Any country with a couple of pesos to rub, and that includes Canada and France, can bottle up Pinot Noir but there is so much inferior product. Thomas Bachelder has been crafting excellent Niagara Pinot Noirs for years now garnering a top reputation initially with Le Clos Jordanne. Is he the king of Canadian PinotContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Canadian Pinot Noir Eh? Bachelder Les Villages Bench 2021 Pinot Noir”
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RKS 2024 Film: “Night of the Harvest”: Psycho Sisters Enjoy the Big Halloween Party
Just in time for Halloween “Night of the Harvest” is available digitally. I never understood the penchant some movie goers have for slasher films. What fun is there with blood, guts and body parts flying all over the screen. As far as slasher films go this is true to the genre with a tad ofContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Night of the Harvest”: Psycho Sisters Enjoy the Big Halloween Party”
RKS 2024 Film: “The Pitch: Patient Safety’s Next Generation”
The documentary “The Pitch: Patient Safety’s Next Generation” presents a picture of the United States’ hospital network as predominately archaic from a technological perspective but reveals change is beginning to arrive hopefully improving patient safety much of the change attributable based in artificial intelligence and virtual reality. For example, 25% of patients admitted to hospitalsContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Pitch: Patient Safety’s Next Generation””
RKS 2024 Film: “The Body Politic”
The City of Baltimore has a murder rate just about over 300 a year and the cause according to newly elected (in 2021) mayor Brandon Scott is not drugs or gangs but cases of interpersonal violence. The solution espoused by Scott is not increased policing which has failed in Baltimore time and time again butContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Body Politic””
RKS 2024 Film: “The Invisibles”: Heaven as a Narcotic
“The Invisibles” will be gracing screens in Vancouver and Toronto on 20September2024. Canadian film is largely unappreciated at the box office both in Canada and internationally. “The Invisibles” is one of those “warm and fuzzy” movies like “Peggy Sue Got Married” or “Back to the Future”. Not overly complicated but not simplistic so if itContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Invisibles”: Heaven as a Narcotic”
RKS 2024 Film: “Russians at War”: The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming!
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) issued a statement on 12September2024 the Canada-France film “Russians at War” directed by Anatasia Trofimova would be “paused” and there would be a screening “when it is safe to do so”. TIFF said it was aware “of significant threats to festival operations and public safety”. It would seem thereContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Russians at War”: The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming!”
RKS 2024 Film Reviews: The Vancouver Queer Film Festival Presents “Paradise Burning” (Pardiset Brinner)
The Swedish feature film “Paradise Burning” will be showing at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival running from 11-22September2024. Three sisters ranging from 6-16 survive in a Swedish working-class suburb without parental presence. Their drug addict mother is often absent abandoning her children. Social Services queries Laura (Bianca Delbravo) the oldest of the three sisters whenContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film Reviews: The Vancouver Queer Film Festival Presents “Paradise Burning” (Pardiset Brinner)”
RKS 2024 Film: More Canadian Indigenous Misery in “I’ll Tell You When I’m Ready”
Documentaries are rarely uplifting preferring an endless stream of negativity and when the topic is Canadian indigenous life the negativity is often escalated to misery. Another plate of angry misery fills the screen in Hayley Morin’s documentary about jaye simpson a poet, activist and drag queen. Abandoned as a child her single mother died inContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: More Canadian Indigenous Misery in “I’ll Tell You When I’m Ready””
RKS 2024 Film: “Charlie Tango”: Sympathy for The Devils?
The movie commences with some “active sex” in the washroom of a club between an angelic and prim rocker vocalist Kim (Stacie Mistysyn) and her ponytailed boyfriend Charlie (David La Haye) both in the “adulterer’s club”. Two morally bankrupt characters….devils? With the smell of sex in the air Kim goes to her evening shift asContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Charlie Tango”: Sympathy for The Devils?”
The Fourth Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Je”: A Devastatingly Effective Short
A young woman (Sabrina Campilii) sits at her desk writing her suicide note placing it in an envelope and then takes a razor blade to her wrist but the radio she had been listening to crackles with the voice of her soul asking her what she is doing. Her soul (Cassandre Anaya) appears and surprisinglyContinue reading “The Fourth Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Je”: A Devastatingly Effective Short”
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