The breakout 2009 Yorgos Lanthimos film “Dogtooth” commences a North American theatrical release in a 4K restoration format. Parents confine their three adult children in a family compound in a state of childlike innocence through manipulation, violence and abuse. Sexual perversion including incest is omnipresent. Outrageous falsehoods and childlike games and contests preoccupy the adultContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Dogtooth”: 4K Restoration Opens North America 4July2025”
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RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “Do I Know You from Somewhere?” A Juxtaposition of Two Possible Realities
“Do I Know You from Somewhere” juggles two possible realities. It is what could have been where choice, fate and accident intersect and zig zag with the past, present and future. There is a healthy dose of ominous fantasy a la “Twilight Zone”. Olive (Caroline Bell) meets Benny (Ian Otis Goff) at a relative’s wedding.Continue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “Do I Know You from Somewhere?” A Juxtaposition of Two Possible Realities”
RKS 2025 Greek Film: “Athens Midnight Radio”: A Modern Greek Cinematographic Masterpiece
Renos Haralambidis’ 5th feature film “Athens Midnight Radio” is a modern Greek cinematographic masterpiece…correction a cinematographic masterpiece. Complex, innovative, compelling, hallucinogenic, suspenseful, poetic and most of all crushingly tragic. Lush, warm, haunting and sensual cinematography. Impeccable soundtrack. Subconscious connection with Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” but unlike Scrooge there is no redemption, only deepening regret.Continue reading “RKS 2025 Greek Film: “Athens Midnight Radio”: A Modern Greek Cinematographic Masterpiece”
RKS 2025 Film: “Super Happy Forever”: Perhaps Instead “Eternally Miserable”
In “Super Happy Forever”, a Japanese feature film, director Kohei Igarashi plays with your mind right off the bat with the film’s name. A cultish misnomer. A fantasy. The film is more a dive into unhappiness derived from wishful thinking. And temporally Igarashi plays with you but not me as I have the film downContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Super Happy Forever”: Perhaps Instead “Eternally Miserable””
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: “The Salmon’s Call”
Joy Haskell’s feature documentary “The Salmon’s Call” might well have been titled “Last Call for Pacific Salmon” due to the decline of wild Pacific salmon in the riverways of the Canadian province of British Columbia. Haskell’s closing words of the documentary are, “Salmon don’t have a voice. We are their voice.” Indigenous people of BritishContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: “The Salmon’s Call””
RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “Angela’s Shadow”: A Disgusting, Shameful and Disgraceful Chapter in Canadian History….and the Pages Continue Turning
Canadians have been hearing stories about residential schools akin to prisons for Indigenous children managed by various religious orders and blessed by the Canadian government. Residential schools no longer exist but the trauma inflicted by them on survivors and the Indigenous community continues. You might wish to summon up a plenitude of adjectives to describeContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “Angela’s Shadow”: A Disgusting, Shameful and Disgraceful Chapter in Canadian History….and the Pages Continue Turning”
RKS 2025 Film: “A Hardworking Robber”: Shining Greek Satire
Satire runs heavily through Greek cinema and it shines in a short film from 2013 “A Hardworking Robber” directed and written by Michael Felanis. Makis, owner of an Athenian jewelry and gift store is slothful, lazy and entirely ignorant about customer service and selling his wares. He spends his time drinking coffee, smoking, playing withContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “A Hardworking Robber”: Shining Greek Satire”
RKS 2025 Film: “The Old Woman with the Knife”: Dense, Engrossing and Impeccably Choregraphed Korean Assassin Thriller with a Social Message of Sorts
In 1975 a destitute and abused housemaid of 16 lies on the Korean roadside covered with snow and close to death. A passing motorist, Ryu, picks her up taking her to his restaurant he runs with his wife where she is hired as a helper. Ryu claims to be in pest management and extermination andContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “The Old Woman with the Knife”: Dense, Engrossing and Impeccably Choregraphed Korean Assassin Thriller with a Social Message of Sorts”
The 12th Annual Korean Film Festival Canada: “Hole”
The 12th Korean Film Festival Canada held in Montreal will be wrapping up 7June2025. “Hole”, a 2023 K Short by Hyein Hwang, screened on 24May2025 but it surely and deservedly must pop-up in the festival circuit. Kafkaesque initially gradually transcending into absolute horror and I am not referencing the Borror genre of horror with slashing,Continue reading “The 12th Annual Korean Film Festival Canada: “Hole””
RKS 2025 Film: “The Legacy of Cloudy Falls”: Quasi Infinite Parade of Oddities
“The Legacy of Cloudy Falls” is set in Niagara Falls, Canada, you know the “better side” of the Falls! They say the best part of Las Vegas is leaving it. The same may be said, but in a more compelling fashion, about the town Niagara Falls, Ontario. Tacky and seedy may be a polite descriptionContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “The Legacy of Cloudy Falls”: Quasi Infinite Parade of Oddities”
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