Roma (Roman Lutskyi), his wife Nastia (Anastasiia Karpenko) and Roma’s children the phone obsessed Sofia (Sofia Berezovska) and the cartoon loving Fedir (Fedir Pugachov) are Ukrainians spending a vacation on one of the Canary Islands, Tenerife. Fun and good times and inevitably the departure back to Kiev. But the fun and games abruptly end withContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Under the Volcano”: Metaphorical Streams of Lava!”
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RKS 2025 Film: “Live a Little”: Bosom Buddy Interrail On the Road Picture?
One can’t deny the Swedish film “Live a Little” falls within the on the road genre with two mid twenty buddies Laura (Embla Ingelman-Sundberg) and Alex (Aviva Wrede) seeking to tear up Europe on a trip they have been planning for years. But as in the Brit film “How to Have Sex” the surface glossContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Live a Little”: Bosom Buddy Interrail On the Road Picture?”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Loathe Thy Neighbor”
“Loathe Thy Neighbor” is a low budget Canadian indie film shot in Bruce County, Ontario. One can’t deny certain of its comedic elements but it is more of a character study than a comedy. Deeply unhappy characters seldom craft a comedy. City slicker Will Larkfield (Brennan Clost) inherits a farm from his father who hadContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Loathe Thy Neighbor””
RKS 2025 Film: “A Soil A Culture A River A People”: Ignoring the Director’s Statement or at Least Some of It
“A Soil A Culture A River A People” is in the abstract museum-art galley genre. I watched this 15-minute short three times arriving at three different interpretations of its purpose. Perplexing, challenging and fun! As a film critic I receive films to review from production companies or public relations firms attaching a viewing link forContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “A Soil A Culture A River A People”: Ignoring the Director’s Statement or at Least Some of It”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Are We Done Now”: A Panoply of Emotions
In the swirl of COVID Pamela Givers (Gabrielle Miller) as a registered clinical counsellor soothes and probes the emotions of emotionally afflicted clients. Pamela is mask and hand sanitizer obsessed so she is hardly COVID neutral and she is not without emotional problems herself. A client of Pamela, film producer Dev Greene (Ben Immanuel) approachesContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Are We Done Now”: A Panoply of Emotions”
RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “The Age of Water”: Drinking to Death and Toasting Economic Short-Term Prosperity
In the Mexican state of Guanajuato, the town of La Cantera has a serious water quality problem. Independent professional testing and verifications have determined its drinking water drawn from the town’s well has a high degree of radioactivity associated with volcanic rocks leading to the formation of radon gas surfacing below from the groundwater whereContinue reading “RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “The Age of Water”: Drinking to Death and Toasting Economic Short-Term Prosperity”
RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “In Hell With IVO”: A Most Interesting Bulgarian!
I was last in 1973 Bulgaria as a whippersnapper with shoulder length hair. There were very few adventuresome tourists in that part of the Iron Curtain at the time. As I was walking the streets of Sofia drinking some green carbonated beverage of unknown composition three Dutch young folk stopped me and asked how IContinue reading “RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “In Hell With IVO”: A Most Interesting Bulgarian!”
RKS 2025 Documentary: “Divia”: All Manner of Destruction: All Manner of Resilience
The Euro documentary “Divia” has no dialogue simply music. Its astonishing cinematography is a work of art. It is a panorama of destruction of flora and fauna, man, his environment and his machines of death and destruction. Nature has been wounded but is far from defeat. If you have watched the documentaries “Russia at War”Continue reading “RKS 2025 Documentary: “Divia”: All Manner of Destruction: All Manner of Resilience”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film:“Seeds”: Something More Political is Germinating Under the Horror
“Seeds” is most often categorized in reviews as a horror movie with comedic elements. I agree but there is an angrier political layer germinating under the horror moniker namely an Indigenous strike back against colonization both past and present. We are introduced to Ziggy (Kaniehtiio Horn) as a struggling urban Indian “influencer” surviving on bicycleContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film:“Seeds”: Something More Political is Germinating Under the Horror”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Sweet Angel Baby”: Newfoundland Explosion!
“Down east”, as they say in Canada, on 6December1917 two ships, one loaded with high explosives, collided in Halifax, Nova Scotia with the resulting explosion killing 1,782 people and injuring an estimated 9,000. In the film “Sweet Angel Baby” filmed down east in Newfoundland and Labrador a massive explosion occurs but a moral one, notContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Sweet Angel Baby”: Newfoundland Explosion!”
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