The contracts with Disney have been signed. Bob as co-producer and screenplay writer is in Los Angeles Monday-Friday at Disney Studios working on the Disney animated film “Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog” production. Dillie the Westie and I miss him and the walks he took us on in the neighborhood. Fay is more likely toContinue reading ““Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog” :The Final Cut: The Making of Disney’s “Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog”: The Terrifying Stink of Cairo: This Will Not Be a “Lady and the Tramp Story!: Chapter Thirty One (31)”
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RKS 2024 Film: “Our Time to Be Kind”: Of Tears and Trust: Of Science and Hysteria
“Our Time to Be Kind”, a Canadian documentary, is ostensibly a profile of Dr. Bonnie Henry the Provincial Health Officer of the Canadian province of British Columbia during that time of COVID pandemania where science and hysteria co-existed. As a Torontonian, British Columbia is a 5-hour flight away but Dr. Bonnie Henry was often onContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Our Time to Be Kind”: Of Tears and Trust: Of Science and Hysteria”
RKS 2024 Film: “The Integrity of Joseph Chambers”: Are You and Joseph Chambers Chumps?
Pay attention very closely to the opening scene of “The Integrity of Joseph Chambers” and store that in your mind. Of course, you may want to revisit that opening scene after the closing credits have rolled. Joe (Clayne Crawford) and his family have moved to rural America to escape the urban grid thinking they wouldContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Integrity of Joseph Chambers”: Are You and Joseph Chambers Chumps?”
RKS 2024 Film: “Cold Road”: The Revenge of the Thin Ice
Tracy (Roseanne Supernault) and her dog Pretzel (Karibou) are on a 12-hour winter drive to the Canadian “Far North” to attend her mother’s death bed. Tracy can’t seem to do anything right and has a miserable personal relationship or lack of it with her husband Danny. Even her sister Eve criticizes and disses her forContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Cold Road”: The Revenge of the Thin Ice”
RKS 2024 Film: “Come Lie with Me” (Arrête avec tes mesonges): The Torture of Remaining in the Closet
I take issue with the translation of “Arrête avec tes mesonges” which in my French means “stop with your lies” far more appropriate than “Come Lie with Me” given the path and plot of the film. You see Stéphane Belcourt (Guillame de Tonquédec) is a gay novelist who is quite out of the closet. OnContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Come Lie with Me” (Arrête avec tes mesonges): The Torture of Remaining in the Closet”
RKS 2024 Film: “Be Still”: A Descent into Madness of a Forgotten Canadian
You know Salvador Dali and Mary Cassatt. But do you know Canadians Helen Galloway McNicoll and Hannah Maynard? All but erased from history, 40 years before Dali and the Surrealist movement began, professional Canadian photographer Hannah Maynard was perfecting surrealistic techniques in her Victoria, British Columbia studio. Maynard moved beyond stone faced portraits to aContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Be Still”: A Descent into Madness of a Forgotten Canadian”
RKS 2024 Film: “Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer”
“Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer” is a documentary scanning the live and films of German director Werner Herzog. Herzog quips all his films emanate from pain and not pleasure. While many of the actors and directors in the documentary laud Herzog as a dreamer Herzog says he rarely dreams but sometimes when walking or driving longContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer””
RKS 2024 Film: “Eternal You”: Manipulative and Delusional Comfort Offered By Artificial Intelligence? The Swindling of Human Intelligence (or Lack Thereof) by Artificial Intelligence
“Eternal You” is a German-American documentary world premiering at 2024 Sundance this January. It explores the use of AI by users to interact with the dead through chat box voice synthesis and often with visual interactions. In this AI paradigm logic dictates this is an hallucination or illusion which seems in the examples proffered toContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Eternal You”: Manipulative and Delusional Comfort Offered By Artificial Intelligence? The Swindling of Human Intelligence (or Lack Thereof) by Artificial Intelligence”
RKS 2024 Film: “And So It Begins”
Complimenting Ramona S. Diaz’s 2020 film “A Thousand Cuts” introducing Maria Ressa’s struggle in the Philippines to assert the rights of a free press through her media outlet Rappler, Diaz returns this month to 2024 Sundance with “And So It Begins” which chronicles the 2022 Presidential campaign of Leni Robredo affectionately known as “Leni”. FacingContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “And So It Begins””
RKS 2024 Film: “After the Fire” (Avant que les flames): Tired Old Plot Barely Saved by Fresh Talent
The French film “After the Fire” suffers from tired old plot syndrome perhaps more common in the news of the day or in documentaries than in a feature film. Minority member brutalized and killed by the police. It happens ubiquitously in almost all countries. In this film Karim El Yadari of Strasbourg dies after aContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “After the Fire” (Avant que les flames): Tired Old Plot Barely Saved by Fresh Talent”
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