The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “The Choice”

The Canadian short film “The Choice” is about the hardest choice or in some case the easiest. It is a final choice when executed. Watch the film and ask a few questions. It is the ultimate selfish choice? Is it selfish not to accept that choice? How would you make the choice? Once the choiceContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “The Choice””

RKS 2024 Film: “The Secret Art of Human Flight”: Psychiatry and Reality vs. Dreams and Fantasy

Ben Grady (Grant Rosenmeyer) has lost his 31-year-old wife Sarah. He had left the house to pick up some mac n cheese and upon returning 30 minutes later she was dead. Ben is in deep grief. He sits like a zombie wrapped in a blanket including in front of his house for three successive days.Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Secret Art of Human Flight”: Psychiatry and Reality vs. Dreams and Fantasy”

RKS 2024 Film: “Starve Acre”: Don’t Mess with the Sacred Oak Tree!

Juliette (Morfydd Clark) and her academic archaeologist husband Richard (Matt Smith) live in an inherited family farm in the English countryside. Richard, who teaches the history of ancient British tribes, believes there was once a sacred oak tree on the property where the ancient gathered and may have even hung people. At a county fairContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Starve Acre”: Don’t Mess with the Sacred Oak Tree!”

RKS 2024 Wine: Canadian Pinot Gris From Niagara

Aroma: This platinum-coloured wine has aromas of mango, peach, white grapefruit, pear and wet stone. Palate: Rather full bodied with some power. It is zippy and a bit cutting but underneath the acidity there is peach, grapefruit and a hint of lychee. Moderate finish. Personality:  More cutting and sharper than Italian Pinot Grigio. Food Match:Continue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Canadian Pinot Gris From Niagara”

RKS 2024 Wine: You Hear “Barbera” Think Piedmont

As Italian wine goes hear “Barbera” think Piedmont with the best Barbera wine being produced near the towns of Asti and Alba. Barbera is Piedmont’s most widely planted variety and technically takes third place in prestige to Barolo and Barbaresco. Often prestige and palate are incompatible. We try a Barbera D’Asti from Michele Chiarlo. Aroma:Continue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: You Hear “Barbera” Think Piedmont”

RKS 2024 Television: AMI’s “Postcards From…”: Season Five Episode 4: Salt Spring Island, British Columbia

In the fourth episode of season 5 of “Postcards From…” showing on the Accessible Media Incorporated television network and streaming service host Christa Couture takes us to Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. It is quaint and relaxing and the drone photography and commentary of Couture makes it a tempting Canadian tourist destination. Couture takes painsContinue reading “RKS 2024 Television: AMI’s “Postcards From…”: Season Five Episode 4: Salt Spring Island, British Columbia”

RKS 2024 Wine: The Cheapest Quality Bubby in Town?

Most likely a toss up between Prosecco and Cava. We try a Cornaro Prosecco DOC Treviso. Prosecco is more often platinum in colour as this Prosecco is. Aroma: Lime, lemon and marzipan. Palate:  A cleansing wave of acidity. Almond, peach, banana split and sweet white grapefruit. Personality: Although I am simply the best on aContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: The Cheapest Quality Bubby in Town?”

RKS 2024 Film: Toronto’s Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival: “Dalton’s Dream”

Jamaican Dalton Harris wins the 2018 X Factor UK “talent contest”. He had been preparing for an X Factor UK appearance for seven years winning several Jamaican talent contests including “Rising Star”. Now translate the X Factor UK win into stardom, fortune and fame! Pictures circulate showing Dalton hugging a man and sitting on theContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Toronto’s Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival: “Dalton’s Dream””

RKS 2024 Wine: Encruzado to the Rescue?

So many Portuguese white wines have a functional element of suitability with food and their thinness and acidity making many of them a superb match with seafood a commodity which Portuguese menus are rarely lacking. Rabigato, Viosinho and Arinto do not exactly make stellar sipping wines. I had the privilege of visiting the Dâo wineContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Encruzado to the Rescue?”

RKS 2024 Film: HOTDOCS 2024: “Silent Trees”: A Minefield to Somewhat Normalcy

Sixteen-year-old Runa fled ISIS controlled Kurdistan with her parents and four younger brothers. Trapped in a forest between Belarus and Poland her mother is felled by hypothermia and later dies in a Polish hospital. The family had spent 18 days in a frozen forest attempting to enter Poland. The Polish government had previously retaliated againstContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOTDOCS 2024: “Silent Trees”: A Minefield to Somewhat Normalcy”