RKS 2024 Film: “Compulsus”: Angry Lesbian Serial Attacker and the Bi with an Almost “Fatal Attraction”

Wally (Lesley Smith) is inundated with stories from queer and straight friends of abuse of women by men that goes unpunished. Wally is a part time poet and full-time furniture manual writer. Her rage swells to the point it is time to attack men to achieve “poetic justice”. She is officially an angry lesbian. AndContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Compulsus”: Angry Lesbian Serial Attacker and the Bi with an Almost “Fatal Attraction””

RKS 2024 Film: “Take Cover”: The Dangers of Retirement

I recently watched an episode of “The Sopranos” where a lower-level member of “the family” inherited two million dollars and wanted to retire to Florida with his wife and young children. You can’t retire from the Mafia. And the British film “Take Cover” starts with Sam Lorde (Scott Adkins) as a sniper for the “Company”Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Take Cover”: The Dangers of Retirement”

RKS 2024 Film: “Space Cowboy”: Art in the Big Fall! Awesome! Spectacular! Addictive!

“Space Cowboy” is the perfect title for this American documentary. Joe Jennings is a cowboy of the air as a high-altitude camera flyer where air represents the Oregon Trail. His camera has caught sky diving stunts and sky surfing competitions. Sky surfing is an extreme sport were a parachutist jumps out of a plane onContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Space Cowboy”: Art in the Big Fall! Awesome! Spectacular! Addictive!”

RKS 2024 Film: “Zombie Town”: Don’t Be Sucker Punched by Rent a Star

If you aren’t zombified by the time the final credits roll you are a superhuman and perhaps ready to star in the 467th Marvel movie. Not being attracted to zombie films I watched “Zombie Town” because Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase were featured actors. Their screen appearance was minimal all for the better as theContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Zombie Town”: Don’t Be Sucker Punched by Rent a Star”

RKS 2024 Film: “Inedia”: A Deadly Convergence of Flummox and Eating Disorders

Cora’s aversion to eating spirals out of control to the point that she considers herself allergic to all foods even parsley. While at dinner at her sister’s she has a few bites of a bizarre vegetarian dish and runs to the toilet to induce vomiting. Her condition worsens. Her GP does not share her thoughtsContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Inedia”: A Deadly Convergence of Flummox and Eating Disorders”

RKS 2024 Wine: Canadian Pinot Noir Eh? Bachelder Les Villages Bench 2021 Pinot Noir

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”

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”