The Canadian documentary “Coming Around” could be seen by some as a classic Liar Liar Your Pants Are on Fire story. Eman Abdelhadi is a Muslim queer of Palestinian descent living in Brooklyn, New York. She drinks, smokes weed, dances living a hajibless and openly queer lifestyle at least in Brooklyn. Her mother is aContinue reading “RKS 2023 Films: “Coming Around”: A Very Queerish Queer Documentary”
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RKS 2023 Film: “Re: Uniting”: Together Again For The Final Big Chill
Some say this Bowen Island (British Columbia) set and shot film is an ensemble drama that is similar to “The Big Chill”. I can agree with that. It is in the reunion genre of film. Let’s sort out the bad and good. Sound echoes in the early moments of the film seem not to haveContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Re: Uniting”: Together Again For The Final Big Chill”
RKS 2023 Film: “Finality of Dusk”: Begging for Your Interpretation
If you were to select the genre of the film as apocalyptic, I would partially accept that. There is much more going on here than you might think and it might very well have to do with Canadian Indigenous lore and history if your mind lets you escape from the obvious message of “Finality ofContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Finality of Dusk”: Begging for Your Interpretation”
RKS 2023 Film: “Vengeance: Rise of the Footsoldier”: Bad Good Boys Chasing Bad Guys
Patrick Tate (Craig Fairbrass) is a British criminal. The wind is not blowing in his favour as in the opening scene his attempt at armed robbery with friend Kenny goes wrong. Kenny loses his mask so he is identifiable, a security guard is wounded and the big heist is but for ₤ 2,500. Kenny isContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Vengeance: Rise of the Footsoldier”: Bad Good Boys Chasing Bad Guys”
RKS 2023 Film: “Going In”: So Bad Could it Be Good?
Surely you must have watched a film that you thought was so bad up pops a mushroom of sentiment egging you on saying that it was so bad it was good! “Escape From New York” was a 1981 film with Ernest Borgnine and Kurt Russell serving as an example of this as regards the performanceContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Going In”: So Bad Could it Be Good?”
RKS 2023 Wine: California Cabernet Sauvignon and My Self Imposed $25 Guideline
I am not one that ordinarily judges a wine by its price but there are exceptions to the rule or is it rules to the exception? One RKS Wine guideline for Cali Cabernet Sauvignon is that don’t expect much under the $25 guidepost. I suppose given the latest increases in wine prices in our provinceContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: California Cabernet Sauvignon and My Self Imposed $25 Guideline”
RKS 2023 Film: “Fireline”: Global Warming and Wildfire are Good Bedfellows
This documentary follows a team of firefighters from the Cal Fire Lassen-Modoc unit battling the 2021 monstrous Dixie Wildfire in California that burned for 104 days destroying 963,309 acres of forest and 1,329 structures. 1,973 firefighters were involved. The cost of firefighting was $637 million USD. A combination of global warming, too dense of aContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Fireline”: Global Warming and Wildfire are Good Bedfellows”
RKS 2023 Film: “Overtime”: Canada’s National Sport is Hockey and a Part of So Many Personal Histories!
Canada loves its hockey. If I may serve as a sorry example as I never reached the National Hockey League, I still have a deep reservoir of hockey memories. At five years of age in freezing winter pre global warming days I hit the outdoor natural ice in Montreal not knowing much more than shootContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Overtime”: Canada’s National Sport is Hockey and a Part of So Many Personal Histories!”
RKS 2023 Film: “Making the Yuletide Gay: A Very Special Paul Lynde Christmas”: Groaning Through a Very Smutty Christmas
I will admit it. I simply can’t watch “It’s A Wonderful Life” yet another time as that squeaky clean piece of cinema is beginning to grate on the nerves. Diametrically opposed to that Ivory Soap piece of cinema is “Making the Yuletide Gay: A Very Special Paul Lynde Christmas” teeming with sacrilegious smut perhaps justContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Making the Yuletide Gay: A Very Special Paul Lynde Christmas”: Groaning Through a Very Smutty Christmas”
RKS 2023 Film: “Nisei”: An American Short Film That is Far From Sweet
Inspired by stories by the writer and director’s grandfather the award winning “Nisei” follows the journey of two Japanese American brothers during World War II, John and Minoru Miyasaki. Although many Japanese Americans were interned in “segregation camps” John and Minoru volunteered to join the 442nd Regimental Combat Team an all Japanese American unit thatContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Nisei”: An American Short Film That is Far From Sweet”
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