Shot in a rich 1960’s motive (with a touch of Fellini) including food, dress and music Velma (Scarlet Moreno) searches for that “special man” but Velma is locked into a pattern of feeding then bedding a man regretting her unsuccessful endeavours of willing if not compulsive behavior. It is not regretting or being ashamed ofContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Velma”: An Elusive Attempt to Find that Special Man: “Moon River” Meets Ted Bundy”
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RKS 2024 Film: “Carol Doda: Topless at the Condor”: Artistic Exploration Sputters to Nostalgia Act
Carol Doda (1937-2015) has been recognized as the first “legal” topless dancer in the United States. Using archival footage including press interviews we trace the history of Carol Doda and perhaps of more interest the evolution of American attitudes towards sexuality and the feminist movement. The film also delves into (although not expressly) the AmericanContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Carol Doda: Topless at the Condor”: Artistic Exploration Sputters to Nostalgia Act”
RKS 2024 Film: “The Burning Season”: Raging Hormones, Various Intoxications of the Flesh and Deception from Z to A: The Canadian Film Fest
I have viewed some fine films showing at The Canadian Film Fest. There are so many film festivals in the world it is impossible to keep track of them all and I stumbled into this one by chance. It is certainly not a major festival but based on the festival films I watched great careContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Burning Season”: Raging Hormones, Various Intoxications of the Flesh and Deception from Z to A: The Canadian Film Fest”
RKS 2024 Film: “Daughter of the Sun”: Cruel, Bizarre, Mystical and Biblical
“Daughter of the Sun” combines biblical references, “2001 A Space Odyssey”, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Bonny and Clyde” making this one the best Canadian movies in modern times. Ryan Ward as writer, director and actor has quite an accomplishment on the screen. Please don’t hold it against the film that it isContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Daughter of the Sun”: Cruel, Bizarre, Mystical and Biblical”
RKS 2024 Film: “Hailey Rose”: A Mess of Quirkiness, Hate, Selfishness, Deception and Forgiveness: Canadian Film Fest
“Hailey Rose”, a Canadian feature film, is an intriguing mess of emotions, bearing in mind “mess” does not always signify negativity. Hailey (Em Haine) and Rose (Caitlynne Medrek) are Nova Scotian sisters. Hailey is queer living in Calgary and in rural Nova Scotia queer is on par with an exotic animal. Rose is quirky. TheirContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Hailey Rose”: A Mess of Quirkiness, Hate, Selfishness, Deception and Forgiveness: Canadian Film Fest”
RKS 2024 Film: “Place of Bones”: The Good, Bad, Ugly and a Taste for the Finer Things in Life: Canadian Film Fest
I can’t think of any Canadian westerns I have encountered so I snapped up the opportunity to watch “Place of Bones” set in 1876 Canada. In many respects it is a traditional 1950’s and 1960’s western. Good god-fearing sodbusters Pandora Meadow (Heather Graham) and her daughter Hester (Brielle Robillard) living a marginal existence in aContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Place of Bones”: The Good, Bad, Ugly and a Taste for the Finer Things in Life: Canadian Film Fest”
RKS 2024 Film: “Valley of Exile”: Canadian Film Fest
It is 2013 and Syrian sisters Rima (Maria Hassan) and Nour (Hala Hosni) arrive as refugees in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. They find a temporary home in a “camp” with Haifa (Najwa Kandakji) and her niece Shirin. Rima is the older sister conservative in views and dress. Nour could be a teenager in any North AmericanContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Valley of Exile”: Canadian Film Fest”
RKS 2024 Film: “Doubles”: Canadian Film Fest
Doubles are a Trinidadian street food. Curried chickpeas (channa) between two pieces of fried flatbread in tamarind and coriander sauce with mango chutney, kuchela and cucumbers. Dhani (Sanjiv Boodhu) who is of Indian descent and his mother run a small roadside stand selling doubles in Trinidad. It is a marginal existence worsened by a robberyContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Doubles”: Canadian Film Fest”
“Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog”: The Final Cut: The Lights Dim and We Are Live at the Academy Awards! Riot Police Called as Larry David Attacked by Penny and Bosco: Reggie Becomes a Swiftie: Chapter Seventy Six (76)
We hold our breath as the nominees for best song are announced. And the winner is…….Gordon Lightfoot for “Paco A Girl’s Best Friend”! Mr. Gordon Lightfoot grabs Bosco and me under his arms and carries us on the stage. He has 90 seconds to speak to the world. “I would like to thank the Academy.Continue reading ““Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog”: The Final Cut: The Lights Dim and We Are Live at the Academy Awards! Riot Police Called as Larry David Attacked by Penny and Bosco: Reggie Becomes a Swiftie: Chapter Seventy Six (76)”
RKS 2024 Film: “One Life”: Shuffles Along but Finishes with a Sprint
“One Life” is the story of dedicated volunteers in 1938 Prague attempting to whisk children (mostly Jewish) to safety in Britain by train with Nicholas “Nicky” Winton pressuring the British bureaucracy to issue exit visas to the children. Of course, being bureaucrats, they insisted 50 £ be posted as return money to return the childrenContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “One Life”: Shuffles Along but Finishes with a Sprint”
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