Category Archives: film

RKS Film: A Very Cheesy Christmas: “Baking All the Way”

Is there an unwritten rule that Christmas movies of late must suffer from cheesy plots and rather obnoxious music? Let’s face it “It’s a Wonderful Life” is one of the biggest cheese Christmas films ever made yet once every two years it still is worth a view. “Baking All the Way” is stuffed with cheeseContinue reading “RKS Film: A Very Cheesy Christmas: “Baking All the Way””

RKS Film: “The Human Trial”: Should Private Enterprise Have the Power to Control Pain, Suffering and Life Itself?

The documentary “The Human Trial” is a five-year journey exploring the development of stem cell laden implants into human subjects suffering from Type 1 Diabetes in the anticipation they will produce insulin. Five million people a year die from complications attributable to diabetes. If it doesn’t kill you it may very well blind you orContinue reading “RKS Film: “The Human Trial”: Should Private Enterprise Have the Power to Control Pain, Suffering and Life Itself?”

RKS Wine: Not a Corporate Lawyer, Accountant, Neurosurgeon, Corporate Executive, Overpaid Professional Athlete or Cardiologist? Welcome to Delicious Brutality!

If you are not a “hot shot” it is certainly possible to discover a quality wine at a proletarian price. I mean my friend the Penniless Pensioner would guzzle Chateau Latour with his Boulud Burger in Manhattan and think nothing of paying $1500 as “chump change” for a bottle of Bordeaux First Growth. With aContinue reading “RKS Wine: Not a Corporate Lawyer, Accountant, Neurosurgeon, Corporate Executive, Overpaid Professional Athlete or Cardiologist? Welcome to Delicious Brutality!”

63rd THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Three Canadian Indigenous Films Featured

3-13/11/2022 Indigenous Cinema Τhe Festival’s grand tribute breaks the rules From Canada’s Inuit and the Latin American tribes all the way to the Australian Aboriginals and New Zealand’s Māori people, the 63rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival sheds light onto cultures, ways of life, and worldviews that have been ostracized from the official frame of ourContinue reading “63rd THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Three Canadian Indigenous Films Featured”

63rd THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FILM Line-Up

3-13/11/2022 LIST OF FILMS OPENING FILM CLOSING FILM INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION Main Program Out of Competition  MEET THE NEIGHBORS Main Program Out of Competition >> FILM FORWARD >>FILM FORWARD – TRIBUTE TO PETER TSCHERKASSKY >> FILM FORWARD – TRIBUTE TO EVE HELLER IMMERSIVE / VR GREEK FILM FESTIVAL First Run Crossing Borders A Second Viewing SpecialContinue reading “63rd THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FILM Line-Up”

RKS Film: “Waking up Dead”: Rock Bottom to Death or Salvation?

If you have viewed the 1947 or 2021 version of “Nightmare Alley” you have a very vivid recollection of what rock bottom is. In that film there was rock bottom to start, then success and then a horrific nightmarish rock bottom. In “Waking Up Dead” there would be a linear line of a descent toContinue reading “RKS Film: “Waking up Dead”: Rock Bottom to Death or Salvation?”

RKS Film: “Drinkwater”: Intelligent Teen Angst

Yes we have seen countless teen angst films such as “Rebel Without a Cause”, “Breakfast Club”, “Acid Test” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”. There may be a fine line between vapid teenploitation films and intelligent teen angst films. “Drinkwater” falls into the intelligent teen angst genre. So expect some of usual plot lines; “Drinkwater” containsContinue reading “RKS Film: “Drinkwater”: Intelligent Teen Angst”

RKS Film: “Shady Grove”: Misandrist Suspense

“Shady Grove” is not a horror film as I see it. It is in the misandrist suspense category. It is one of those films that drops a multitude of hints along its plot line but the hints only make sense after the closing credits roll. Sort of like a puzzle suddenly making sense. Shaina (NikiContinue reading “RKS Film: “Shady Grove”: Misandrist Suspense”

RKS Film: “Nelly and Nadine”: One of Europe’s Best in 2022?

“Nelly and Nadine” is a Belgian/Swiss/Swedish documentary and is one of 13 films on the short list for the best film for the 2022 European Film Awards that will be announced in Reykjavik on December 10th. The documentary begins with the narrator commenting on a film reel shot on April 28, 1945, in Malmo SwedenContinue reading “RKS Film: “Nelly and Nadine”: One of Europe’s Best in 2022?”

RKS Wine: A Glass of Freakshow with “Nightmare Alley”?

Does being politically correct make you nauseous? Being averse to dig into this subject let me give you an example. I was waiting to board an Air Canada flight in Athens headed for Toronto on September 20th. I talked to a father and daughter from Ohio who lived a couple of hours south of ClevelandContinue reading “RKS Wine: A Glass of Freakshow with “Nightmare Alley”?”