The Euro documentary “Divia” has no dialogue simply music. Its astonishing cinematography is a work of art. It is a panorama of destruction of flora and fauna, man, his environment and his machines of death and destruction. Nature has been wounded but is far from defeat. If you have watched the documentaries “Russia at War”Continue reading “RKS 2025 Documentary: “Divia”: All Manner of Destruction: All Manner of Resilience”
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RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “The Well”
The film commences with crackling and staticky news reports and desperate human cries. The world is running out of clean water. Special blue zones are established where water is available but access is largely denied. Mass migrations occur. Refugee “camps” are established. Chaos in the streets. Much of the water supply is contaminated with aContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “The Well””
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “The Bearded Girl”
What a fantasy film! Could it ascend to the heights of Cinderella, Pinocchio or “Nightmare Alley”? Eighty-eight generations of a family have produced a bearded girl. Commences as light peach fuzz and by maturity is wild mountain man thickness. Creates audience attraction in a carnival sideshow particularly when the bearded girl is s sword swallower.Continue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “The Bearded Girl””
RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “LUCID”: Of Magic Mushrooms, Murder, Monsters and Mayhem
Mia Sunshine Jones is a struggling arts programme student unable to complete a project telling the world who she really is. Her professor and fellow students are far from impressed with her efforts and Mia is given a one-week deadline by her professor to produce a passable artwork. It isn’t too long before the viewerContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “LUCID”: Of Magic Mushrooms, Murder, Monsters and Mayhem”
RKS 2025 Greek Film: “Stelios”: Yet Another Shining Example of Greek Cinema
“Stelios” is yet another example of why widely ignored Greek cinema should be no longer ignored by filmgoers. It is an epic film marking the rise of legendary Greek singer Stelios Kazantzidis (Christos Mastoras) from abject poverty in an Athenian refugee camp into Greece’s most beloved singer. “Big Stelios”, affectionately referred to in his nativeContinue reading “RKS 2025 Greek Film: “Stelios”: Yet Another Shining Example of Greek Cinema”
RKS 2025 Film: “Dogtooth”: 4K Restoration Opens North America 4July2025
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”
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 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”
Toronto 2025 Hot Docs: “Walls – Akinni Inuk”
Having watched documentaries “Twice Colonized” (2023) and “Angry Inuk” (2016) I was expecting the Greenlandic Danish documentary “Walls – Akinni Inuk” to be infused with anger about the mistreatment of Greenlandic Inuk within the Greenlandic prison system. I saw no anger but frustration with the judicial system incarcerating Ruth in Greenlandic custodial detention for 12Continue reading “Toronto 2025 Hot Docs: “Walls – Akinni Inuk””
