True confessions. I am not a cat lover. I am a “dog person”. Once upon a time I was cornered by a Quebecois cat and kept prisoner for a few hours. I suppose that cat sensed my at best “indifferent” attitude toward cats. I might share that story with you one day. Then I metContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “American Cats: The Good, Bad And The Cuddly”: Calling All Cat Activists and Cat Lovers”
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RKS 2024 Film: “New Life”: The Brutality of Good Intentions or the Evil of “Good”
Jessica Murdock (Hayley Erin) all bloodied is running through the woods as if someone is pursuing her piquing your curiosity. Why is she running and why is she bloodied? Who is pursuing her? One of her flashbacks has her locked in some makeshift detention centre. This is getting heavier by the moment. Then that ladyContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “New Life”: The Brutality of Good Intentions or the Evil of “Good””
RKS 2024 Film: “Wild Goat Surf”: Joanna Andrade Dreams but Down and Out in Penticton
Rell “Goat” Anderson (Shaylea Martin) is a thirteen-year-old surfer chick obsessed with becoming a great surfer although her summer of 2003 trailer park life in Penticton, British Columbia’s beautiful Okanagan is not progressing well for her. Goat has the look, the garb and attitude of a skateboarder a la Avril Lavigne’s “Skater Boy”. One problemContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Wild Goat Surf”: Joanna Andrade Dreams but Down and Out in Penticton”
RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “Never Look Away”
The Canadian premiere of “Never Look Away” will be at Hot Docs showing on 27/30April2024 and 4May2024. Margaret Moth was a fearless almost Gothlike camera woman hailing from New Zealand as is director Lucy Lawless with her directorial debut. You may ask when viewing the film if she was addicted to the danger of operatingContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “Never Look Away””
RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “The Bones”: Dino Intrigue!
Watch the documentary “The Bones” and you will never see dinosaurs the way you used to. I have taken my children to see the dinosaurs at The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and now it is the grandchildren. Children are fascinated with dinosaurs but if you take them when they are too young, they mayContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “The Bones”: Dino Intrigue!”
RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “Daughter of Genghis”: A Lesson for Daughters and Sons of Trump
We follow the life of single Mongolian mother Gerel Byamba over the period of seven years. Extreme nationalists in Mongolia vilified Chinese control of the economy, the degradation of women and the threat of Chinese corruption of the “pure Mongolian genes” through Chinese controlled brothels and intermarriage with Mongolian women. Gerel Byamba’s husband died inContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “Daughter of Genghis”: A Lesson for Daughters and Sons of Trump”
RKS 2024 Film: “Occupied City”: Amsterdam Yesterday and Today: A Bloody Chapter in its History
Director and writer Steve McQueen has crafted a solid and very long historical documentary based on wife Bianca Stigter’s “Atlas of an Occupied City, Amsterdam 1940-1945”. In the Second World War German forces occupied Amsterdam and slowly but methodically drew the noose around the necks of its Jewish population. Some 60,000-80,000 of Amsterdam’s Jews wereContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Occupied City”: Amsterdam Yesterday and Today: A Bloody Chapter in its History”
RKS 2024 FILM: HOT DOCS 2024:“My Sextortion Diary” (Todo Lo Cubre la Sol): A Currency of Threats and Humiliation
Patricia Franquesa, a Spanish filmmaker, meets her ex-boyfriend at a restaurant in Madrid for lunch. Her laptop is stolen by two men as is visible on security camera footage. She reports the matter to the Madrid police. Two months later a hacker informs her three “compromising pictures” on her laptop will be distributed to allContinue reading “RKS 2024 FILM: HOT DOCS 2024:“My Sextortion Diary” (Todo Lo Cubre la Sol): A Currency of Threats and Humiliation”
RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS: “Back to Riaño” (Vuelta a Riaño): Spanish Destruction and Relocation all for Nothing
“Back to Riaño”, a film by Miriam Martin, is one of the four films showing in the Hot Docs Made in Spain Shorts Programme screening on 3May2024. It is a case study in government waste and arrogant stupidity. The locality of Riaño had nine 14th century villages destroyed in order to construct a dam thatContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS: “Back to Riaño” (Vuelta a Riaño): Spanish Destruction and Relocation all for Nothing”
RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “Aqueronte”: A Mystical Voyage of Light, Sound and Images for Your Imagination
“Aqueronte”, a film by Manuel Muñoz Rivas, is one of the four films showing in the Hot Docs Made in Spain Shorts Programme screening on 3May2024. Despite the fact it is not a documentary short it is a short of a mystical voyage of light, sound and images your mind can journey on with. AContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “Aqueronte”: A Mystical Voyage of Light, Sound and Images for Your Imagination”
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