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”
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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”
RKS 2023 Film: “The Job of Songs”: A Beautifully Layered Documentary
Seeing the promo material for “The Job of Songs” and the words “traditional Irish music” I experienced very Canadian flashbacks of television shows “Don Messer’s Jubilee” and “The Pig and Whistle”. Teen PTSD! Forcing myself to watch this Irish documentary was not easy. It took me three days of “yes watch” and “no watch”. AsContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “The Job of Songs”: A Beautifully Layered Documentary”
RKS Literature: Pain and Humour (Ken Kesey)
“Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there is a painful side: he knows my thumb smarts and his girlfriend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Pain and Humour (Ken Kesey)”
RKS 2023 Film: “Rose”: Danish Epic Film Exhausts: Travels with a Schizophrenic
The Danish film “Rose” is an epic physical and spiritual journey of Inger (Sofie Gråbøl) on a bus trip from Denmark to Paris. Inger is institutionalized with schizophrenia but she is sufficiently functional (if not driven) to travel with her sister Ellen (Lene Marie Christensen) and husband Vagn (Anders W. Berthelsen) on a group coachContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Rose”: Danish Epic Film Exhausts: Travels with a Schizophrenic”
RKS 2023 Film: “Another Body”: Misogynist “Sewage”
“Another Body” is a documentary journey into a filthy and disgusting pool of sickening misogynist sewage. Taylor, a university student, (not her name and not her body in front of the doc camera) lives a quiet life in suburban United States until a friend messages her that she has seen Taylor on Pornhub a pornographicContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Another Body”: Misogynist “Sewage””
RKS 2023 Film: “Adventures of the Naked Umbrella”: Is it Bird With Glowing Eyes, a UFO or Possibly a Christmas Film?
Sam Wanoutsky (Jeremy Davies) is a frantic conspiracy theorist and that certainly shows by listening to his podcast “The Naked Umbrella”. He is a convicted arsonist currently out on parole so as one says, “He’s gotta keep his nose clean”. Even his parole officer Yolanda Johnston (Darnell Rhea) is pulling for Sam but the factContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Adventures of the Naked Umbrella”: Is it Bird With Glowing Eyes, a UFO or Possibly a Christmas Film?”
