When you watch “Audible” which is nominated for best Documentary Short in the upcoming Academy Awards you may take a sympathetic view of a deaf football team along the lines of feeling sorry for them and hoping they win the upcoming homecoming game after losing to another deaf school football team from Texas after aContinue reading “RKS Film: “Audible”: Time for Some Personal Reckoning?”
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RKS Film: “Visionary Gardeners”: “Seeds and Time”
“Visionary Gardeners” is a new 5-part television documentary in which innovative Canadian gardeners share their gardening stories will be premiering across Canada on Vision TV over 5 Monday nights beginning March 7, 2022, at 9 p.m. ET. I review wine, hotels, restaurants, travel destinations and many things in between. In all these genres there isContinue reading “RKS Film: “Visionary Gardeners”: “Seeds and Time””
“President”: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in Zimbabwe Exposed in Magnificent Documentary
Dirty rotten scoundrels exist in politics just about everywhere. The United States just put one on the backburner for the time being. He tried to steal the Presidency of the United States but the military was not swayed by his fantasies of an election steal. Matters in the 2018 election in Zimbabwe were clearer cutContinue reading ““President”: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in Zimbabwe Exposed in Magnificent Documentary”
RKS Film: “Flee the Light”: Witchcraft and Possession Horror Genre
I suppose if you are an aficionado of horror films and have seen them all you might be sophisticated enough you can create a whole list of horror subgenres. With “Flee the Light” you will be introduced to the Witchcraft and Possession subgenre. Horror has become a more sophisticated game than the 1958 film “TheContinue reading “RKS Film: “Flee the Light”: Witchcraft and Possession Horror Genre”
RKS Film:”Win a Trip To Browntown”: A Film About Betting Your Ass
A comedy about anal sex! Really? Yes and it is handled with tact with really no raunchiness in it. Oh my pushing the envelope in a mainstream film! Can I say daring and innovative? Frank Tsigas (George Tramountanas) is a middle-aged family man packing a few extra pounds. His wife Laura (Kendra McDermott) prompted byContinue reading “RKS Film:”Win a Trip To Browntown”: A Film About Betting Your Ass”
RKS Film: “The Queen of Basketball”: One of the Most Important Athletes in the 20th Century in The United States
It is 2022 and tonight the Canadian Women’s Hockey Team is playing for a gold medal against the United States in the Beijing Olympics. Having been watching the Canadian women’s hockey team playing over the last decade I take them for granted but the journey to national recognition certainly couldn’t have easy. And between youContinue reading “RKS Film: “The Queen of Basketball”: One of the Most Important Athletes in the 20th Century in The United States”
RKS Film: “The Automat”: The Rise and Demise of Horn & Hardart
“The Automat” is a documentary about the rise and demise of what was America’s first chain restaurant Horn & Hardart. But is it also about how its inclusiveness and high-quality foods influenced the perceptions of many Americans. Do you go back that far to remember what an automat is? It is a restaurant where allContinue reading “RKS Film: “The Automat”: The Rise and Demise of Horn & Hardart”
RKS Film: PBS Documentary “American Reckoning” Unpleasant but Necessary Viewing
“American Reckoning” is a mostly uncomfortable documentary about the emergence of the 1960’s Civil Rights movement of the “negro” in the United Sates of the 1960’s as fleshed out through the 1967 murder of NAACP activist Wharlest Jackson Sr. killed by a car bomb in his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi. Wharlest Sr. was in someContinue reading “RKS Film: PBS Documentary “American Reckoning” Unpleasant but Necessary Viewing”
RKS Film: “Give or Take”: Death and Self Realization
It is almost inevitable that a death in the family brings about a streak of self realization. It can also tear apart a family or reunite it or even a bit of both. The American film “Give or Take” examines bereavement and its effect on family and friends. Kenneth dies in Cape Cod leaving aContinue reading “RKS Film: “Give or Take”: Death and Self Realization”
RKS Film: “Flee”: Up Personal and Close with Afghan “Refugee”
With so much political and military turmoil in the world the number of refugees looking for refuge has mushroomed. It is at the point that I think there is now a genre of documentary films called the “refugee genre”. But we should be careful to distinguish between “refugee” and “economic migrants”. Refugees are those fleeingContinue reading “RKS Film: “Flee”: Up Personal and Close with Afghan “Refugee””
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