film: “Young Werther”: A Canadian Reverse Romcom Classic

Werther (Douglas Booth) a prepped out overconfident and shallow young man from the ritzy Anglo Montreal suburb of Westmount arrives in Toronto with geeky germaphobe buddy Paul (Jaouhar Ben Ayed) on a family errand. Once completed Werther will journey to Europe “to write his memoirs” but being so young what memoirs could this pompous assContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Young Werther”: A Canadian Reverse Romcom Classic”

RKS 2025 Film: Scarborough Hits the Big Screen in “Morningside”

I grew up in Montreal and fled as a refugee to Toronto. I encountered incessant references about this neighbourhood called Scarborough and not always in the most positive language. An undertone of poverty, crime and naughtiness. Scarborough seemed so far away from Toronto it earned the derogatory nickname of Scarberia.  The only relevance Scarborough heldContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: Scarborough Hits the Big Screen in “Morningside””

RKS 2024 Film: The Worst Films of 2024

“Zombie Town” Canada 56/100 “Café 404” Greece 56/100 “Omicron Killer” USA 61/100 “Beehive” Canada 67/100 “Cold Road” Canada 67/100 “Pure O” USA  69/100 “Jeanne duBarry” France 69/100 “Guy Manley Super Spy” United Kingdom 68/100 “One Must Wash Their Eyes” USA  67/100 “What Mary Didn’t Know” Greece/France 64/100