When I read the PR blurb sent my way by the National Film Board of Canada describing “Ghosts of the Sea” my impressions were it was an interesting little adventure story about Virginia Tangvald’s father Peter Tangvald and brother Thomas Tangvald two expert sailors who both perished at sea. I was thinking a “National GeographicContinue reading “Toronto 2025 Hot Docs: “Ghosts of the Sea”: Sailing Into the Heart of Darkness”
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Toronto 2025 Hot Docs: “King’s Court”: Who We Are, What We Used to Be and What We Want to Be
The Canadian short documentary “King’s Court” by Serville Poblette offers viewers a fly on the wall basketball centric eavesdropping on two young black men in a community housing project “Bleecker Street Apartments” in Toronto transitioning into adulthood. SK and Marley are dear friends with a love of basketball that binds them in friendship to theContinue reading “Toronto 2025 Hot Docs: “King’s Court”: Who We Are, What We Used to Be and What We Want to Be”
RKS 2025 Film: “Yadang: The Snitch”: Satire, Humour and Biting Social Commentary
Be forewarned of extensive goings on in “Yadang” causing hopeless entanglements with the plot. I have six pages of detailed notes and watched the film twice determined to conquer its plot. Ask me to be precise about the plot I just might give you a vacant look three quarters of the way through my explanation.Continue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Yadang: The Snitch”: Satire, Humour and Biting Social Commentary”
RKS 2025 Film: “Jimmy in Saigon”: Who Jimmy Really Was
The McDowell family loses 24-year-old son Jimmy in Vietnam in 1972. His cause of death is not entirely clear to younger brother Peter McDowell fudged with shame and mystery. Despite a June 1972 telegram arriving to advise the family of his death is the cause of death on the death certificate the truth? The contentContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Jimmy in Saigon”: Who Jimmy Really Was”
Toronto 2025 Hot Docs: “The Last Ambassador”: No Hope for Afghanistan?
The misogynist cult men of the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan on 15August2021 aided by the “Doha Deal” with the United States ending the war in Afghanistan and lending a degree of informal legitimization to the Taliban. The Taliban attempted to sell to the international community they had changed shallowly stating they respected women’s involvementContinue reading “Toronto 2025 Hot Docs: “The Last Ambassador”: No Hope for Afghanistan?”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Self Driver”: Riveting, Stylistic, Trippy and Mystical
D (Nathanael Chadwick) is a Toronto taxi driver pressed to the edge of an economic cliff driving a taxi ruled by his Vrmr app picking up a variety of passengers in all manner of human and mental disarray. His taxi is littered with food wrappers and garbage. His in-car diet is an express pass toContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Self Driver”: Riveting, Stylistic, Trippy and Mystical”
RKS Throwback CANADIAN Documentary: “Bombay Calling”: Up Close and Personal with Those You’d Prefer to Hang Up On
The 2006 National Film Board of Canada documentary, “Bombay Calling” takes you up close and personal with callers operating in a Mumbai call centre you really would prefer not to converse with and perhaps have hung up on in the past. Indian call centres selling legitimate products and services proliferated for some time in theContinue reading “RKS Throwback CANADIAN Documentary: “Bombay Calling”: Up Close and Personal with Those You’d Prefer to Hang Up On”
RKS Throwback CANADIAN Documentary: “King of the Hill”: Ferguson Jenkins: Better with Age!
The 1974 National Film Board of Canada documentary “King of the Hill” showcases black Canadian professional baseball pitcher Ferguson Jenkins and a slice of baseball as it was in 1972/73 when he played for the Chicago Cubs. Who is Ferguson Jenkins you may ask? Born in Chatham, Ontario in 1942 just about says it allContinue reading “RKS Throwback CANADIAN Documentary: “King of the Hill”: Ferguson Jenkins: Better with Age!”
On April 16, the World Stands Up for Canada by Sitting Down to Watch a Great Canadian Film!
World’s biggest press release for the world’s biggest film festival TORONTO – April 1, 2025 – On April 16, National Canadian Film Day (CanFilmDay), will unite the nation in a massive, celebratory, elbows-up explosion of Canadian film. Returning for the twelfth year, CanFilmDay will present nearly 2,000 FREE screenings in every province and territory, and in moreContinue reading “On April 16, the World Stands Up for Canada by Sitting Down to Watch a Great Canadian Film!”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: “Anything for Fame”: A Delve into the Insatiable Desire for Rome is Burning Social Media Fame
Pardon my “Rocky Horror Picture Show” Dr. Everett Scott attitude here but the Canadian documentary “Anything for Fame” is a deep dive into the elusive chase for fame on social media channels we can label “internet fame”. Jamie Cohen holder of a PHD in Digital Culture notes the odds of being a super famous internetContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: “Anything for Fame”: A Delve into the Insatiable Desire for Rome is Burning Social Media Fame”
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