“Sisu” is not your “usual” war movie and the usual meter can swing in both directions and after 5 decades of war movie viewing experience “Sisu” is off the meter. In fact it breaks the meter! No “Full Metal Jacket” nor John Wayne “Green Berets”. Aatami (Jorma Tommila) is a Finnish goldminer (and something aContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Sisu”: Finnish WW 2 Bloodbath!”
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RKS 2023 Film: “Montreal Girls”: Dangerous Title but Highly Seductive Film!
With a title of “Montreal Girls” you might surmise this is “A Girl’s Gone Wild” subsidiary. Not the case. As a native of Montreal for 30 years before escaping as a political refugee to Toronto down Highway 401 to a then sterile city of Toronto any film better capture my former city of habitation orContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Montreal Girls”: Dangerous Title but Highly Seductive Film!”
RKS 2023 Toronto Hot Docs Film: “Eat Bitter”: Functional Dysfunctionality and Who is to Blame?
The Central African Republic (CAR) has 76% of its population living below the international poverty line. Its GDP is less than $500 USD per person. In Canada the GDP per person is $52,000 USD. The CAR is more or less in a civil war which has yet to reach its capital of Bangui. Violence, desperateContinue reading “RKS 2023 Toronto Hot Docs Film: “Eat Bitter”: Functional Dysfunctionality and Who is to Blame?”
RKS 2023 Films: “Midnight at the Paradise”: Monogamy and Sticky Flypaper
I believe Buddhists speak of “auspicious connections”. You have encounters one might believe are chance or random but really are more than that. So, last week I am driving in the Parkdale area of Toronto and drive by “The Paradise” an old theatre converted to an event venue. These days a theatre or even aContinue reading “RKS 2023 Films: “Midnight at the Paradise”: Monogamy and Sticky Flypaper”
RKS 2023 Hot Docs: “Seven Winters in Tehran”: Deadly Iranian Misogyny and Theocracy
Reyhaneh Jabbari was born in Tehran on November 6, 1987, as the first child of Shole Pakravan and Fereydoon Jabbari. Together with her two sisters, she grew up in Tehran in a protected, loving, artistic home. She studied computer science and worked part-time as an interior designer in the office of a family friend. SheContinue reading “RKS 2023 Hot Docs: “Seven Winters in Tehran”: Deadly Iranian Misogyny and Theocracy”
RKS 2023 Film: “back home” at Vancouver International Film Festival
Canadian Nisha Platzer has crafted a moving documentary about the suicide of her brother Josh that occurring in Vancouver when Josh was 15 and Nisha 11. Josh was suffering from clinical depression at the time of his suicide. Nisha has dim memories of the death of Josh and convenes both family and friends to giveContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “back home” at Vancouver International Film Festival”
RKS 2023 Film: “Out of the Loop: Chicago Comedy Is No Joke”
I have no problems with Chicago and who cares if it is the Murder Capital of the United States! City of Vultures some say! A properly developed waterfront unlike my butchered Toronto. Great food. Skyscrapers. All assuming you aren’t in the wrong neighbourhood at the wrong time and end up with a bullet in yourContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Out of the Loop: Chicago Comedy Is No Joke””
RKS 2023 Hot Docs Films: “It’s Coming”: Reality Television?
Ashley lives in an old Brooklyn New York apartment with her children. Ashley claims to have been haunted since the age of 11 in the same apartament. Javier her young son has progressed (or regressed) to the point he is playing with a spirit he calls Kitty. He was terrified initially with Kitty who isContinue reading “RKS 2023 Hot Docs Films: “It’s Coming”: Reality Television?”
RKS 2023 Hot Docs Films: “Aitamaako’tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun”: I Can’t Believe I Am Saying This!
As a reviewer of films prior to taking up this all-consuming habit I often laughed years ago with a review or two of a film that trumpeted, “You’ll Stand Up and Cheer!”. I laugh no more as with this documentary I found myself standing up and cheering not physically but mentally. Why? Firstly, as aContinue reading “RKS 2023 Hot Docs Films: “Aitamaako’tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun”: I Can’t Believe I Am Saying This!”
RKS 2023 Films: “Living with Chucky”
I have lived all my years without Chucky. I am uncertain what thrill there is in these slasher films. Ooops sorry wrong horror genre! Slash and hacker doll genre? Sounding like a preacher and a geezer but how depraved to watch the murder of human beings and get a thrill out of it. Sorry IContinue reading “RKS 2023 Films: “Living with Chucky””
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